We'll make it anywhere.
Eighty two videos completed. This latest video is one on my request list. It's "Run" by "Snow patrol". The full version. I've been asked
to sing this by a few people, and I couldn't recall it by name, but when I heard it I recognised it immediately.
I think the song is great. I have used pictures of roads, paths and lighting to set the mood of the video. It's just a slideshow again :)
Have a listen and see if you like it:
My album page on CDBaby has had over 100 hits now, and the product has been delivered to 3 companies so far.
Amazon, Napster and Ruckus. I keep searching on a daily basis to see when it's listed on those sites. There's
nothing yet. The merchandise shop is currently under construction. If you would like to listen to some
short samples from my album you can visit my CDBaby webpage at:
Here's the next installment of the extracts from my fathers life.
My Dad. Part 4.
The relationship between my mother and father didn't last very long. Their first meeting was when she was going out with someone called Michael. After the break up with Michael, my father just happened to make it known that he was around. They are so different from each other. I think you could only uderstand the union if you had met him. He had an irresistable personality. An absolute charmer. Just about everybody loved him, and a lot of them knew what he was like. Perhaps it was that desire for unpredictability. Very soon into the relationship I was conceived. I have asked her what it was that determined the end of their relationship. It ended up being more than one, due to my mother's tolerance. One of those was where my father emptied out the electric meter, and left my mother to answer the landlord. My mum would never steal from anyone, and she was horrified to be accused of the theft. In one sense she knew it was him, because apart from the landlord, they were the only two who had access to the house. She could only deny the accusations. The landlord loved my father so much that he didn't believe it was my father.
The other pivotal point in deciding the end of the relationship was at my mother's 18th birthday party. My father attended the party with some accessories. They were a woman on each arm. I think that would just about do it for most people. I don't know if he did that deliberately to get her to end it instead of him. Knowing him, I'd say it was certainly a possibility.
So it was all over before I came into the world. My mother married someone called "Jeffrey" shortly afterwards. Now you know where I got my name from. He pleaded with my mother not to reveal to me the identity of my real father. Instead he wanted to pretend that he was my natural father. Everything was fine until his own child came along. There was a noticeable bias torwards his daughter. My mother believed in fairness, so as a counter measure, she showed bias toward me. My stepfather was a violent man to my mother (unlike my father). So much so that I spent time in hiding as a baby with my mother. One of those places was an attic in a convent. Our associations ended with him when I was about 7. I didn't realise who my real father was until I was 18, and i didn't meet him until I was 21. So the things I tell you about his life are stories I've collected from him, and family. There's more to come. I can appreciate why my mother tried to keep me away from him in my youth. She feared that I might follow in his footsteps, and I'm glad that she decided upon that course of action.
To be continued.......
There's a big milestone around the corner concerning my Youtube statistics. A thousand subscribers looms.
It's done pretty well over the last week. There is now 938 subscribers.
The channel have increased to 21,815 and the complete viewing figures for all of the videos I have uploaded are 364,724. I'm getting well over a thousand a day at the moment.
That is the end of the cover versions and requests for a few songs now. I've got a string of original songs to upload in conjunction with the distribution of my new album. The first four of these didn't make the cut for the album.
