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Sing me a lemming
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mdlbearThis is a twist on the Letter Meme. Instead of coming up with ten items for a certain letter, you come up with five song titles for a certain letter and explain why you picked them. If interested then leave a comment. I'll give you a letter. You post this blurb in your journal along with your list.
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cflute, who thought that "M" would be
appropriate for a Mandelbear. (H)mmmmmmm.
- First up is "Mushrooms", which is one of my own filksongs. It seems particularly appropriate for many people on my friends list these days. (These days, everyone calls it "Mushrooms". The original title was "The Mushroom Song", but it still qualifies if you don't count leading "the" when you're alphabetizing songs by title, and I don't.) I wrote it back in 1988, a few years after my job at Zilog came unravelled, but it's pretty timeless. Unfortunately.
- Next comes (The) "Mary Ellen Carter" by Stan Rogers. This is one of the all-time great "pick yourself up and get back in the fight" songs, and has seen me through many a discouraging situation.
- "Mary O'Meara", by Poul Anderson and Anne Passovoy, is another all-time great song, this time in the love song category. It's old, as filksongs go -- a true classic.
- And how about "Moving the Bones" by Dr. J. Robinson? Like "Mushrooms", this is a modern work song, in which months of labor and management waffling finally manage to get things back to exactly where they used to be. Some modern version-control programs can detect this kind of loop.
- Finally, let's have "Monster Mash", by Bobby "Boris" Pickett. I loved this song when it came out in 1962 (Google is your friend). It's still fun. Sort of found filk; I'm sure it had something to do with warping my brain to the point where I'd be writing filksongs two decades later.
As a bonus, I'll toss in
- "Millennium's Dawn", another one of mine. I wrote this one in 2000, when the new millennium was full of hope and promise even if it was nothing like what we were all expecting a couple of decades before. I still want my flying car, damnit.
- And finally, (The) "Merryman and his Maid", which is not only the subtitle of The Yeomen of the Guard by Gilbert and Sullivan, but the title of the song more usually referred to in songbooks by its first line, "I have a song to sing, O!". I really like this song, and strongly suspect that it will find its way into performances whenever I can find someone willing to sing it with me.
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Date: 2006-08-17 04:07 am (UTC)Rolling Down to Old Maui-covered by Stan Rogers, Meg Davis, and Oak Ash & Thorn
Round About the campfire, played by Jacquline Shwab, a country dance tune
Recuerdos del Alhambra, on Spanish Guitar, and I'm too lazy to look up the composer--Albeniz, Albinez, or Rodrigo, most likely...unless what I"m remembering is Nights in the Gardens of Spain. Both are pretty and evocative.
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Date: 2006-08-03 07:27 am (UTC)-kat
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Date: 2006-08-03 01:03 pm (UTC)Letter please.
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Date: 2006-08-03 02:53 pm (UTC)I see you've done "O" already. The first thing I thought of to follow that was "B", as in OBAFGKMRNS. (Extra points if you recognize both the sequence and the mnemonic without googling for it.)
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Date: 2006-08-03 10:34 pm (UTC)And that was fascinating. *g*
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Date: 2006-08-03 03:40 pm (UTC)Sure, give us a letter.
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Date: 2006-08-03 03:50 pm (UTC)How about "F"?