Promedia Podcast George Wood

Hi there and welcome to episode 11 of the Promedia Podcast. If you would like to use any of the songs featured on my Podcasts please let me know don’t forget you can drop me an email and I can provide you with a higher quality version if required georgewood1966@hotmail.com

Something a bit different for this week, it’s the “all jingle show”. Each one of these tracks was composed or submitted to be used as a jingle for another Podcast, if you’re a big Podcast fan you may have heard some of them already.

The first three were create for the Excel Guru himself Bill Jelen, the first song was inspired by duelling banjos with Bill battling it out with fellow podcaster to see who has the best solution to your Excel problems. I don’t know a lot about programming banjo but I was really pleased with the results.

Track two again was for Bill; he wanted a jingle for his Where is it Wednesday Podcast; I decided to keep it simple and catchy (all the best jingles are) and ripped off High School Musical, if you’re going to steal do it from the best I say.

The next two and also for Bill, Bill had very clear ideas about what he wanted for this jingle, if you guessed in the style of ‘Born to run’ you were spot on.

Onto the Giz Wiz Letters jingles, the first one was a special holiday version with mandatory jingle bells and lush strings, the next one was the original and still sometimes used on Leo’s show, I am really pleased these jingles caught on and have been themselves copied; the Daily Giz Wiz is an excellent Pocast and deserves all the support it gets.

The last two songs I didn’t compose, they are cover version of Game Spots Hot Spot theme ( called Too hot); I sent it to the guys but never got a reply; the second is my take on the Giant Bombcast theme; again I sent it to the guys but never got a reply, I guess they were either too busy, never got it, or thought it was shit!

So there you have the Promedia Jingle Show; please send feedback good or bad as long as it’s constructive, until next time…

Hi there and welcome to episode 10 of the Promedia Podcast. If you would like to use any of the songs featured on my Podcasts please let me know don’t forget you can drop me an email and I can provide you with a higher quality version if required georgewood1966@hotmail.com

Only one track this week, it’s called Goodbye Grey Sky, and no you’re not hearing things I am singing, now I know I don’t have the greatest voice, I can hold a tune and that’s about it; I’m hoping to get a ‘real’ singer to record this song at some point.

I think there’s a bit of a David Gray vibe about the vocals (no offence David) which works well; the song is about depression or rather looking on the bright side as Monty Python would say.

I feel the song could use a nice guitar solo but as I don’t play guitar keyboard will suffice, musicians out there may notice the song changes from minor to major for the solo (you sad people)

Please send feedback good or bad as long as it’s constructive, until

Hi there and welcome to episode 9 (has it really bean 2 years?) of the Promedia Podcast. If you would like to use any of the songs featured on my Podcasts please let me know don’t forget you can drop me an email and I can provide you with a higher quality version if required georgewood1966@hotmail.com

Only one track this week, it’s called Inner Light and is unusual in as much it’s based on a Shuffle groove which itself is fairly uncommon these days. The song as it was (just the piano part) sat on my hard drive for a good few years, I had totally forgotten all about it until one day I was going over some of my old ideas (looking for inspiration).

I re-recorded the piano and the rest of the song just fell into place, there are lots of lead strings (so it’s very me) and there are some nice melodies; the piano at the beginning is reminiscent of Billy Joe’s Piano Man, not sure f that’s intentional just an observation.

Please send feedback good or bad as long as its constructive, I promise it won’t be anther 2 years!

Hi there and welcome to episode 8 of the Promedia Podcast; as usual I’ve included another 3 songs for your listening pleasure. If you would like to use any of the songs featured on my Podcasts please let me know don’t forget you can drop me an email and I can provide you with a higher quality version if required georgewood1966@hotmail.com

Track 1 is called ‘Threshold’ and was originally created to be used as a blanket track on level one of a space shooter video game (can’t for the life of me remember the name); I’m sure if it was ever used in it’s original form, however the version on the Podcast had to be recreated using the original audio file.

Track 2 is called ‘Música genérica’ and was inspired by all the lain songs that were made very popular by artists such as Shakira and Enrique; to be honest I couldn’t think of a better name (Babel fish translation of ‘Generic music’).

Track 3 is called ‘Eye in the sky’ and was created as a blanket track for VIP on Air’s traffic / travel reports, as mentioned previously the station has subsequently relented / rebalanced so I don’t think the music is in use at the moment.

OK so I keep threatening a Retro show, I suppose I’m hesitant because I don’t want to let anyone hear anything that doesn’t have the highest production values or just simply sounds dated (some of them are 15 years old), if you’re interested please le me know: georgewood1966@hotmail.com

Hi there and welcome to episode 7 of the Promedia Podcast; as usual I’ve included another 3 songs for your listening pleasure. If you would like to use any of the songs featured on my Podcasts please let me know don’t forget you can drop me an email and I can provide you with a higher quality version if required georgewood1966@hotmail.com

Track 1 is called ‘Core Meltdown’ and while not a favourite of mine has received a lot of positive feedback, I’m not sure if there was anything in particular that inspired this song, although in hindsight the orchestral stabs do sound a little (exactly) like the Weakest link stings, just coincidence?

Track 2 is called ‘Out and about’ and was created as a backing track for a commercial DVD about the Boy Scout movement; it was supposed to be fun, unobtrusive with a little touch of a Celtic theme here and there for good measure (you can hear some Celtic whistles during the bridge sections).

Track 3 is called ‘Travelogue’ and was created as a theme tuned of VIP on Air’s travel magazine show, as mentioned previously the station has subsequently relented / rebalanced so I don’t think the music is in use at the moment. If there song makes you think of holidays in Spain, sun, sea and sand I’ve been successful.

OK so I keep threatening a Retro show, I suppose I’m hesitant because I don’t want to let anyone hear anything that doesn’t have the highest production values or just simply sounds dated (some of them are 15 years old), if you’re interested please le me know: georgewood1966@hotmail.com

Hi there and welcome to episode 6 of the Promedia Podcast; as usual I’ve included another 3 songs for your listening pleasure. All 3 songs on this show were created for a radio station called VIP on Air; the station has since re-branded and re-launched, I’m not sure if they’re still in use.

Track 1 is called ‘Crossing over’ and has a nod towards Go West, being a huge 80s fan I was influenced with the production techniques used back in the day; if you listen to ‘Call me’ you’ll hear where the inspiration came from.

Track 2 is called ‘Daydreamer’ and I hope does have a dream-like quality, the song developed from a simple percussion loop I found on the Internet, I don’t know where it was taken from.

Track 3 is called ‘Lazy nights’, OK so you’ve finally figures song titles are no my strong point. This song was chosen to launch VIP on Air, I was really happy about this as there was a large press contingency present. Again like most of my songs it just developed from a simple chord progression / groove into the finished song.

Next show might be a retro show I haven’t decided; the songs in questions are getting on for 15 years old and were recorded on cassette tape (they sound it too) so I’m not sure if I want to lay myself bare, if you’re interested please le me know: georgewood1966@hotmail.com