Deep in my Heart it's Texas
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The song I have sent you this week is another I have found in my drawer...it is entitled “Deep In My Heart Is Texas”…and is one that got away….it was one of the few collaborations I have been involved in over the years….this stemmed from and idea a friend of mine had…her name is Patricia Knapton….and she came up with the title and a few ideas…I thought the finished job was pretty good but it wasn’t to be….people didn’t GET the title….maybe this play might bring it to someone’s attention….Wagons HO !!

2.It is 800 years since the signing of Magna Carta…(not THE Magna Carta we’ve been told…just Magna Carta)…so there has been quite a lot of fuss on the TV….it’s one of those dates I never forgot…”King John at Runnymede in 1215”….many years ago I went to Sunbury on Thames to visit a relative and he took me to Runnymede .. and in those days it was just like a bandstand in a big field…and I remember thinking “Blimey this is where it all began”….it looks a bit different now…I also remember I was wandering round London in 1968 and you could walk down Downing Street and virtually stand outside number 10…how times have changed.

3.There was a very interesting guy on the TV who has his own show … he is called “The Man of STEAL”…and is a professional pickpocket and shows you how easy it is to get robbed….he had a guy standing in front of him and virtually emptied his pockets without him even knowing….people don’t give credit to how clever some of these thieves are…they can even get your credit card number through your pocket with some device or other…brilliant….I’ve known of friends who have lost everything at airports…so a bit of education is definitely needed.

4.As you know I play golf and do a bit of sailing…so I tend to watch the weather forecast on the tele in the morning….lately they have been nowhere near…especially the BBC.

One day last week the forecast was blanket rain….not a drop….and gusty south easterly winds….they came from the south west….and sometimes the local forecast bears no resemblance to the national one…and when they get it completely wrong all we get is “Oh we really got it wrong yesterday” followed by a few giggles…..I doubt whether people who plan their day on their predictions find it funny….considering the millions of pounds worth of gear they have they should do a lot better….they couldn’t predict nightfall….in any other job they would be sacked for incompetence…except bankers…they can lose all your money and reward themselves with big bonuses apparently.

There is a place on Wirral called the Proudman Oceanic Laboratory who can predict the exact times and measurements of high and low tides for the year ahead…maybe they should take over the Beeb.

5.Midge Ure was on TV this week talking about the music industry…very interesting….he says the industry as we know it is finished and the only way to make money is to go it alone…which is what I decided 35 years ago….he has been giving talks in America to young musicians and organised his own tour…even to the stage of personally getting his money for the gig.

What the X Factor kids don’t seem to realise is that it’s a BUSINESS and whatever YOU make someone else will be making a lot more….the glamour soon goes out the window….it’s 5% show and 95% business…get that in your head and you may end up like Simon Cowell.