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:
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.