"McKeown & Piccari News" "Sudden Impact Still #1 on Ebay": Hit The Ground Runnin's debut cd, produced by Smash TV Media's Dan McKeown & Paul Piccari still holds the record as one of the most sought after albums on Ebay according to HeavyHarmonies.com. Original copies of vinyl and CD's have been sold by collectors around the world for an average price of $823.17!! In 2005, a copy was auctioned off for $1,950.00, with offers for unopened copies for $2,500.00. I guess you can say Piccari and McKeown has found a way of turning plastic into gold! Famous McKeown and Piccari Quote, "Wish we didn't give so many copies away back then.....to all of our friends that received a free copy........YOUR WELCOME!!" "Speaking of Collectables, other records, tapes and CD's you can find popping up on Ebay every once in a while and produced by McKeown, are such items as "The Dancin' On Air" picture disc record on vinyl (Worden Records). The album contains the theme song from the show, written and produced by McKeown back in 1981. Another item is the Frankie Smith's CD "Double Dutch Bus", on Planet Entertainment, which was produced by McKeown, Al Alberts Jr and his brother Chris. "The Emeralds Music makes it to the Big Screen": A song produced by Dan McKeown for the famous acappella group "The Emeralds", appeared last year in the Summer of 2008 called "The Dukes", starring, ROBERT DAVI, CHAZZ PALMINTERI and PETER BOGDANOVICH. The song "Acappella" was recorded back in the 80's at the Sound Spa Studio's owned by Al Alberts Jr. and his brother Chris. McKeown and bands manager Nick Vance was invited to the premiere of The Dukes in New York by actor Robert Davi, whos list of credits include the role of Agent Bailey Malone in televisions "The Profiler", Batman Beyond, FBI Special Agent Johnson in Die Hard, and the bad guy in Steven Spielbergs, "The Goonies". "McKeown and Piccari has a couple of songs in the new Broadway hit play "A Bronx Tale", Starring Chazz Palminteri. The play has been so successful, it will be appearing in 22 cities across the country (ref: www.ABronxTaleOnBroadway.com) ! "McKeown and Piccari has just recently produced a track for Grammy winner Billy Paul, for his upcoming new album": The track "What's Wrong With This Picture" was sent to him by the writer, Michael McDonald, who wrote it specifically for the R&B legend. Song includes backup vocals by McKeown, Piccari and Soul Survivors own Kenny Jeremiah (Expressway to Your Heart). "July 2011, McKeown was contacted from representatives of Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy) about his upcoming film, featuring Mark Walberg entitled "Ted". Seth was requesting to use a track from Hit The Ground Runnin's debut album ,Sudden Impact, which was the bands first Canadian single called Over and Over, produced by McKeown, Piccari and Hilary Schacter. In an event, in January 2012, you'll be able to hear and see Hit The Ground Runnin, in their epic Lip Sync performance on the popular Dance Party USA, on the big motion pictures!