Dan Hartman

Daniel Earl Hartman was an American pop rock musician, multi-instrumentalist, producer, singer, and songwriter and original frontman for several bands, including The Soploids, Mak and the Turnarounds, Our Wringer, Last Wing, and Orion. Among 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 No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1984 and No. 12 on the UK Singles Chart in 1985. The James Brown song "Living in America", which Hartman co-wrote and produced, reached No. 4 on March 1, 1986.

8 December 1950

Born on the same birth date (8 December 1950): Rick Baker • Tim Foli

Born on the same birth day (8 December): Andrew Nicholson (basketball) • Anita Weyermann • Bill Bryson • Dharmendra • Drew Doughty • Ernst Moro • George Rogers (American football) • Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole • James Tate (writer) • James Thurber • John Qualen • Maximilian Schell • Nikos Karageorgiou • Owen Teague • Phil Collen • Sam Tagataese • Sammy Davis Jr. • Zelma Watson George • Zoe Konstantopoulou

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