Neil diamond, is one of the singers that my voice has been compared to in some of my songs. I don't try to sing like anyone else but myself, though my natural tone is reasonably similar.

So the choice of my sixth song was the Neil Diamond classic, Cracklin Rosie. This was the first of many Neil songs for me on Youtube. I think this was the first of his that I had ever heard.

Statistically I can tell you that this was Neil's first major hit in the UK and got to number 3 in 1970.

So here goes. Again, I apologise for the poor sound quality in this vid.

As I said. I've done a few Neil Diamond songs on Youtube now. You can see all of these and other videos of mine at:

Jeffstunes

Bye for now.

Charles Aznavour hit the number one spot in England in 1974 with She. I remember a lot of people going crazy for this song, but I didn't like it very much at the time. It was a bit too slushy for me.

I changed my mind in 1999 when I heard Elvis Costello's version. I like it immediately. I liked the sound of Elvis Costello's voice, and maybe, just ,maybe, my musical tastes had changed over time. I don't think so. I still wasn't too keen on the Charles Aznavour version.

So I decided to cover the song myself on Youtube, more in keeping with the Elvis Costello version.

and the results are below.

It was quite well received. More by some than others.

Well that's about it for this post. Until next time

The fourth song I put up on Youtube was from one of my favourite bands. Coldplay. A song from their first album, Parachutes, called Don't panic.

This was my first Coldplay purchase. I reckon the best 3 songs on the CD are Don't panic, Trouble and Yellow.

So on to the song itself. It's quite a short song, but as with most coldplay songs. They created such a rounded sound with quite a simple setup, and Chris's vocals are very expressive.

The levels on this are low, as in the others, but you can hear it reasonably well if you turn the volume up. Anyway. Here it is. My version of Dont Panic.

Thats it for this time around

I thought I'd try a more up to date song for the third video, so I opted for singing Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol.

I got hold of a couple of their CDs in the last few years. I liked quite a few of the tracks that they produced, but this particular song stood out. I blurted it out a few times on Karaoke, and got some really nice comments. Well, I was happy with that. This one seemed like a good option for my third video.

At this point I was starting to get a little bothered about the sound levels in my videos. They were far too low, though my comments were still good, and people were still subscribing to my videos.

So to the results of my third effort. See what you think.

Well, that's the third one dealt with

So for my second video that I uploaded on Youtube. I got some nice comments on the first one, though the first comment was my first hater. Probably from a child. Though I wasn't deterred. I've seen a real variety of performances on there. From pretty damn good to absolutely dire!

I'm going to be doing a post for each of the videos so far, and then I'll post every time I put a new one up. I've got some catching up to do .

You can see all the videos I've done so far by going to my channel. The link is below:

Jeffstunes

I moved the camera position for the second video. I've kept it that position ever since. I might shock people one day and change it again

The second video I uploaded to Youtube is from a band whose music I admire. R.E.M. The song is called (Losing my religion). See what you think of my attempt at it:

There are so many songs that I have sung in the past, and It's difficult to choose which one I want to do next. I've got too much choice!!.

So onwards I go. Check out my next post, and if you can't wait then visit my channel which is linked above.

All the best.

I joined YouTube a few months ago to see where I could get on there. My user ID on there is:

Jeffstunes

I'm going to follow my progress on YouTube. So here goes.

I started on there a few months ago, and things are going quite well so far.

So What do I do. Well. I looked at other people singing on there and noticed a lot of them just sitting in front of a webcam singing, so I decided that's how I would do things for the most part.

I'm going to be putting up my renditions of a load of different popular songs, and I'm I'm also going to put my own songs up too. To add to this, I'm going to put up videos of other interest too, but they won't be too far away from music.

The first video I put up was a cover of Joe Cocker's classic song "You are so beautiful". You can watch it here:

Go check it out, and leave a comment (If you are a YouTube user) I'd appreciate any opinion

Well, Lots more videos to come