Mercede's CD-Where can I buy it?
Chas, Carol & Chris Biggs
A while ago there was a thread on this newsgroup about a song Mercede
Lackey(sp?) did about Signory Mallory. This got me to wondering a few
things:
1. Where can someone who does not go to conventions at all get a copy
of this CD or, for that matter, any filksong CDs. Do stores like Wal-Mart
or Karma Records (a local CD store) carry this kind of music? (I didn't see
any in my local Wal-Mart but that doesn't mean that the one next town over
doesn't have any.) Or do I have to go to a SF convention to pick up a
copy?
2. Are there any other songs based on C.J. Cherryh's Union-Alliance
characters? I've turned into a fan of hers (at least on that series of
books) and I'd like to hear how other fans have interpreted some of her
work.
Thanks in advance for any help anyone can give me on this.
Chris ^. .^
>X<
Garrett Fitzgerald
In article <01bd172b$f5f13460$36d70ad0@default>,
Chas, Carol & Chris Biggs <cbi...@hsonline.net> wrote:
> A while ago there was a thread on this newsgroup about a song Mercede
>Lackey(sp?) did about Signory Mallory. This got me to wondering a few
>things:
>
> 1. Where can someone who does not go to conventions at all get a copy
>of this CD or, for that matter, any filksong CDs.
You could try <URL:http://firebirdarts.com/> for Misty's works...
chris nasipak
Long ago in the mists of time, Chas, Carol & Chris Biggs mumbled:
: 1. Where can someone who does not go to conventions at all get a copy
: of this CD or, for that matter, any filksong CDs. Do stores like Wal-Mart
: or Karma Records (a local CD store) carry this kind of music? (I didn't see
: any in my local Wal-Mart but that doesn't mean that the one next town over
: doesn't have any.) Or do I have to go to a SF convention to pick up a
: copy?
One can order directly from Firebird Arts & Music, which handles all of
Lackey's filk, and many others. Check out www.firebirdarts.com for
details.
: 2. Are there any other songs based on C.J. Cherryh's Union-Alliance
: characters? I've turned into a fan of hers (at least on that series of
: books) and I'd like to hear how other fans have interpreted some of her
: work.
I know Lackey's done at least one other song ("Mazianni"), and the song
"Some Kind of Hero" is on one of Duane Elms' albums along with one
other that sounds like it's related. ("Young Sam Jones")
Good luck!
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In <01bd172b$f5f13460$36d70ad0@default>, "Chas, Carol & Chris Biggs"
<cbi...@hsonline.net> wrote:
> A while ago there was a thread on this newsgroup about a song Mercede
>Lackey(sp?) did about Signory Mallory. This got me to wondering a few
>things:
Ask this on rec.music.filk and you'll get a list of songs and dealers.
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Cathy Purchis-Jefferies
chris nasipak wrote:
> Long ago in the mists of time, Chas, Carol & Chris Biggs mumbled:
> : 2. Are there any other songs based on C.J. Cherryh's Union-Alliance
> : characters? I've turned into a fan of hers (at least on that series of
> : books) and I'd like to hear how other fans have interpreted some of her
> : work.
>
> I know Lackey's done at least one other song ("Mazianni"), and the song
> "Some Kind of Hero" is on one of Duane Elms' albums along with one
> other that sounds like it's related. ("Young Sam Jones")
My husband has an OLD cassette, called Finity's End and other Songs of
the Station Trade, of songs based on C.J. Cherryh's books. It's
copyrighted 1985, by Off Centaur Publications. I sort of doubt it's
still available, but something to keep an eye out for. Songwriters
include Mercedes Lackey and apparently C.J. herself. The song titles
are:
Pride of Chanur - Fish
Forty Thousand in Gehenna - Lackey/Mar
Weird Song - McQuillin
Sam Jones - Cherryh
Mazianni - Lackey/Fish
Serpent's Reach - Simpson/Fish, arr. Guon
Tapes - McQuillin
Finity's End - Cherryh/Fish
Merchanger's Luck - McQuillin
Luck of the Rileys - McQuillin
Bitch Song - Cherryh
Dockmaster's Song - Parther, arr. Guon
Signy Mallory - Lackey/Fish
Lullaby - Cherryh
I haven't listened to it in a long time. I seem to recall that it's
uneven; some songs are ok, some are pretty awful.
Oh, and I believe he bought it at The Other Change of Hobbit in
Berkeley.
http://www.dnai.com/~ochobbit/
I usually see some filk tapes when I'm in there, although I haven't paid
a lot of attention to them.
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Jo Walton
In article <34AF14...@value.net>
cat...@value.net "Cathy Purchis-Jefferies" writes:
> My husband has an OLD cassette, called Finity's End and other Songs of
> the Station Trade, of songs based on C.J. Cherryh's books. It's
> copyrighted 1985, by Off Centaur Publications. I sort of doubt it's
> still available, but something to keep an eye out for. Songwriters
> include Mercedes Lackey and apparently C.J. herself. The song titles
> are:
>
> Pride of Chanur - Fish
> Forty Thousand in Gehenna - Lackey/Mar
> Weird Song - McQuillin
> Sam Jones - Cherryh
> Mazianni - Lackey/Fish
> Serpent's Reach - Simpson/Fish, arr. Guon
> Tapes - McQuillin
> Finity's End - Cherryh/Fish
> Merchanger's Luck - McQuillin
> Luck of the Rileys - McQuillin
> Bitch Song - Cherryh
> Dockmaster's Song - Parther, arr. Guon
> Signy Mallory - Lackey/Fish
> Lullaby - Cherryh
>
> I haven't listened to it in a long time. I seem to recall that it's
> uneven; some songs are ok, some are pretty awful.
The Cherryh songs - "Sam Jones" and "Lullaby" are original stories by
C.J. Cherryh in a somewhat unusual format. They're also SF poetry. I
find them very hard to take as music because they demand to be listened
to - I tend to have music as background and let it be there in part of
my head, but those want all my attention. "Sam Jones" can reliably make
me tear up. "Lullaby" is incredibly creepy. I'd recommend both of those
really highly to anyone who likes Cherryh. "Sam Jones" is set in the
Alliance-Union universe and is about a young man who becomes an engineer
on a merchanter and saves a vane in an emergency. It starts "Well I met
Sam Jones on a dockside night in a run-down Viking bar. A kid of maybe
fifteen years, from a little nowhere star...". "Lullaby" is about some
people setting off in coldsleep and waking up to find all their fuel is
gone and they can't slow down. "Time goes so slow, for ships on the
threshold of c. The race of mankind could evolve from the clay in the
time that you've lived here with me." It's a duet between the boy who's
grown up on the ship in that situation and his mother. I'd seriously
suggest that people make as much effort to track them down as they
would Cherryh short stories.
"Bitch Song" is horrible, and horribly catchy. I'd recommend it to anyone
who likes _all_ Cherryh. Like :Wave Without a Shore: and :Rusalka:.
The other songs on the album are reasonably good filk, "The Pride of
Chanur" and "Signy Mallory" are well worth hearing, and "Finity's End"
is good. Though not as good as the novel of the same name.
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