Record, Sleep, Record, Sleep, Sleep, Sleep...

I have no idea what is wrong with me. As hard as I try to do anything, all I want to do is sit and stare or sleep. My body feels like it went on vacation and forgot to tell my brain!

I did manage to push through it a bit yesterday before I passed out around 3 pm for a few hours.

I was going through all the songs I wanted to record, but nothing sounded interesting or exciting so I went though a bunch of submissions I received and found a song that got me going by Will Hale called' "I Love My Mother". It's awesome, lots of fun and in his live version the kids really scream out the chorus  I can't wait to try it for myself.

I also made some more progress yesterday and today on my new multi-lingual version of "Happy and You Know It". We are clapping in several different languages including Danish, Dutch, Afrikaan, French and Hebrew. Oh yeah, and plain ol' English too. I really wanted a Spanish so once again my big brother from another mother Dave Kinnoin is bailing me out...we really need to give this guy and award or something.

I hope to have that one in the can by late tomorrow, I'll keep working on other songs while I do this one.

Tomorrow is supposed to be a really cool day, my son in recording with me so I hope to knock out about 4-6 basic tracks with him before i take my daughter to rollerskating (that is when I usually do my graphic design  on my iPad while she skates!).

OK, I think that's it...working a a cool tune with Dave Kinnoin and Jimmy Hammer right now called "Funky Hu"...you're gonna love it. Here is "I Love My Mother"...enjoy!

I'm Taking the Day Off...Mr. Billy Style

I just got back from a gig, a library holiday music show at a library, went great! But, I wasn't able to record today. Now I'm back in the studio and just decided that I'm not recording today.

I am taking the day off...Mr. Billy style. After all I still have 26 days to finish 3 whole CDs...piece of cake.

Now before you check me into some mental facility, I want you to know that 6 of the 12 songs for CD #10 are DONE! So...if I can finish the other 6 this week all is well.

I need to get some booking, graphic design and email list stuff done today and  (check this out) prepare for a holiday craft bazaar this Saturday. I got this wild idea to sell my CDs as holiday gifts at a church craft fair (I'll let you know how that goes!).

Back to my recording news...

I have 6 songs done and I've put them into a set on SoundCloud. All of the music for the songs "Robot Army", "Vacation in Roswell" and "What Will They Think of Next?" was written and performed and produced by my son Wil AKA POD PERSiN.

I hope you enjoy the songs, please leave lots of comments and or suggestions, OK?

It's a bird...it's a plane...NOT

Look up in the blog, it's a bird...it's a plane...NO! It's The Mighty Mr. Billy! Yes I did finally make my superhero cartoon. I got a lot of suggestions and this is what I came up with. Like it?

Great news, as of today I am 50% done with CD #9. I took off Thursday (Thanksgiving) and even though I slept in VERY LATE, I still got 2 new songs recorded today, that brings the total up to 6 songs done, they are:

1. Magneto and Titanium Man 
2. Comic Book Store
3. Action Hero, Hero Action
4. Super Sidekicks
5. Green - NEW
6. Bowling for Heroes - NEW

"Green" was written for this project by my good pal and pretty steady writing partner this year, Dave Kinnoin. It's quite simply a song about green heroes, and there are a few. My wife Cathi did some vocals on the chorus and my son said this was his favorite song so far, his other favorite was "Bowling for Heroes", the other song I did today. Complete with bowling alley sound effects, it paints a nice little picture of super heroes blowing off steam at "The Super Bowl"...no not that Super Bowl.

Here they both are for your enjoyment. Love to hear your comments...please!