Dan Hartman

DAN HARTMAN d1994.  American pop rock musician, multi-instrumentalist, producer, singer-songwriter and original frontman for several bands including ; The Soploids / Mak and the Turnarounds / Our Wringer / Last Wing and Orion. Amongst songs he wrote and recorded were ; "Free Ride" as a member of the Edgar Winter Group and the solo hits "Relight My Fire" / "Instant Replay" / "I Can Dream About You" / "We Are the Young" and "Second Nature". "I Can Dream About You" (his most successful song) reached No6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1984 and No12 on the UK Singles Chart in 1985. The James Brown song "Living in America" which he co-wrote and produced, reached No4 in 1986. He died of a brain tumour in Connecticut aged just 43 on March 22nd 1994