Van Zant
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Van Zant is an American musical duo composed of brothers Donnie Van Zant
and Johnny Van Zant
. Both are brothers of the late Ronnie Van Zant
, former lead singer for the Southern rock
band Lynyrd Skynyrd
. Johnny became the lead vocalist for the reunited Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1987, and Donnie is also the leader and vocalist of .38 Special.
Initially a Southern rock
band, Van Zant first recorded in the 1980s on Geffen Records
before disbanding. Johnny and Donnie re-established Van Zant in 1998 to record two albums for CMC International, switching their focus to country music
in 2005, with two more albums on Columbia Records
as a duo. The duo's first Columbia album, Get Right with the Man
, produced a Top Ten country hit in "Help Somebody
."
. This album saw chart success with "You've Got to Believe in Love" and "I'm a Fighter", both of which peaked on the Mainstream Rock Tracks
chart. However, this band did not include Donnie and was soon disbanded.
Johnny released another album under his full name in 1990, but spent most of his time in that period singing for the Lynyrd Skynyrd reunion group. He joined up with Donnie, and they revived the Van Zant name to release an album in 1998, Brother to Brother Initially intended as a one-off project, Brother to Brother saw chart success in the single "Rage", so the duo followed it up in 2001 with Van Zant II
for the label. This album accounted for their fourth charted rock single in "Get What You Got Comin'."
on Columbia Records
. The album produced a Top 10 country single in "Help Somebody
", followed by the #16 "Nobody Gonna Tell Me What to Do" and #59 "Things I Miss the Most." The album also earned RIAA gold certification. The 2005 Sony BMG CD copy protection scandal
began with an investigation of an installation of the CD Get Right With the Man.
Because of this, it was not possible to import this CD track into iTunes, by now, the import can be done even in the original copy protected version.
This situation made NOT possible to import this CD in iTunes, but by now, it is possible to download the protected original version of "Get Right with the Man".
Van Zant released a second album for Columbia, My Kind of Country
, in 2007. This album included the singles "That Scares Me" and "Goes Down Easy," both of which failed to reach Top 40 on the country charts. After the release of the latter, the duo exited Columbia.
Donnie Van Zant
Donald "Donnie" Van Zant is an American rock vocalist/guitarist. He is best known as a member of the band 38 Special, which he formed in 1975...
and Johnny Van Zant
Johnny Van Zant
John Roy "Johnny" Van Zant is an American musician and the current lead vocalist of Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. He is the younger brother of Lynyrd Skynyrd co-founder and former lead vocalist Ronnie Van Zant and .38 Special founder Donnie Van Zant.Van Zant performed during the 1970s with...
. Both are brothers of the late Ronnie Van Zant
Ronnie Van Zant
Ronald Wayne "Ronnie" Van Zant was an American lead vocalist, primary lyricist, and a founding member of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd...
, former lead singer for the Southern rock
Southern rock
Southern rock is a subgenre of rock music, and genre of Americana. It developed in the Southern United States from rock and roll, country music, and blues, and is focused generally on electric guitar and vocals...
band Lynyrd Skynyrd
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Lynyrd Skynyrd is an American rock band prominent in spreading Southern Rock during the 1970s.Originally formed as the "Noble Five" in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1964, the band rose to worldwide recognition on the basis of its driving live performances and signature tune, Freebird...
. Johnny became the lead vocalist for the reunited Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1987, and Donnie is also the leader and vocalist of .38 Special.
Initially a Southern rock
Southern rock
Southern rock is a subgenre of rock music, and genre of Americana. It developed in the Southern United States from rock and roll, country music, and blues, and is focused generally on electric guitar and vocals...
band, Van Zant first recorded in the 1980s on Geffen Records
Geffen Records
Geffen Records is an American record label, owned by Universal Music Group, and operated as one third of UMG's Interscope-Geffen-A&M label group.-Beginnings:...
before disbanding. Johnny and Donnie re-established Van Zant in 1998 to record two albums for CMC International, switching their focus to country music
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
in 2005, with two more albums on Columbia Records
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
as a duo. The duo's first Columbia album, Get Right with the Man
Get Right with the Man
-Personnel:Taken from liner notes.*Bekka Bramlett - background vocals*Tom Bukovac - electric guitar*Perry Coleman - background vocals*Eric Darken - percussion*Glen Duncan - fiddle*Kenny Greenberg - electric guitar*Greg Morrow - drums, percussion...
, produced a Top Ten country hit in "Help Somebody
Help Somebody
"Help Somebody" is the title of a song co-written by Jeffrey Steele, and recorded by the country music duo Van Zant. It was released in March 2005 as the first single from their 2005 album Get Right with the Man. It peaked at #8 in the United States, and #29 in Canada. This song was their first...
."
History
Johnny recorded as a member of the 1980s southern rock band The Johnny Van Zant Band which released albums in 1980, 1981 and 1982. The band shortened its name to Van Zant for the release of its fourth album in 1985, the eponymous Van Zant on Geffen RecordsGeffen Records
Geffen Records is an American record label, owned by Universal Music Group, and operated as one third of UMG's Interscope-Geffen-A&M label group.-Beginnings:...
. This album saw chart success with "You've Got to Believe in Love" and "I'm a Fighter", both of which peaked on the Mainstream Rock Tracks
Mainstream Rock Tracks
Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks is a ranking in Billboard magazine of the most-played songs on mainstream rock radio stations, a category that includes stations that play primarily rock music. Modern rock tracks are counted in the Alternative Songs chart.This chart began with the March 21, 1981, issue...
chart. However, this band did not include Donnie and was soon disbanded.
Johnny released another album under his full name in 1990, but spent most of his time in that period singing for the Lynyrd Skynyrd reunion group. He joined up with Donnie, and they revived the Van Zant name to release an album in 1998, Brother to Brother Initially intended as a one-off project, Brother to Brother saw chart success in the single "Rage", so the duo followed it up in 2001 with Van Zant II
Van Zant II
Van Zant II is an album released by American musical duo Van Zant. It was released in 2001 by Sanctuary Records. The single "Get What You Got Comin'" achieved chart success....
for the label. This album accounted for their fourth charted rock single in "Get What You Got Comin'."
Country music career
In 2005, the duo crossed over into country music, releasing Get Right with the ManGet Right with the Man
-Personnel:Taken from liner notes.*Bekka Bramlett - background vocals*Tom Bukovac - electric guitar*Perry Coleman - background vocals*Eric Darken - percussion*Glen Duncan - fiddle*Kenny Greenberg - electric guitar*Greg Morrow - drums, percussion...
on Columbia Records
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
. The album produced a Top 10 country single in "Help Somebody
Help Somebody
"Help Somebody" is the title of a song co-written by Jeffrey Steele, and recorded by the country music duo Van Zant. It was released in March 2005 as the first single from their 2005 album Get Right with the Man. It peaked at #8 in the United States, and #29 in Canada. This song was their first...
", followed by the #16 "Nobody Gonna Tell Me What to Do" and #59 "Things I Miss the Most." The album also earned RIAA gold certification. The 2005 Sony BMG CD copy protection scandal
2005 Sony BMG CD copy protection scandal
The Sony BMG CD copy protection rootkit scandal concerns the copy protection measures included by Sony BMG on Compact Discs in 2005. Sony BMG included the Extended Copy Protection and MediaMax CD-3 software on music CDs. XCP was put on 52 titles and MediaMax was put on 50 titles...
began with an investigation of an installation of the CD Get Right With the Man.
Because of this, it was not possible to import this CD track into iTunes, by now, the import can be done even in the original copy protected version.
This situation made NOT possible to import this CD in iTunes, but by now, it is possible to download the protected original version of "Get Right with the Man".
Van Zant released a second album for Columbia, My Kind of Country
My Kind of Country (Van Zant album)
-Album:-Singles:...
, in 2007. This album included the singles "That Scares Me" and "Goes Down Easy," both of which failed to reach Top 40 on the country charts. After the release of the latter, the duo exited Columbia.
Studio albums
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| Brother to Brother |
CMC International CMC International was an American independent record label founded by Tom Lipsky in 1991, focused mainly on classic rock, and classic heavy metal. The label was the haven of many hard rock, arena rock, glam metal and AOR artists in the period when all the majors were investing all their financial... Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,... , cassette Compact Cassette The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. It was designed originally for dictation, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel... |
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| Van Zant II Van Zant II Van Zant II is an album released by American musical duo Van Zant. It was released in 2001 by Sanctuary Records. The single "Get What You Got Comin'" achieved chart success.... |
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| Get Right with the Man Get Right with the Man -Personnel:Taken from liner notes.*Bekka Bramlett - background vocals*Tom Bukovac - electric guitar*Perry Coleman - background vocals*Eric Darken - percussion*Glen Duncan - fiddle*Kenny Greenberg - electric guitar*Greg Morrow - drums, percussion... |
Music download A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment... |
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| My Kind of Country My Kind of Country (Van Zant album) -Album:-Singles:... |
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Singles
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Album | ||
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| US Country Hot Country Songs Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales... |
US Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
US Main Rock |
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| 1985 | "You've Got to Believe in Love" | — | — | 27 | Van Zant |
| "I'm a Fighter" | — | — | 16 | ||
| 1998 | "Rage" | — | — | 22 | Brother to Brother |
| 2001 | "Get What You Got Comin'" | — | — | 33 | Van Zant II |
| 2005 | "Help Somebody Help Somebody "Help Somebody" is the title of a song co-written by Jeffrey Steele, and recorded by the country music duo Van Zant. It was released in March 2005 as the first single from their 2005 album Get Right with the Man. It peaked at #8 in the United States, and #29 in Canada. This song was their first... " |
8 | 66 | — | Get Right with the Man |
| "Nobody Gonna Tell Me What to Do" | 16 | 111 | — | ||
| 2006 | "Things I Miss the Most" | 60 | — | — | |
| 2007 | "That Scares Me" | 48 | — | — | My Kind of Country |
| "Goes Down Easy" | 45 | — | — | ||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||
Guest singles
| Year | Single | Artist | Peak chart positions | Album |
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| US Country Hot Country Songs Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales... |
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| 2006 | "That's How They Do It in Dixie" | Hank Williams, Jr. Hank Williams, Jr. Randall Hank Williams , better known as Hank Williams, Jr. and Bocephus, is an American country singer-songwriter and musician. His musical style is often considered a blend of Southern rock, blues, and traditional country... (with Big & Rich Big & Rich Big & Rich is an American country music duo composed of Big Kenny and John Rich. Both members alternate as lead vocalists and play rhythm guitar... and Gretchen Wilson Gretchen Wilson Gretchen Frances Wilson is an American country music artist. She made her debut in 2004 with the Grammy Award-winning single "Redneck Woman," a number-one hit on the Billboard country charts. The song served as the lead-off single of her debut album, Here for the Party... ) |
35 | That's How They Do It in Dixie: The Essential Collection That's How They Do It in Dixie: The Essential Collection That's How They Do It in Dixie: The Essential Collection is a greatest hits album by American country music singer and songwriter Hank Williams, Jr. This album was released on June 27, 2006 on the Curb Records label. This album has two brand new songs, "That's How They Do It in Dixie," and... |
Music videos
| Year | Video | Director |
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| 2005 | "Help Somebody Help Somebody "Help Somebody" is the title of a song co-written by Jeffrey Steele, and recorded by the country music duo Van Zant. It was released in March 2005 as the first single from their 2005 album Get Right with the Man. It peaked at #8 in the United States, and #29 in Canada. This song was their first... " |
Peter Zavadil Peter Zavadil Peter Zavadil is a music video director who works primarily in the field of country music. He has directed many music videos since the late 1990s.-Music videos directed:109 music videos are currently listed here.-References:... |
| "Nobody Gonna Tell Me What to Do" | Trey Fanjoy Trey Fanjoy Trey Fanjoy is a country music and pop music video director. Fanjoy has directed over 150 major label music videos. Her videos have appeared on CMT, VH-1, GAC, The Nashville Network, CMT Canada, and MTV.-Music videos:... |
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| 2006 | "Things I Miss the Most" | Peter Zavadil Peter Zavadil Peter Zavadil is a music video director who works primarily in the field of country music. He has directed many music videos since the late 1990s.-Music videos directed:109 music videos are currently listed here.-References:... |
| "That's How They Do It in Dixie" (with Big & Rich Big & Rich Big & Rich is an American country music duo composed of Big Kenny and John Rich. Both members alternate as lead vocalists and play rhythm guitar... , Hank Williams, Jr. Hank Williams, Jr. Randall Hank Williams , better known as Hank Williams, Jr. and Bocephus, is an American country singer-songwriter and musician. His musical style is often considered a blend of Southern rock, blues, and traditional country... and Gretchen Wilson Gretchen Wilson Gretchen Frances Wilson is an American country music artist. She made her debut in 2004 with the Grammy Award-winning single "Redneck Woman," a number-one hit on the Billboard country charts. The song served as the lead-off single of her debut album, Here for the Party... ) |
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| 2007 | "Goes Down Easy" | Roman White Roman White Roman White is a music video director who has directed most of Carrie Underwood's videos. He has also directed music videos for Kelly Clarkson, Josh Groban, Kellie Pickler, Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber and more... |