August 30, 2005

‘Fast Cars & Freedom’ Races to #1

BMI songwriter Wendell Mobley was honored with a party staged at the Music Row offices of his publisher Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., where his hit "Fast Cars and Freedom" was celebrated for taking the top position on the charts. Co-written by Neil Thrasher and Gary LeVox of Rascal Flatts, and produced by Mark Bright and Marty Williams, the song appears on the group's #1 Lyric Street Records album Feels Like Today. Previously, the co-writing trio and Rascal Flatts scored a Top Five single with the 2004 BMI Country Award-winning track "I Melt."

Pictured (l-r) are producer Mark Bright, Rascal Flatts' Jay DeMarcus, BMI's Bradley Collins, Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp.'s Dale Bobo, BMI songwriter Wendell Mobley, Rascal Flatts' Gary LeVox and Joe Don Rooney, and producer Marty Williams. photo by Brian Tipton

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