Re: Massteria Songbooks

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Lee Gold

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Nov 6, 2009, 9:21:44 PM11/6/09

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Gary McGath wrote:
> With some of the filk songbooks I've indexed, I've had to avoid looking
> at the words to endure the task. But on the other side, there are some
> remarkably good ones with songs I've never seen before.
>
> One of the really good ones is _Return of Massteria_, which I should
> have fully indexed by the time the weekend is over. (It's part of Lois
> Mangan's collection, which I have on loan for indexing.) The only name I
> recognize there as a filker is Nick Smith, but there's a lot of material
> that impresses me, particularly some of Doris Robin's parodies of Stan
> Rogers. (Is she still active in filk?) I'll plan on bringing this book
> to the MASSFILC filksing this weekend.
>
> The book says that there might be another one in the series, but that
> they'd have to wait till the next Star Wars movie to title it. Hmm...
> "Massteria: The Fandom Menace?"

Doris Robin was one of the Filkharmonics (who produced the (three?)
Massteria songbooks as well as Hip Deep in Heroes (Blake's Seven songs)).

--Lee (who's forwarded your email to Nick Smith)

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thnidu

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Nov 14, 2009, 9:23:45 PM11/14/09

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Did anyone else reading this subject line immediately think of "The
Music Man"? Specifically, "Ya Got Trouble":

Libertine men and scarlet women and ragtime
Shameless music that'll drag your son, your daughter
Into the arms of a jungle animal instinct massteria!
Friends, the idle brain is the devil's playground, trouble!

(found at http://www.guntheranderson.com/v/data/yagottro.htm)

Mark A. Mandel
The Filker With No Nickname
http://filk.cracksandshards.com

Jeff Urs

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Nov 15, 2009, 2:03:38 AM11/15/09

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On Nov 14, 9:23 pm, thnidu <thn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Did anyone else reading this subject line immediately think of "The
> Music Man"? Specifically, "Ya Got Trouble":

Indeed, it was my impression that we were meant to.

--
Jeff

Rob Wynne

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Nov 15, 2009, 10:49:16 AM11/15/09

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thnidu <thn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Did anyone else reading this subject line immediately think of "The
> Music Man"? Specifically, "Ya Got Trouble":
>
> Libertine men and scarlet women and ragtime
> Shameless music that'll drag your son, your daughter
> Into the arms of a jungle animal instinct massteria!
> Friends, the idle brain is the devil's playground, trouble!
>
> (found at http://www.guntheranderson.com/v/data/yagottro.htm)
>

Not immediately, but I have filked that tune. It's a darn difficult one to
pull off too:

http://www.autographedcat.com/songs/press_gang.html

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Rob Wynne / The Autographed Cat / d...@america.net
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Kay Shapero

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Nov 15, 2009, 6:26:14 PM11/15/09

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In article <hdp7ts$aeh$1...@news.america.net>, d...@america.net says...

>
> Not immediately, but I have filked that tune. It's a darn difficult one to
> pull off too:
>
> http://www.autographedcat.com/songs/press_gang.html
>

Good job, too! I now have Robert Preston with backup cast singing it in
the background of my mind. :) (We did Music Man at my Jr High way back
in *mumble* when I was in the orchestra - for years I had the whole
thing memorized but apparently this is no longer the case.)

--
Kay Shapero
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