Howdy folks and welcome to this episode of the soda jerker on songwriting

podcast we hope it finds you and finds you well.

Cy can you believe it's already episode five? Yes yes I can. No no no, it's amazing. We've come so far, so fast old friend.

I still remember the halcyon days of episode one.

Was that when we used to record the show on the infernal talking machine?

That's right, direct or Waxlacker. Straight to the lathe.

You could always leave the studio door open. Were we ever that young? Ye oldy podcast days. Nostalgia aside, we've been in the studio recently

working on some new material. We've got a couple of great vocalists helping us out on two new songs,

those are called Mint Condition and Talk of the Town which are

unusual names for singers I jest of course those are the titles of the songs

and they'll be uploaded in the next few weeks for you to download and share online so look out for them.

S.I. We've had a great response to the Jimmy Web interview.

Yeah, fantastic actually. Thank you all for your nice emails and tweets and comments. We really

appreciate them and we're glad that so many of

you have been enjoying our conversations with songwriters, especially that one with Jimmy Webb.

We'll have more episodes like that coming up for you starting today.

Indeed, coming up on this show we've got the always flamboyant British songwriter

composer conductor arranger and producer Mike Bat Mike's a five-time Ivan of

a Vela winner and deputy Chairman of the BPI.

He's best known as the creator of the Wambles Band, a spin-off from the timeless children's

television show for which he wrote the theme tune and sang it.

He went on to release several albums of material in that guys, writing and singing

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