Albert wrote songs for artists such as Nat King Cole, Bob Hope, Frankie Lane, Frank Sinatra, and many others.

In June 1980, Gannaway left Metromedia to start his first company selling his father's show, Country Classics.

His experience selling syndication led to Gannaway founding Genesis Entertainment less than three years later with his own capital.

The company owned the rights to Marvel, National Geographic,The Marvel Action Hour, The Whoopi Goldberg Show, National Geographic Specials, Access Hollywood, Spider-Man, Highway to Heaven, Grand Ole Opry Stars of the 50s, CBS' Top Cop, The Judge, Biker Mice from Mars, Paradise Beach, Real Stories of the Highway Patrol, HBO's Tales from The Crypt, ABC's Emergency Call, among others.

[7][11] Gannaway introduced the marketing concept of bartering off-network series in the late afternoon/early evening timeslot with Highway to Heaven in 1989.

[12] Gannaway's marketing efforts and contributions helped Genesis become the largest suppliers of national syndication ad units in the early 1990s.

[11][13] On May 21, 1993, Gannaway merged Genesis with Ronald Perelman taking the company public and later selling to 20th Century Fox.

[2][9] The patented technology the company developed is a cloud-based, Saas, Paas, IaaS platform that unifies all digital systems into one.

When Gannaway founded Worldnow, he took page out of his former company, Genesis, and kept half the digital advertising inventory and charged a license fee.

During this time, Gannaway co-pioneered and funded hypertonic solution to break up brain clots, now considered industry-standard.

In 2009 Gannaway was chosen by Wharton University to participate in its Entrepreneur-in-Residence program, mentoring undergraduates and MBA candidates then considering careers as entrepreneurs.