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William (Bill) Cobbs
of Huntington Beach/Sunset Beach, CA
My website is provided to showcase my songwriting and music publishing endeavors in order to demonstrate my songwriting abilities, and offer my works for music industry Artists, Music Labels, Music & Sync Supervisors and other larger Music Publishers for professional artists’ recordings, and music/video material distribution, performance, radio and sales/streaming. My musical emphasis is Country, be it Classical, Contemporary, or a little Bluegrass, as well as a select few Pop, Rock and Contemporary Christian. All of my current offerings of Pitch Ready Song Demos are shown below.
I feel my strength is in my Lyrics by melding familiar imagery and situations to various emotions and truths, while maintaining a creative use of rhyme structure to balance music to word. I am not a “Singer”/Songwriter, leaving the music and vocal performances to those more gifted; but melodies, beats, and riffs are always in my head just waiting for the next challenge of the “Blank Paper.”
I have two separate and important songwriting phases which are more thoroughly explained in the “Biography” section of the BIOGRAPHY Page. Within that description, during the recent 2024-25 song development period, I have become an active member of both the “Nashville Songwriters Association International” (NSAI) (See Reference Page), as well as the “American Songwriters – The Craft of Music” Society. Through these associations, over the past many, many months I have submitted and resubmitted these works below almost 60 times across all of their NSAI Evaluator experts. This has led to further revisions, improvements, and redevelopments with many of my songs gaining important NSAI Accolades of “Ones To Watch” on a majority of my material with consistent, highly complementary comments on all works. Details about the NSAI evaluation purpose, process and results can be found in the BIOGRAPHY, DEMO SONGS and REFERENCE Web Pages. All material shown as “2026” material reflect the latest, updated NSAI-evaluated material.
It is now also imperative to clearly state that all my lyrics are strictly my own, most having been written back in the early 1990’s and are now all registered with BMI. ( See further details and discussion in the AI INFLUENCE Web Page). All musical and vocal adaptations are essentially “Work-For-Hire” Songwriter Demo results using emerging AI assistance strictly for providing accurate representations of my lyrics, melodies and unique characteristics which I have directed. All this is explained on the separate website page. As I stated, all past and present songs are registered through BMI, and are not permissible for any other entity, registry or performance royalties through social music sources such as Spotify, iTunes/Apple Music, SongTrust, etc. Any use of the attached works are all subject to applicable copyright restrictions without written permission.
My Musical Offerings
I encourage you to review my BIOGRAPHY Page for details of my background and songwriting journey. The material presented in this website for evaluation are listed below for your business consideration, and hopefully match your organization’s genre, artists, musical tastes, special needs, or special events. The details of each of the following can be found in the DEMO SONGS Page where each song provides its:
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Fully Recorded MP3 DEMO File,
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MSWORD Lyrics Sheet,
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a complete description of the song’s history, subject matter, intent, and any recommendations for its final production, and
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a synopsis of the industry expert evaluation comments
Results of the 26th Annual NSAI Lyrics Competition
During 2025, I submitted 12 of my 1993-2025 ITC Music Songs to the 26th Annual NSAI LYRICS Competition which is a half of its highly regarded annual international NSAI Song/Lyrics Contest. The final numerical ranking results of the 9 NSAI evaluation questions for each song and the overall Summary Ranking for each can be found in the NEWS and REVIEWS Webpage, I’m proud to say that out of all the Lyrics entries, 4 achieved very high marks (all details of individual Questioning scores and Overall average can be found on the Reviews Page. Highlights are:
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“Trail of Tears” achieved a very high 7 out of a possible 10 on 5 Evaluator topics, and 6 out of 10 for the remaining 4 topics for an overall Grade of 66 out of 100.
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“Thru the Eyes of a Child” had very high 7’s on 4 Evaluator topics with an overall Grade of 64 out of 100,
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“Broadway at Fourth Ave” had very high 7’s on 3 Evaluator topics with an overall Grade of 63 of 100,
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“Three Roses, All Red, White & Gold” had very high 7’s on 1 Evaluator topic with still an overall average Grade of 61 of 100.
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Finally,… “Wild Rivers” also achieved one 7 Ranking for the question if the Evaluator would like to hear the music again, which achieved an overall average Grade of 53 of 100.
Only two of my 12 submitted songs submitted received an overall evaluation of barely less than 50% of all the myriads of competing lyrics across the nation and world. The remaining 10 were all well above!! This Lyrics competition did not include evaluation of the associated musical Demos MP3 Files, which is a separate/parallel NSAI SONG Contest. Nor did it include any of my latest 2026 material as well. New 2026 material is planned to be similarly submitted during 2026 for the 27th Annual NSAI Lyrics Competition. We’ll see what happens on the 27th Annual NSAI Lyrics Competition (aka “The Running of the Proses.”)
Interesting existing and new songs with particular current marketability
1) A new ‘New Year’s Eve’ song (”A Toast to the New Year”) which would be perfect for the 2026/250th National celebration, as well as for years and generations to come.
2) Also, with all of the recent news/social media uproar over the "Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans” ad campaign for American Eagle Jeans (where their company Stock is soaring!), I just want to also point your attention to my long existing song back in 1995 “It’s All Just In Her Jeans” in various genera, which could be a quick, valuable marketing target for this Artist-ready song for either direct music sales and/or advertisement Sync sales. I personally love the Sophist-Pop version. Maybe she’d be willing to participate in a music video as well! Who knows… I also have a snappy reverse-role song “Walk the Walk” from a female perspective with popular Dance/Club music made in several genera as well. It received great NSAI Evaluator “One To Watch” response as well.
3) I also have a timely DEMO, “Stand Up For Your Country,” which is also very relevant to current national/political media-driven discussion. This song encourages strong support to both Country Music and national support of the USA whatever your political persuasion. It’s another Artist-ready material very ripe for a rousing video and live audience concerts and Country Music Awards shows. In that regard, I am now including a new “Concert” version of “Stand Up For Your Country!” It gives all the feel and appeal of this rip-roaring “stand on your feet and YELL” emotion which will stick in your head.
Other new, exciting and memorable songs I’d like to point out are:
4) Similarly, I am now also re-releasing a virtual “Concert” additionally to several of my earlier songs like “Ride the Wind,” and “Thru the Eyes of a Child” to give you a realistic example of how each gives powerful and entertaining examples of how they could be for touring rocking Artist(s). Groups, or a popular Sing Along sound for an adoring fan Concert as well.
5) “Head Over High Heels” and “In the Wink of an Eye” are catchy Contemporary Country songs which would fit right into the Country or Pop Radio heavy rotation. They have great twists of meaning, great visual description and catchy, memorable music. “West Texas Waltz” has also been revamped to bring some dance floor realism and sentimentality in a slick package. The new versions could be Pop as well as Country. Unforgettable. You’ll see!
6) I have also expanded the visibility of several adaptations to the basic “City of Lost Angels” Lyrics sheet to demonstrate the various exciting versions which can be created in any or all of the Rock, Pop, Sophistic-Pop, and R&B modes, as well as just Contemporary Country. As I’ve said so many times, these are intended to be Demos of my material to give you an idea of how many applications could be successful created using the same lyrics with different genera, beats, sounds, presentations, locations, etc. I hope you can take advantage of listening to them all. The Electro, Sophistic-Pop, Dance version is a particular favorite of mine. I’m also proud of a very new catchy, current-sounding Pop song simply called “STYLE – Modern Pop, Sassy.” I dare you to try and keep your feet and hips from matching the infectious rhythm! I hope you enjoy this one as well as I did in making it!
7) Finally, and perhaps more importantly, I am releasing a new, beautiful and meaningful song “Make It a Good One Today” which received glowing evaluation comments by the NSAI professional Evaluators. It is encouragement to a confused, hurting and angry world with a hand and a hope to make our world a better place. It is well worth your timely review. I know you won’t be disappointed!
A New Webpage “Genera”
I have also provided a new Website Page and chart entitled “GENERA” as the fourth Webpage. It provides a quick overview and guide to what material is available by genera and vibe. I hope it’s helpful.
These are just a few of all my many song demos within the website. So perhaps check out information on this new summary chart on the fourth webpage for an overview, and then directly click the boxes below to access all the files and descriptions of each Demo Title and see what you think. I hope it’s helpful. Thanks!
Demos Songs
2026 Songs
Psalms of Life:
Brand New Adaptions to Previous and New Demos
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
To properly close this HOME Webpage, I must acknowledge and deeply thank Kattie A., Project Manager and her imaginative staff at 10 Com Web Development.com along with the WIX.com team that were able to create and implement both my vision and her reality for this website. This is going to be an on-going journey together with their help in embracing my work, my enthusiasm and my creativity in adding more and more great, enjoyable Demo material as time and inspiration provide.
Thanks also to my daughter, Amy, and her family for their time and patience in being a sounding board for each song before release. Their love and support and advice has both been a source of inspiration, and a sense of my potential audience appreciation. All of this is also in loving memory of my younger daughter who left us way too soon.
As you can see already, my work, like my life, is like one of my favorite movies “Forrest Gump” when he said on the bus stop bench …”life is like a box of chocolates! You never know what you’re going to get!” I personally can’t wait to see what’s around the bend! Thank you so, so much in sharing that ride. I hope you enjoy the music, and the thoughts and meanings within each of MY lyrics of each song, and website presentation with Kattie and WIX, as much as I have had in their creation presentation.
So, … if you are interested in actively pursuing utilizing any of my material for final professional musical recordings releases and performance pursues, please drop me an email so we can talk further.
Thank you again for taking the time to review my website and my works. So now go and “Make it a Good Day Today!” and think of me…
William L Cobbs,
I’ll Take Country Music Publishing Company, BMI
3275 Moritz Drive, Huntington Beach, CA 92649
Email: wcobbs.ITCMusic@AOL.com