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       'My spoken material is about the facts of life,'  I was explaining to the Mother Superior.  'I've been asking people what they were told, how they were told it and did they ask questions.  Terrible funny...'     During my show at the Metrodeco Café, Brighton, a superfluity of nuns stopped at the window to listen.  In the street later that week one of them glided up and said how much they had enjoyed hearing me sing.  " And we wonder, might you please sing something for our charity evening?"   I said, of course, sister.     The nun nodded.  "That's very good to hear.  But just to correct you: not sister - but  Mother Superior."   She then asked about the spoken material in the show, in case we might include some of it on the night?  I said I had asked people how they had been told the facts of life... Bernard, 72.     My sist...

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  Stacks, Royal Marine, seeming to forget that in a bait in Iraq he had dumped me on a tank turret and demanded a song, said that I had a tendency to involve myself in random acts of singing.    He was referring to the time on the US base in Kandahar when I was heckled by Private Stanton, a New Yorker, infuriating Grace-Anne and Maybelle, Southern canteen staff.   Grace-Anne did the shouting for both of them.  'We were as angry as my white turkey who used to puff up its feathers prior to gobbling.  What, the cat got your tongue all of a sudden, Private?  Your formerly oh so loquacious tongue? Well, release that tongue of such former loquashioshness from the jaws of the cat, for a hymn will now be sung.   And this is the hymn we all sang: https://soundcloud.com/oliver-nelken/there-is-a-balm-in-gilead #sunday #church #gospel #gospelsong #hymn #religion #singer #god #USA #USArmy

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    Are you listening to the right music in the gym to get the best results?   No, tests show, if you're not listening to Mozart, Tchaikowsky, Wagner, et al.   We know what uber-fit Royal Marines Commando Stacks had to say.   Now wondering what the gym boffins think? #gym #workout #gymhacks #fitness #results #trainhard #training #PT #music

'In it for the Game not the Money,' says genius entrepreneur Gary Vee.   We try.   I try.   I do.   But how to translate his use of social media for his conglomeracy into my little corner of clown niche? The Bottom Line?   I see posting on here, YouTube, Facebook, Pinterest, Quora, LinkedIn, Instagram, etc, as the modern equivalent of - FOR FREE - putting up posters for my shows.  As I did back in the day around Aldeburgh. In the doctors surgery. In the pub and the charity shop.   The church porch only if my show's material was swear-free.   And why wouldn't you, says Gary Vee.   Whose game I play.   I do.   I try.   Just that - the video kvetch - there's always someone with that bigger game.   Not a surprise in my case, given that clown niche, my age, that I don't sing anything composed later than 1937 or dance anything post-Nutcracker.   But still, let's put the trainers on - £12.99 - and get out ...

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