Dan Hill

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Dan Hill (born Daniel Grafton Hill IV[1][2], 3 June 1954 at Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian pop singer and songwriter. He had two major hits with his songs, "Sometimes When We Touch" and "Can't We Try," a duet with Vonda Shepard.

1 Career
2 Discography
- 2.1 Albums
- 2.2 Singles
3 References
4 External links

Career

Hill is the son of social scientist and public servant Daniel G. Hill, and brother of the author Lawrence Hill. His wife is lawyer Beverly Chapin-Hill[3][4] with whom he wrote the songs "Can't We Try"[2] and "(Can This Be) Real Love".[5] Although some sources have incorrectly stated that he was married to American country singer Faith Hill, her surname came from her first marriage to an unrelated Nashville record executive named Daniel Hill.[6]

One of his songs was "It's A Long Road" which he recorded for the 1982 action movie First Blood. In 1985, he was one of the many Canadian performers to appear on the benefit single "Tears Are Not Enough" by Northern Lights. Although he had many hits in his native Canada, further singles did not fare as well in America, where, after "Let The Song Last Forever" in late 1978, he went almost a decade without cracking any of Billboard's singles charts.

In 1987, Hill returned to the Billboard Hot 100 chart with the Top 40 hit "Can't We Try", a duet with the then-unknown Vonda Shepard (her last name was incorrectly spelled "Sheppard" on the label). It was his biggest hit since "Sometimes When We Touch", peaking at #6 on the Hot 100. He also had a near Top 40 hit with "Never Thought (That I Could Love)". Both records reached #2 on the Adult Contemporary chart and set the stage for Hill to have three more top 10 U.S. AC hits through 1991's "I Fall All Over Again," though he did not make the Hot 100 again after "Never Thought."

A road trip to a Dan Hill concert was the subject of the 1994 Canadian comedy film South of Wawa.

In 2007 he toured with the CBC Radio program The Vinyl Cafe.

Dan Hill authored an article in the 14 February 2008 edition of Maclean's entitled "Every Parent's Nightmare", about the terror he experienced from friends his son brought home.[7] On March 14, 2008 CBC had an in-depth interview with Dan Hill discussing his son's involvement with Toronto, Ontario gangs based on the article.

Discography

Albums

1975 - Dan Hill
1976 - Hold On
1977 - Longer Fuse
1978 - Frozen in the Night
1980 - If Dreams Had Wings
1981 - Partial Surrender
1983 - Love in the Shadows
1987 - Dan Hill
1989 - Real Love
1991 - Dance of Love
1993 - Let Me Show You (Greatest Hits and More)
1996 - I'm Doing Fine
1999 - Love of My Life (The Best of Dan Hill)

Singles

Year Song
AC AC Album 1975"You Make Me Want to Be" 24 16 - - - Dan Hill (1975) 1975"Growin' Up" 41 30 67 - - Dan Hill (1975) 1976"You Say You're Free" 61 13 - - - Dan Hill (1975) 1976"Hold On" 46 - - - - Hold On 1977"Phonecall" 53 17 - - - Hold On 1977"Sometimes When We Touch" 1 1 3 10 13 Longer Fuse 1978"All I See is Your Face" 35 36 41 8 - Frozen In The Night 1978"Let The Song Last Forever" 14 19 91 50 - Frozen In The Night 1978"On the Dark Side of Atlanta" 44 - - - - Frozen In The Night 1979"(Why Did You Have to Go and) Pick on Me" 57 35 - - - Frozen In The Night 1980"I Still Reach For You" 83 9 - - - If Dreams Had Wings 1981"Don't Give Up on Love" - - - - - Partial Surrender 1982"I'm Just A Man" - 20 - - - Partial Surrender 1983"Love in the Shadows" 45 24 - - - Love In The Shadows 1984"Helpless" - - - - - Love In The Shadows - 1987"Can't We Try" <w/ Vonda Shepard> 14 2 6 2 - Dan Hill (1987) 1987"Never Thought (That I Could Love)" 22 1 43 2 - Dan Hill (1987) 1988"Carmelia" ? ? - 8 ? Dan Hill (1987) 1989"Unborn Heart" ? ? - 3 ? Real Love 1989"Wishful Thinking" (w/Celine Dion) ? ? - - - Real Love 1991"I Fall All Over Again" ? ? - 7 - Dance of Love 1992"Hold Me Now" (w/Rique Franks) ? ? - 30 - Dance of Love 1994"In Your Eyes" (w/Rique Franks) ? ? - 38 - Let Me Show You - Greatest Hits and More 1999"Hold on to the Night" - - - - - -
AC AC Total hits 26 29 6 10 1 Top 40 hits 13 28 2 9 1 #1 hits 1 3 - - -