Dear Uncle Sam,
Muller and Patton, in our songwriting / producing role, have begun our peaceful infiltration of Filipino pop music. More on that to follow.
Want to hear a funny story? Good.
In a newspaper interview concerning Kelsey Adam’s album, Jaye and I were asked which contemporary songwriters we respect the most. We answered Adam Schlessinger, and explained that his biggest hit to date was the movie song “Way Back in to Love”. The article was translated to Filipino for the paper’s sister publication, and apparently not very accurately, because word got around that we were claiming to have written “Way Back into Love” ourselves. In a press conference / performance in a prominent Cebu mall a few days later, the first and only question a journalist asked me was if I’d really written “Way Back Into Love”. I said “No, did you?” There were no further questions.
I recently had the pleasure of hearing a song I wrote called “The Stuff That I’m Made Of”, performed in Mandarin. The song appeared in the thriller / drama “Hui Lu”, sung by beautiful Chinese actress Margaret Wang.
I have no idea if my lyrics were translated faithfully, but I could care less. Here is a recording. : )
Dear Uncle Sam,
I was introduced yesterday to an elderly filipina who is greatly renowned for her gifts of perception into the future, and unseen aspects of the present. I found her to be a charming, kind woman, with an undeniably magic aura and very cute grandchildren. Putting my innate skepticism temporarily aside, I asked her, among other things, if she could tell me anything about the future of my work. Would I be able to entertain a much larger audience someday? A stream of words spilled from her mouth, in a Filipino dialect called Bisayan. When she was done, the translator said to me “Yes, okay.”
Here is another peek at the upcoming concert DVD “Live Double Feature”. This is from the unplugged show in Burlington, Vermont, featuring two other Pattons, my sister Anna on clarinet, and my father Will on double bass.
The song we are playing is one I wrote about ten years ago. (Yikes.) It’s a sort of homage to Cole Porter, and it has become, arguably, my most popular song.
Will I someday write something that will dramatically exceed the appreciation this early song has received?
“Yes, okay.”
Captains Log, Stardate 5 / 9 / 2009,
A whole lot of entertainment is coming from myself and the Muller and Patton team this year, much of it already finished, simply queued up for deployment.
Here is a little peek at my upcoming solo concert DVD “Live Double Feature”. The DVD will feature two concerts, one stripped down show in Vermont, USA, and one fired up show in Cebu, Philippines. This clip is from the latter.
That’s all for now. Live long and prosper.
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