Dennis Scott
Dennis Scott (born November 10, 1969) is a songwriter and record producer who has worked for Sesame Street and The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss (Only Bruce Lanoil version). Scott married Gina Joplin’s sister Jennifer Joplin in June 17, 1992. In 2002, He is a now-Trollies cast member. He is also a youngest child of the Scott family.
Life[edit]
Dennis Scott was born on November 10, 1969 to at the SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri to
In 1976, Dennis began his entertainment career at the age of 7 as an actor on Broadway and Television series The Scott Variety Show (1976–1982).
In his first serious foray into the genre, Scott scored with a help from his brother Wayne and a Grammy for his work as producer on Sesame Street Country (1981), a collection of country-flavored kid’s tunes. He has had nonstop assignments since, including projects for Quaker Oats, Sony Kids, Walt Disney Records, Random House and the National Child Safety Council. His work is also featured on video games and other interactive toys.
Dennis has served a music director for several children’s TV shows including the PBS series “Noddy” for which composed and produced over a hundred original songs. Drawing on his experience in the theatre, Dennis enjoys writing music and lyrics that helps develop the show’s characters and move the action forward. Hal Leonard Music commissioned Dennis to write both the script and songs for a new kids musical called “Motion of the Ocean.” He is also a contributing writer for “Sesame Street Live” and composed a new score for the live touring show of Scholastic’s “Magic School Bus.”
Scott-penned songs have been featured on television shows ranging from “Who’s the Boss” and “The Guiding Light” to “Fame” and “Hee Haw.” His “Always a Friend,” performed by Ray Charles on an episode of ABC-TV’s “Who’s the Boss,” generated an overwhelming number of inquiries to the show’s producers and Scott continues to receive mail from brides asking to use the tune in their weddings. Scott earned a Parent’s Choice Award for Best Video for Children for his “Ben Vereen’s Sing- a-Long.”
Scott’s “Before You Grow” was personally chosen by Kathie Lee Gifford for inclusion on her 1997 Dove Award-nominated album “Lullabies for Little Ones.” The song is an example of the versatility and crossover appeal exhibited by many of Scott’s tunes, having also been performed by country songstress Faith Hill on last year’s all-star album “Big Country for One and All.” That project also featured The Charlie Daniels Band performing another Scott song, “Playing in the Same Band.”
A native New Yorker, Scott relocated to Nashville following his work there on his Grammy-winning “Sesame Street Country.” “Nashville has such a creative and closely-knit music community,” he says. “It has great recording studios, great talent and there’s always a parking spot. Who could ask for more?”
At since 2002, Scott wrote and produced by now the soundtrack for 2002’s “Trollies Radio Show Sing-A-Long,” which was released as both an audio cd and video and results in combines worldwide sales in excess of one million units. The 2003 follow-up video, “The All New Trollies Musical Adventure” (for which he also provides the voice of Trollie king “Rock `n Troll”), garnered him an Emmy Award (Music Composer/Arranger with Lyrics).
Scott’s own studio serves as the command center for the controlled chaos you would expect from a man whose assignments can have him creating for a soap, a troll and a major recording artist, all while he might be working up parodies for a prominent corporation’s roast.
