During 1976, Grant wrote her first song (" Mountain Man "), performed in public for the first time — at Harpeth Hall School — the all-girls school she attended, recorded a demo tape for her parents with church youth-leader Brown Bannister, then later when Bannister was dubbing a copy of the tape, Chris Christian, the owner of the recording studio, heard the demo and called Word Records.

The song was written in 1977, but existed only as a demo recording of the chorus.

The song was written by Townshend, and although there is a misconception that Moon sings on the track, the version on the album is Townshend's demo.

Following a two song demo tape containing " Somebody's Gotta Feel This " and " I Got One For Ya " Flom supported Karp in signing Kid Rock for $ 100, 000.

After spending an entire day writing a song, he would make several demo tapes at a time and send them to Wesley Rose, who would try to find the musical acts to record them.

This was well demonstrated in the writing and making of a demo of the song " Under Pressure ".

Billy and Linden wrote the whole song and created a recorded demo all in one afternoon without either Dusty or Frank even knowing about it.

Back in Greenville, they self-released a limited-run of the same demo, which they named Frail, after their song of the same name.

He included in the demo a song called " Babe I Hate to Go ," later renamed " Leaving on A Jet Plane.

Early in 1984 Megadeth recorded a three song demo, and on the strength of their demo, Megadeth was asked to be signed with the New York based independent label Combat Records.

Although an early demo of the song was recorded in February 1962 at World-Pacific Studios, it was not re-recorded and released until 1963, when it became a top ten hit.

With their help, Bananarama recorded their first demo " Aie a Mwana " ( a cover of a song by Black Blood, sung in Swahili ).

Reeves returned, and after hearing the song he was asked to provide a voice demo for Axton in the style of Elvis Presley.

The earliest demo of the song, recorded in Almería, had no refrain and only one verse: " There's no one on my wavelength / I mean, it's either too high or too low / That is you can't you know tune in but it's all right / I mean it's not too bad ".

In 1996, three previously unreleased versions of the song were included on the Anthology 2 album: Lennon's original home demo, an altered version of the first studio take, and the complete take seven, of which only the first minute was heard in the master version.

The song was offered as a demo to Chris Farlowe prior to The Beatles recording it, but he turned it down as he considered it " too soft ".

From the late 1970s and into the 1980s, Smith composed some of The Cure's songs on a Hammond organ with a built-in tape recorder, including a complete demo of the song " 10: 15 Saturday Night ".

Mistress encountered legal difficulties as well, though Walker did demo a song he had co-written for the project called " High On the Ride ".

The remaining members of Thin Lizzy did not work together until the recording of the single " Dedication " in October 1990, when a rough demo of Lynott's was worked into a finished song to commemorate the fifth anniversary of his death.

The three formed the group in high school and caught the attention of producer Prince Paul with a demo tape of the song " Plug Tunin '".

Warwick found " Make It Easy on Yourself " —- a song on which she had recorded the original demo and had wanted to be her first single release —- had been given to another artist, Jerry Butler.

In 1990, a four song demo tape was recorded by an early conception of Stabbing Westward.

Their first drummer, Dan ( later alluded to in the song " The Plan " from the album High / Low ), was replaced by Aaron Conte, with whom the band recorded its first 7 ", The Plan / Telescope ( 1994 / Stickboy ), as well as the demo tape Tafkans, the raw version of High / Low.

They decided that the film could not be written and instead filmed a 20 minute demo of what they wanted to do.

The album's first single, " Feel ", written by Williams and Chambers, was recorded as a demo.

One possible explanation is that in 1985, a Mute Records technician is believed to have accidentally written " erasure " on a demo tape for " Who Needs Love Like That " submitted by Clarke and Bell.

With Powell reinstated, the group went on to release " Love's Made a Fool of You ," another Crickets cover ( written by Buddy Holly and Bob Montgomery and recorded by Holly as a demo, reportedly intended for the Everly Brothers, though never recorded by that duo ).

To this end he recruited fiddle player Helen O ' Hara to play on demo tapes of the new songs he had written.

In 1972, Robinson sent a demo of a song she had written called " Pillow Talk " to Al Green.

In contrast to previous records, many songs were written in the studio and few demo recordings were created.

This songwriting demo has lyrics and music written by Danesh, showing the song as it was first written before other producers added their production ideas to the song.

This songwriting demo has lyrics and music written by Danesh, showing the song as it was first written before other producers added their production ideas to the song.

This was followed by Club Daze Volume 1: The Studio Sessions, an album containing demo recordings from the pre-Under the Blade era, which has three songs that were written by French, this was the first time someone other than Snider was writing songs, and Club Daze Volume 2: Live In The Bars, a live counterpart.

With Braxton's low register sounding similar to that of Anita Baker, Reid and Babyface recruited her to record a demo of " Love Shoulda Brought You Home ", a song that they had written for Anita Baker for the soundtrack of Eddie Murphy's film, Boomerang.

It has also been confirmed that the unfinished demo that did not make the cut on Chinese Democracy called " Silkworms " was written by Reed himself and the bands other keyboardist Chris Pitman.

Martin-Smith decided to use Barlow as the lead-singer after being impressed by his self written material including an early demo tape of Barlow's " A Million Love Songs " concluding that the band will be built around Barlow's vocals and songwriting skills.

To the surprise and glee of his associates, Brian Wilson emerged near the end of the sessions to aid his brother and engineer Stephen Desper in the completion of the third movement, which combined the end of the 1966 demo with " Child Is Father of the Man " ( another Smile outtake ) for the coda and a final lyrical couplet possibly written by Rieley.

Some of their demo songs would end up on their debut album ; others were written during NRG's recording session.

He also delivered a side-jab to attenders from Canada stating that they are " wussies ", as they don't have an active demoparty anymore-to which the members of demogroup Northern Dragons responded that the actual party invitation demo was " written by Canadians ".

Additional recordings exist from a demo session in 1955 (" Flip, Flop and Fly ", " Rock-A-Beatin ' Boogie " ( written by Bill Haley ) and " The Big Beat ").

After being given music that the band had written, McCracken wrote the lyrics to what would become " Maybe Memories " and returned the next day to record a demo version of the song.

* Mimikaki wo shiteiru to ( written by Masami Tozawa / composed by Toshio Kamei ) / Dare no Sei demo nai Futari ( written by Masami Tozawa / composed by Miki Matsubara ), 1995