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Dan Hartman

Harrisburg, United States • 1950-12-08 – 1994-03-22

Dan Hartman is credited on 3,421 releases across 688 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1969–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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3,421

Pressings credited

688

Albums

7

Decades active

355

In collections

Biography

Daniel Earl Hartman (December 8, 1950 – March 22, 1994) was an American pop rock musician. Among songs he wrote and recorded were "Free Ride" as a member of the Edgar Winter Group, and the solo hits "Relight My Fire", "Instant Replay", "I Can Dream About You", "We Are the Young" and "Second Nature". "I Can Dream About You", his most successful US hit, reached No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1984. The James Brown song "Living in America", which Hartman co-wrote and produced, reached No. 4 on March 1, 1986. Hartman wrote the 1980 disco song "Love Sensation" recorded by Loleatta Holloway, which has been sampled on numerous records, including the 1989 Black Box track "Ride on Time".

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Credited work

3,421 releases · 688 albums · active 1969–2025

  • Performance · 5,272
  • Production · 1,965
  • Other credits · 240
  • Engineering · 141

Studios: The Hit Factory · The Town House · Multi-Level · Record Plant, N.Y.C.

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