Artists, do you need additional help promoting your music? Contact us
at One-On-One Promotions! Email Wayne at: revwaynegraham@hotmail.com
Today!
We just wanted to take a moment to thank all of the wonderful artists and Radio Stations
Worldwide, plus those who chart and publish our Play Lists for all their help standing with us in getting the inspiring music, and the Word of God out to a
World
Wide audience this year, 2008, and we give Jesus all the Praise and Glory and ask his Blessings be on each one of you in the New Year to come.
Wayne & Kathy Graham & Dave Spurlock
One on One Syndicated Radio
One on One
Gospel Classics
Country Nights
Gospel Classics Old Time Radio
www.waynegrahamministries.org
High gasoline prices inspire songwriters from South
Bend
They're hoping 'Please Mr. Bush' gets some airtime.
Believe it or not, some people are having fun with high gas prices
No, they're not oil barons or oil company executives. They're songwriters, and
they live in South Bend.
Gary Edwards and Bart Oglesby collaborated recently on a song that makes light
of the issue. Titled "Please Mr. Bush,'' the chorus alone is likely enough
to make listeners smile if not laugh out loud.
"Please Mr. Bush, won't you give me push? My car ran out of gas,''
part of it goes.
A former Niles resident who collaborated nearly 30 years ago with the late Larry
Clymer on a song commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall, Edwards, 67, said
his most recent song stemmed from a scene he took in while he was driving by an
Admiral Service Station.
"They had this big line — I guess gas was down (cheap) that day — and
there was this guy pushing his car into the gas station. His wife was driving
(steering). The car had run out of gas,'' he said.
"The next day, it dawned on me. 'Please Mr. Bush, won't you give me a push.
...'"
Edwards said he put in a call to Oglesby, a singer and guitar player he has
known since the 1960s, and the two quickly came up with the basics of the song.
More fine tuning came after Edwards and Oglesby contacted members of the SideKix
Band, a country blues group based in Kokomo.
"I think the RV line ('Got my RV, parked under a tree') came from one of
the guys in the band. ... Everybody contributed,'' Edwards said.
"Everything about that song seemed to fit. I threw it at Side- Kix ... they
went in their studio and they knocked it out.
"If a song comes together pretty quickly, it's usually a pretty good
song.''
The owner of Spotlite Records, Edwards said he has written many songs —
"Good ones? Not many. A lot of bad ones,'' he said, chuckling — but
"Please Mr. Bush'' is unique.
"Of all the songs I've written, this is the only one that affects everyone
in the country,'' he said. "Once it gets exposure, I think it'll
mushroom.''
He has contacted radio stations both locally and throughout Indiana, he said, in
hopes of landing the song some airtime. "Imus in the Morning'' has heard
from Edwards, as has David Letterman or at least someone on Letterman's staff,
so it could be just a matter of time before the song takes off.
At least, that's Edwards' hope.
"Sure, I'd like to get some national exposure. But I know if you don't have
a lot of money behind you, you kind of shoot in the dark. You just throw
something up and hope that it sticks,'' he said. "Right now, all I've got
is promises, but the promises look real good to me.''
For his part, Oglesby, 59, said he knows for certain listeners will relate to
the song.
"If we can get it out quick, it could see some national play. Everyone who
hears it loves it. They say it's really funny,'' he said.
Edwards said he's not anticipating any political fallout. It's simply a fact, he
said, that people look to Washington for help when confronted by an issue as
exasperating as $4 a gallon gas.
"We didn't want to insult anyone, beat up anyone. We just wanted to
enlighten this subject,'' he said.
Edwards and Clymer did make some "noise,'' as Edwards puts it, with
"Tear Down the Berlin Wall,'' which Edwards later rewrote and retitled
"Glory to the Red, White and Blue.'' Third party presidential candidate
Ross Perot had the latter tune played at a few of his rallies, Edwards said, but
the song didn't yield any big financial rewards.
But maybe "Please Mr. Bush'' will be different.
"The one thing about being a songwriter is you have the privilege of being
the first one to hear it (after it's recorded),'' Edwards said. "You just
don't want to be the only one.''
Get your copy of "Please Mr.
Bush" here>>> http://www.thesidekixband.com/index.cfm?CFID=108758956&CFTOKEN=76422052
Gary Edwards, Harmony Street Music(ASCAP)and Bart Oglesby, Harmony Lane
Music(BMI). Copyright 2008.
Web Information
Wayne Graham Ministries is expanding to give our Artists more
visibility over the World Wide Web.
-
![[New!]](images/smallnew.gif)
Wayne Graham Ministries
Establishes Internet Presence
- See the press release for more
details.
- Sample Product Announcement
- See the product data sheet for
more details.
Press Releases
These are the press releases we've issued
over the last year.
![[Company Logo Image]](images/logo.gif){kind=logo}
