I was watching a T.V. program hosted by Graham Norton some time ago. and he visited a website that altered faces into different ages and races. Such as an Afro-Caribean and a Manga cartoon. All you have to do is upload a front facing jpg of yourself, and you are ready to go. I thought I'd give it a try, and upload the results to my Youtube channel.

I set it as a challenge to the Youtube community. Requesting that they do exactly the same as me with their own pictures. Then post their video as a response to mine. That way, we could have a collection of funny faces all in one place....

The reaction to the last cover I did, "Yellow" by "Coldplay" was very positive. It got a good burst of viewings in the first few days. Over 800.

That was my most requested song. Now to the song that was second on my most requested list. This one is quite a recent song, and is by a top group called Travis. This song is called Closer, and it's taken from their latest album.

I had a few ideas for the video, but I wanted to save the best ones for my original songs. So I ended up making a video for this, which was humorous. My video editing software took ages to render the opening sequence. I think it was worth it though....

Now on to the 67th video, which I put on Youtube last year. This is a cover of a Coldplay song from the album "Parachutes". I have been asked by many people to do a cover of this song, so it's about time I got around to doing it.

I used to sing this song quite a lot, and a number of my close friends really like it. I do enjoy singing coldplay songs, because of the subtleties in the vocals, and the opportunity for falsetto, and this song is not short on that.

 

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On the third of May 1995, at 1:23am. My daughter was born. In 2009 she hit 14. It's been 14 years of wonder, and great memories for me. I've taken so many pictures, and so much video of her, and I'm really glad I did. I can go back to it at any time and bring back all those good memories.

So many people have fallen under my daughters spell. Probably because she has eyes that you just can't say no to. I would say that though. I'm her father. All parents think their own children are very beautiful. I definitely do :)...

I decided I should start putting up a string of cover versions. It's my attempt to try and catch up a bit with my request list. There's little hope of ever getting to the end of it though. It's well over a hundred songs and climbing. They are coming in faster that I can do them. Lol.

 

I thought I'd change the way I do things with my covers. Instead of sitting in front of the camera singing, I will be recording the songs first, and then I will make the videos for those songs at another time. I'm hoping that this will give me better quality sound, and mixes. It also means that I can make the videos a little bit more interesting....