I made a lovely podcast with Sir Paul McCartney's step-mother Angie McCartney, via an introduction from Don. ....http://vincetracy.com/angiemac.html
Don first met Angie through a friend called Mike Banks who asked him if he would like to meet Leapy Lee …Leapy is a regular on my shows. They all arranged to meet at the New Brighton Rugby Club and Leapy rolled up with Lee and Angie with her daughter, Ruth…Leapy ended up getting Don a publishing deal with Evolution Records who had a few big names on their books. Don wrote a song for Diana Dors and The Bonzo Dog Doodah Band….then the company went under….a few years later Don was pushing his stuff to various publishers and one of them told him that a guy from his company had moved up North and set up a company in Birkenhead…so round he went…walked in and who was part of the company? - Angie and Ruth who signed him up….they managed Gary Glitter (long before his demise) and Don learnt so much from them that he ended up in 1980 setting up his own company....that's how showbiz works, folks!
Don is also a friend of another of my podcast guests, Mike McGear. Mike is Paul McCartney's brother. On one occasion Mike was going down to London to RCA Records to push some of his stuff and asked Don to go along and push some of his own songs.….At that time Don had just produced a single for his wrestling mate Adrian Street . During the visit he played it to one of the bigwigs and watched his eyes slowly glaze over….... he said It was possibly the worst record in the history of music…Don asked him if hecould quote him on that..he agreed…so that went on the label….when Adrian moved to the States he made a video of the song. This is on Youtube along with the others Don did for him…it got MTV play and went into a film…..and paid off Don's mortgage……
….Don had to laugh at the concert Paul McCartney did recently in New York….the show was running over time and he was halfway through a duet with Bruce Springsteen and they switched the mikes off!
…. finally….Don's been working on a doowop song for a new friend in the States….His name is Doowop Joe Conroy and he has a internet radio station in North Carolina...he checked out Don's website and noticed Don writes novelty songs. He asked Don to write one about all the doowop groups….….the song is called “DooWop Days” and can be found on YouTube……http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83mEgF9W5VU
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