Jennifer K. Kimball

Jennifer K. Kimball is a retired American singer/songwriter . Her hits include Sheena Easton’s “ALMOST OVER YOU” in 1984, and Dan Seal’s crossover, “BOP”, the 1986 Country Music Association Single of the Year. She cowrote Linda Ronstadt’s (and the Trio II’s) “BLUE TRAIN”, and the #1 Reba McEntire/Brooks & Dunn|Brooks and Dunn duet “IF YOU SEE HIM/IF YOU SEE HER” , as well as “I CAN LOVE YOU LIKE THAT”, recorded by both John Michael Montgomery and All-4-One, which garnered four Grammy nominations , won NSAI’s 1996 Song of the Year , was featured in the Walt Disney Studios movie “First Kid’ and Fox TV’s “The Simpsons” , and is the only song ever to win both ASCAP and BMI Country Song of the Year . Her music has been featured in soundtracks from Coyote Ugly, A Dog's Journey , and Black Dog. Her songs have also been recorded by Faith Hill, Bette Midler, Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings, Don Williams, Cliff Richard, 98 Degrees, Dobie Gray, America, and Claire Lynch.
== History ==
Jennifer K. Kimball was born in Fort Knox, Kentucky-- the fourth of seven children (her oldest brother, sportswriter George E. Kimball III, died in 2011) of a career Army colonel and an English professor mother. She had a global upbringing and spoke Chinese before learning English. She attended Hollins University|Hollins College, spent a year abroad in Paris, France, and graduated cum laude from the University of Alabama. She moved to Nashville, Tennessee in December 1977 and toured for four years as a backup singer for Crystal Gayle . She toured briefly with Rosanne Cash|Roseanne Cash and recorded with Gayle, Cash, Pam Tillis, Vince Gill, Dolly Parton and Nanci Griffith (including Nanci’s Dust Bowl Symphony album, recorded live with the London Symphony Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios).
Jennifer helped found non-profit Girls on the Run Nashville in 2007, and served as its Executive Director until 2014, when she became a Teach for America corps member. She was awarded a Master of Education in Instructional Practice at Lipscomb University in 2015, and taught kindergarten and 3rd grade in Title 1 schools for 5 years, retiring in 2019.
== Singles Discography ==
Year	Artist 	Title 	Album
1983	Sheena Easton 	"Almost Over You" 	Best Kept Secret
1985	Dan Seals 	"Bop" 	Won't Be Blue Anymore
1986	Dan Seals 	"I Will Be There" 	On The Front Line
1986	Patricia Conroy 	"Keep Me Rockin" 	You Can't Resist
1987	Crystal Gayle and Gary Morris	"All Of This And More" 	What If We Fall In Love
1993	John Farnham 	"Angels" 	Then Again...
1995	Linda Ronstadt 	"Blue Train" 	Feels Like Home
1995	All-4-One 	"I Can Love You Like That" 	And The Music Speaks
1995	John Michael Montgomery 	"I Can Love You Like That" 	John Michael Montgomery
1998	Linda Davis 	"I Wanna Remember This" 	I'm Yours
1998	Pam Tillis 	"Every Time" 	Every Time
1999	Reba McEntire 	"If You See Him/If You See Her"	If You See Her
2000	Kenny Rogers 	"There You Go Again" 	There You Go Again
2000	Tamara Walker 	"Didn't We Love" 	Coyote Ugly
2001	Cyndi Thomson 	"I Always Liked That Best" 	My World
2002	Little Big Town 	"Everything Changes" 	Little Big Town
2004	Brooks & Dunn 	"If You See Him/If You See Her"	The Greatest Hits
== Writing Credits ==
Year	Artist 	Title 	Album
1982	Don Williams 	"Fool, Fool Heart" 	Listen To The Radio
1983	Sheena Easton 	"Sweet Talk" 	Best Kept Secret
1986	Anita Pointer and Philip Bailey	"The Pledge" 	Love For What It Is
1986	Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings	"Heroes" 	Heroes
1986	Dobie Gray 	"From Where I Stand" 	From Where I Stand
1987	Tom Kimmel 	"Heroes" 	5 to 1
1998	Bette Midler 	"That's How Love Moves" 	Bathhouse Betty
1999	Faith Hill 	"That's How Love Moves" 	Breathe
2000	Claire Lynch 	"He Don't Like To Talk About It"	Lovelight
2000	98 Degrees 	"The Way You Do" 	Revelation
2004	Cliff Richard 	"Field Of Love" 	Something Going On
2004	Cliff Richard 	"The Day That I Stop Loving You"	Something Going On
Category:American people
Category:American singers
Category:American songwriters