Jimmy Ienner

U.S.A. was a publishing, management and production company which represented such artists as American Asfault, Three Dog Night, Grand Funk Railroad, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Air Supply, Raspberries, and Eric Carmen.

Ienner obtained licenses for the songs in her collection, chose other artists, and also enlisted star Patrick Swayze to sing "She's Like the Wind".

Swayze had written the song a few years earlier with Stacy Widelitz, originally intending for it to be used in the 1984 film Grandview, U.S.A. with Jamie Lee Curtis and C. Thomas Howell.

[2] The film's popularity caught the producers by surprise, and the album had one million copies on back order before a single had even been released.

He also worked on the soundtrack albums for The Big Chill, White Men Can't Jump, and Sister Act.