Edwin Rayner
Appearances
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: A gift that reopened the world
I'm very lucky, aren't I? You know, at my age, I suppose. But then I don't think age comes into it, does it? If you've got ability, you should, no matter how old you are, it's not important. You can be like some of the kiddies going in, singing at school or whatever. And then when you get a bit older, like me, you still keep singing. And I'm very, very fortunate.
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: A gift that reopened the world
Yeah, I'll be 93 on the 31st of March. But I'm so lucky. I had a wonderful wife. Unfortunately, I lost my Margaret. 10 years ago and I miss her terribly. She was a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful woman. And it's because the way she looked after me is that I'm 93 and I can do what I can do. I can still drive my car and I can still do my housework and I can look after myself.
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: A gift that reopened the world
I've got two wonderful daughters, of course, who were magnificent and helped me and some wonderful grandchildren and two of them, it's their fault that I'm on TikTok because one day Liv and Laura came to me and said, Grandad, you're going to go on TikTok. I said, you're going to go on what? And then we had a TikTok. Anyway, we put this song on TikTok.
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: A gift that reopened the world
I think it was one from the Wizard of Oz, Somewhere Over the Rainbow. Yeah, we put it on. And we thought we might get a couple of hundred likes on it. I think we got about six or eight thousand likes, which was unbelievable. I didn't think it was possible. Anyway, so we went on and I began to put more songs on. I began to get quite a magnificent following I've got.
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: A gift that reopened the world
Well, it is absolutely extraordinary and there's no doubt about it. And I get thousands and thousands of comments and I try and read them all. It takes me ages and ages and ages. But it's so gratifying because some of the people that comment on me were in despair. And my singing, my songs have brought back life to them. And it's so pleasing to know I've done this and I can do this.
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: A gift that reopened the world
And I've been a singer and entertainer all my life. I'm very lucky to be able to do it. And I thank God that I'm able to do these things.
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: A gift that reopened the world
Living Laura came to me and said, Amanda, you're going to go on TikTok. I said, you're going to go on what?