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Here is the second of two collaborations with "Ulf Pettersson". That excellent Swedish composer. This one is called "I wanna see". I originally wrote this song as a personal joke, but when Ulf heard it he really liked it and asked me if he could redo the music for it. I accepted of course, and this is what he came up with. I have to say that I like it a lot better than my original arrangement.
This song is not 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. He is very much a fan of my material, but we are both quite busy 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

Here's the song I did with him. "I wanna see":

Now for the next episode of events from my fathers life.

My Dad. Part 9.

I think I pointed out previously that my father knew some less than upstanding individuals. 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 always treat people as I find them. If they are civil to me, then I will be civil to them. 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. Nothing bad ever happened on those occasions where I graced their company. I came to realise that a number of people showed fear towards certain friends of mine. That's something I never felt. There was never a reason to fear. My attitude was that if anything threatening came along, then you dealt with it. You shouldn't live in fear. 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 say this next bit is alleged. A tale from Cowgate road. 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. I was told that he had sexual intercourse with a girl that was only 14 years old in the field next to Cowgate Road. Pregnancy followed, but the poor girls life was cut short, because she died from leukemia. Whether she was willing or not, that kind of act was illegal by English law. I can't say for sure if this story ever got out. It's certainly controversial, but probably not unusual in the sixties. 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:

Jeff Edwards official website

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!!

The youtube statistics section now.
It's getting pretty exciting with the subscribers now. There are currently 992. Almost at the thousand mark.
Channel viewings have increased to 23,296, and the total overall video views are 397,648. They've increased their daily rate over the last few days.

And finally....

That is the end of the string of five original compositions. The next few are going to be 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.

This is number four out of five original songs on the bounce. This song started out as an instrumental song written by a wonderful Swedish musician called "Ulf Pettersson". As I listened to it, I could hear a potential vocal line in the song. So I asked if he wouldn't mind me having a go a turning it into a vocal song. He was keen on the idea. Ulf wasn't a stranger to my own compositions. In fact he liked quite a few of them. The song in the next post is one of mine that Ulf worked on. Staying in the present though. This one is titled "Swings and roundabouts". There are some good points about being involved in a relationship. There are also some good points to being single. There are some that you can't have in both though, and this is about one persons struggle with those problems.

This is what we came up with.

I've added a link on my links page to Ulf's site. You can find it at my site:

Jeff Edwards Official website

Back to the next part of my father's story.

My Dad. Part 8.

I didn't realise when I met my father, that he was so much into alcohol. The clues were already there with his nickname of "Woodsy". I was never that curious, and at that time I was unaware that he earned the name for his liking for "Woods Navy Rum". Rum was his favourite tipple, though I think anything with a decent amount of alcohol in it would have done. So that's how I found and met my father. Before I knew all the stories about him. Criticism may be levelled at his actions in life, and I know that I would not repeat what he did. I felt a lot of it was wrong. but he was still my father. I will never deny that. He was one of the two that made it possible for me to live.
The sixties were a time of drink and experimentation in drugs. Drugs were not my Dad's choice of vice. Drink won that hands down. My father did dabble in drugs though. In the sixties it wasa popular pastime, and he liked to be on the scene. I'm not sure of the quantities and names of various drugs he took, but I do know that he was fond of cannabis sessions. I remember watching a film with my dad about the sex pistols, and he chuckled knowingly at the scenes of smoking pot in the living room. I remember him telling me about times when members of the Rolling Stones were doing something very similar in my grandmother's back bedroom. Now that, I can believe. Somehow Apparently, a member of that band resides within a few miles from me.
My nan would have been horrified. She knew absolutely nothing about those events. In her eyes, her son John could do no wrong. Everybody else seemed to know what he was like. Everybody but her.
I've saved one more celebrity snippet for the next post. It was a tale that shocked me. Tom Jones fans look away. That's all I am going to say right now.

To be continued.......

It's Youtube time again.
975 subs. 25 to the magic 1,000.
My Youtube channel has been looked at 22,848 times now.
The sum total of my video views is 387,663.
Here's another interesting stat. To date there have been 5,952 comments on my videos (not including my replies).

We're reaching the end of the string of original songs. Coming up next is the 5th. Another song with Ulf Pettersson. I'll also be telling you a bit about Ulf's musical history.

Number three in a string of five. This one is titled "She freaks". It came out of an afternoon of experimental jamming with my pal "Steve Morgan". I'd done a rough sketch of the song before, and all the missing bits had been filled in by the end of the session. A composition about two partners who were very different. One partner was laid back and relaxed, and the other would go into a rage at the drop of a pin. I'm sure that this will seem familiar to some. The situation is reversible between man and woman. Take a listen and make your own mind up.

I quite like this song, but it didn't get on the album. Perhaps because I had so many others to choose from, and I wasn't totally happy with the production. However, 15 songs did make it, and you can listen to sound bytes of those at my website:

http://www.jeffsmusic.co.uk

Here is another interesting link for you if you feel like it. Not so long ago, I went to a friend's wedding, which was held on the Isle of man. I have to say, it's probably the best one I've ever been to. I'll drop in a link to check out some of the photographs taken. I make an appearance in a few. One of the photo's they like a lot is the one where I was windswept on the summit of Snaefell. Check it out

Rachel and Richard's wedding

My Dad. Part 7.

Nan loved my dad dearly. Even though he got involved in the scrapes that he did. Everybody else in the family looked like a saint compared to him. He was just likeable. I didn't know he existed until I reached eighteen years old. After the discovery, I thought about it for a short while and then did nothing until i reached 21. I traced him through Lily, my Grandmother. Someone else I hadn't met. I found out where she lived and just went and knocked on her door. I wasn't sure what to feel when I was waiting on the doorstep. I'd seen all these long lost reunions on T.V. and they were all emotional, but I have to say that I felt nothing like that. The only feeling in me was that I was curious. When the door opened I was greeted with a little white haired lady who just said "Hello". I think I said something like "Hello, are you Lily?". To which she replied yes. I then said to her "I'm John's son. Jeffrey". She just smiled and invited me in. That was surprising. The neighbourhood she lived in wasn't the most secure I'd seen. I could have been an unsavoury character, but she just invited me inside. Maybe she saw the resemblance. I have been informed on more than one occasion that my father and I look alike. She put the kettle on, and got the biscuits and old photographs out to view. During my visit, she called my father on the telephone to arrange a meeting with me in a local public house. Amazing with hindsight because he avoided other offspring.
The time finally came to meet my father. I made my way to the pub. First entering into the wrong bar. I quickly found the right bar with the help of direction. As I walked in, all eyes were on me, and there was a crowd of people in the corner of the bar. My father being one of them. I just walked straight up to him and said "Hello Dad", and gave him a little hug. I'd be lying if i said there was any emotion in that embrace. This is the first time I'd met this person. He was just like a stranger. I thought he was quite nervous at first, but that all changed after the introduction. It was party time.

More Dad stuff coming soon and more celeb stuff too.

To be continued.......

Back to the present and the Youtube progress.
There's 970 subscribers so far. Ooh it's getting so close the the ever important 1k barrier.
The channel viewings keep on rising. Now up to 22,617.
Finally the total viewing figures for all my videos combined is 382,179.

The next song I'll be talking about is a collaboration with an extremely talented Swedish musician called "Ulf"!

The second in a series of original songs that fell short of the "Sight Or Sound" Album. It is entitled "Movement". A friend suggested that I put together a tune that was about the world and the environment. I thought over it for a while, and then came up with the idea of a global situation from the perspective of an animal. We sometimes use the movements of animals to help us to detect things, because they just seem to know.

This is the outcome of my efforts .

This is another song that fell short of making it to the album. I felt that the other songs were of a better quality. I said before that 10 of the album tracks can be listened to in full if you go to my Youtube channel. There are many, many positive words from many people, and some of these comments have now been added to the CDBaby page. The small selection of comments are available to read at:

Jeff Edwards - Sight Or Sound

My Dad. Part 6.

Lulu wasn't exclusively in my father's bad books. P.J.Proby also made it into his hall of infamy. I was told that my father decked him for making advances to one of his girlfriends. Oops I would imagine that that sort of thing wasn't uncommon. Maybe my father didn't like his pretentious ways. I was told by Dad that P.J. used to perform on stage wearing drainpipe trousers, and in an effort to impress the ladies, he used to put a section of hosepipe inside his trousers to make the girls think he was gifted in the groin. Oh what disappointment there must have been if he managed to attract anybody as a result of his efforts. That old saying "The truth will out" is probably the most fitting term to use.
Dad also used to do DIY for the family. His sister needed a bedroom painted, and Dad suggested that he would of course get his brushes out. It wasn't going to be free though. It seemed that all went smoothly. He pointed her to the room afterwards, and she was very pleased with the results. That pleasure didn't last for long though. A few days after the room had been painted, she thought she'd shift the furniture around. It was then that she discovered that all he had done was painted around the furniture. Leaving large unpainted patches. I wonder why he never told me what she had to say about that.

To be continued.......

Back to the present and the Youtube progress.
961 subscribers.
22,480 Channel views.
378,848 video views.

The next original song features the talent of my good friend and guitarist Steve Morgan. That's one has had a bit of airplay too!