All-Star Musical Cast Including Tanya Tucker, Travis Tritt Album Inspired by ‘Reagan’ Movie

A film about Republican President Ronald Reagan, titled “Reagan” and starring Dennis Quaid as the 40th president, is getting an “inspired by” album featuring a host of artists who have created new songs for the effort.

One of the contributors, a member of the soul-funk band The Commodores, shared it Just the news he is not even a fan of Reagan, the president, although he was impressed by his love story with former first lady, Nancy Reagan.

The CD also features songs from country artists Alabama, Travis Tritt, Tanya Tucker and Marty Stuart, as well as pop artists Wayne Newton and Josh Turner & Kathie Lee Gifford, as well as Christian artist Sweet Comfort Band.

The songs will be released online by the end of the month and the CD, “Reagan: Songs Inspired by the Film,” will follow shortly thereafter.

The song by Tucker, who has won two Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2023, is called “Do We Want to Win” and appears to have some political undertones.

“We cry as we buy what they sell for progress; Queuing at our sign at the protest; Daddy’s home working on a letter to Congress,” she sings.

In another section she sings, “Trying to wake up, waking up sleeping; Hoping and praying that Jesus doesn’t keep my score.”

Tucker said her song was written by Regie Hamm and Chuck Cannon and is about “winning by finding the common ground we all stand on.” When I heard it, I wanted to share this message with the world.”

She also said that “it helps that Quaid is one of my best friends,” and that they have a song and video coming out soon called “On My Way to Heaven.”

The Reagan album is also slated to include a song from rocker Gary Cherone, former lead singer of Van Halen and currently of Extreme, and the filmmakers could also include an unreleased song from a high-profile artist who had a song for the project before his death wrote. .

Cherone said Just the news that his song is called “America’s Dream,” and he described it as “a profession of faith in the great American experiment, that continued work in progress in forming a more perfect union.” In short: a love letter.”

William King, who co-founded The Commodores with Lionel Richie and others, wrote a song that will be performed by Cody Orange, the son of Walter Orange, another founding member of the band known for 1970s hits like “Brick House ‘, ‘Three Times a Dame” and “Sail On.”

King said Just the news that although he was not a fan of Ronald Reagan, he loved the film, especially the romance between him and his wife Nancy, played by Penelope Ann Miller in the film.

“I saw a screening and a song just clicked in my head. All I had to do was go to my keyboards,” King said of his contribution, a song called “Always.”

He described it as a love song with the theme: ‘No matter how far I am from you, you are always close. It’s the way I feel about my wife, so I could relate to it.”

King did not say what he disliked about Reagan’s presidency or what his current political views are. He said the song he wrote for the soundtrack borrowed part from another song he wrote for a friend’s wedding ten years earlier.

‘You don’t have to be a fan of President Reagan. I’m not even a fan of some people in my own family,” he joked. “Nancy had what he didn’t have, and he had what she didn’t have. Together they were a force to be reckoned with.”

He added: “I didn’t expect the film to be as put together as it was. visual. My wife and I agreed that this was one of the best movies we have ever seen. Politics is not my game, but this was a story I wanted to write about.”