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Karma Productions

For those of you who may be interested I’m starting a new site under KARMA PRODUCTIONS. The site is set up for artist and entertainers ot start their own pages under KARMA PRODUCTIONS. You may set up your personal page to suit your personal taste, but the main thing it is there for is for others in different parts of the world to be able to find you here on JAMENDO as well as other sites you may have established. It is absolutely free and there are no charges hidden or otherwise to become a member of Karma productions.

 KARMA PRODUCTIONS

I’m also starting a internet radio station that where the players and widgets code can be grabbed, copied, and pasted into various sites that accept HTML code. It’s a great way to be listed with your favorite independent musicians.

Karma Radio 5730 at IAC

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A Word From Leo

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2 BLIND EYES


This album is comprised of 4 new songs and two older songs I had just laying around. I had not heard the older songs in a while and just decided to take a listen. To my surprise they offered something I had not really noticed before. Who knows they may have a similar effect on someone in this world. The cover song “2 Blind Eyes” was written for my wife to give a little thought to! After all men and women even though they are married have different ways of thinking about the same thing! Also to brighten things up a bit the song on “Up Front & Real” entitled “U put Her Into My Soul” was inspired by my feminine counterpart (My wife) for many reasons where the reasoning is embodied in the lyrical expression and wording of the song.

Leo Bowers & The GoodFellas (Little Wing)

 

 

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I was Born!

Leonard Jr. (Leo) 1957 Leo, Mother, brother Timmy (Brezoles' France 1958) Father Leonard Sr. and Leo 1958 (Brezoles')

Je suis né à Columbus Ohio en 1954 à Edith G. Bowers et Leonard W. Bowers. J’ai été baptisé du nom de mon père de sorte que des marques je Jr ! Mon père était dans l’Armée de l’Air quand je suis né et ai posté quelque part près de la rue Louis Missouri parce que nous vivons là autour de certains de ses frères (mes oncles) et de leurs familles de peu de temps après moi a été soutenu jusqu’environ à 1958 où mon frère Timmy de bébé est né. Je peux me rappeler des événements dès ma deuxième année de la vie et avoir des mémoires très vives de ma troisième année sur cette planète. Bien que j’aime mes parents très chèrement je dois dire que je n’étais pas assez chanceux quant à la grêle d’une famille qui était étau librement ! J’ai entendu que les mots dans l’argot et le blasphème qui pourraient inciter un marin à se tapir et moi les utilisaient dans la conversation dès ma troisième année de la vie. Ne m’obtenez pas le mal, je ne fais pas la chose de victime ici que je suis l’énonciation juste qui quand vous êtes dans certaines choses de cercles de la nature de votre placement sont liées pour se produire tôt ou tard et les choix nous faisons sont parfois affectés par les stimulus nous rencontrons dans notre développement précoce comme enfants. Un certain bien, un certain pas aussi bon, mais toi a obtenu ce qui avez obtenu vous et vous avez fait ce que vous (ainsi pour parler) !

 

Mon frère est né en août de 1957  dans la rue Louis et appelé (Bowers de Timothy Leon). Les choses de puits maintenant commencent à tourner ! Mon papa a été alors transféré à Brezoles’ France et basé à la base aérienne de Shenout en France. Ma maman, frère et moi se sont déplacés là sous peu après. Le petit village de Brezoles’ n’était rien comme le dos dans les états et de personnes langue vile jamais non utilisée là à la place c’était tout à fait le contraire. Chacun comme je peux rappeler l’immense amour montré et les courtoisies communes exemplaires pas aussi communs dans notre société même en arrière dans les années 50.

 

J’ai été placé à l’école basse, mais je n’ai pas obtenu le long bien avec les autres enfants américains parce que je pourrais dehors jurer ils sans essai égal. Ma maman a proposé l’idée lumineuse que je peux faire bien à l’école catholique française ainsi qu’est exactement ce qui s’est produit. J’ai appris que la langue vraiment rapide et moi avons eu un sort d’aide de Madame Lebudec et famille parce que c’est qui j’étais avec cinq jours par semaine étant que ma maman travaillait à la base dans l’Affex. Ainsi dans l’essence que je suis devenue un petit garçon français et puisque personne n’ont compris mes vulgarities dans ma langue maternelle j’a bientôt perdu l’intérêt en employant la terminologie de volaille et a commencé l’approche plus éloquente à agir l’un sur l’autre dans mon nouvel environnement social. Je dois dire que les Français étaient d’excellents professeurs et pour eux qui étaient partie juste d’un service de base à l’humanité en général.

 

Le GI américain de la base parfois trouverait leur chemin au village et effrayerait des personnes avec leurs comportements ivres et type prédateur womanizing actions. Il est sûr de supposer que le Français occupé politique les a voulus allés en dépit du change du dollar d’économie et du jour. Ils ont toléré et ont supporté cette sorte de comportement en grande partie due à la libération par les troupes américaines pendant la deuxième guerre mondiale.

 

J’ai commencé dans les écoles françaises à l’âge de quatre de 1958. Par le temps j’étais sept années en 1961 où j’ai eu l’équivalent d’une 7ème éducation américaine de catégorie. Les heures d’école étaient différentes là, et il n’y avait aucune vacance d’été à la place que nous avons eu les coupures occasionnelles ainsi nous n’avons jamais obtenu loin outre de la voie et avons eu le temps très petit pour la sottise. Il n’y avait pas beaucoup d’affaires ou d’habillement finies de jalousie parce que tout le monde putain la même chose. Nous avons porté le type gris ou bleu-clair uniformes de chemise. Les filles ont porté des jupes et les garçons ont porté des caleçons. Pouvez-vous imaginer porter des caleçons en mi hiver ?

 

Noël était un temps vraiment spécial d’année en France, la clause de Santa là s’appelle le « Noël de père » ou « épluchez Noel » dans la langue française. Madame a eu deux filles ; Soline le plus vieux, et Annie Claude qui était une année plus âgé que moi et était également mon meilleur ami. Tout comme Forrest, Forrest Gump nous étions comme des pois et des carottes. Il y a lieu tellement au sujet de mon heure en France de réfléchir sur bon et pas aussi de bonnes mémoires, mais dans la vue globale il était tout bon me.

 Leo 2009 (USA)

Leo 2009

English

I was born in Columbus Ohio in 1954 to Edith G. Bowers and Leonard W. Bowers. I was named after my father so that makes me Jr! My father was in the Air Force when I was born and stationed somewhere near St. Louis Missouri because we live there around some of his brothers (my uncles) and their families from shortly after I was born until about 1958 when my baby brother Timmy was born. I can remember events as far back as my second year of life and have very vivid memories of my third year on this planet. Although I love my parents very dearly I must say that I wasn’t fortunate enough as to hail from a family that was vise free! I heard words in slang and profanity that could make a sailor cringe and I was employing them in conversation as early as my third year of life. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not doing the victim thing here I’m just saying that when you’re in certain circles things of the nature of your placement are bound to happen sooner or later and the choices we make are sometimes affected by the stimuli we encounter in our early development as children. Some good, some not so good, but you got what you got and you did what you did (so to speak)!

 

My brother was born in August of 1957  in St. Louis and named (Timothy Leon Bowers). Well now things begin to spin! My dad was then transferred to Brezoles’ France and based at Shenout Air Base in France. My mom, brother and I moved there shortly afterward. The small village of Brezoles’ was nothing like back in the States and people there never used vile language instead it was quite the contrary. Everyone as I can recall showed immense love and exemplary common courtesies not so common in our society even back in the 1950’s.

 

I was placed in base schooling, but I didn’t get along well with the other American kids because I could out cuss them without even trying. My mom came up with the bright idea that I may do well in French Catholic School so that’s exactly what happened. I learned the language really fast and I had a lot of help from the Madam Lebudec and family because that’s who I was with five days a week being that my mom was working on the base in the Affex. So in essence I became a little French boy and since no one understood my vulgarities in my native tongue I soon lost interest in using fowl terminology and began the more eloquent approach to interacting in my new social environment. I must say the French were excellent teachers and for them that was just part of a basic service to mankind in general.

 

American GI’s from the base would sometimes find their way to the village and scare people with their drunken behaviors and womanizing predatory type actions. It’s safe to assume that the political minded French wanted them gone despite the economy and dollar exchange of the day. They tolerated and endured this sort of behavior largely due to the liberation by American troops during the Second World War.

 

I started in French schools at the age of four in 1958. By the time I was seven years old in 1961 I had the equivalent of an American 7th grade education. School hours were different there, and there was no summer vacation instead we had occasional breaks so we never got to far off track and had very little time for mischief. There wasn’t a lot of jealousy over belongings or clothing because everybody whore the same thing. We wore grey or light blue smock type uniforms. The girls wore skirts and the boys wore shorts. Can you imagine wearing shorts in mid winter?

 

Christmas was a really special time of year in France, Santa Clause there is called “Father Christmas” or “Pare Noel” in the French language. Madam had two daughters; Soline the eldest, and Annie Claude who was a year older than me and was also my best friend. Much like Forrest, Forrest Gump we were like peas and carrots. There is so much about my time in France to reflect on good and not so good memories, but in the overall view it was all good to me.

Leo Bowers

 

 
 
 

 

 

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Believe In Yourself!

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I’ve been doing this sort of thing since I was 11 years old in the 6th grade! My very 1st encounter with entertaining was prompted by my 6th grade teacher Mrs. Dean at Highland Elementary School in Columbus Ohio in 1966 which by the way was a very good year!

 

Mrs. Dean was teaching her last class at Highland and wanted to go out remembered. She was a very memorable sort of lady who hailed from the hippie culture and left a major mark wherever she went. At least that’s the way I thought about her! Aside from being the prettiest woman teaching there she was also the most interesting and impressionable among the lot.

 

I was kind of a troubled youth and somewhat socially displaced in the 60’s. I was extremely light complexioned enough to be mistaken for a Caucasian kid but not quite white! I danced, sang and walked BLACK because I was in fact raised in an era that suggested if you had Black blood you were in fact a (nigger) for lack of better wording and that’s how you were treated by the whites of my particular sub-culture at that time.

 

Then too I was always a step under the black kids of the day because when James Brown came out with “I’m Black and I’m Proud” I was somewhat left by the wayside! I didn’t have the kind of hair that would do a good Afro style, but I did learn in later years how to tease up a good one, but that’s another story!

 

Mrs. Dean asked me to put together a show for her departing and asked that it be great and something to be remembered. She had heard me with some of the other kids singing and doing our Temptations” routine out on the playground and felt we had some real potential. I took on this responsibility whole heartedly and in 60 days I had everything from opening to closing curtains down pat!

 

We did a show with live musicians and some pantomime to 45’s and wowed the whole of Highland Avenue School. Mrs. Dean got her big send off and I got hooked on showbiz and have been involved one way or another ever since!

 

Now here I am at age 54 still plugging away at the thing I love so much and my sole motivation in this internet production is to share it with you.

 

Sincerely,

Leo Bowers

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