History of the Les the Handyman Song
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One day about 8 years ago a friend of mine came over with his
guitar and we both got a little drunk and came up with a Les the Handyman
Rhapsody. You have to understand that I am not much of a drinker and two
beers later
I was feeling pretty good. This song was sooooooo silly and funny, that I was
crying, because I was laughing so hard because, in my opinion it was really stupid!
I recorded it onto a mini tape recorder and called up the some 300 radio stations in Toronto and left messages on their voice mails. I thought perhaps one may call me back for an interview. The problem was that most of them called me back for many interviews.
One of those stations approached me and said to me that if I cut the song professionally, and register it and release it for them, then they will make me famous.
I though about it for about 3 seconds and said OK!
The studio time and hiring unionized people with instruments and copywriting the song were expensive for me, but the benefits were....well...fantastic!
However the disadvantages were that I was getting no work done fast. Everywhere I went I was hearing that song and people loved it...! In fact they could not get enough of it.
Then ad agencies started to call me to sing their diaper commercials. Sorry I had to draw the line there.
The last thing I did was have a talk show with Ted Walishin on CFRB and the Les the Handyman Hour every Saturday Morning;- Where people would call in and I would answer their questions. I didn't like it very much and soon stopped. When we were talking about decks, people would call in about roofing. I didn't like that especially because I did not do roofing. Saying I don't know the answer to that question and have 350,000 people hearing it made me quite sad. So I stopped.
I now have another song which I think is even better than the first but I don't know what to do with it.
Help me make it into a video even as a school project.