30 seconds of Fame

Subject: RE: 30 seconds of Fame
From: Betsy
Date: 19 Mar 09 - 09:39 AM

Cheers maeve

Subject: RE: 30 seconds of Fame
From: maeve
Date: 19 Mar 09 - 08:51 AM

blue clicky

Subject: RE: 30 seconds of Fame
From: Betsy
Date: 19 Mar 09 - 08:40 AM

This should just about tie up the subject ,if you cut and paste this link into Google - (I don't know how to do clickies )

http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/2009/03/19/teesside-composer-catches-flak-after-star-s-tv-gaffe-84229-23182087/

Cheers Betsy

Subject: RE: 30 seconds of Fame
From: Betsy
Date: 10 Mar 09 - 02:15 PM

Hi Katlaughing I don't know how find the song by Robson Green on that site - maybe someone has to load it up but there's a nice version by a German lad called Ralf.
Jack, I understand what you're saying and have to agree to a large part, however , some nights going to folk clubs and the content of the songs I used to get confused whether we were hunting or saving the whale .
Besides I do like a nice piece of cod to go with my chips and someone has /had to kill it.

Subject: RE: 30 seconds of Fame
From: Jack Campin
Date: 10 Mar 09 - 11:34 AM

Work for a TV company - travel the world, see its most unique and beautiful animals and kill them.

That shit makes Jeremy Clarkson look human.

(I've got an "Extreme Fishing" bag which I got in a charity shop and use to carry my saxophone stand in. Until just now, I had no idea what it stood for).

Whale sharks are listed as "Vulnerable" on the IUCN RedList of Threatened Species.

People who have TVs actually *watch* this vicious garbage?

Subject: RE: 30 seconds of Fame
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Mar 09 - 10:25 AM

Thanks, Betsy!

Folks, with Pete's kind permission, you may go to This Website and click on the link to hear a bit of the song which was used on the tv show. What a great song!

Thanks, again,

kat

Subject: RE: 30 seconds of Fame
From: Betsy
Date: 09 Mar 09 - 07:51 PM

I've PM'd you Katlaughing.
Thanks Linda ,Cliff, Trevor Leenia and Treeman - I meant to thankyou all in my message addressing Bluegrassman.

Subject: RE: 30 seconds of Fame
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Mar 09 - 07:38 PM

Have just sussed out your website and listened to the short cut. Sounds like a great song; I'd love to hear more!

Permission to post a link? (But, not if you want to preserve your *girlish* persona!**bg**)

Tks!

kat

Subject: RE: 30 seconds of Fame
From: Betsy
Date: 09 Mar 09 - 06:49 PM

Cheers Bluegrassman,
More like 14 Seconds.
No I'm not a Geordie so neither is the song , but I live in N.E.England which is still not the same thing.Still – it was an experience, though where or why he learned it, and why he thought it was Geordie is unknown to me.
I always reckon even if ANYONEtakes the time to learn one of your songs, it is the biggest complement anone can pay you.
Thanks to everyone else in the thread, I know it's not such a BIG deal, but I'm still daft and parochial enough to have got a buzz about something of mine being on TV.

Subject: RE: 30 seconds of Fame
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 09 Mar 09 - 06:47 PM

Saw it too well done!

Subject: RE: 30 seconds of Fame
From: treeman
Date: 09 Mar 09 - 06:46 PM

Pete is not a Geordie; he,s a Teesider. Used to hear that song sung by Skerne at the Red Lion in Trimdon many moons ago. "You don,t know what you,ve got till it,s gone." I wish I,d known that then, and I particularly wish there was a video of those wonderful times. Shame video wasn,t even in existence then. The landlady had a wonderful collection of water jugs and other pub crockery hanging from the rafters and when the singing was good, (99 times out of a 100) the crockery would ring. Magic nights with wonderful guests too numerous to list but Isaac Guillory was just one particular favourite. The resident band played some good old chorus songs which got me into singing with confidence, and eventually led me to playing guitar and writing my own songs. One of the band members, Edwin, had a daughter called Lyn, and I,ve never yet heard a better version of her "Tie a yellow handkerchief". I,ve met Pete; pleasant man, or as they say in France; champion!

Subject: RE: 30 seconds of Fame
From: Bluegrassman
Date: 09 Mar 09 - 05:50 PM

Just watched it, good one Betsy, didn't know you were a Geordie though :), I`ll have a word with Robson about that.

Subject: RE: 30 seconds of Fame
From: Trevor Thomas
Date: 09 Mar 09 - 04:32 PM

You wrote that song? Wow! It's one that I heard first at my local session about 20 years ago, performed by Patrick Walker, with the whole back room joining in. I remember it having quite the effect on me remembering the times when my own Dad brought 'loads of men' home from the pub.

Pat still does it from time to time, and I always love it when he does. Double congratulations - one for getting a bit of TV exposure, but most of all for writing such a cracking song in the first place!

Subject: RE: 30 seconds of Fame
From: GUEST,Cliff
Date: 09 Mar 09 - 07:28 AM

Congrats 'Betsy'.

Couldnt happen to a nicer chap!

See ya,

Cliff

Subject: RE: 30 seconds of Fame
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 09:23 AM

It doesn't look like it, but under the make-up Robson Green is a 70-year-old spinster.

Congratulations on having your song noticed, Betsy.

Subject: RE: 30 seconds of Fame
From: olddude
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 06:38 AM

how cool is that
wonderful

Subject: RE: 30 seconds of Fame
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 12:06 AM

LOL!


I don't 'spose they go for the Catch and Release program, eh?

For the curious: Extreme Fishing-Robson Green website.

They are doing a lot of fishing over here...seems it ought to be on here somewhere!

Subject: RE: 30 seconds of Fame
From: Art Thieme
Date: 07 Mar 09 - 08:48 PM

I think, long ago, I had a date with Betsy once.




A prune, a fig, and a kumquat too.

Art

Subject: RE: 30 seconds of Fame
From: Betsy
Date: 07 Mar 09 - 08:45 PM

Yeh I'm a married, hetrosexual guy - the Mudcat name is a corruption of of my surname.Very similar background to our friend across the pond Joe.
Having basked (and probably bored)in telling everyone about the song situation ,and I also sought advice about the Contract on Mudcat,I am now shitting myself in case the song,(the title "They Don't Write 'Em Like That Anymore")which he sings, is the one which I wrote, and not some recently registered title from some pop group or other.
Oooooooooh the tension !!!! - fingers crossed - I'm like a kid waiting for Christmas - and I hope there's no cinders in my stocking.

Subject: RE: 30 seconds of Fame
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 Mar 09 - 06:26 PM

Play the banjo, Betsy?

Congratulations on your song. I too am in the US and can't listen in.
Mary

Subject: RE: 30 seconds of Fame
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Mar 09 - 06:03 PM

I'm sworn not to tell what your real name is, Betsy - buy maybe YOU should, so the guys will stop flirting with you...

Subject: RE: 30 seconds of Fame
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Mar 09 - 04:54 PM

Robson Green is one of my fav. actors. It would be a blast to hear him sing your song! Even if I don't fish.:-) Congrats!

Subject: RE: 30 seconds of Fame
From: terrier
Date: 07 Mar 09 - 03:56 PM

...To the best of my recollection, Betsy's a bloke....

Maybe we should have an 'Are you male or female' thread to clear things up?
Congrats anyhow, Betsy :)

Subject: RE: 30 seconds of Fame
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 07 Mar 09 - 10:20 AM

To the best of my recollection, Betsy's a bloke.
Ain't Mudcat . . . erm . . . confusing?

Subject: RE: 30 seconds of Fame
From: Megan L
Date: 07 Mar 09 - 09:42 AM

Well done lass

Subject: RE: 30 seconds of Fame
From: sharyn
Date: 07 Mar 09 - 09:39 AM

Congratulations, Betsy. Wish I could hear it (I'm a Yank in California)

Sharyn

Subject: 30 seconds of Fame
From: Betsy
Date: 07 Mar 09 - 06:54 AM

Dunno if anyone is interested - rod fisherman will probably be .
Robson Green sings part of one of my songs ( I understand approx. 30 seconds ) to some Alaskan kids in the Programme "Extreme Fishing 2 " on UK Channel 5 at 9 pm on Monday 9th March.

Cheers
Betsy