Check out my page, I have all kinds of studio videos on here and more coming!!!! Thanks for Watching!!! I recorded this a few months ago in 2006. This is Tony Arata. The guy who wrote "The Dance" by Garth Brooks in 1988 I think.The story behind "The Dance" is :By Tony Arata:The DanceI will be the first to admit that without this song there might not have been the others.Ironically it was the very first thing I ever had recorded after we moved to Nashville.More ironic, perhaps, is how prophetic the words to this song have become by virtueof circumstance, not some grand design on my part at the time of their creation.What has happened since then could have been no more anticipated than it could bere-created. My one brush with being right was pure chance, as it were.I met the gentleman who cut it at an open-mic songwriter's show at Douglas Corner.Garth and Sandy had moved from Oklahoma about the same time Jaymi and I came upfrom Georgia. We were both doing whatever we could to stay in Nashville, trying to getour songs heard by anybody. The only folks listening, however, were other songwritersas no one else was usually at our shows. And so it was at one of those nights atThe Bluebird, Garth heard this one and swore if he ever got a record deal,he was going to do it. Well, he did, and he did. I will always be grateful that itwas a songwriter who made this one his own. The song was doubly blessedbecause it was also produced by a songwriter, Allen Reynolds.One little-known fact about this song is that it originally had another set of lyricswhich, by grace, never saw the light of day. Thankfully, these lyrics were lost in oneof our moves and haven't resurfaced! The melody is the same as it was but the wordsthat finally stuck were inspired by a scene from the movie Peggy Sue Got Married.Kathleen Turner discovers she can't alter one aspect of her past withoutaffecting the rest. No one gets to pick their memories, thankfully.I am humbled by letters I have received since this song was released?lettersfrom mothers, fathers, wives, husbands and children who foundsomething worthwhile in the message of The Dance.
