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It would be a shame not to have some crazy golf... I was going to throw this song away as being too silly (which it is) but then in my extensive research on crazy golf I found a site called "Putterfingers" and decided to steal the pun. So I'm posting it anyway. My office is just across the...

I started writing this during FAWM and didn't finish it, but then I realised it would fit this theme (you'll find out how near the end). It's along the same sort of lines as Pa's... Apparently the 'facts' in this song really were on wikipedia at one point. I don't need to check, though...

That's a fantastic looking line up! But, alas, I will be on the wrong continent that weekend...

I popped down south to Newcastle-ish for a quick family visit this weekend. On the way back, I was about to get on my train, when I saw that Marty Craggs (formerly of Lindisfarne) and his band were doing a gig in the station pub in the afternoon. I decided it would be far too complicated to...

I've done options 1 and 3, so time for an option 2... I'd forgotten that Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was a double LP, probably because I have it on CD and it fits on one of those. Anyway, here's a song I sometimes try to do, then fail to hit the high notes. I failed here too, but I'm going to...

I love these drawings! Thanks for a fun week.

Here's one for Option 3. You'll see why it fits right at the end. It's a song about unlikely things, ranging from the trivial to the impossible. Some people think it should be East Fife 4 Forfar 5, but East Fife is my local team so I want them to win. The result has been close a couple of...

Here's a quick (well, quick-ish) on taker, from the 1978 double live album "Bob Dylan At Budokan". Pretty much nothing on that sounds anything like the original. So, in tribute, neither does this. From wikipedia: "Critic Jimmy Guterman named it one of the worst albums ever released in the...

Which version of Zoom do you have? If you have a version after 5.3.0, which you must have because you can't join a Zoom meeting with an older version, then you should have something like this in your Audio settings. And then, once you join a meeting, you'll get an option in a meeting for...

My FAWM friend Ken Mattsson (https://www.youtube.com/@beaconbeatsmusic) got himself an 8 string baritone ukulele recently, and decided he had to use it to write a song in the style of me. Just to show that he got it pretty much spot on, I thought I'd better record it too, so here it is (there's...

Okay, this theme is fun. Thanks Joo! So, here's just one more :). Anyone use Slack in their day jobs? Me neither. Even so, this irritating feature is common to a lot of instant messaging systems...

Another one from the 10ish second work day snippets. I've padded this out slightly too and it stretches to as many as 26 seconds... Anyway, I humbly submit my proposal for the next Post-It note ad campaign.

Hi Joo, thanks for hosting with this fun theme! Here's a modern folk song in 47 seconds, I hope it's the sort of thing you had in mind. Sometimes a song just has to make its point then get outta here... This arose from a FAWM thing called the 10x10: you write 10 songs, each 10ish seconds...

I edited my title. I couldn't bear to have it wrong :). (I must have got it from an unreliable source... I'm usually a stickler for these details!)

I haven't had much time this week, especially with churning out some things as FAWM drew to a close (of which no doubt more later) but I did want to get this Carole King song in, performed by The Shirelles on the soundtrack. We've already had a beautiful version by _mourningdove, but here's my...

I haven't seen it either...

Hi Val! Here's one by Belle and Sebastian, in which by the end the narrator wants a dance and a drink of whisky. And who wouldn't?

A couple of months ago, I learned that Les Barker was one of few people to manage to get the name of a certain Welsh town, on Anglesey, into a song. Challenge accepted, I thought! And this was the result, so now I'm happy to have an excuse to record and post it. For convenience, I've called it...

I saw this phrase on a t-shirt, and I suppose it's about growing old (or at least older) disgracefully. I'm not like the narrator, honestly... I thought it would be fun to learn U Bass. This is what it sounds like after about a day of learning, and 94 takes.

I've had some difficulty with this season so far, partly because I've been away until today, but mainly because there's so many Tom Waits songs that I've been waiting for a chance to do that I didn't know where to start. It's a good problem to have... anyway, here's one from Rain Dogs: I love...