Should Be Famous: Recent Episodes
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Restoring an old episode that I took down earlier over copyright concerns. Alice was so tickled that I had her music on the show, had to bring it back. What great music!
This lady is what the Should Be Famous Podcast was born for. Chances are you’ve never heard of her, but, to me at least, she’s amazing. Enjoy! For your reference this music is on a CD entitled Farewell to Nauvoo, by Fiddlesticks! with Lisa Arrington.
You don’t know how big this is. Folks, after years of study, I can finally tell you exactly why gravity and acceleration are one and the same thing, a hunch I’ve had this whole time but haven’t been able to quite explain, until now. Well, this was recorded in 2015, but anyway… The thing is, … Continue reading "Episode 38: GRAVITY IS CRACKED"
Tune in for the secret to evoking angel behavior from your children, really! I know you don’t believe me but you’ll see. Also a little banjo and tummy thumping. Enjoy!
No, this is not really about the cute graphic I put on the blog, it’s about correcting an unfortunate misguided explanation for how airplanes fly that seems to have been repeated over and over through the years. That explanation is that it all comes down to Bernoulli’s principle, where if a fluid (like air) travels … Continue reading "Episode 36: How Airplanes REALLY Fly"
Get the full story of how this really fun song came to be, and discover some surprising origins. Be sure to watch the video below too (on shouldbefamous.com).
I’m a little afraid I’m crossing borders here–talking about mens and womens roles and things that aren’t politically correct. Nothing bad, just potentially controversial. Feel free to tell me if I just lost you. Hopefully not, though. Plus some nice Christmas music.
That song I played last time backwards and forwards sped up–did I successfully create a desire for you to hear it regular? Well if so then you are triple-lucky, because you get to hear it THREE TIMES! Forward at regular speed! One produced up, one just guitar and vocals, and one guitar and piano! Tell … Continue reading "Episode 30: Go Girl!, Go Girl!, and Go Girl!"
I tell you, if you listen, that they have nothing to do with each other! I know. But they’re both worthy of the podcast and they both should be famous. The song because it’s just good and Joseph Smith because, prophet or fraud, he has influenced history greatly and as I like to go to … Continue reading "Episode 29: Go Girl! and Joseph Smith"
Well folks I just turned 40 and my only rumination about that is that it’s nothing. More important are a few thoughts I had about being an Elders Quorum President, some thoughts from Terry Warner from the preface of his book Bonds that Make Us Free, and how we might falsely consider that we’re either … Continue reading "Episode 28: 40th Birthday, Elder, Bonds and Equality"
Come on my jog with me! More on Terry Warner, a little about a remarkable writer named Flannery O’Connor, and some on another book I read about the American auto industry’s history, called Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry’s Road to Bankruptcy and Bailout-and Beyond. Mostly dysfunctional story, like anything else I guess, with some … Continue reading "Episode 27: Terry, Flannery O’Connor, and Crash Course on a Jog"
The Long awaited time has come to introduce you to the thoughts of a phenomenon of a remarkable man and thinker, Terry Warner (aka C Terry Warner), who has pioneered thought into the causes of what I’ll call maladaptive behavior, namely self-deception, which happens as an effect of, or really is an integral part of, … Continue reading "Episode 26: Terry Warner and Neat Kid Music"
I found my actual notes from the dinner with Joseph Moody, so here’s some more on that, plus additional thoughts on spinning discs and gravity/acceleration. And of course some neat music–first one of my favorite things to play on the piano, and at the end a fun song we did which you should really see … Continue reading "Episode 25: Joseph Moody Pt.2 and Some Neat Music"
Folks! I actually got to talk to a physics professor about the gravity/acceleration thing and you’ll see what I found out! Plus some good music as always. Ends with a recording of “Down to the River to Pray” with myself, Aubrey Nielsen and my daughter Owa. Hope you enjoy. This is a video podcast as … Continue reading "Episode 24: Joseph Moody went Down to the River to Pray"
Hear some music made up on the fly. . .and dialogue made up on the fly as well. Learn about truss rods in guitars and b-strings (B-strings)–all right here on the Should Be Famous Podcast!
Courtney came up with a lovely acoustic guitar cover of Lindy Cauper’s song Time After Time–great song and Courtney of course does awesome. There’s video for this as well.
Courtney started doing this thing on the guitar and I started playing along, sounded something like this. This is during my recent stay at Portland, OR for the International Barbershop Competition. LOVE getting together with family and doing great music. This might not be great, just fun. But more to come. Hope you can see … Continue reading "Episode 21: Double Guitars with Courtney"
For this episode, I take Luna on a walk. Oh, and I play a couple of piano ditties I wrote, and a recording of “Love At Home” sung by my daughter, and we talk about Forces. Like gravity and strong and weak nuclear forces and magnetic and electromagnetic forces, and how while we know pretty … Continue reading "Episode 19: E Minor Piano Ditties, Love at Home, and Forces We Don’t Understand"
Today a ditty I like to play on the piano, thoughts on force, and an a cappella arrangement of “Make Our Garden Grow”, written by Richard Wilbur (text) and Leonard Bernstein (music). This arrangement is by Jay Giallombardo, and the recording (for my chorus to learn the song from) is by Ben McDaniel. I cannot … Continue reading "Episode 18: The Force that Makes Your Garden Grow"
The first of what I hope to be several simpler episodes put out on a weekly basis. I recorded this version of Yankee Doodle for a potential film placement and it needed a gloomy or haunting version of a patriotic folk song. Hope you enjoy. Also similar recording of O Suzanna! Susan Easton Black is … Continue reading "Episode 16: Yankee Doodle and Susan Easton Black"
Yea, that’s me, broadcasting from the great outdoors, or the outdoors anyway. They’re great just about wherever you are, really. I play you a ditty I did for a commercial (which, again, wasn’t picked, but is GOOD), talk about songs and tempos, Einstein and gravity/acceleration, and. . . THE COVER CHALLENGE: Suggest a song you’d … Continue reading "Episode 12.5: Breezy and THE COVER CHALLENGE!!"
On this 10-year anniversary of one of the most horrific events in modern memory, I thought I’d offer, for anyone who might care to hear, a song I wrote about it. I happened to be living in NY at the time and so got a strong taste of the whole thing, the smell of destruction … Continue reading "9/11 Song: New York Make-Believe"
Greetings, listeners of the Should Be Famous Podcast. It’s been TOO LONG since the last podcast, and I miss it deeply. But I have an idea: I’d like to begin a new thing we’ll do periodically, where we talk about what YOU like. So this time I want to know, what is the first CD … Continue reading "Talk to Me"
Just saying hi and playing you something I did recently–an arrangement of Amazing Grace on guitar. It was for a church music night kind of thing. Singing with me is Aubrey Nielsen and Kimberly Barlow is on violin. Enjoy.–Clayton This is a video podcast too–video is below. A smaller. It leaves in in looks. Much … Continue reading "Episode 14: Amazing Grace"
Pretty exciting. This is the very first video podcast of the Should Be Famous Podcast. Boy are you in for a treat! (hee hee hee, ha ha ha, Oh HO HO HO!!!) Ok I can’t lie. You’re not really. But it does help me to explain gravity and acceleration (they’re the same thing). And I … Continue reading "Episode 11: Courtney Atack, Gravity, and Acceleration"
Heard of a guy who records a running podcast–while running. Never thought I’d actually do something similar! Well I’m still alive, as you can see. Talk a little about the Mormon Potluck Podcast, TheMitchCast, creative outlets, a hymn I’m arranging called “Prayer is the Soul’s Sincere Desire”, a song I wrote called “I Try”, and … Continue reading "Episode 10.5: I Try"
Well greetings, podcast listeners. Tell me, why is nobody commenting and yet so many are downloading? You can’t possibly agree with me so perfectly on everything I say. Am I not provocative enough, in a good way, I mean? In any case, I still love you and thank you for listening. And I invite your … Continue reading "Episode 11.5: Kyrstyn Pixton, a Commercial, Fur Owa, and Magnetism"
No, I’m not mad. I’m talking about the celtic-american-folk family group. I spoke with Dad Marco and one of the three daughters, Liz. Very interesting family and they’ve done some great things musically. And they’re actually pretty good about getting their music out there (unlike some people I know). Listen to this stuff. If you … Continue reading "Episode 8: Fiddlesticks!"
Very possibly our most controversial and divisive podcast yet, we explore what to some (if there are any others like me) is beautiful and cool and to others may be absolutely hideous garbage: music played backwards and/or sped up just for the fun of it. I specifically request your opinion on this one, so please … Continue reading "Episode 8.5: "
…for a real episode, here’s a spontaneous recording of So Fine, an old Sibling Revelry classic, and one of the first songs I wrote, in a different feel than the original, which only exists on our first album, which was a tape, and which is a little hard to come by. Enjoy!
It’s been a little while but it’s good to be back! This is another in-between episode where I basically play some neat music while playing with a toy I’m borrowing from the custodial manager guy I know from work called an Aural Exciter. I forgot to mention that plugin versions of exiters exist, some of … Continue reading "Episode 6.5: Aural Excitement!"
Not wanting it to get lost in the shuffle of the Christmas season, we now bring you our Christmas episode to kick-off the new year! Chris, Clayton and special guest Courtney (another of Clayton’s talented sisters) try to get to the root of what makes Christmas music Christmas music. So grab yourself a glass of … Continue reading "Episode 5: Our New Year's gift to you – a Christmas podcast!"
Very happy to put this episode back up after some drama with A-p-p-1-e over copyright concerns. It’s one of my favorites! I recognized Bob Walkenhorst, front man of The Rainmakers, as a true talent the first time I heard him at a coffee shop with my uncle here in Kansas City where he’s from. Don’t … Continue reading "Episode 9: Bob Walkenhorst"
Me playing with a cassette tape deck, seeing what it does to the sound to overdrive it. Some of the distortion is from overdriving the input, probably, and some from analog tape saturation. Either way, it sounds coooool! I explain what’s going on in dumb-person terms. I really do have some real podcast episodes coming … Continue reading "Episode 6.85: Tape Saturation"
R Ahrens, currently a family man and an attorney living in New Jersey, had a band in college called the Ahrens Band. As it turns out, he’s the brother of my wife’s former missionary companion, so I feel we’re pretty close. Seriously, we’ve enjoyed his CD for many years and I regard him as a … Continue reading "Episode 7: R Ahrens"
Who needs instruments when you can do things with your voice that normal humans can’t? InsideOut, a wicked-cool A Cappella group, certainly don’t need instruments. In this podcast, we introduce you to this group who’s talents you’ll have to hear to believe. Ever curious about what drives musicians to do what they do, Chris asks … Continue reading "Episode 3: InsideOut A Cappella (Part I)"
If you enjoyed Episode 3 where we introduced you to the amazing A Cappella sounds of InsideOut, you’ll love our interview with Kimball Brown. Kimball gives us the insight into how they put together the talents of group members and come up with the finished products. Enjoy! And don’t forget to send us leads on … Continue reading "Episode 4: InsideOut A Cappella (Part II) –Interview, Peanut Butter and Jelly"
The best thing to happen to music has finally happened…Episode 1 of the long-anticipated Should Be Famous podcast is live for the world to hear. On this inaugural episode, you’ll meet your hosts Clayton, Skye and Chris. We get things started with a dramatization of the struggle of one would-be musician. And as if that … Continue reading "Episode 1: Mormons, Music, and the Japanese Love Song"
Here’s another “in between” episode. I share a couple of nerdy engineer tricks. (1) How to fatten a vocal sound (one method), that I learned from the mixing engineer of InsideOut, and (2) Overdrive, on a piano. Also, my new favorite song. Enjoy! –Clayton
In between episodes sometimes I’d like to do what I’ve done here–post some music I or maybe Skye or somebody has done recently that’s neat, even if it isn’t a complete, polished recording. Here are a couple of kids’ songs I tailored for Halloween this year (sang them at a neighborhood Halloween party)–Itsy Bitsy Spider … Continue reading "Episode 3.5: Musical Interlude (Itsy Bitsy, If You’re Scared, and random guitar)"