Category: Music

Here are my own compositions, as well as my versions of other peoples’ music.

This may be crap but at least it’s MY crap…

Original YT playout date: 10 March 2009
Duration: 4:05

… well, mine and Antonin Dvorak’s. But with the current spate of warningless Warner warbler warrings against “”their”” music appearing in films, this is about all I dare to upload these days! So, grit your teeth and, em, “”enjoy”” my variations on a theme from Dvorak’s Rusalka.

Eat this, WMG!
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Famesick: A Memoir
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Empire of Storms
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Poland (original composition)

Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Original YT playout date: 22 February 2009
Duration: 4:50

An original song written by me (words and music) in 2002, while not living in Poland. Since then I moved back, and so I don’t think of singing this song of missing Poland so much, as obviously I’m here. This is a call home to all the emigres with their qualifications doing work which is punching well below their strength in countries they think are richer. I’d remind you of the words of Denver, where he talks about a man who “said he’d be a poor man, if he never saw an eagle fly”.

Lyrics:

I am singing this song
For the place where I long
to be. That’s Poland

Life is wonderful there
In the sweet forest air
That’s free, in Poland.

In the valleys of Wisla and Bug,
Nature’s beauty wherever you look.
There is plenty and peace
In this new land of ease
For me, in Poland.

Here are the chords:

C
a
eG
C
a
d G7
a e
d G G7
d C
a
e G C
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Listen for the Lie: A Novel
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The Fourth Option: A Novel
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Caro Mio Ben

Original YT playout date: 13 February 2009
Duration: 4:15

“This is the second of two comedy double bills kicking off YouCam created personas Lucjan O Poworocki and Bernie Mansfield.

Let me know if you want more of these guys in the future.”
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Project Hail Mary
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Non Te Scordar Di Me

Original YT playout date: 12 February 2009
Duration: 3:22

“This is the a premiere for two new characters which emerged as I was mucking around with a program called Cyberlink YouCam – Lucjan O Poworocki and then a Yorkshire comedian whom I shall probably dub Bernie Mansfield, or something like that.

I have no idea whether people will like this or not. I’ve done two of these for now: this and another similar one. Have to see how it goes from there. Anyone else would have done two separate films instead of a double bill in order to double the hits, but I’m a fool to myself, sometimes, I really am…”
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Book 2
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Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
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Huliganov’s Bugeilio’r Gwenith Gwyn for St David’s Day

Original YT playout date: 12 February 2009
Duration: 7:06

What is this? I am negative!
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A Court of Mist and Fury
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The Kiss Quotient: A Novel
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