I am, or have been, a playwright. (Let me get back to you on that one.)
More certainly, I am the ghostwriter of Funny Bones, the autobiography of British comedian Freddie Davies, and editor of another ghosted showbiz memoir, completed but as yet unpublished.
I am now engaged on a solo project: the biography of a songwriter mentioned in these pages, written with his active cooperation.
This blog was originally solely about doo wop music. Over time it expanded to include other genres as well as posts about comedy and theatre. It was set up in 2009 in order to preserve a dialogue which I had with the DJ Clarke Davis on the messageboard of Steve's Kewl Doo Wop Shop, a long-vanished doo wop forum.
Over a few weeks in the autumn of 2000, and with occasional contributions from others, Clarke and I compared notes (he's American; I'm Scottish) about how we grew to love doo wop. Pismotality, a word coined by Vernon Green in the Medallions' classic The Letter, was my username for that forum, hence the blog's title.
What's here is limited to the messages I had the foresight to print out at the time.
Some degree of personal reminiscence is built into most pieces, which explains the blog's subtitle: "Rummaging Through the Record Shop of Memory."
This may all be a form of displacement activity to avoid the serious business of playwriting ... (Let me get back etc.)
I can be contacted here.
Copyright:
I have included pictures and extracts from lyrics to illustrate my posts. If you feel I have violated your copyright let me know and I will remove the material or add a credit, as you wish. Please note there is no copyrighted music to download on this blog, which only contains embedded youtube clips and links to streamed audio on spotify.
