carrie underwood sang the nfl sunday night theme song.
carrie underwood sang the nfl sunday night theme song.
who sings the nfl sunday night theme song?
carrie underwood
in the spring of 2005, bright received a call from joe galante, chairman of sony bmg nashville, when galante was meeting with clive davis. they called bright to see if he would be interested in producing that year’s american idol winner, carrie underwood. bright had seen underwood on the show, but never dreamed that he would ever have an opportunity to be her producer. galante said "i want you to meet her — if she likes you, you'll make a record". bright flew to kansas city with galante to meet underwood. two weeks later, bright and underwood were in the studio making "some hearts". bright was unaware that a battle had ensued because clive davis wanted another producer, but galante wanted bright. underwood liked bright, and they developed a good working relationship. she said of bright, "he'll say 'try something different there' but he doesn't tell me how to sing". bright was given one month to produce her first album from beginning to end. at the time, underwood was on the road with the american idol tour, so bright had to go to wherever she was, taking her microphone and special equipment to local studios in san francisco and seattle to finish her vocal tracks. davis wanted to hedge his bet on underwood by having her album include pop as well as county songs, but underwood did not like the pop material. davis insisted that production of the album be split to where dann huff produced the pop songs, and bright did the country. the final product, "some hearts", released in 2005, won three grammy awards and underwood won a grammy for best new artist. the album became the best-selling solo female debut album in country music history and as of 2016, had sold 8 million copies. he also produced underwood’s nbc sunday night football intro/theme songs. the first was "waiting all day for sunday night" which was replaced in 2016 using a new tune based on underwood's country song "somethin' bad", but with new lyrics and other changes to fit the show. and changes the theme song again now is "game on" for the 2018 nfl season nbc sunday night football.
mark bright (record producer)
westwood one's coverage of "sunday night football" begins with their weekly recap show, "nfl sunday". the show beings at 7:30 p.m every sunday night on most affiliates (in cases where a market is getting the late game, the show is joined in progress), with scott graham hosting. the show consists of highlights and statistics from the previous games of the day as well as a preview of the upcoming sunday night game live from the stadium. graham then anchors the normal "sunday night football" pregame show until kickoff. graham has hosted "nfl sunday" since he joined the network, replacing tommy tighe as he did as studio host; he hosted in 2009 with jason horowitz, who replaced dave lamont who departed for a college football play-by-play position at espn. brent musburger was the original studio host for the network and was eventually replaced by greg gumbel who in turn was replaced by tighe.
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