• Darius Rucker remembers Charley Pride with performance of "Kiss An Angel Good Mornin' during Opry Special!

   

  Brei Carter To Release Charley Pride Tribute Single "Kiss An Angel Good Morning"

   

  We were glad to be a part of God & Country, a Dove Award winning project with the Justin Peters co-write of "In God We Trust" with Jimmy Fortune. 

   

  Maryland worship leader Therron Fowler has included one of our big worship songs that was written by Tourmaline Music, Inc. songwriter George Searcy in a choir medley called "We Declare War." He used a sample from Ron Kenoly's original version of our song "Making War In The Heavenlies."

   

  Congrats to songwriters Constance, Steven Rupe, Lee Anna McGuire, Elizabeth Cooper & Tiffany Ashton who all have songs on The Farmer and The Belle: Saving Santaland soundtrack.

   

  We are glad to have a Ben Peters song on Dolly's newest release, Dolly - The Ultimate Collection!

   

  In April of this year Capitol CMG Records released the "Amy Grant Collection."  We are happy to have "Saved By Love" on that very quality project.

   

  Tiffany Ashton's song that she co-wrote with Justin Peters, "Never Ever Ever Coming Back" will be included in the movie "The Farmer and The Belle:Savings Santaland coming out this 2020 Christmas season.

   

  We congratulate Platinum Planet songwriter Johnny Westwood on his most recent award for International Single Of The Year.

   

  Justin Peters shared “We love Sandy Kelly and we have always been proud to have published the theme song for her TV show. We hope she will be recording many more of our songs in the future.

   

  We are so happy for Platinum Planet artist and songwriter Juli Tapken who received her first JMA nomination for Contemporary Country Song Of The Year. The song “Denim With Diamonds” was written by Juli and our President Justin Peters.

   

  We are so proud of Platinum Planet songwriter Johnny Westwood who is up for 5 Josie Awards this year.

   

  Justin Peters shared “I’m excited to announce that I just signed off on a deal for Black Rifle Coffee Company to use one of our songs in an upcoming commercial. Those who have visited our studios know we have a huge 5 pound bag of Black Rifle Coffee that was given to me at a veterans charity event I played with country music artist Jenny Leigh Miller. I became a lover of their coffee and we always have it out ready to use and serve. It is really cool to do this deal knowing how much I already believe in the Black Rifle Coffee Company.”

   

  We are glad to have 2 songs on Jake Flint’s new self titled album. Congrats to Platinum Planet songwriter Mary Meyer who has a song on the project that she co-wrote with Jake and our President.

   

  Here is a song that the legendary John Ford Coley recorded on his last project. It is an unplugged recording of "Road Of Blessing" which was written by John and our President:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_ys4XifGPU

   

   

  The rappers and singers of Boondocks Kingz teamed up with Twang and Round and recorded this song "Fire In Our Hearts" that Justin Peters co-wrote with them:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59MttS2SyZ4

   

  Platinum Planet Music Inc. songwriter Mary Meyer had her first cut ever on American red road country music singer Jacob Flint's record. It's already been on 2 different records. This is a project we are sure glad to have been a part of: https://www.theoklahomareviews.com/…/jake-flint-self-titled…

   

  Songs For The Planets alumni, Shannon Stockton of Texas, has come on board today as a talent scout for me and my companies. She worked as my assistant here in Nashville and now she will be out in Texas and anywhere else she chooses to go with her ears and eyes wide open looking for the future great artists and songwriters of the world. Her energy, her instincts in music, and her passion are a perfect fit for the goals that we have here.

   

  Actress Juli Tapken wrote or co-wrote every song on her Denim with Diamonds project, released on Platinum Planet Records!

   

  “Finding Your Feet” was a British Comedy movie that released a couple of years ago. It was a big success in Europe. We were happy to have a song in it. The project used Boris Gardiners hit “I Wanna Wake Up With You” which was number one on the British charts for 6 weeks.

   

  The Charley Pride: I'M JUST ME film will make its Canadian debut on the CBC's documentary Channel this Wednesday, January 1, 2020 @ 7:30p ET / 4:30p PT as part of the channel's New Year's Day "All Day Music Marathon!."  We are glad to be a part of this project.

   

  Canada’s Connie Scott recorded “Christmas In Your Heart” on this Word record release with the same title. The song was written by Billy Simon & Justin Peters.

  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U3-33QOvxeE

   

  The legendary country music hall of famer Jimmy Fortune recorded “It’s Christmas Time Again” as written by Constance and Justin Peters. It’s a good one.... give it a listen and if you love it download it!

  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=20Isa0oNe5U

   

  Here is one of our previous Christmas songs that Warner Brothers released on Bill Engvall. It’s called “Christmas In The Country Holiday.” Our writers on the song were Constance, Gail Barnhill, and Justin Peters.>>>>>>>>>>

  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yWubYSdxa_k

   

  We officially signed Tina Marie Vera as an exclusive songplugger for Songs For The Planet. I have known her for many years. She is a go-getter and is full of integrity. She also has a tremendous passion for music and is someone the rest of the team can trust to represent them well.

   

  We are glad to have a song or two on John Ford Coley’s new project, Long Way Home, Live In Israel & L.A.

   

  Mustang Sally lead singer Tobi Lee is singing at all her Christmas shows a new Christmas song she wrote with Brentley Parrish and Justin Peters.

   

  Justin Peters spent a very quality evening with the Irish legend Sandy Kelly. She sang our song “Every Time” at the close of 26 different episodes of her international TV show that was filmed for years in Ireland.

   

  Double announcement......earlier today Corbin Grecco from Franklin, Tennessee signed up as an official Songplugger for Songs For The Planet and an exclusive songwriter for LITA Music. Justin Peters shared “Signing Corbin Grecco is nothing but a blessing to the whole team. He is an asset with great integrity and commitment. He is the kind of person we want sharing our music to the world.”

   

  The song, “Christmas In Bora Bora,” written by Platinum Planet songwriter Jenny Leigh Miller, Justin Peters, and Nashville songwriter Steven Rupe will be released as a video and a single in time for the holidays. It will be Jenny’s first Christmas release on Platinum Planet Records.

   

  The rap group Boondock Kingz & country rappers Twang and Round co-wrote this song with Justin Peters. It is from the Boondock Kingz ep "THE CRICK WATER."

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59MttS2SyZ4

   

  Jimmy Fortune’s New God & Country DVD aired on these TV channels in September:
  Heartland, RFD, Uplift TV, Vision, IBN, TCT, The Walk TV, TLN, Hope TV, The Miracle Channel, CTS, and CTN.

   

  Justin Peters shared “You don’t wanna miss watching this definitive documentary on country music by Ken Burns. I am proud to share that my father, Ben Peters, has two songs in this history making film.” Here is more on PBS ‘s biggest event of the year.

  https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/country-music/

   

  

   

  The legendary Country Music Hall of Fame artist Jimmy Fortune will be releasing a DVD entitled "GOD AND COUNTRY" which will include a song that he wrote with our President entitled "IN GOD WE TRUST."

   

  "JUST GRACE" as recorded by Justin Peters with guest artist Bonnie Keen & The Wilmington Celebration Choir has been officially released. Congrats to Actor Gary Moore on his first release as a songwriter.

   

  

   

  We’ve got a couple of songs on this film project. One of them was written at our last songwriting camp on Pensacola Beach. Congrats to the songwriters who wrote on the main song.

   

  

   

  We are excited to have music in this project directed by Chip Rossetti.

   

  

  We are excited about being a part of the biggest PBS movie event of the year. Not only will we be in the movie but the documentary will be accompanied by a companion book, published by Knopf, and a comprehensive soundtrack, overseen by Legacy Recordings of Sony.

  Justin Peters visited for the first time the African American Museum which.is the latest addition to the Smithsonian Museum. All day long for the last few years they play Ben Peters song “Kiss An Angel Good Morning” at the Charley Pride exhibit on the 4th floor of the museum. 

  We are proud to be a part of this project:

  https://www.rollingstone.com/…/ken-burns-country-music-do…/…

  Canadian group Rivers of Joy recorded LITA Music song "I Don't Want To Go Back" as written by the incredibly gifted songwriter Gayle Allen Cox. Their self titled project Rivers of Joy releases next month.

  "Burgers and Fries" was recorded by Canadian Male Vocalist of the year Brett Kissell.

  Good things are happening with our Jake Flint single "Long Road Back Home."

  We are glad to announce that in September a songbook with the songs from the "Only A Holy God" project by Here Be Lions will be released by Integrity Music. It will include Amanda Kinner's cowritten song "Completely Overwhelmed."

  We are excited about Amanda Kinner's new album coming out. She is a strong songwriter with an amazing voice! Our whole teams sends congrats to ABET International Music Group's humble songwriter Amanda Kinner on this great project!!!

  Amanda Kinner's co-wriitten song "Completely Overwhelmed" is on the new WE BE LIONS project entitled "Only A Holy God."

  Texas songwriter Rebecca Crownover and Justin Peters have song #1 of Platinum Planets Worship Song Series.

  Country artist Jake Flint will be filming a music video this weekend in Nida, Oklahoma for his next single coming out in mid-July. The song was written by Jake and Justin Peters

  We are glad to have a couple of songs and the title cut on hip hop country artist Twang and Round's new recording project "Way I Was Raised."

  Oklahoma Red Dirt/Americana artist Jake Flint performed 2 of our songs......"Long Road Back Home" and "Who's Better".....live on the radio in Frederickburg, Texas today.

  Yvette Landri and the Jukes recorded "I Need Somebody Bad" for their new "Louisiana Lovin'" record project.

  ABET International Music Group songwriter Amanda Kinner has co-written a song that will be on Dustin Smith's new worship record on Integrity. The name of Dustin's project is Here Be Lions. Her song is entitled "Completely Overwhelmed."

  Platinum Planet Records is excited to have the premiere song coming out soon in the movie My Daddy's In Heaven. Justin Peters is the artist on "Cowboy Up." A few of the cast include Corbin Bernsen , Jenn Gotzon Chandler , Lee Benton , Albert Thakur & T.S.Stallings.  The song was written by Matt Hubbell and Justin Peters.

  Earlier this year (season 12) the show Supernatural Episode 18 used our classic song "Burgers and Fries" in a dining scene between Sam and Dean.

  Our President co-wrote a couple of new songs with Twang and Round for their new Ameriflow project coming out in March of 2018 with Thirteen Skull Entertainment.

  Congrats to Platinum Planet songwriter Sam DeTone who co-wrote 2 songs on Vain Therapy's new rock record.

  Virginia country music singer Lisa Meadows has released her recording of "Relentless Love" on her new album project entitled "For Your Glory." The song was written by Jimmy Fortune and Justin Peters.

  Josh Daniel (contestant from X Factor) recorded a cover version of the Ben Peters classic song "Kiss An Angel Good Morning." The album project entitled "Grassroots Country" releases tomorrow here in the USA.

  Solemn Sound Records artist the Doucettes have recorded "I Wanna Be That Man" on their new "I Found Him" project. The song was written by Constance, Justin Peters, and Twila McBride.

  Miracle.... this song was written by the legendary songwriter Steve Davis and Justin Peters. Recorded by Connie Mac and superstar actor Leslie Chueng it went number one on the pop charts in Hong Kong.

  Victoria Jackson had her first rock ever single as a songwriter released on Platinum Planet Records with Kimberly Dahme's recording of "Lucy Lu." When appearing at Zanies she had her Lavender Hair book launch extravaganza Cancer Fundraiser. Afterwards she invited our President Justin Peters backstage where she gave him a copy of her new book.

  The Promised Land Quartet recorded the Justin Peters/Jimmy Fortune classic "In God We Trust." The group gave us the good news personally last week at the 2017 National Quartet Convention. The song is on there brand new cd project entitled "I Love That Music." They were pitched the song 10 years ago at the 2007 National Quartet Convention in Louisville, Kentucky.

  "Gentle Is My Love" is a song in our catalog that was recorded many years ago by Eddy Arnold and was never released until recently. Sony Music Entertainment /RCA Nashville recently put out this recording for the first time on a project entitled "Each Road I Take: The 1970 Lee Hazlewood & Chet Atkins Sessions."

  The View aired a performance of Charley Pride doing our song, "Kiss An Angel Good Morning." The show is in conjunction with the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Awards show that will air on PBS.

  Hawaiian actor/singer Mareko will be releasing a duet with Rachel Thorpe on Ben Peters worldwide number one reggae smash "I Wanna Wake Up With You."

  Platinum Planet Records released a rock single on a song written at our 2016 Oak Island songwriting camp in North Carolina. The song "Lucy Lu" is sung by female rock legend (formerly of Boston) Kimberly Dahme. It was produced by Justin Peters. Congratulations to Victoria Jackson, Laura Moore, Carolyn Cogswell, Jeremy Duff, Steven Rupe, and Omar Lagudali, and the rest of the songwriters who are a part of "Lucy Lu."

  Virginia TV host/Gospel music singer Lisa Meadows has just released one of our songs on her new project entitled "For Your Glory." The song, "Relentless Love" was written by Jimmy Fortune and Justin Peters

  Canadian superstar @BrettKissel released a duet with Charley Pride on our previous country #1 hit Burgers & Fries!  It's included on his album, We Were That Song!

  

  The song,  “I’m a Fan of the Blue Angels”  was debuted with Justin Peters giving a live performance at Casino Beach in Pensacola, Florida during the 2014 Blue Angels Show. Justin Peters had written the song several months before the event especially for the Navy flying team. Ricki Vann  of WEAR ABC TV Channel 3 was on hand to interview Justin about the song.  Afterward they recorded 2 live performances of the song.  The interview and performance were utilized twice by the ABC affiliate.  The Blue Angels Show set a record for the biggest ever having over 100,000 people in attendance at the event. 

   Click to view video: http://youtu.be/6TkXof31rO0

  WEAR, ABC 3 is the ABC affiliate for Northwest Florida and South Alabama that provides local news, weather forecasts, traffic updates, notices of events and items of interest in the community, sports and entertainment programming for Pensacola, Florida and Mobile, Alabama and nearby towns and communities in the Gulf Coast area, including in Florida: Pensacola, Gulf Breeze, Cantonment, Century, Jay, Pace, Milton, Perdido Key, Pensacola Beach, Navarre, Fort Walton Beach, Valparaiso, Niceville, Destin, Sandestin, Wright, Holt, Crestview, Baker, Chumuckla; and in Alabama: Orange Beach, Robertsdale, Gulf Shores, Stapleton, Elberta, Fairhope, Daphne, Prichard, Chickasaw, Saraland, Satsuma, Tilman’s Corner, Theodore, Bayou la Batre, Dauphin Island, Foley, Bay Minette, Atmore, Flomaton, Brewton, Florala, Semmes, Spanish Fort, and Lillian.

  HOLIDAY MEMORIES with EDIE HAND & Nashville Stars will air on FamilyNet on December 6th, 2013 at 8pm ET (additional broadcast times to be announced)
  Justin served as the music director for this show. About the Host: EDIE HAND is a cousin to the late Elvis Presley.  With this Star studded special, celebrate Christmas and the many good works of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and helping Kids with Cancer.  Holiday Memories from Nashville is the perfect way to celebrate the Christmas season. This hour television special brings awareness to the importance of acts of kindness to Kids with Cancer. Outstanding performances and holiday memories from such talent as: Ray Stevens, Billy Dean, Andy Griggs, Robbie Rhodes, Buddy Jewell, Jimmy Fortune, Chelsea Hacker, Ronnie McDowell, Linc Hand, Terre Thomas, Oak Ridge Boys, Dale Smith Thomas, Candy Christmas, Armond Morales, Patrik and Natalie Wayne, Justin Peters and more.

  James Harrison's near death experience made him a 'knower,' and inspired a song

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  James Harrison (seated at left) is the patriarch of the popular Hillbreed Family Band.

  SISSONVILLE – Fifty years ago last week, James Harrison, patriarch of the Hillbreed Family Band, had a near death experience that changed his perspective on life—and that enlightening event has become the subject for a country music song.
  
  As an employee of the Charleston Concrete Floor Company, Harrison, then 23, was working with three others in digging a hole for a Interstate 64 pier on Norwood Road in Huntington. The holes was shorn up with 12-inch steel.
  "We were about 30 feet down and it all gave way," Harrison recalls. "When it started caving in, everybody ran for the ladder (used for access to and exit from the bridge footer pit). I was young and had never thought about dying until that day, so I didn't get in as big a hurry as the others.
  
  "All of a sudden, everything went black. The guy ahead of me only got covered to his knees, which was about even with my face below him. When he moved and got his legs out, I could see daylight. Then I started moving and got my arms free. They dropped me a rope and told me to tie it around me.
  
  "They said since it was too dangerous for anyone to come down, they were going to try to pull me out, because they were sure the rest of the hole was going to collapse. They hooked the rope to the bumper of an ambulance and jerked a couple of times. But it was hurting me too much so they had to quit."
  Harrison said that moment was when his world changed.
  
  "I had thought I was the only one in that hole until I realized the One I had always heard about was there with me," he said with a smile. "It seemed that His image was there in front of me. That was the moment that turned me from a believer into a knower. I said, 'If you'll help me, I promise I'll do better.'"
  Harrison said the rescuers pulled on the rope again and he was pulled to safety. "It didn't even feel like the rope was tight," he said. Harrison was trapped for some 25 minutes by the 200 tons for earth that suddenly cascaded into the pit.
  
  "Since then, which was 50 years ago, a lot of people have asked me if I'm a believer," Harrison said. "I'd say, 'No, I'm a knower.'"
  
  A few years ago, some professional songwriters who write for a lot of stars were palying music with the Hillbreed Harrisons. When they heard about his life-changing experience, they told James Harrison, "That's a song." Harrison said they wrote it, put music to it, recorded it, got a copyright and sent it to him.
  "Knower (the James Harrison Story)" was written by Connie Wolfe and Justin Peters for Songs for the Planet recorded in Nashville, TN.
  
  Over the years, the Hillbreed Harrisons have continued to make music and entertain, touching thousands of lives with their talents and their humor in hundreds of venues and events, as well as their annual Hillbreed for Kids benefit concert at Sissonville High School.
  
  All of it would have never happened if not for that singular life-changing moment of deliverance 50 years ago.  

  -- Jackson Newspapers / By Greg Matics

  Click here for more information on Hillbreed

   

• Mississippi Welcome Centers are including the music of Ben Peters as part of the great history of the state.
  
   
• In 2014 two Hee Haw shows will air 12 times each. One Features Faron Young doing the classic “Just What I  Had In Mind,” and the othe episode features Buck Owen performing “Kiss An Angel Good Morning.”

• The Nashville show for songwriters, “Words and Music,” will air Platinum Planet Records Recording artist, Lee Anna Culp, performing “Give Me The Reasons To Stay,” and her single “Carry Me Away.” Justin Peters also on the show performs “It’s Another World With You,” & “You Got Me Feeling Good.” The TV episode is airing 22 times.
   
• On the premiere Canadian late night show, George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight, Charley Pride performed “Kiss An Angel Good Morning.”
   
• Justin Peters debuts "Red, White, And Blue:  The Song Of America" with new rising star, Lee Anna Culp at the Memorial Day Blues Festival in Nashville, Tennessee. http://www.wkrn.com/category/175880/video-landing-page?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=8922995#.UaQr3kgkMtk.twitter

• Songs for the Planet President/songwriter Justin Peters and songwriter Constance Wolfe presented Governor Earl Ray Tomblin on Monday, March 18, 2013, a copy of their song, "West Virginia, West Virginia," and released all copyright restrictions to all West Virginia government, residents and businesses during the state's Sesqucentennial Celebration. The copyright release ends on Dec. 31, 2014.

• For the third year in a row Elvis' cousin, Edie Hand, asked Justin Peters to be the music director for the 2012 Holiday Memories with Edie Hand & Nashville Stars Christmas special dedicated to helping St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital.  Guests on the show included Billy Dean, Buddy Jewell, Ray Stevens, Aaron Tippin, Classic Imperials, Andy Griggs, Chelsea Hacker, Ronnie McDowell, Andy Andrews, and actor Link Hand.  

Click here to view video:  http://youtu.be/TqWf5VngPTs

• Nowhere But Up (The Story Of Justin Bieber's Mom) is the autobiography and life story of Pattie Mallette, Super-Pop Star, Justin Bieber's mom.  LITA Music has one of very few songs in this book.  It was the song, "Waves Of Grace" that helped Justin Bieber get his record deal.  This book can be ordered on amazon.com or bought at all bookstores on September 19, 2012.  The book is being promoted on The View, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, Huffington Post and the Disneydreaming website. 
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fLP8acKkb0

• A show called "Noteworthy At The Opry" utilized one song that will air on GAC & Dish Channel 102

• Platinum Planet Music, Inc. this week released the debut recording for Southern funny man, Joey Hancock. His first CD album entitled Thinkin' Man recorded live at Where There’s Smoke in Monroe, Georgia, was available digitally on iTunes on January 16th and in CD format on January 26th. Produced by Justin Peters, this hilarious family-oriented project features Joey pondering life’s great mysteries, such as coon hunting, screaming monkeys, and reality TV among many other Southern topics. A companion DVD will soon follow.

Songs For The Planet, Inc. hosted an album release party for Joey's Thinkin' Man at the Berry Hill Pinnacle Bank in Nashville, Tennessee. Many representatives from the music industry were on hand to celebrate this milestone in Joey's career (and share a few laughs, too).

Being very excited about the release of this record, Joey chuckles while commenting, “Come join me in my own crazy little world!  Pull up a chair, sit down, and let’s 'take a think!'  Let's laugh and learn together just about what a bizarre world we live in, so when we pick up and leave, we will feel a little bit better about the load we are carrying!”

Joey Hancock is a man who loves the outdoors, named one of the “Top Ten Turkey Hunters in Alabama,” he is often asked to speak at Wild Game banquets, as well as other outdoor events and festivals because of that experience.  It is Joey's unique perspective on life, hunting and nature that creates a special connection between him and the people who live or have lived that same lifestyle. 

Best known for his ability to make you laugh while teaching you something at the same time, Joey Hancock is a self-declared “Thinkin’ Man,” an ordinary guy obsessed with examining all the little things in life.  Joey takes pride in his Southern heritage (both the blessings and the pitfalls) and is a man of strong morals, ensuring good clean comedy for the whole family!

When it comes to Joey, one thing is for sure: he will get you thinkin'!  Prepare for endless laughter as you and your family experience Joey Hancock’s “Comedy with a Southern Bling!”