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Song and a Chat
by Pete Pascoe
Be entertained with a song and an extended chat, ranging from off the cuff banter/ humour to life observations and song analysis.
Episodes
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The Prettiest Picture
Episode #227: The Prettiest Picture (Song starts at 5:14) I wrote this song for my mother (Mum), back in 1987 {!). I remember like it was yesterday. It was Mother’s Day, in the morning and I’d remembered. I like to give some sort of an original gift, so I thought I’ll paint mum a picture. Yes, I...
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The Smallest Of Dreams
Episode #226: The Smallest Of Dreams (Song starts at 3:47) I found a quite extensive amount of audio of me composing this one. So I’ve included some of it on this episode. As I listened back to the process of the smallest of dreams coming together, I found it fascinating. Often songs come…
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One More Cup
Episode #225: One More Cup (Song starts at 4:27) As usual, I thoroughly enjoyed producing this episode. Earlier this evening, I had a feeling I had some recordings of myself composing One More Cup – somewhere on one of my hard drives… By some sort of miracle, I managed to locate the snippets of...
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Old Horse Grey
Episode #224: Old Horse Grey (Song starts at 3:45 ) There’s a state of mind you get into when you’re doing something creative like writing a song lyric, composing the accompanying music & arranging the instruments during the recording process. You’re right in the moment. Honouring what you’ve...
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Changing Times
Episode #223: Changing Times (Song starts at 4:18 ) The featured song on this episode is song #7 on the album ‘River Walking’, by Paul Dredge and myself. At the time of recording this episode, the album has not long been out and I’m working my way through the songs. I’ve actually skipped one in…
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River Walking
Episode #222: River Walking (Song starts at 4.22) This song is the title track of the album by the same name, by Paul Dredge and myself. It was fun looking back to see how ‘River Walking’ came together. Although it was written in sections, by 2 people, in a sort of a call and answer style (which…
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Electric Cow
Episode #221: Electric Cow. (Song starts at 4:52) I would say the main take away from this particular episode is perhaps this: no matter how strange, how silly, how childlike a creative idea that pops into your head is, I would suggest it’s really important not to dismiss it. In fact, I would say...
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A Quiet Moment
Episode #220: A Quiet Moment (Song starts at 3:31) This episode features the song ‘A Quiet Moment’, composed by Paul Dredge and myself. It’s a song about reflecting back on the history of a friendship, so it’s a quite a personal document, in a way. On that intimate sort of a note, you’ll get to...
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I’ve Loved Life
Episode #219: I’ve Loved Life (Song starts at 6:52) On this episode, I’ve featured a song which is track number 2 on the album ‘River Walking’, which I’ve written and recorded with Paul Dredge. The gist of the meaning of I’ve Loved Life is: there’s lots of ups and downs – that’s the way it is.…
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All Through The Years
Episode #218: All Through The Years (Song starts at 4:05) I’m really enjoying recording these episodes (obviously I wouldn’t be doing it if I wasn’t). It’s my online weekly gig. The song ‘All Through The Years’ ( #541) was written in 2007. To be honest I haven’t thought about it too much through...
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Sunset Swim
Episode #217: Sunset Swim (Song starts at 5:27) Going back to March 1997, my girlfriend (now my wife) and I had just arrived from New Zealand to settle into the big city of Melbourne, Australia. This was the first song I wrote since we’d left NZ. As the title suggests, this song is inspired by a...
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Autumn Evenings
Episode #216: Autumn Evenings (Song starts at 5:33) It was a pleasure to rediscover song #261, Autumn Evenings for this episode. I wrote it in 1993. Here we are now, in 2023 – I’ve written about 800 songs now. At the market this week, people were asking me how on earth I managed to do this (not…
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Righto
Episode #215: Righto (Song starts at 4:10) It struck me tonight as I recorded this episode, how grateful I am to be doing this. It is such a buzz, letting the song lead the way as I look at the creative process of how a song comes together. Don’t worry, you don’t need to have any musical theory…
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Trust To Receive
Episode #214: Trust To Receive. (Song starts at 7:12) Hi there & welcome to another episode. Here we are, looking at another song again, in a ‘songwriter speaks’ style – inclusive, casual fun, entertaining.… this time it’s Trust To Receive, song #105. Composed in 1989! Again this week, this song...
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Revolving Door
Episode #213: Revolving Door (Song starts at 5:42) I’d completely forgotten about song #453, from 1999, Revolving Door. Well, it isn’t 1999 now! The years have certainly whizzed by. The great thing about being a songwriter (or doing any creative activity) is, it gets you ‘in the moment’ – the...
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New World Dawning
Episode #212: New World Dawning (Song starts at 6:22) I really enjoyed writing song #207, New World Dawning, back in 1992. The lines ‘I never thought I’d cry tears You can buy at the chemist’ Were never going to shake the foundations of anyone’s world, but that was my opening gambit (I was…
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Got Away On Me Again
Episode #211: Got Away On Me Again (song starts at 4:02). Welcome to another episode. Picture me sitting at my piano, with the microphone on. Before me I have my songbooks. I’ve picked out a song Got Away On Me Again (Song # 663, written in 2017). Yes, I have a song to sing, which is nice to be...
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Forever
Episode #210: Forever (Song starts at 4:20) I went outside tonight, just before I recorded this episode. The stars are incredible aren’t they? Infinite. Makes you realise how insignificant we are, really. I like to think we all count. We all made up part of the universe. Those sorts of big…
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A Certain Kind Of
Episode #209: A Certain Kind Of (Song starts at 4:41 ) This song, #213, is in a different style to the piano vocal ones that have made up the bulk of the songs featured on this podcast. It was written in 1992 by myself and with Paul Dredge on guitar. So it’s a guitar + voices song. Writing with...
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Country Gentleman Jack
Episode #208: Country Gentleman Jack (song starts at 4:30) Back in 1993, I was the piano man at Wairakei resort, in New Zealand’s north island, near Taupo – beautiful place. Outside of my regular entertainment in the restaurant hours, I wrote songs like this one: Country Gentleman Jack, song…
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Better Late Than Never
Episode #207: Better Late Than Never (Song starts at 4:30) This song (#659), came about back in 2017. I was on my way to work and there was a bit of difficulty getting there, due to the public transport not exactly running smoothly. I was off to teach piano for the day ( I’ve been a piano teacher...
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Whirlpool
Episode #206: Whirlpool (Song starts at 5:20) I enjoyed recording a demo for this episode. It’s such good fun when I do this. It occurs to me as I write these show notes, it’s been a great way to archive some old songs (and of course putting them together with a show that gives them a context. A...
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Piece This Star Together
Episode #205: Piece This Star Together (Song starts at 4.45) I find it endlessly fascinating, thinking about where a song might come from. ‘Piece This Star Together’ came from something my grandfather, Harry, said. My mum passed it on to me, when I was a youngster (bit of wisdom, I think): ‘We’ve...
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Setting Sun
Episode #204: The Setting Sun. (Song starts at 4:12) In the studio, I opened the songbook book and thought ‘Hey, why haven’t I featured Setting Sun on on an episode yet? It’s been sitting there since 2013’. So here we go. I thought I’d have a sing and play through the song, but I did a quick…
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Count On Love
Episode #203: Count On Love (Song starts at 3:42) Welcome to a very relaxed episode. Thanks for tuning in, by the way…it’s great that this podcast is being listened by people all around the world. Music is the international language isn’t, it – or perhaps it’s love? Song #617, Count On Love,...
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Sideways From A Paper Bag
Episode #202: Sideways From A Paper Bag (Song starts at 3:55) On this episode I’m going to take you back in time, with a demo recorded in the year 2000. Quite a bizarre title, isn’t it. Something I’ve noticed on this podcast is that as lyricist, if I’m not really too sure what to write about…
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Sleeping On A Wish
Episode #201: Sleeping On A Wish (Song starts at 4:08) I’m in a fairly relaxed state of mind. I’ve been holidaying, camping beside a stream In Bright, Vic, Australia. The sound of the stream is what I’ve brought back with me, it just sort of permeates the whole being, the sounds of the stream and...
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One Thing We know
Episode #200 : One Thing We Know. (Song starts at 4:26) Welcome to episode #200! It’s such a great feeling, because I honestly wasn’t sure I’d get past episode #1. It’s become like a ‘Songwriter Speaks’ sort of an online gig for me – something I really look forward to each week. Whether you’ve…
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Song for August
Episode #199: Song For August (Song starts at 3:08) Welcome to another song – and another 30 mins of observations, humour, with a particular focus on songwriting. For this episode, as it happens, I found a couple of different of versions of Song #396, Song For August, using the same lyrics. Both...
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Only Love Is Real
Episode #198: Only Love Is Real (Song starts at 4:29) This one, Song #660, popped up in amongst a dozen or so songs I had a sing and play through, earlier today. I thought ‘Aha!’ this would be a good one to have a look at for the podcast. It’s a seemingly simple song. A ‘big day’ was the topic of...
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Let Her Know
Episode #197: Let Her Know (Song starts at 5:19) Song #156, Let Her Know, was composed in 1990. Back then, I was starting to think that’s a reasonable amount of songs. The demo on this episode was recorded a decade later. And here we are in 2024. Wow. 34 years later, I find myself with 800 songs....
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Home Straight
Episode #196: Home Straight (Song starts at 2:40) This episode’s song would be a ‘protest song’ about the way we are not looking after the world & how out of touch with nature we have become. Every now and then a song like this sneaks up on me. When it happens, I just go with the flow. It’s a…
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White Angels
Episode #195: White Angels (Song starts at 5:51) On this episode we are looking at the 2nd song I wrote after I arrived in Melbourne in 1997. I’d already written 385 songs in New Zealand before this one. I came to Melbourne as it was a rite of passage, of sorts, for kiwi songwriters to jump the...
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Parachutes
Episode #194: Parachutes (Song starts at 4:40) Back in 1993, I had a residency as a pianist at a resort in Wairakei, near Taupo, in New Zealand. To rejuvenate myself – and lift my spirits – while I know I was very lucky to have this sort of gig, being a pianoman has it’s ups and downs. During the...
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Soul Yo Yo
Episode #193: Soul Yo-Yo (Song starts at 5:08) Ever wondered about all the personal ups and downs we have and how – in some of the more extreme moments – we seem to bring to light aspects of ourselves we perhaps don’t regularly access? I wonder why we wait for those times of crises to express and...
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When I Was Young
Episode #192: When I Was Young (Song starts at 4:52 ) When I Was Young is song #554, composed in 2010. I remember it was a fun piece to write. Lyrically, as the title suggests, it’s an older me, looking back at my youth. It’s a reflective lyric. It’s about hanging on to the childhood optimism…
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Goodnight
Episode #191: Goodnight (Song starts at 4:20) Here’s another half an hour of music and gentle chat. This isn’t a left brained sort of dry presentation eg: “ and here we have the verse, you’ll note… blah blah”. No, it’s more relaxed. I’m on stage – in my mind. Well, I’m sitting at my piano, in my…
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Driving Home Blues
Episode #190: Driving Home Blues (Song starts at 3:00) I’m really enjoying producing these episodes – it’s a live online gig, really. That’s what it feels like. Thanks so much to those of you who are tuning in regularly. If you’re new here: I’m looking to shine a light on some aspects of how I...
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Finding This City
Episode #189: Finding This City. (Song starts at 3:42 ) Hi there, this episode was a fun one to put together. To start with, Finding This City came into my mind as I went into my studio. I went over to a large box of old cassettes and selected one completely randomly. Amazingly, the tape that…
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Weather Girl
Episode #188: Weather Girl (Song starts at 3:48) Back in the day, when I wrote this one, there used to be a weather girl on TV after the news. She used to have a stick and point out the highs and the lows on a weather map. Also back in the day I was getting to know a young lady. It was a little…
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Not Here At All
Episode #187: Not Here At All (Song starts at 4:42 ) People ask me: “why do you do a podcast, Peter?” and I just say well I really, really enjoy it. Life is to be enjoyed. Plus, I’m really enjoying rediscovering songs which I’ve written a while ago – like this episode’s song, ‘Not Here At All’.…
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Song For You
Episode #186: Song For You. (Song starts at 3:38) This is a love song. Just words and a simple tune. It can be a powerful combination. Written in 2000, song #475 sums up the grateful feeling I’d found by deciding to commit to my girlfriend who became my wife. Lucky me. It’s been an incredibly...
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Lonely Tune
Episode #185: Lonely Tune (Chase Those Blues Away). (Song starts at 3:20) It’s been a nice few days. Yesterday was a cracking ‘blue sky day’. I was sitting outside and I decided to go inside and sit at the piano and sing a song. I picked up the old purple book, flicked it open and there it was:...
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Strangetown
Episode #184: Strange Town (Song starts at 4:41 & 26:00 ) If it’s your first time here, thanks for dropping by. You’ve picked an interesting one – this is a bit of a wild and whacky episode. I’ve picked on an old song from 1987. I was a ‘piano man’ back then, Paul Dredge ( co-writer / long time...
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Brilliant Sunshine
Episode #183: Brilliant Sunshine (Song starts at 4:43) I started this song as I was travelling to piano teaching one morning. I was sitting at the bus stop on the busy road. The sun was so hot and bright I could barely read the words on my page. That is literally what the first few sentences of…
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Hit The Sun
Episode #182: Hit The Sun (Song starts at 6:00) Where did ‘Hit The Sun’ come from? Well, as soon as I read through the lyrics, like a poem, it took me right back to the day I composed it. It was a beautiful Spring day. I went outside to hang out some washing ( my cat followed me, waiting for his...
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Gone Too Soon
Episode #181: Gone Too Soon (Song starts at 4:12) Here’s one from 2014: song # 620, ‘Gone Too Soon’ It was inspired by a neighbour who lived across the street from us. She always had just the right amount of time to chat. She wasn’t one of those you’d have to duck and run from, (through the fear…
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Crossroads
Episode #180: Crossroads (Song starts at 4:04) I wrote crossroads, Song #119, in 1989. When I saw the title of the song in my old green songbook, I remembered it was based on an old memory. Reading through the first verse, a vivid scene sort of played out in my mind, like recalling a dream: I was…
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Can’t Sing You A Song
Episode #179: Can’t Sing You A Song (Song starts at 3:38) I had a bit of fun with the demo on this episode. Earlier today, I was supposed to be recording some piano for a song. The session got cancelled at the last minute. Turns out I was really in the mood to record, so what started out as a...
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Inside
Episode #178: Inside (Song starts at 4:21) This episode’s song is #630, written in August, 2015. It was one of those ‘words first, music second’ sort of songs. It’s interesting this song should float to the surface for this episode…this week I had a bit of a wobbly moment, we all have them: I was...
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Be entertained with a song and an extended chat, ranging from off the cuff banter/ humour to life observations and song analysis.
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Pete Pascoe
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