Hitting Homers As an Outfielder for the New York Yankees, Bernie Williams Has Earned a Name for Himself Hitting Home Runs for a Living

27 I GOING FOR ADDS, June 6, 2003 Hitting Homers As an outfielder for the New York Yankees, Bernie Williams has earned a name for himself hitting home runs for a living. However, next week Williams will by to hit a homer of a different sort: He is Going for Adds at Smooth Jazz with "Just Because" featuring David Benoit, the lead single from Week Of 6/9/03 his upcoming album The Journey Within. Unbeknownst to the public at large, Williams, a native of CHR/POP SMOOTH JAZZ Puerto Rico, has long been an ac- claimed guitarist and composer, BOOMKAT What U Do 2 Me (Dream Works) BERME WILLIAMS fIDAVID BENOIT Just Because (GRP/VMGI and he penned seven of the 11 tunes on Journey. He studied mu- BRIAN MCKNIGHT fINELLY All Night Long KENNY G. Malibu Dreams (Arista) on at Escuela (Motown/Universal! sic scholarship the KEVIN TONEY Better Than Ever IShanachiel Libre de Musica in Puerto Rico BROOKS BUFORD Trailer Fabulous (So /Arista) Bernie Williams SoDef KIRK WHALUM another starting at the age of 13, with the Beautiful Day (Warner Bros.) LUDACRIS Act A Fool (DefJam South/IDJMG) idea that music would be his career. Then, of course, his baseball ca- LARRY GITTENS Let Me Love You (Human feel) reer took off. Williams will be performing at the House of Blues in MAROON 5 Harder To Breathe (Octone/J) RAYFORD GRIFFIN In Your Eyes (Razorfdge) Chicago on July 13 (two days before the release of his album), a show SARAI Ladies!Epicl that also coincides with Major League Baseball's All -Star Week, taking place in the Windy City. TRAPT Headstrong (Warner Bros.) Rodney Atkins, who is Going for Adds at Country next week with "Honesty (Write Me a I.ist)," will also be playing ball this week. At- ROCK kins will participate in the 13th annual City of Hope Celebrity Soft- CHR/RHYTHMIC ball Challenge this Thursday, June 5, in Nashville. Many of country's finest will be taking the field for either WSIX or WSM (both in Nash- ville), including Vince Gill, Joe Nichols, Montgomery Gentry and BIG BROVAZ Favorite Things (Epic) Rebecca Lynn Howard. The game will take place in Nashville's Greer CHEAP TRICK Scent Of A Woman (Big 31 Stadium, and Great American Country will broadcast the contest June BRIAN MCKNIGHT fINELLY All Night Long LINKIN PARK Faint (Warner Bros.) 20 and 21. (Motown/Universal) SALIVA Raise Up /Island/IDJMG! Though Linkin Park are Going for Adds with "Faint" at Rock, Ac- MYA My Love Is Like...Woah (lnterscope) tive Rock and Alternative, the song is already in full swing: It rises to YOUNG GUNZ Can't Stop, Won't Stop (DelJamIIDJMG) No. 20' at Alternative and No. 41' at Active Rock this week. Linkin Park will be hitting the road on the Summer Sanitarium tour with Deftones, Limp Bizkit, Metallica and Mudvayne beginning July 4 in ROCK Pontiac, MI. ACTIVE Mya is back to present "Mv Love Is Like ... Woah," produced by URBAN Missy Elliott. "Woah" is the first single from Mya's June 24 release,

Moairing, and the video debuted on MTV's Making the Video last week. BRIAN MCKNIGHT fMNELLY All Night Long (Motown) CHEAP TRICK Scent Df A Woman (Big 3! Mya will be performing the song MYA My Love is Like...Woah (lnterscope)( on NBC's Passions the week of LINKIN PARK Faint (Warner Bros.) July 22, but if you want to hear it YOUNG GUNZ Can't Stop, Won't Stop ¡Del Jain/IDJMG! SALIVA Raise Up (Is/andfDJMG) before then, tune in to Rhythmic and Urban stations starting next week. Over at Pop radio, we've got a URBAN AC band of five 20- something guys arriving at the format, but it's not ALTERNATIVE No adds your typical boy band. Maroon 5 are Going for Adds with "Harder to Breathe," which has already hit Mya CAUTERIZE Something Beautiful (Windup) No. 17 on R &R's Hot AC chart. COUNTRY "Breathe" is from the band's album Songs About Jane, and, yes, most LINKIN PARK Faint (Warner Bros.) of the songs on the album contain at least one line that pertains to vocalist -guitarist Adam Levines ex- girlfriend Jane. John Mayer and DERIC RUTTAN When You Come Around (Lyric Street) Michelle Branch have been known to sing the praises of Maroon 5, whose all -star fan base includes Natalie Portman and Kirsten Dunst. KEITH URBAN Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me (Capitol) Also at Pop are siblings Taryn and Kellin, otherwise known as RICK TREVINO In My Dreams (Warner Bros.) TRIPLE A Boomkat, with "What U Do 2 Me." The duo originally named them- RODNEY ATKINS Honesty (Write Me A List) (Curb) selves Kat for Kellin and Taryn, then added the Boom for empha- sis. is Taryn also an up- and -corn- ANNA WILSON The Bus Ride (Asy /um/Reonsei ing actress, having appeared on CHEAP TRICK Scent Of A Woman (Big 3! The Practice, as well as having re- AC curring roles on Get Real and Bos- EASTMOUNTAINSOUTH You Dance (Dream Works) ton Public. Here are the Mannings TRAIN Calling All Angels (Columbia' KATHLEEN EDWARDS One More Song The Radio on working together on music: Won't Like (Zoe,-Rounder) "Because we grew up together, we're in each other's heads - mu- MOGWAI Happy Songs For Happy People /Matador) sically and spiritually." HOT AC PORCUPINE TREE The Sound Df Muzak lavai Peter Adams (vocals, guitar, pi- Boomkat RAY BENSON Beyond Time (Audium) ano, etc.) and Kat Maslich (vocals, guitar) form another formidable guy -girl duo, EastMountainSouth, MACY GRAY She Ain't Right For You (Epic) TAJ MAHAL African Herbman IToneCoot( and next week they hit Triple A with "You Dance." Adams and Mitch- ell Fnx m (Los Lobos, Elvis Costello) produced the group's self -titled album, and Froom says, "Peter is a trained composer, who, at times, R &R's Going For Adds features the complete list of songs impacting radio for the coming week. Going For Adds brings an Aaron Copland -type harmonic influence into the mix. And is e-mailed each week to participating radio and record executives. For more info, contact Greg Maffei at gmafei corn. Kat has deep personal and musical roots in rural Virginia that flavor ®radioandrecords. everything she writes and sings." - Mike Tries