It is August 2011 and this is my first entry for over 6 months.

I continued to make demos until the early spring and a selection are

on my jukebox. The  problem is what to do with them now. I haven't

really got any expertise in marketing the songs. This will be my main

task from now on. I have a pretty diverse portfolio - pop songs, folk

songs, instrumentals, light orchestral ballads and songs for choirs.

The two published songs remain on the portfolio of Red Amaryllis

music in LA and a  recent e mail informed me that the songs have

been placed in a dozen projects over the past 18 months but on each

occasion the project has folded due to lack of funding. They have,

however, been accepted for 22 music libraries across the USA so

hopefully they will find a home soon.

I entered a song for the Dreamboats and Petticoats songwriting

competition and was very disappointed by the winning entry which

was about 30 years old and was almost a carbon copy of Buddy ]

Holly songs.

I have also written music inspired by my family history and have

made a proposal to the BBC for a documentary. 

The documentary would tell the story of my families escape from

persecution in the late 19th century to their settlement in England,

USA and Canada up to the present day. The idea would be to tell

the story as much as possible, through the known historical facts of

my family, supplemented by general facts about places they settled,

conditions on shipsetc.

It would also have a musical dimension - music inspired by this family

 history.

I was inspired by the stories of my great aunt Resza Bigler and her

six children and my great uncle Woolf Spector and I have written a

suite of 10 instrumentals which chart the journey of Resza and

her husband from Poland to the USA and my great uncle Woolf on

his tragic journey in the Titanic. All the music has already been

recorded in my home or at the recording studio.

My idea would be to integrate the music into the commentary. It

would be a sort of docu/drama through words and music.

My choir music has been inspired by my membership of a local

choral society. It is a good opportunity to get my songs performed as

I no longer perform myself.

Because I have no musical training I have to write all the choir parts

on the key board, record them individually, perform them and then

pay for the music to be transcribed. For choir demos I have to sing

all the male parts and some of the female parts to get a choir sound.

I am waiting for the availability of a really good female singer next

week to sing some top alto and soprano parts to get the full choir

sound. It is all great fun and I work in  a recoding studio in Bristol with

lots of young people.

When the songs are complete  I will put them on the jukebox.    

I have also touched base with some old friends - Stuart Timbs my old

playing partner and John Levett my songwriting partner from the late

60's. He is a successful and published poet.

I will meet up with John soon and wemay even write together again.

     2009 - 2011