{{short description|American country music artist (born 1961)|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{for|the baseball player|Davis Daniel (baseball)}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Davis Daniel | image_size = | birth_name = Robert Andrykowski | birth_place = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1961|3|1}}<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p1573|pure_url=yes}} |title=Davis Daniel biography |accessdate=2007-12-17 |last=Harris |first=Craig |work=Allmusic}}</ref> | origin = Arlington Heights, Illinois, U.S. | instrument = Vocals | genre = Country | occupation = {{hlist|Singer|Songwriter}} | years_active = 1990–2001 | label = {{hlist|Mercury Nashville|Polydor Nashville|A&M Nashville}} }}
'''Robert Andrykowski''' (born March 1, 1961) is an American country music artist who records under the name '''Davis Daniel'''. Between 1991 and 1996, he recorded three studio albums on various divisions of Polygram Records: 1991's ''Fighting Fire with Fire'', 1994's ''Davis Daniel'', and 1995's ''I Know a Place''. In that same time span, seven of his singles entered the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts, including the Top 40 hits "Picture Me", "For Crying Out Loud" and "Fighting Fire with Fire."
==Biography== Robert Andrykowski was born in Arlington Heights, Illinois, on March 1, 1961. Over time, his family moved to Nebraska, and subsequently to Denver, Colorado.<ref name="allmusic"/><ref name="oldies">{{cite web |url=http://www.oldies.com/artist-biography/Davis-Daniel.html |title=Davis Daniel biography |accessdate=2009-07-08 |work=Oldies.com}}</ref>
As a teenager, he found work singing at various nightclubs throughout Denver, Colorado. By the late 1980s, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, eventually adopting the stage name Davis Daniel and landing a record deal with Mercury/Polygram Records in 1991 with the help of his music producer Ron Haffkine.<ref>{{cite news|title=Picks and Pans Review|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20115462,00.html|work=No 26|agency=People Magazine|volume=35|date=7 August 1991}}</ref>
''Fighting Fire with Fire'' was issued that year. It produced four singles on the country charts: "Picture Me" at number 28, followed by "For Crying Out Loud" at number 13, the title track at number 27 and "Still Got a Crush on You" at number 48.<ref name="whitburn">{{cite book|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|title=Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008|publisher=Record Research, Inc|year=2008|pages=113–114|isbn=978-0-89820-177-2}}<!--|accessdate=16 February 2010--></ref> Alanna Nash of ''Entertainment Weekly'' gave the album a B rating, comparing Daniel's vocal technique to that of Keith Whitley and saying that he showed promise in carrying on in Whitley's tradition.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/1991/11/22/fighting-fire-fire/|title=''Fighting Fire with Fire'' review|last=Nash|first=Alanna|date=22 November 1991|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=16 February 2010}}</ref>
Daniel's second album, the self-titled ''Davis Daniel'', followed in 1994 on Polydor Records. Its singles, "I Miss Her Missing Me," "William and Mary" and "Tyler," all peaked outside the top 40 in the United States, although "Tyler" reached number 39 on the ''RPM'' charts in Canada. "I Miss Her Missing Me" had been released by Mercury, which had originally planned to release the album in 1993 under the title ''Undeniable'' before Mercury underwent a management change that resulted in Daniel moving to Polydor.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Morris|first=Edward|date=February 4, 1995|title=Polydor's Davis Daniel hits chord with breakthrough single|magazine=Billboard|pages=38, 40|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sAsEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22polydor+nashville%22&pg=PA38}}</ref> Cub Koda of Allmusic gave the album three stars out of five, saying, "there's enough good stuff here to make you think that he might develop into something more than a one-shot artist."<ref>{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r199358|pure_url=yes}}|title=''Davis Daniel'' review|last=Koda|first=Cub|work=Allmusic|accessdate=16 February 2010}}</ref> ''New Country'' magazine's Michael McCall gave the album two-and-a-half stars out of five, praising the lyrics of "Tyler" and "Out Here Sits the King", but criticizing the other songs for lacking substance.<ref>{{cite journal|date=March 1995|title=Album reviews|last=McCall|first=Michael|journal=New Country|volume=2|issue=4|pages=61–62}}</ref>
For his third album, Daniel moved to A&M Records. This album, ''I Know a Place'', was released in 1996. Its lead-off single "I'm Not Listening Anymore" was part of a "Mystery Artist" contest on Country Music Television (CMT), which showed two versions of the song's music video: one where Daniel's face was obscured, and another where it was shown plainly.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Price|first=Deborah Evans|date=18 May 1996|title=Mystery Artist contest is A&M's key for Daniel|magazine=Billboard|pages=28–29|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uA0EAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22davis+daniel%22+%22fighting+fire&pg=PA28}}</ref> This single did not enter the charts.
After his third album, Daniel mostly stayed at home with his wife and children. He resumed touring in 2001 with a band called Big Heart, and released a new single called "Is It Just Me?"<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Q31lAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Q5QNAAAAIBAJ&pg=2046,1266239&dq=davis-daniel+fighting-fire&hl=en|title=Big Heart teams up with Davis Daniel and hits the road|last=Henson|first=Tom|date=17 January 2001|work=The Greenville Leader|pages=A1, A9|accessdate=24 October 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fordentertainment.com/artistdetail.aspx?ArtistID=21720|title=Davis Daniel|work=Ford Entertainment|accessdate=24 October 2011|archive-date=25 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425091154/http://www.fordentertainment.com/artistdetail.aspx?ArtistID=21720|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Discography==
===Albums=== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" |- ! rowspan="2" style="width:14em;"| Title ! rowspan="2" style="width:18em;"| Album details ! colspan="3"| Peak chart positions |- style="font-size:smaller;" ! width="45"| US Country<br><ref name="Country Albums">{{cite magazine|url={{BillboardURLbyName|artist=davis daniel|chart=Country Albums C}}|title=Davis Daniel Album & Song Chart History - Country Albums|magazine=Billboard|publisher=Prometheus Global Media|accessdate=December 11, 2010}}</ref> ! width="45"| US Heat ! width="45"| CAN Country<br><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-110.01-e.php?PHPSESSID=p80g1di4s1n7h4bej6fpv56826&q1=davis+daniel&q2=Country+Albums%2FCDs&interval=20|title=Results - RPM - Library and Archives Canada - Country Albums|work=RPM|accessdate=December 11, 2010}}</ref> |- ! scope="row"| ''Fighting Fire with Fire'' | * Release date: August 27, 1991 * Label: Mercury Nashville * Format: CD, cassette | 54 | 26 | 19 |- ! scope="row"| ''Davis Daniel'' | * Release date: October 4, 1994 * Label: Polydor Nashville * Format: CD, cassette | — | — | — |- ! scope="row"| ''I Know a Place'' | * Release date: June 18, 1996 * Label: A&M Nashville * Format: CD, cassette | — | — | — |- | colspan="5" style="font-size:8pt"| "—" denotes releases that did not chart |- |}
===Singles=== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" |- ! rowspan="2"| Year ! rowspan="2" style="width:14em;"| Single ! colspan="2"| Peak chart<br />positions ! rowspan="2"| Album |- style="font-size:smaller;" ! width="45"| US Country<br><ref name="Country Songs">{{cite magazine|url={{BillboardURLbyName|artist=davis daniel|chart=all}}|title=Davis Daniel Album & Song Chart History - Country Songs|magazine=Billboard|publisher=Prometheus Global Media|accessdate=December 11, 2010}}</ref> ! width="45"| CAN Country<br><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-110.01-e.php?PHPSESSID=mfstfhcbgmru3ti1dqs7m84283&q1=davis+daniel&q2=Country+Singles&interval=20|title=Results - RPM - Library and Archives Canada - Country Singles|work=RPM|accessdate=December 11, 2010}}</ref> |- | rowspan="2"| 1991 ! scope="row"| "Picture Me" | 28 | — | align="left" rowspan="4"| ''Fighting Fire with Fire'' |- ! scope="row"| "For Crying Out Loud" | 13 | 21 |- | rowspan="2"| 1992 ! scope="row"| "Fighting Fire with Fire" | 27 | 44 |- ! scope="row"| "Still Got a Crush on You" | 48 | 76 |- | rowspan="2"| 1994 ! scope="row"| "I Miss Her Missing Me" | 74 | — | align="left" rowspan="3"| ''Davis Daniel'' |- ! scope="row"| "William and Mary" | 64 | — |- | 1995 ! scope="row"| "Tyler" | 58 | 39 |- | 1996 ! scope="row"| "I'm Not Listening Anymore" | — | — | align="left"| ''I Know a Place'' |- | 2001 ! scope="row"| "Is It Just Me?" | — | — | align="left" {{n/a}} |- | colspan="5" style="font-size:8pt"| "—" denotes releases that did not chart |- |}
===Music videos=== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" ! Year ! style="width:14em;"| Video ! Director |- | rowspan="2"| 1991 ! scope="row"| "Picture Me"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cmt.com/videos/davis-daniel/383968/picture-me.jhtml|title=CMT : Videos : Davis Daniel : Picture Me|publisher=Country Music Television|accessdate=October 14, 2011}}{{dead link|date=July 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> | rowspan="2"| Michael Merriman |- ! scope="row"| "For Crying Out Loud"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cmt.com/videos/davis-daniel/383951/for-crying-out-loud.jhtml|title=CMT : Videos : Davis Daniel : For Crying Out Loud|publisher=Country Music Television|accessdate=October 14, 2011}}{{dead link|date=July 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> |- | rowspan="2"| 1992 ! scope="row"| "Fighting Fire with Fire"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cmt.com/videos/davis-daniel/383922/fighting-fire-with-fire.jhtml|title=CMT : Videos : Davis Daniel : Fighting Fire With Fire|publisher=Country Music Television|accessdate=October 14, 2011}}{{dead link|date=July 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> | Marc Ball |- ! scope="row"| "Still Got a Crush on You" | |- |rowspan=2| 1994 ! scope="row"| "I Miss Her Missing Me"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cmt.com/videos/davis-daniel/384513/i-miss-her-missing-me.jhtml|title=CMT : Videos : Davis Daniel : I Miss Her Missing Me|publisher=Country Music Television|accessdate=October 14, 2011}}{{dead link|date=July 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> | Michael Merriman |- ! scope="row"| "William and Mary" | |- | 1995 ! scope="row"| "Tyler"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cmt.com/videos/davis-daniel/384722/tyler.jhtml|title=CMT : Videos : Davis Daniel : Tyler|publisher=Country Music Television|accessdate=October 14, 2011}}{{dead link|date=July 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> | Bill Young, Jim Barham |- | 1996 ! scope="row"| "I'm Not Listening Anymore" | |}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Daniel, Davis}} Category:1961 births Category:American country singer-songwriters Category:Singer-songwriters from Illinois Category:Living people Category:People from Arlington Heights, Illinois Category:Mercury Records artists Category:Polydor Records artists Category:A&M Records artists Category:Country musicians from Illinois Category:American male singer-songwriters