I'll be the first to admit that my YouTube channel (jayveesonata) is crappy. I started it about a dozen years ago simply as a place to preserve some of my piano videos and recordings.
Later I ventured into making other videos, solely for my own pleasure - such as tributes to people in history whom I admired (Empress Alexandra of Russia, Eva Peron, King Ludwig of Bavaria, etc). The art of making videos was completely foreign to me and I admittedly didn't have a clue what I was doing - but that never stopped me.
My YouTube channel was a personal endeavor. I never yearned to have subscribers and certainly never wanted it monetized. Through the years I had about 35 subscribers and felt fortunate if my videos got 20 or 30 views (one of my earliest videos - a tribute to silent screen star Pola Negri - surprisingly got over 4,000 views).
I was truly baffled when, over the past few weeks, I started to get new subscribers to my channel. I was shocked to get an email from YouTube, congratulating me for hitting the 100+ mark.
I figured it was either a mistake or a joke.
What stunned me into oblivion was when I recently checked one of my Halloween videos, The Bogey Wail, and saw that it has over 15,000 views!
How the heck did that happen?
I made The Bogey Wail about four years ago - inspired by a 1929 song by vocalist Jack Hylton. It was a fun Halloween endeavor, but nothing special at all.
Anyway, I'm flattered that it received some unexpected attention. And I'm posting it here as a silly tribute to Halloween.
Cheers, Jon
Heck, if a "resurgence" ever happened to this blog, perhaps I'd actually get one or two comments......instead of this annoying eternal silence.
