Imagination takes me clean.
Here is the second of two collaborations with "Ulf Pettersson". That excellent Swedish composer. The title of this one is "I wanna see". This is a song I wrote as a bit of a parody, but then Ulf heard it and requested to do the music for me. I was fascinated to see what he would come up with and this is the result. I think it beats my original music hands down.
As with the previous 4 songs. This one does not feature on my album "Sight Or Sound".
I would love to do more work with Ulf in the future, because I really respect the work he has done so far. Ulf is quite taken by my songs as well. Unfortunately we are both tied up with our own tasks at the moment. Ulf is busy building a catalogue for Film and Television, and I'm busy writing and collaborating with other musicians. So you may have heard some of his stuff without even knowing it :)
Check out "I wanna see":
This is the next installment of bits frmo my Dad's life.
My Dad. Part 9.
I mentioned before that my father got involved with some unsavoury characters. Before I met him, and before I knew who he was, I made many friends myself. I was to find out later that some of those meetings were not by accident. I'm not a judge of people. I base my assumptions on how they treat me. There were a few of my friends that told me that I shouldn't really mix with some of the people I met, because they were trouble. Though whilst I went around with them, there was never any trouble. Not in my company. Beefcake is probably a bit of an insulting term, but they certainly weren't short on bravery. In fact, most people were afraid of them. Except me of course. They never gave me any reason to fear, and to be honest with you. I wasn't afraid of much at all. I was of the mind that if something bad came along, you dealt with it. There's no point worrying about the prospect. I can't say I was that surprised to find out that my dad knew these people. He even knew those that I did odd jobs with when I left school.
I'm going to tell you a tale of something that reportedly went on at Cowgate road. To protect me from any recriminations, I'm going to say that this is alleged. This is something that my father recounted. He can't be sued because he is now dead. He wanted me to tell this. You may well have heard of the welsh singing star "Tom Jones". Well it involves him. I think most of you know who he is. The story goes that he took a 14 year old girl into the fields at Cowgate road and had sex with her. Pregnancy followed, but the poor girls life was cut short, because she died from leukemia. Perhaps she was willing in the act, but as far as I know, it was still illegal. I don't know if this story is known at all. It's quite astonishing in my eyes. Maybe not unusual for the 60's. He was most definitely an adult at the time. A number of my family members are not exactly fans of Tom, but after knowning that story, it's not really surprising.
To be continued.......
There's been a good deal of interest in my album release. It's still being rolled out to internet shops, and wont be available in all of them for a couple of months. Though it's already on CDBaby, Amazon and Itunes. You can check out some of the songs on my website at:
You can get to Ulf Pettersson's site via my links page. There are also a number of free high quality downloads of some of my other songs!!
It's time for those Youtube numbers again.
I'm getting quite excited with the sub count. It's at 992. So, so close to the magic 1,000 mark now.
The visitors to my channel now count 23,296, and the sum total of all my video views are 397,648. They have surged over the last week.
Last, but by no means least....
That's 5 original songs on the trot. Now it is time for a few cover versions. The next one will be "Lost" by "Coldplay". A song that's been requested of me quite a few times over the last month.
