As this is a joint con with the ConteXXt sf convention we decided to
start the con with a Golden Oldies singalong on the Friday night to
give them a taster.
Now I'm looking for a list of the best loved songs but also the songs
the old-timers never sing because they have been done to death so
neos never hear them!
Songs I'm thinking of including:
Banned from Argo
Hope eyrie(sp?)
You bash the Balrog
Strangers no more we sing
When I was a boy
Many Hearts One Voice
Sams song
What would be on your list?
What's the favourite Star Wars song?
Joe
Spelling is correct.
> You bash the Balrog
> Strangers no more we sing
> When I was a boy
> Many Hearts One Voice
> Sams song
>
> What would be on your list?
I don't know what's been overplayed over there, but here I'd add Kathy Mar's
"Drink Up the RIver" (not to mention that it's a good song anyway).
> What's the favourite Star Wars song?
Don't know about anyone else, but I like "Son of a Sith" by Leah Rosenthal
and [??], and the LA Filkharmonics' song that begins "We are the Empire...",
both TTTO the "Imperial March". (SOAS is the one that begins,
"Darth Vader's mother wears army boots...")
Mary
There's also the ones which haven't been done much in recent decades. Like
The Bradbury Hate Song.
-- Mark A. Mandel
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"Imperial March" is by Jim Vibber of the Filharmonics.
--Lee
Most of the stuff on the "Pegasus Winners Vol. 1" tape would work:
"Dawson's Christian"
"Harbors"
"Wind from Rainbow's End"
"Temper of Revenge"
"Wind's Four Quarters"
"Daddy's Little Girl"
"Weekend-Only World"
"Velveteen"
"Witnesses' Waltz"
"God Lives on Terra"
"Do It Yourself"
Plus "Little Fuzzy Animals," "Fellowship Going South," "Fire in the Sky,"
and other time-tested stuff.
--Randy
>
Hmmmm, I don't know what qualifies as old here, but these are a few of my
personal <old to me> favourites:
Fellowship Going South
Fuzzy Little Animals
Dark Visions
Still Alive
Dawson's Christian
SF Editor's Lament
Engineer's Hymn
Mis-Conception
The Pheonix
Blessings,
Shadowe Lover
Lessee, real oldies you don't hear any more...
Our Space Opera Goes Rolling Along
The Hymn of the Outer Space Marines
The Vulcan Academy of Science School Cheer
Smaug the Magic Dragon
The Ballad of the Three Kings
Threes (!!!)
Falling Down On [New Jersey/Milton Keynes]
Lullabye for a Weary World
(In another post, someone mentioned the contents of "The Pegasus
Winners, Vol. 1" I concur)
Others will occur to me later, when the brain has had some defogger
added. Until then, much luck...
- Bruce -
Nobody has mentioned:
Mary O'Meara
Daddy's Little Girl
Green Hills of Earth (I'm partial to Mark Bernstein's arrangement)
Do It Yourself
Fuel to Feed the Drive (and manymany sequels)
12 Days of Worldcon
And there is a Star Wars song from OVFF-land to one of Juanita Coulson's Martha
Keller arrangements, that starts
"Blow it up, blow it up!" said Vader, Darth Vader
IIRC the proper title is "Remember the Alderaan" (but that's not how I have it
filed in my singbook)
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> Lessee, real oldies you don't hear any more...
>
> Threes (!!!)
Ahhh, yes I had forgotten this one....BUT....Which Version?
I prefer 3.1 but also like the version <don't recall the name> where the
two woman are in more modern times> done by Julia Ecklar IIRC
Blessings,
Shadowe Lover
--Lee
The Orcs' Marching Song (the song that attracted me to filkdom)
Kinneson's Band
Transport 18
The Childish Edda
> What's the favourite Star Wars song?
Remember the Alderaan by Paula Smith (which I think someone else
has mentioned.)
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I have been filking for 22 years, but mostly in the Southern California
Area, South of LA in San Diego.
A few of the above songs have not made it to our corner of the universe.
Though I may not know them by there title.
Here are a few that we used to sing back in the 80's...
We must believe in Magic
Callahans Bar
The Ballad of Apollo XIII
The Burden of the Crown
Beware of the Sentient Chili
Banks of Coopers Lake
Chemist Drinking Song
Circles
Children of the Future
Dragon in my Closet
Dark Blade
Star to Steer By
Caves of Steel.....
Guess I could make this list very long, but I have alwaysthought it
would be fun to have a "Not the Top 40 Filks of the 80's" theme circle...
Barney
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I'm also fond of "Rebel Alliance" (to the tune of "Temperance
Union") in FILKER UP #1.
--Lee
What to try hosting it at Westercon on Thursday evening for an hour,
starting at 7 or 8 PM?
--Lee
I sure hope that some of the ones on your list above are there because
they are in your "best loved" songs category. If you are taking songs
like "Many Hearts One Voice" as being a golden oldie, that REALLY
makes me feel old. It's only a few years old!
As for "songs the old-timers never sing because they've been done to
death", I may be the wrong person to ask - because I =do= sing those
oldies now and again. But as a collector working my way towards "old
fossil", perhaps I am not typical - and lately I've done a lot more
listening/videotaping than singing. I do get asked to play a lot of
them on panels dealing with "songs no one sings anymore", though. ;)
I haven't saved the whole thread, so I'll have to go by memory to weed
out the duplicates and I'll undoubtedly duplicate songs mentioned by
other people anyway. I'll also leave out songs popular in fandom that
have little or no fannish content (a lot of Eric Bogle, Stan Rogers,
Fred Small, Kipling, etc.) But anyway, here's a list that might fit
your needs:
Serious
Ballad of Apollo 13
Burden of the Crown
Caretakers
Centauri Fair
Child Of Darkness
Circles
Crimson and Crystal
Daddy's Little Girl
Dreamer
Everyman
Fire in the Sky
Flowers for Algernon
Fuel to Feed the Drive
God Lives on Terra
Golden Eyes
Harbors
Hear Them Roar
HEL Crew (Kantrowitz 1972)
Horse Tamer's Daughter
The Line Marines
Legends (Whatever Happened to the Dragon?)
Light Ship
Madame Curie's Hands
March of Cambredth
Mary O'Meara
Moon Miners
One Way to Go
Privateer
Raven Banner
Reminder
Sail For Amber
The Sentinal
Sentries
Song of the Shieldwall
Space is Dark
Star Fire
Star Lord's Lament
Stardance
Surprise!
Temper of Revenge
There She Goes
Three Kings Rode Out
Time and Stars
Toast for Unknown Heroes
The Traveller
Unicorn (by Dennis Drew)
The Witch of the West Mer Land
The Wreck (Parts 1 and 2)
Upbeat
Asteroid Named Rest Stop
The Astronomer
Ballad of Orbital Hubris
Callahan's Bar
Chemist's Drinking Song
Critters/Space Settler
Dance in the Circle
Do It Yourself
Don't Push That Button
Droozlin'
Elves Do It In The Trees
Fool to Feed the Drive
The Great Science Fiction Religion Revival and Diety Song
Home on LaGrange
(It's a Long Way From) Amphioxus
Kinnison's Band
Little Fuzzy Animals
Little Teeny Eyes
Mama Don't Allow
Mama Rosa's Spaceport & Bar
Memorandum
The Murderous Toy
Never Set The Cat On Fire
On the PC
Orc's Marching Song
Our Space Opera Goes Rolling Along
Outer Space Marines
Ronald Reagan Carl Sagan San Diegan Pagan
S-100
Saturday Night in the Land of Mordor
Smaug the Magic Dragon
Starship Unity
Swamp gas
Threes (ver. 1.1)
Transport 18
Unreality Warp
Zero-G Polka
Dorsai
All of the Dorsai
Brothers
Contract Dodger Rag
The Destroyer
Fal Morgan
Green Hills of Harmony
Ian & Kensie (Margaret Middleton's, though Clif Flynt's is also good)
Ian the Grim
Jacques Chretien
My Uniform's Green
Paid Soldiers of Dorsai
The Short Happy Life of Michael De Sandoval
Su Madre
Other Books, Media
Altair 5
Benson Arizona
Bones
Fafhrd's Hangover
King Kong Blues
Ladyhawke
Last of Gand Moff Tarkin's Crew
Let The Birds Fly
People's Choice Award (re: Plan 9 from Outer Space)
Rebel Pilot's Lament
Signey Mallory
Solo
Star Whores
Sweet Savage Vampire (Saint Germain)
They Call the Beast Godzilla
Tribbles
Wargames
Yoda
Fannish
All of the Filkers are Singing
Bouncing Potatoes
Crash Space Jig
Lookin' For My Next Con
The Filker
Harlan in the Shower
Ballad of John Campbell
If Only I Could Sing My Songs Backwards
Lead Fingers Asprin
Marcon Ballroom
Obloids
Twelve Years of Worldcon
Working the Convention Blues
>
> A few of the above songs have not made it to our corner of the universe.
> Though I may not know them by there title.
^^^^^
Boy, I missed that I used the wrong there....Oppsss
Maybe here's where I should ask this one...
Several years before John and I found filk (in 1978, in fact), we had
just bought our second house in Lawndale, CA. (Some of the older
LAFA folks may remember this one; we had our first filksing in it.)
When we went over there to check on move-out of the previous owner,
we found them gone, the side door left unlocked, and the place
vandalized with Kool-Whip (TM) and raw eggs on the walls (presumably
by friends of the kids who had moved out). Result--we had to do a
hurry-up unforeseen paint job. While we were painting, we had the
radio on. One evening, it was Friday, so we had it tuned to KPFK
and Hour 25 (the local SF radio show, hosted by the late Mike Hodel).
A group (female, I think) came on and sang a suite of Star Wars songs to the
tunes of the main movie character themes (from the first movie). (The songs
were interspersed by some narration.)
I have only heard it _once_ since then. My questions:
who did it, and where can I find a copy? It was one of the finest bits of
SW media filk I've ever heard, and I'm surprised that no one has continued
to use it.
Some of the lyrics: (to the "Force" theme)
"...The Force carries us onward
And our sabers shine out by its grace;
And so it [leads? guides?...] us into battle
No matter what evil force we may face..."
"...the Skywalker's son is born..."
Mary
Sounds like Dorothy Fontana & Lynn Barker to me.
Mary Creasey <cre...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
: Maybe here's where I should ask this one...
by Leslie Fish.
Also on Folk Songs For Folks Who Haven't Even Been Born Yet.
>
> I'm also fond of "Rebel Alliance" (to the tune of "Temperance
> Union") in FILKER UP #1.
Yeppers. I also seem to recall a group of us including you
collectively creating a Star Wars verse for Poul's Transporteers
song along the lines of;
Han Solo was a transporteer, he was, he was
Han Solo was a transporteer, he was, he was
He claimed he only fought for pay
But in the trench he saved the day
Bravo, Bravo Hoorah for the transporteers!
[more snippage]
> > I have only heard it _once_ since then. My questions:
> > who did it, and where can I find a copy? It was one of the finest bits
of
> > SW media filk I've ever heard, and I'm surprised that no one has
continued
> > to use it.
> >
> > Some of the lyrics: (to the "Force" theme)
> > "...The Force carries us onward
> > And our sabers shine out by its grace;
> > And so it [leads? guides?...] us into battle
> > No matter what evil force we may face..."
> >
> > "...the Skywalker's son is born..."
>
> See http://rebel-landing.greyjedi.com/Filk/prelude&opus1.html
>
> --Lee Gold, search engineer
<bow> I stand in awe of your abilities...that IS the piece I remember!!
(And, as Bob suggested, and I suspected, it is indeed by Dorothy (D.C.)
Fontana
and Lynn Barker.)
Thank you! <page saved>
Mary
Just find a copy of Westerfilk.
Eric Gerds
DAG Productions
www.filk.com
And Philk-Fee-Nom-EE-Non, Massteria, Fantastic, the Kushion Flight House
books, Kentelie (Sp??), The Filksong Manual..............
Barney
NESFA, Boskone songbooks, the STF & FSY Songbook, and
various issues of Xeno, Filker Up, and convention songbooks
I've done with archival material...
I just finished typing in all the lyrics for the Filksong Manual,
on the assumption that some day we'll have to reprint it.
After Westercon, Barry will get to scan in or reset the
sheet music.
--Lee Gold (who has rescheduled Barney's 80s themecircle to
Thursday at 9PM so it won't conflict with the Pelz memorial
LASFS meeting: with attendance free to all: no Westercon
membership required, no LASFS dues required)
--Lee
Kushyon's Flight House
> books, Kentelie (Sp??), The Filksong Manual..............
Kantele
Mary
(who has most or all of the above)
Hmm...maybe I'd _better_ bring the entire three-large-and-one-
small bag set of filkbooks...
Mary
Yes, please. And you or Leslie should also remember the Kipling.
--Lee
Now this is a tough list! I started with filk in the mid-80's while
in the Navy, dropped out for almost a decade, and rediscovered it in
the late 90's.
Some of my favorites are (all from tapes I got in 1987):
Time Winds Tavern
Mis-Conceptions by Leslie Fish (which I have sent to some recent filk
converts, much to their joy)
Never Set the Cat on Fire by Frank Hayes
Little Fuzzy Animals by Frank Hayes (the version from "Don't Ask" is
the best, in my not so humble opinion :)
Since you said oldies, I won't list any Tom Smith stuff. Hmmm, I need
to research how old some of my other favorite songs are. How old do
the songs need to be to qualify?
Wayne
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By Teri Lee and Cathy Cook [Mac donald]
(Or did you mean the entire tape? It was a good one!)
> Mis-Conceptions by Leslie Fish (which I have sent to some recent filk
> converts, much to their joy)
Actually, Leslie only wrote the tune; the lyrics are by Mercedes Lackey.
Mary
These are a few of the songs that we think every filker should at least
be able to recognize. We're printing the lyrics of some of them here, by
permission of the copyright owners, to help you sing along (not
appropriate for all the songs) and/or learn them. "Classics" would have
been a better name than "Oldies", and some songs that were originally to
be in this program and are listed here may wind up not being sung; sorry
about those, folks!
[I started out the session by singing, ttto BFA:
We're filking with the oldies at Arisia '99.
We've got these lyric sheets to help you learn or sing each line.
So thank the folks who've volunteered to sing or lead each song,
And please respect them if they ask you not to sing along.
I don't ... have a chorus for this filk
And ... not much rhymes with filk but milk and silk and ilk
It's getting pretty silly, so I'd better stop right now.
]
[(*=lyrics printed in handout) Title. Author. Book(s) (there may be
others)]
*Banned From Argo. Leslie Fish. Westerfilk
Captain Jack and the Mermaid. Meg Davis. Captain Jack and the Mermaid
*Carmen Miranda's Ghost. Leslie Fish. Bayfilk III... It was Late;
Carmen Miranda's Ghost Is Haunting Space Station Three (book of short
stories based on the song edited by Don Sakers)
*Chemist's Drinking Song. Jack Carroll. The NESFA Hymnal, Vol. 2
*Dawson's Christian. Duane Elms. Pegasus Winners, Vol. 1
*Don't Push That Button. Duane Elms. At the Helm
*Drink Up the River. Kathy Mar. Stave the Wails
*The Engineer's Hymn. Leslie Fish. Westerfilk
Gilda and the Dragon. Cynthia McQuillin. The Barbecued Songbook(?)
*Hope Eyrie. Leslie Fish. Westerfilk; Pegasus Winners, Vol. 1; Minus
Ten and Counting
Ladyhawke. Julia Ecklar. The NESFA Hymnal, Vol. 2; Dreamer
Little Fuzzy Animals. Frank Hayes
Lullaby For a Weary World. T.J. Burnside Clapp. The NESFA Hymnal, Vol.
2; Pegasus Winners, Vol. 1; Stave the Wails
*Mary O'Meara. Poul Anderson. World Without Stars (a novel); Westerfilk
2
Temper of Revenge. Julia Ecklar. Pegasus Winners, Vol. 1; Dreamer
*Witnesses' Waltz. Leslie Fish. Pegasus Winners, Vol. 1; Minus Ten and
Counting
*You Bash the Balrog. Lee Gold. FilkerUp [vol.1]; Westerfilk 2
Young Man Mulligan. The NESFA Hymnal, Vol. 1; The Filksong Manual
-- Mark A. Mandel, The Filker With No Nickname
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I got that tape and Frank Hayes's Don't Ask back in 1987 (my first two
filk tapes). Both originals are long gone :( and I only have 4 or 5
songs from Time Winds Taven saved on my back-up copy of Don't Ask (I
was able to get all of size 1 and part of side 2 of that tape on one
side of a 90 minute tape, leaving space at the end of side 2 for my
favorite songs from TWT. I was only able to get half the songs I
wanted to save from TWT on that tape, much to my sorrow now).
>> Mis-Conceptions by Leslie Fish (which I have sent to some recent filk
>> converts, much to their joy)
>
>Actually, Leslie only wrote the tune; the lyrics are by Mercedes Lackey.
Okay, I will make a note of that. Still a reat song. Introduced me
to both fine ladies, even if I did not remember it at the time.