April 14, 2023 • 7 mins
Picture this: you walk into a room full of people, armed with nothing but your voice and a personalised message in the form of a song. Amazing or terrifying? With Clairsy & Lisa's Inside Job... it's time to find out.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today we're talking to Connie Tawney, who is a singing
telegram Ever wondered what it's like to do someone else's geek,
It's time to find out.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
This is crazy and Leas's inside job.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Hello Connie, Connie, how did you get into delivering telegrams?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Honestly, years and years and years ago, that's been done
them a long time. I took a friend to you.
We got back low days. If you wanted to get
a job, there s board and you know the people
to go listen to jobs. And I took a friend
in there jobs and there was an ad from flim
Flams on there, but I wasn't allowed. It was five
because I wasn't unemployed. I just wrote the details down
and followed it up and got the job with them.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Oh right, right, So was it a flim flam? Was
it a full on audition process? So you had to
prove your talent?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
You're doing you do an audition? Right?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
You do?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
You have to read?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
And yeah, so you do have to be able to sing?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
No?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Okay, all right, Fallacy is my dog's backing, right, Never
say sorry for your dog bagging sence?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
For what occasions do people tend to organize a singing telegram.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Mainly birthdays, but you can have their wells. And I
think there's the two main ones. There were birthdays or retirements,
that kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Retirement, Yeah, yeah, Have you ever had one, maybe say
on the occasion of someone's divorce or something like that,
for celebration.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I'm gonna have to get even one. We won't go
there with trouble, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that'll.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Have you ever taken your dog to go?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
And one?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Not my dog?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
No, man, they're not so what we hate them?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
No, quite quite likely, but can sing? I can hear it?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
So has it ever gone wrong?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I think it's kind of story done that you get
a Spring Road and a Spring Street or something the
wrong one, right, Yeah, And there's happens to be two
weddings at two different churches, same sabbath, same bride's name,
same broom's name. I've gone downe the show at the
wrong people how until after this show, So now I'm late,
(02:00):
but it all bits back, you know, and then I've
got to run off to the right stays now mad
at me. I'm obviously late.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
What is the probability that?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeah, not the odds aren't high.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
They're not. And I do remember that was quite funny.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
But yeah, two telegrams for the price of one. What
a shame biness.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
They probably still take about it.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I think it's the fact that you're the wrong venue.
Would no one realized? Yeah, because everyone thinks somebody.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Else just put Yeah you know exactly, Ana, did you
order this somebody to do the same?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I mean, what's the probability? Yeah, same name. Just I've
got the wrong ship, you know what the.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Wrong Yeah, that night you had a warm up, So
there you go.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
What's the weirdest outfit you've ever worn doing one of these?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
They're all costumes? Yeah, yeah, right, your friends made you know,
all those vilicitings, all right, so you kind of your
main characters and I've got a whole shed for I
think it's don't think it really makes me different costumes
the costume. Yeah, nuns, nuns nouns are very popular.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Absolutely, Hey, Cottie, is it true that the singing telegrams
are on the decline? And if so, why do you
think so?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
I think the whole entertainment industry is on the decline,
but the private party, because I did clowning as well,
and the whole industry, not just the clowns, not just
the telegram. Not if you go back a couple of decades,
you know, you had the you had everything. You had
fire engines, bounce to capitals, animal farms, there's bubble mania,
all sorts of stuff like that, and a lot of
(03:43):
that is not around anymore because the market is just
not like back in the peak days there's probably ten
main funds and I have ten pounds go out on
weekends for me and stuff, and it's nothing like that now.
It's nothing the whole the whole industries. But a lot
of that marketing is different now too. Lost year our
pages each running it and it was easy and their
direct marketing, but that's still time consuming. We now it's
(04:05):
all you're not number one on the search engine, which
is a completely different skill set. It's like you're not
going to be found and it's very hard and even
when you pay people to do it, it doesn't work.
And yeah, so that's that's wanting to do. But maybe
we're distant generation that doesn't get as much entertainment. I
don't know. There's a lot of like you know, shires
(04:25):
and things that putting on as many shows as they
used to do, and then they still do, but not
just some good ones, but not to the extent that
they used to do, so that every school holiday would
put on the beds and things for the kids. I'm
not sure I'm going anywhere near that level anymore.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Yeah, I mean, then everyone's too afraid that they might
offend someone for something, you know, and you know we have.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
And then we had the scary ground phase. I kind
of put the fe businesses together so.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
They didn't COVID.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Well, COVID stilled anything with a sugar and refast.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yes, Connie, what's the one question that people always ask
about your job?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Is something I don't know?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Can?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
I mean people that know me know what I do. Yeah,
so that's not really a question that's going to come up.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Okay, right, all right, Well that answers that.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
And what about you know to tell us how much
you're winn for hour? But is it? Do you consider
it a well paid gig for what you're doing in
your preparation.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
It's a fairly paid job, right, Okay, consider it well paid?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Nothing of it? Okay, fair enough.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
You're not trying to rip people off, You're not trying
to get into cnators brand, but you're not trying to
rip people. You know, there's work behind that and you've
got to get there and you've got to write the
shows and things you write need shu differently. Yeah, so
there's you know, there's about four or five hours work
in each job you do, so you know it's not
about you know, yeah, man, like you've got to be
(05:50):
paid otherwise you must have gone to do something else
and you're going to have your class.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
But yeah, it's fascinating and I was sorry to hear
there's a decline. People just stay the same sort of
fund that they used to any more. Connie, I don't
know what to do about.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
It, but I think it's I think and this is
not just my industry. This is probably a lot of
industry because Google controls the Internet, and if you're not
a lot of small businesses really haven't managed the changes
with internet marketing because unless you're at a cost so
much to get jobs now, you know, because you're running
them through programs like barking things and you've got a
(06:23):
paper leads that you talk to the person, so people
put things on these give people a lot of information
because you've got to choose which jobs.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
You follow up on.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Yeah, completely different marketing strategies now the usual. So it's
the customer, doesn't they how to find acs and it's
true time consuming to find them. That the marketing is
to choose the issue of it. Things that used to
work don't work anymore. We're in a different time zone,
we all different times.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
A pretty handy way to do the marketing is to
get on the Inside Job podcast.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Yes they're still out there, so you can get hold
of Contie Cottie, thank you so much for your time.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Thanks Conty Connie. All about a little bit occupy
Today we're talking to Connie Tawney, who is a singing
telegram Ever wondered what it's like to do someone else's geek,
It's time to find out.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
This is crazy and Leas's inside job.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Hello Connie, Connie, how did you get into delivering telegrams?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Honestly, years and years and years ago, that's been done
them a long time. I took a friend to you.
We got back low days. If you wanted to get
a job, there s board and you know the people
to go listen to jobs. And I took a friend
in there jobs and there was an ad from flim
Flams on there, but I wasn't allowed. It was five
because I wasn't unemployed. I just wrote the details down
and followed it up and got the job with them.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Oh right, right, So was it a flim flam? Was
it a full on audition process? So you had to
prove your talent?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
You're doing you do an audition? Right?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
You do?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
You have to read?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
And yeah, so you do have to be able to sing?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
No?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Okay, all right, Fallacy is my dog's backing, right, Never
say sorry for your dog bagging sence?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
For what occasions do people tend to organize a singing telegram.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Mainly birthdays, but you can have their wells. And I
think there's the two main ones. There were birthdays or retirements,
that kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Retirement, Yeah, yeah, Have you ever had one, maybe say
on the occasion of someone's divorce or something like that,
for celebration.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I'm gonna have to get even one. We won't go
there with trouble, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that'll.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Have you ever taken your dog to go?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
And one?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Not my dog?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
No, man, they're not so what we hate them?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
No, quite quite likely, but can sing? I can hear it?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
So has it ever gone wrong?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I think it's kind of story done that you get
a Spring Road and a Spring Street or something the
wrong one, right, Yeah, And there's happens to be two
weddings at two different churches, same sabbath, same bride's name,
same broom's name. I've gone downe the show at the
wrong people how until after this show, So now I'm late,
(02:00):
but it all bits back, you know, and then I've
got to run off to the right stays now mad
at me. I'm obviously late.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
What is the probability that?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeah, not the odds aren't high.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
They're not. And I do remember that was quite funny.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
But yeah, two telegrams for the price of one. What
a shame biness.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
They probably still take about it.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I think it's the fact that you're the wrong venue.
Would no one realized? Yeah, because everyone thinks somebody.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Else just put Yeah you know exactly, Ana, did you
order this somebody to do the same?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I mean, what's the probability? Yeah, same name. Just I've
got the wrong ship, you know what the.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Wrong Yeah, that night you had a warm up, So
there you go.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
What's the weirdest outfit you've ever worn doing one of these?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
They're all costumes? Yeah, yeah, right, your friends made you know,
all those vilicitings, all right, so you kind of your
main characters and I've got a whole shed for I
think it's don't think it really makes me different costumes
the costume. Yeah, nuns, nuns nouns are very popular.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Absolutely, Hey, Cottie, is it true that the singing telegrams
are on the decline? And if so, why do you
think so?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
I think the whole entertainment industry is on the decline,
but the private party, because I did clowning as well,
and the whole industry, not just the clowns, not just
the telegram. Not if you go back a couple of decades,
you know, you had the you had everything. You had
fire engines, bounce to capitals, animal farms, there's bubble mania,
all sorts of stuff like that, and a lot of
(03:43):
that is not around anymore because the market is just
not like back in the peak days there's probably ten
main funds and I have ten pounds go out on
weekends for me and stuff, and it's nothing like that now.
It's nothing the whole the whole industries. But a lot
of that marketing is different now too. Lost year our
pages each running it and it was easy and their
direct marketing, but that's still time consuming. We now it's
(04:05):
all you're not number one on the search engine, which
is a completely different skill set. It's like you're not
going to be found and it's very hard and even
when you pay people to do it, it doesn't work.
And yeah, so that's that's wanting to do. But maybe
we're distant generation that doesn't get as much entertainment. I
don't know. There's a lot of like you know, shires
(04:25):
and things that putting on as many shows as they
used to do, and then they still do, but not
just some good ones, but not to the extent that
they used to do, so that every school holiday would
put on the beds and things for the kids. I'm
not sure I'm going anywhere near that level anymore.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Yeah, I mean, then everyone's too afraid that they might
offend someone for something, you know, and you know we have.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
And then we had the scary ground phase. I kind
of put the fe businesses together so.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
They didn't COVID.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Well, COVID stilled anything with a sugar and refast.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yes, Connie, what's the one question that people always ask
about your job?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Is something I don't know?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Can?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
I mean people that know me know what I do. Yeah,
so that's not really a question that's going to come up.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Okay, right, all right, Well that answers that.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
And what about you know to tell us how much
you're winn for hour? But is it? Do you consider
it a well paid gig for what you're doing in
your preparation.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
It's a fairly paid job, right, Okay, consider it well paid?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Nothing of it? Okay, fair enough.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
You're not trying to rip people off, You're not trying
to get into cnators brand, but you're not trying to
rip people. You know, there's work behind that and you've
got to get there and you've got to write the
shows and things you write need shu differently. Yeah, so
there's you know, there's about four or five hours work
in each job you do, so you know it's not
about you know, yeah, man, like you've got to be
(05:50):
paid otherwise you must have gone to do something else
and you're going to have your class.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
But yeah, it's fascinating and I was sorry to hear
there's a decline. People just stay the same sort of
fund that they used to any more. Connie, I don't
know what to do about.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
It, but I think it's I think and this is
not just my industry. This is probably a lot of
industry because Google controls the Internet, and if you're not
a lot of small businesses really haven't managed the changes
with internet marketing because unless you're at a cost so
much to get jobs now, you know, because you're running
them through programs like barking things and you've got a
(06:23):
paper leads that you talk to the person, so people
put things on these give people a lot of information
because you've got to choose which jobs.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
You follow up on.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Yeah, completely different marketing strategies now the usual. So it's
the customer, doesn't they how to find acs and it's
true time consuming to find them. That the marketing is
to choose the issue of it. Things that used to
work don't work anymore. We're in a different time zone,
we all different times.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
A pretty handy way to do the marketing is to
get on the Inside Job podcast.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Yes they're still out there, so you can get hold
of Contie Cottie, thank you so much for your time.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Thanks Conty Connie. All about a little bit occupy
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