Chronologically Yours

[billroper]

Just before Julie was born, I went diving through the files in the filing cabinet looking for back issues of Kantele as I tried to answer a question on filk history. I didn't find the zines, but I did find something that I had been looking to find for a very long time:

The chronological list of every filksong that I wrote from 1978 to 1986.

Accordingly, I've now updated the list on the website. There are still songs between 1987 and 2002 that are a bit hard to place, but most of the songs are now in the right place.

If only I knew what some of them were. There's a couple of these that I've completely misplaced.

Comments

[alicebentley]

Songs you wrote but don't now know the words or music?

Would they have been recorded somewhere else? I have a huge fat file of filk lyrics collected from around that time, but many of them don't include writer credits. And I was just pondering what to do with this file - any recommendations on who might want it?

[billroper]

"Hacker Symbols" may be on one of the Marcon compilation tapes. Clif may also have a copy. Heck, Juanita may have a copy of that one, since she sang it having written the original tune.

On the filk lyric file, I'd be tempted to punt that in the direction of Interfilk and see what they have to say.

[hms42]

Marcon Grows Up - Sung by Juanita Coulson. If you need a copy (as mp3), I can generate one in about a week or so once I get my gear setup again.

[hms42]

I'll take a copy! Over time, I may be able to fill in some of the holes.

[alicebentley]

Email me [alice at sfbooks dot com] with your postal mailing address and I'll box 'em up and send them out (eventually).

It looks like a concatenation of photocopies from songbooks, loose pages and a run of what was clearly typing practice. But there's some great old stuff in there, and I'd be happy to see it saved from the recycling bin.