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There she met up with Dave Skinner (of John Farnham fame) and they penned a song for Tina Cross entitled "New Blood" which was released on Festival Records and reached #11 on the Australian charts.
 In 1983, Ruth relocated to Los Angeles and formed what was to become a long term writing partnership with Barry Coffing, BMI award winner for co-writing "How do you talk to an Angel?", theme tune from Aaron Spelling's series "The Heights". Together, Ruth and Barry wrote "Cigarette in the Rain" for Randy Crawford's Warner Bros. LP "Rich and Poor". Randy chose this song as the 3rd single from the album and it rose to #32 on Billboard's R&B chart, selling more than 600,000 copies worldwide and earning gold status in South Africa, Scandinavia and Italy. Ruth and Barry have also collaborated on other titles which are included in several feature films such as:
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 Together they travelled to London, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Hollywood to complete tracks on Ruth's LP "I Will Always Remember You". The album is currently released in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, S. Korea, S. Vietnam, Turkey, Russia and The Phillippines. To hear tracks,.During her time in Germany, Ruth was introduced to both Grammy winner Harold Faltermayer (Beverly Hills Cop , Top Gun etc.,) and famed Producer / Publisher Joerg Evers. With Harold she wrote the theme tune for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, commissioned by German TV network ZDF, entitled "Forever Human". The song was released Europe-wide by BMG and featured on 14 different compilations as well as receiving daily airplay during the network's coverage of the games. With Joerg, she and Martin penned "Diva in Disguise" for Germany's legendary Margot Werner for her 1996 season. Harold then invited Ruth to co-write some titles for Chaya, SONY's "Wunderkinder" in Europe. The first single, "I Feel My Heart is Burning", has received, according to Billboard Magazine, "massive airplay" and entered the Musikmarkt chart at #67. The second single "Hot Shot Lover" , co-written with husband  Martin Nethercutt, has recently been released.Another of the songs she co-wrote for Chaya was one titled "Think About The Children" which was subsequently selected as the theme for UNICEF's world wide promotional projects. The last tour of Russia was Ruth's 8th since 1989 and during this trip she was the subject of a documentary shoot for Russian National Television which has some 300 million viewers. It is the only network which reaches all 11 time zones of the country plus parts of the former "East Bloc", Cuba and China. The documentary, entitled "Picture of Ruth" aired nationwide in January of 98. Whilst in Moscow, Ruth also dabbled with her acting talents, starring as herself in 2 episodes of Russia's most popular soap opera. She also began recording a Russian Language project for EMI / Gala Records. She has taken turn of the century silver age Russian Poetry and set it to a contemporary dance groove with the help of famed Russian pop composer Vladimir Musikant. Her first single, "Lyubiminya Prosta" ... "Love Me Simply", was written over a hundred years ago by legendary Russian poet Fyodor Salagup. The rest of the trip consisted of staging concerts in the remote towns and cities of middle Siberia. She travelled daily by helicopter (the only possibility), to reach such outlying places as: Nizhnivartovsk, Yurai, Sovietski, Noyabirsk, Yugorski, Beriozova, Khanti Mansi (home of the last of Siberia's native Eskimos), and last but not least, Salehard on the Arctic Circle where the temperature reached an unbelievable 40 degrees below zero and where the electricity turbines are so underpowered there is absolutely no facility for heating water. In fact, during Ruth's 4 day stay, there was no running water at all in the entire city. That's showbiz!  Ruth again returned to Moscow to shoot a music video for a self-penned title "Russian Nights" which was nominated for Russian MTV's "Video of the Year".The music clip will be part of her next album project,As the CEO of McCartney Multimedia, Ruth coordinates the online presence of many clients including country legend Clint Black, LeAnn Rimes, Steve Tyrell, Oleta Adams, REO Speedwagon and the company's technology iFanz® babysits the databases of stars from Paula Abdul to Fleetwood Mac. Currently, Ruth is busy preparing a celebrity cook-book (see recipes section) to benefit "Feed the Children" and KidsCharities.org - a site which MMI developed; Ruth serves on the board of the Las Vegas based non profit. She is also busy writing titles with husband Martin  Nethercutt for his up-coming release "Geistmusik"; she has appeared as a speaker at various "Beatlefests" in Chicago, New York, Kansas City, MO, Toronto and L.A., and if that wasn't enough, Ruth has recently returned from Liverpool and London where she narrated and co-produced a retrospective Beatles documentary entitled "Here, There and Everywhere" with Atlanta based cameraman / director Ken Barker. The footage features rare interviews with Cynthia Lennon, Neil Innes of Rutles fame, Bob Wooler - the original Cavern DeeJay, the Fourmost's Billy Hatton, Beatle sister Lou Harrison and more. Ruth has recently returned from a speaking engagement in Mesa, Arizona where she gave a speech on the digital possibilities avaiable today to help businesses "Know thy Customer". For speaking engagement info. click here. ©November 2002. For further information please join the mailing list: |