Created by Glenn Simser, this is a pretty comprehensive compilation of recorded filk as of about 1991.
Thx to u/Acceptable_Fish4820 for providing the copy to the FANAC Fan History Project, who digitized it and put it online.
You can find other filk history items on the FANAC website here: https://fanac.org/fanzines/Filk/
In 1976, Leslie Fish wrote a fairly remarkable anthem to celebrate the Apollo 11 landing, "Hope Eyrie".
(At least, 'remarkable' is the word that Dr. Roger Launius, formerly NASA's chief historian, used to describe it. He also wrote about this song in his 2005 paper, "Perceptions of Apollo: Myth, nostalgia, memory or all of the above?”, as well as in his other writing.)
Although Leslie has sadly now passed away, I wanted to share a new, labor-of-love recording of this song (using a decades-old vocal recording), that about 20 of us have been working to bring to life over the past year.
The producer is Michael Moricz (who was the final music director for PBS's Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.)
Lyrics can be found here: https://filketymology.fandom.com/wiki/Hope_Eyrie
Credits & producer's notes for this new track can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQW7TANzZ9Y&lc=Ugwu84rJwY_ONlC_QwB4AaABAg
You can see if you've been blocked on their Facebook page by checking whether it shows up when you view it here: https://www.facebook.com/cdbaby
If you see "This content isn't available right now" rather than their page, you've probably been blocked.
I haven't heard back from 3 emailed requests to ask them whether their Stages program still exists (since the free Stages Plus submission codes they provided me no longer work, but they still have a website advertising the program: https://cdbaby.com/music-distribution/stages/#plus )
But when I went to their Facebook page, I noticed that they had blocked me. Curious how common this is?
Also, kinda ironic that:
a. They're effectively forcing customers to air our dirty laundry publicly - by THEIR own design. That's because they only respond to problems when we air them on social media now. (I'd certainly rather have just spoken privately with a support person and gone back to higher-value activities, as a full-time music publisher.)
b. They're seemingly blocking the people who are most invested in their service *actually working*. (Back when they had a UX team, I didn't even let them pay me for being a usability study participant because I GENUINELY CARED.)
Newly uploaded video, originally recorded by Rick Weiss.