Sunshine Smile Day - 2 weeks to go

YEP - only two weeks to go......

TWO WEEKS today will be SUNSHINE SMILE DAY 2019....

Let's have a round up of all that has happened over the past week....

What is planned for the coming week.....

And how you can help make SUNSHINE SMILE DAY 2019 a mega success.

Well we nearly got blown away at Bletchley Bandstand on Saturday 27th but we did tell the few people who braved the elements to shop in the town what we were up to.

It was not quite so bad on Saturday 4th May when Lisa, Kev and Yours Truly went along  to the Irish Centre car boot sale to spread the word.

We gave out a lot of leaflets with many people saying they would come along. We actually made £52 towards costs and a lovely lady gave a donation to Milton Keynes Winter Night Shelter, one of the good causes SUNSHINE SMILE DAY is supporting.

Until the battery on the laptop died we played the PODCAST from last Wednesday's radio show which was telling the world about SUNSHINE

SMILE DAY.

The music was well received save for one MISERABLE OLD FEMALE BOVINE who said the music was too loud !

She got a one word answer from me TOUGH !

Remember the police are coming so SUNSHINE SMILE DAY to arrest all people who are not smiling. She'd better stay at home.

Covering an episode of DECADES I broadcast 12 hours on CRMK last week. But the week has not finished yet !

Ending last week and moving into the coming week I am broadcasting for another 10 hours overnight tonight.

Starting at 11pm tonight - SUNDAY 5th May and finishing at 9am on MONDAY 6th May I am broadcasting ROLL OUT THE BARREL telling everyone about the NINE good causes taking part in SUNSHINE SMILE DAY.

I will break the PODCAST down into 150 minute bites. I will then publish the PODCAST through the night at 1.30am - 4am - 6,30pm - 9am......

I am going to turn off the studio lights during the broadcast and fill everything with disco lights.  I also plan to put up a

giant banner featuring The Food Bank which is, of course, one of the two good cause SMILE DISCO is supporting.

Within the radio studio fellow presenters have been making donations to The Food Bank which will be taken to SMILE DISCO to start the dancing.

Monday Morning Music Mega Mix will this week form part of Roll Out The Barrel.

During the broadcast I will take photgraphs and publish them on facebook.

Do listen in won't you....

www.crmk.co.uk

Tell your friends and help make Roll Out The Barrel achieve a mega audience.

Tuesday's show MUSIC FROM MY VINYL COLLECTION will feature two albums in the SUNSHINE

SMILE DAY Vinyl Tombola........

Something from the HONKY TONK PIANO of Mrs Mills

Combined with the music from Russ Conway...

Wednesday's show will be LIFE IS A DISCO SO DANCE telling everyone about SMILE DISCO.

Music will be mainly from the 1970's. I am asking LEONITES to put in requests.

Thursday's show will be KIDDIES KLASSICS playing songs

for children in hospital with dedications for families ion Ronald McDonald House Birmingham.

Can I invite children to tell me their favourite sons and songs you remember from your childhood to include in the playlist.

On Friday the time machine will be going back to 10th May 1978. Not telling where in the chart it was but this was in the top thirty.

Please listen in www.crmk.co.uk and tell your friends to join me. PODCASTS will be available shortly after each show.

This week Graham, who is organising the music for SMILE DISCO and I will be meeting to check things over.

The big task for the coming week is to tell everyone about SUNSHINE SMILE DAY and SMILE DISCO to make sure loads and loads and loads of smiles come along.

Te task for the coming week is to move publicity into top gear. Please share the radio shows explained above and get lots of people to listen in.

Please share this blog page to get as many readers as possible.

We need to get lots more posters out and about. Can you

help PLEASE !

Could you push out some leaflets in the street where you live ?

We have a fantastic SUNSHINE SMILE DAY and SMILE DISCO planned but all the planning will be a flop if nobody turns up !

We need help !

WILL YOU PLEASE HELP ?

Don't just like this page PLEASE

HELP !

We need help on SUNSHINE SMILE DAY both before and after the event to transport loads of stuff to and from The Irish Centre.

We need lots of help to move the stage

from the Irish Centre out into the field then after the family afternoon back into the hall for the disco.

Can you help ?

Lover Hearts - where are yours ?

It's just coming up to 4am and here I am sitting in  the studio of CRMK writing today's blog page ahead of presenting my show Pick Of The Pops at 6am.

Having covered a show earlier in the week when I go off air that will be show number six this week and a total of twelve hours broadcasting. I am tired, yes I am tired but the most important show of the week, for me, is yet to come.

Does the name Jimmy Owens mean anything to you ?

This picture on the right shows Jimmy's home. The headline published in Milton Keynes Citizen on 2nd November 2016 is complete and utter rubbish ! Milton Keynes Council HAS NOT been spurred into action RUBBISH the plight of our homeless and rough sleeping friends is as tragic as ever.

I knew him as JAMES rather than Jimmy. He was one of my LEONITE students. A bright, happy teenager with a great life ahead of him. He came on one of my school exchange visits to Sacramento, California. But he never had that life, he died homeless and unloved in Tent City Milton Keynes.

Within my vinyl record collection I have a copy of Cliff Richard singing Wired For Sound.

I am going to play the video for this now.  It was filmed in Central Milton Keynes.  Enjoy the music, look for where Cliff is skating through an underpass.

I joke that the production company could not film in Central Milton Keynes today as it could not afford Milton Keynes

Council's obscene rip off parking charges. More seriously Cliff could not skate through the underpass as it is now occupied by the tents of homeless, rough-sleeping men and women !

When I learned of Jimmy's death I was so upset, tears are pricking my eyes now as I write this page.

I began writing a blog in December 2016, a few weeks after Jimmy's death. This page is edition number 803. At the same time I began my YouTube channel to play music and incorporate that music in my blog page.

Today's show on CRMK will be my 139th - I joine the station at the end of August 2018.  Show 140 is the important one !

I wonder if it is becoming a bit of a cliche but I play music to make people smile, be happy and to inspire LOVE for good causes.

Former mayoress of Milton Keynes, Susan Hopkins, said to me It does not matter which good cause you support providing you support one. Those words have never left my mind and are central to every track of music I play.

There are four particular good causes which are close to my heart: Families with a child sick in hospital, Piggie Alfie at Curly Tails, The Food Bank and the plight of our homeless and rough sleeping friends.

On my way to the studio this morning I had to drop off a letter to Milton Keynes Council. Outside the offices there was a homeless and rough-sleeping man.

In the studio for the duration of today's broadcast I have put up a series of posters telling of the work of The Milton Keynes Winter Night Shelter.

CRMK launched the YouTube song Jingle Girls from The Mini Libs. Have a watch and have a listen.

Here they are singing live on CRMK.

All proceeds from sales of the video on-line were given to Milton Keynes Winter Night Shelter.

The Mini-Libs are the children of my former student and LEONITE Joe.

Here's another picture from the front page of Milton Keynes Citizen.

You are still reading this page aren't you ? Don't stop as I will be asking you to use music to show LOVE for our homeless and rough-sleeping friends.

People who know The Geriatric DJ will know of my friends Josh and Jelena who I rescued from rough-sleeping in January 2018. I support them and another former rough-sleeper on a daily basis.

Here's Josh and Jelena in the studio on
Christmas Day. I played the music while they dedicated tracks and broadcast wishes of love to families with a child sick in hospital.

And here they are delivering gifts of love donated by presenters at CRMK to children in Milton Keynes Hospital.

Here's Smiling Darren, another of my LEONITES and for a short time homeless and rough-sleeping, with me as my guest in the studio.

And here's Sara Millington from the team running Milton Keynes Winter Night Shelter,

We are with the Barclays Premier League trophy. The picture was taken at the end of a 24 hour charity football match which raised more than £12,400 for Milton Keynes Winter Night Shelter.

I look a bit tired don't I !  I had been at the game for the 24 hours. I then came into the studio and broadcast an overnight Radio Disco to celebrate the game and the work of Milton Keynes Winter Night Shelter.

So why am I telling you all this ?

Why have I got these posters from Milton Keynes Winter Night Shelter in the studio today ?

Here's the broadcast desk ahead of today's show.

I am proud of what the music has achieved for Milton Keynes Winter Night Shelter and I am honoured to have been a part of this BUT nothing could have been achieved without YOU - the people who listen to the music, be it on the radio or on YouTube.

The music and my playing it are worthless without people to listen - YOU !

Playing music to make people smile be happy and to inspire LOVE for good causes is worthless without YOU  listening. Without YOU I would be speaking into an empty microphone.

I hope you enjoy my show today, show number 139 on CRMK. Tune in 6am to 8am www.crmk.co.uk the PODCAST will be available round about 9.30am but it is show number 140 I want you to support. PLEASE,

Starting at 11pm on Sunday and finishing at 9am on Monday I am broadcasting ROLL OUT THE BARREL supporting good causes, one of which is Milton Keynes Winter Night Shelter.

Please CLICK HERE - go on DO IT CLICK HERE.

You will see there are 174 tracks on the playlist. YOU DID CLICK THE LINK DIDN'T YOU !!!!!!!!

You can listen to every track. You can also sponsor every track for Milton Keynes Winter Night Shelter.

The last overnight disco party I broadcast on CRMK recruited

a volunteer for Milton Keynes Winter Night Shelter. When we took music to Bletchley Bandstand last Saturday we recruited another volunteer.

So are you going to listen ?  Will the music I play make you smile, be happy and inspire love within you for Milton Keynes Winter Night Shelter ?

Please watch this video. I was proud to help promote it when launched on YouTube.

Many people are three pay packets away from being homeless. That's scary but for a man owning his home with no mortgage and a bank balance of six figures it is impossible to comprehend.

Being homeless and rough-sleeping is NOT the illness, it is a symptom of an illness as that video shows.

What are you doing on Sunday 19th May ?

Come to SMILE DISCO which is part of Sunshine Smile Day.

The SMILE is for the music.

The TIN is for Milton Keynes Food Bank.

The COIN is for Milton Keynes Winter Night Shelter as it gears up for the 2020 season.

Almost time for me to end today's blog page and get ready to broadcast today's show.

I have tried to show LOVE for our homeless and rough-

sleeping friends since the death of Jimmy in November 2018, can I inspire you to show LOVE.

I am going to end today's blog with the greatest piece of music ever written, I have played this so many times on CRMK - more than any

other track.  I was a young uni student when I first heard it, ever since I have tried to live my life like a Bridge Over Troubles Water. Can I inspire you to put down a bridge for our homeless and rough-sleeping friends ?

Join me on Sunday 11pm to Monday 9am www.crmk.co.uk - Sponsor a track for Milton Keynes Winter Night Shelter - click here to do this - come to SMILE DISCO

Video killed the radio star ! Did it heck !

Do you remember the 1979 hit from The Buggles ?  

Video Killed The Radio Star ?

Well it aint killed this radio star.

Yesterday's blog page which carried the title I AM WORRIED was written for effect.

I play music to make people smile, to be happy and to inspire love for good causes.

Yesterday;s show - CLICK HERE for the podcast  -  inspired me !

Yes, I was feeling tired and worried as the show went live but as the music began to hit the airwaves I was rocking ! I am listening to the 
PODCAST right now as I scribble away here.

My dear friend, Josh aka The Eternal Teenager says that some times I am HIGH - HIGH ON LIFE.  As I played that last track yesterday I was most certainly high on life.

This is playing on the PODCAST right now as I write.

I am going to buy some pineapples for SMILE DISCO, hand them out and invite you all to push them up the tree.

Let's have a round up of the radio shows ahead of SMILE DISCO.

3.45am.... at 6am I will be live with my show WAKE UP WITH THE CLASSICS - do listen in: www,crmk.co.uk. This week's show invites you to waltz with The Strauss Family.

Then tomorrow - FRIDAY - that will be my 139th show here on RADIO CRMK - the time machine is going back to 3rd May 1968.

Let's have something from that playlist.

On Saturday we will be at Milton Keynes Irish Centre's car boot sale. We will be trying to make a few pennies as well as telling everyone there about SUNSHINE SMILE DAY and SMILE DISCO.

I am really enjoying listening to the PODCAST from yesterday's show as I write these notes.  I think I will take my laptop to the boot sale and play the podcast.

This is playing now:

I am doing another of my overnight shows. Show number 140 will be broadcast from 11pm on Sunday to 10am on Monday.

You can sponsor tracks for the good causes taking part in SUNSHINE SMILE DAY.

On Sunday it will be two weeks to SUNSHINE SMILE DAY.

I am calling this overnighter - ROLL OUT THE BARREL because we are going to have a BARREL OF FUN.

My usual Monday Morning Music Mega Mix will be included in Roll Out The Barrel.  CLICK HERE to sponsor a track for one of the good causes coming to SUNSHINE SMILE DAY.

Show 141 on Tuesday 7th May and Show 145 MUSIC FROM MY VINYL COLLECTION will feature some of the prizes from the VINYL TOMBOLA at SUNSHINE SMILE DAY.

This is playing now on the PODCAST !

Show 142 on Wednesday and Show 146 on Wednesday 15th May will be LEON DISCO.  Hey all you LEONITES send me

your requests. If enough of you can fill the playlists I'll ask Mike, Programme Controller, if I can extend to three hours.

I am going to twist SMILING DARREN'S arm to join me in the studio for these shows. Why don't you come along ?  I mean that.

So what's playing on the PODCAST right now ?

This !

Did you know that YMCA by Black Lace holds the world record for the most people dancing together to a track ?

I've yet to decided what to play on my two classical music shows - Show 143 Thursday 9th May and Show 147 Thursday 16th May.  I rather think it may be two of my episodes WHERE CLASSICAL MUSIC MEETS ROCK AND ROLL !

Show 144 on Friday 10th May - I have not decided yet where our time machine will be travelling but for Show 148 on Friday 17th May I think I will play the Top Thirty from the day Rebekah was born. This was Number One.

THIRTY HOURS of music on the radio before SUNSHINE SMILE DAY.......

Music played TO MAKE PEOPLE SMILE, BE HAPPY AND INSPIRE LOVE FOR GOOD CAUSES.

On the PODCAST playing now.................

Thirty hours of music, that's going to be 500 tracks. FLIPPING HECK !  I'd better get writing the playlists.

A word to the good causes involved in SUNSHINE SMILE DAY.....   Tell your supporters to listen to the shows and give them the PODCASTS - use the music to INSPIRE LOVE FOR YOUR GOOD CAUSES.

* Ronald McDonald House Birmingham......

* Curly Tails Pig Rescue.......

* Milton Keynes Winter Night Shelter......

* Milton Keynes Food Bank........

Use the music and the PODCASTS to inspire LOVE for your work.

No messing......

PLAYING MUSIC TO INSPIRE LOVE FOR GOOD CAUSES.

What's playing on the PODCAST right now ?

4.46am - I've been writing for just over an hour. I am still listening to the PODCAST as I write. If you are listening as well you will hear that I have played a lot of silly music from Black Lace. The show ends with Black Lace - please listen....

We are all cruising on the sea of life. When the sun is shining and the sea is calm life is wonderful - SAILING.

But when the wind comes, when the storm rages and the boat rocks on the waves it then you need a loving arm around you shoulder saying YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE.

Thank you all for the lovely work you do. Now use the music to INSPIRE MORE LOVE for all you do.