Who is this woman and why should she be thanked over and again?Besides earning 1999 Songwriter of the Year in the Country Music Awards for penning the Faith Hill hit, The Kiss, Annie Roboff also wrote one of the most listened to tunes in history.
On an interview on her website, the webmaster interviews Roboff:
Interviewer: How does it feel to know that one of your songs is listened to by so many men every single day – The ESPN Sports Center Theme?
Roboff: Well, the thing about the ESPN sports center theme, was that it was originally music to the defunct Satellite News Channel. They went out of biz really fast and sold that music to ESPN. I love that so many guys know that theme...I never saw a penny from the everyday play, because it had been sold to the Satellite News Service as a buy out (it was the very early days of cable when no 'rules' had been established).
Roboff also composed numerous other Top 10 country chart songs, but at tip of the hat from BackPage for one of the best ever, the SportsCenter theme song.
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