Greg Brown (born July 2, 1949) is a folk musician from Fairfield, IA, USA. His "Iowa Waltz" has been (unsuccessfully) proposed to replace the state song of Iowa.
Greg Brown is a guitarist and founding member of the band Cake. He left Cake in 1998, before the recording of Prolonging the Magic, although the album's liner notes indicate that some of his guitar arrangements were left on the album. After Cake, he joined Deathray, a band where he provides backing vocals and lead guitar. He also wrote four songs and co-penned two more for their 2000 debut album, which was released on Capricorn Records and then re-released on Doppler Records. Most recently, he played piano and guitar and co-produced Puckett's Versus the Country Boy, a 2003 EP by Matt Sharp, formerly of Weezer and The Rentals. He also co-produced the debut album from Golden Shoulders with Deathray bandmate Victor Damiani, and recently played guitar on Friendship is Deep, the second album from Golden Shoulders.
Greg Brown is currently an announcer for the Pittsburgh Pirates on Fox Sports Pittsburgh and radio. He has worked in the booth for the Pirates since 1994. He works with Steve Blass, Bob Walk, Lanny Frattare, and John Wehner.
Brown was born in Washington D.C. and grew up in Mechanicsburg, PA. He became a Pirates fan through the broadcasts on KDKA radio and would visit Pittsburgh each summer with his parents to see some games at Three Rivers Stadium. Brown enrolled at Point Park College and landed an internship with the Pirates' promotion department in 1979. Among his duties were serving as the backup Pirate Parrot. He then worked in the Pirates' front office for 10 years in a variety of roles for the sales, broadcasting and public relations departments. He was the public address announcer in 1987 and did weekend sports anchoring at WFMJ-TV in Youngstown, OH in 1988.
Brown spent five seasons (1989-93) doing play-by-play for the Pirates' Class AAA affiliate in Buffalo, NY. He also hosted a sports talk show on WGR radio. For three seasons (1991-93), Brown was the color analyst on Buffalo Bills radio broadcasts and also hosted pre-game and post-game shows for the Bills games.
Brown and his wife Kim have one son, Ryan.
Brown is known for his call "Raise the Jolly Roger" after every Pirates win.
Greg Brown (born March 7, 1968 in Southborough, Massachusetts, U.S.) is a retired professional ice hockey player. He is the brother of former NHL winger Doug Brown. Greg Brown was drafted in the second round, 26th overall, by the Buffalo Sabres in the 1986 NHL Entry Draft. Brown played his prep hockey career at St. Mark's School in Massachusetts before moving on to Boston College, where he played from 1986-1990 and amassed 120 points in 119 games. Brown skipped his sophomore season at B.C. to play for the American national men's hockey team and in the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where he totaled four points in six games for the seventh place US team. Following his junior and senior seasons at B.C., Brown was named Hockey East player of the year and was a finalist for the Hobey Baker Award, given to the top NCAA men's ice hockey player. He was also named 1990 Athlete of the Year by USA Hockey.
Brown moved into the professional ranks for the 1990/91 season, splitting time between the Sabres and their AHL affiliate, the Rochester Americans and scoring 26 points in 80 combined games. The 39 games played in Buffalo that season represented a career high, as he would play in only 55 more NHL games over the next three seasons. Most of Brown's time with the Sabres organization was spent in Rochester, where he was part of the team's 1991 and 1993 Calder Cup finalists. Brown left the Americans during the 1992 season to again represent USA Hockey at the Winter Olympics in Albertville, France. Brown appeared in seven games for the US team, which finished a surprising fourth after losing to Czechoslovakia in the Bronze Medal game.
Following the 1992/93 season, Brown was released by the Sabres and signed with the San Diego Gulls of the IHL and later with the Pittsburgh Penguins. Brown scored a career-high 11 points in 36 games for the Penguins during the 1993/94 season. Brown was traded to the Winnipeg Jets during the following season, where he appeared in his final nine NHL contests.
With the exception of two brief stints with USA Hockey, Brown spent the final six seasons of his pro career in Europe, retiring after the 2000/01 season. His stops in Europe included games with Rogle Angelholm and Leksands IF in the Swedish Elite League, Feldkirch VEU of the Austrian National League, the Kloten Flyers of Nationalliga A in Switzerland, and Landshut EV and the Cologne Sharks of Germany's Deutsche Eishockey-Liga.
Following his playing career, Brown returned to Boston College, where he was named as an Assistant Coach on the Men's Hockey team for the 2004/05 season.
Greg Brown is a painter and native of Palo Alto, California, best known for his Trompe l'oeil murals in the San Francisco Bay area.
Gregory Lee Brown (born January 5, 1957 in Washington, D.C.) is a former professional American football defensive lineman in the National Football League for eight seasons for the Philadelphia Eagles and the Atlanta Falcons. He played college football at Eastern Illinois University.
The most recent Greg Brown is a well known college football coach and former player for Kentucky Wesleyan College. He is the career leader in pancake blocks and 1 on 1 pass pro blocks against former defensive coordinators. Greg currently is a gym teacher located in Owensboro, Kentucky.
Greg Brown (born July 21, 1962) is a Australian footballer who plays as a forward. His previous club is include Parramatta Eagles, West Adelaide SC and South Korea K-League side POSCO Atoms.
