Space - The Final Folk Frontier?

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: Flash Company
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 08:55 AM

Alan Sherman who was mentioned some way back did:-

Shine on, shine on Harvey Spoon, up in the sky,
You've been up in orbit since January, February, June and July.
Please don't come back down too soon (We've let your room!)
Shine on, shine on Harvey Spoon, for me and my gal.

And then again 'Round the Horne' once did:-

Twas on the Planet Venus (My Word, you should have seen us!)

FC

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 08:26 PM

One thing that belongs in this thread, even if it drifts it a bit, is to remind (or inform) people that one of the early Astronauts, Wally Schirra, during his December, 1965 flight in Gemini 7, smuggled a harmonica and bells into space, and played "Jingle Bells" during the flight.

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: Don Firth
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 08:10 PM

Here ya go. The Galaxy Song by Eric Idle (of Monty Python).

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: robomatic
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 07:35 PM

And of course Sir Paul McCartney and Wings with:

"Venus and Mars" are alright tonight.........

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 04:01 PM

SueB, I believe that Neil Young song is "After the Gold Rush." That's definitely the name of the album, and I *think* it's the name of that song as well.

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: GUEST,SueB
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 03:42 PM

Neil Young, can't remember the title but goes

I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships flying
in the yellow haze of the sun
something something something
all around the chosen one
All in a dream, all in a dream
the loading has begun
Flying Mother Nature's silver seed
to a new home in the sun,,,,

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: axman664
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 03:41 PM

Perhaps this thread will give you some ideas:

thread.cfm?threadid=72492#1249644

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: GUEST,Jim
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 03:20 PM

I looked up this old thread as a related one from the Wreck of the Shenandoa thread, and realise that there's actually new info for this: Prometheus Music has released "To Touch the Stars," the National Space Society CD mentioned above. They're at:

www.prometheus-music.com

(Sorry, the "Make a link" thingie didn't seem to work.)

Anyway, it has The Christine Lavin song mention above about the moon, as well as a bunch of other really fun things.

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 22 Feb 03 - 01:05 PM

Found an MP3 just now on Kazaa from a dude, Dan Bern... called "The Talking Alien Abduction Blues"... Not half bad...

I also have a track "7 Drunken Nights In Space" which is really more filky than anything else...

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: Tiger
Date: 22 Feb 03 - 12:53 PM

"Rocket Man" - Elton John
"The Galaxy Song" - Eric Idle, "The Meaning of Life"

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 22 Feb 03 - 10:46 AM

Gareth:
"I wish I were a spaceman,
The fastest guy alive
I'd fly you round the universe
In Fireball XL5....

.....To Jupiter and Mars
My heart would be a fireball
And you would be ny favourite of the stars"

I'm sure someone will fill in the gaps!

Nigel

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: Dexter
Date: 22 Feb 03 - 12:19 AM

I've got an original that I call, "The Final Frontier". It tells the story of a lone spaceman arriving on earth in search of the old west. It usually grabs a chuckle or two.

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: Gareth
Date: 21 Feb 03 - 07:47 PM

Then theres the Fireball XL5 theme song, any aging 'Catters remember this one ???

Gareth

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 20 Feb 03 - 08:52 PM

Refresh! Just to be redundant.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 01 Mar 02 - 06:08 AM

I've got lots of filk (it's o.k. it's not catching!) but for a short one, My own words, standard Star Trek (original series) theme, and a well known tune (from Carmen)

ENSIGN: EXPENDABLE

Red shirts who are awaiting Kirk's command, Time to beam down, Now you must land, And, when your alien foe are close at hand, Spill your guts on the sand. And once you all have met, your final fate, Kirk will ne-go-ti-ate !!

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: technission
Date: 01 Mar 02 - 01:16 AM

Gosh, I just stepped out for launch and look at all these subspace transmissions. There was a great album by Jefferson Airplane as they morphed into J Starship,titled "Blows Against The Empire"...it might have been released as some individual artist's names rather than the group's name, like frinstance Jorma Kaukonen/Grace Slick ? Anyway, it's home dock for "have you seen the stars tonight (song title + first line) ..would you like to go up on "A" deck and look at them with me -- Do you know, we could go, we are free.." Grace's typical soaring voice, maybe not always technically harmonious but certainly complementary! "Hijack" on the same album is an extended ramble about hijacking the starship and probably not suitable for children due to drug references. Same album, non-spatial, but suitable for mudcatter's interest is "Harp Tree Lament" , maybe this is actually a traditional song?? I don't know but it is performed that way.

Totally different: Weird Al Yankovich sings a hilarious (the first few times) song about Star Wars ep IV story, to tune of Don Maclean's "American Pie", I think album name is "Running with Scissors"

My, My this here Anniken guy Could be Vader maybe later , now he's just a small fry He left his home and kissed his mommy goodbye Saying "Soon I'm gonna be a Jedi... soon I'm gonna be a Jedi"

Besides being humorous the song is an accurate synopsis of the tale....

Live long and prosper. And, "Just because they smile and eat chicken doesn't mean they've mastered their emotions."

>-8-)

Subject: Lyr Add: MOONSHOT (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Feb 02 - 10:30 PM

Buffy Sainte-Marie did one called "Moonshot", but it's not a humorous song. It's a lament, a spiritual and philosophical piece, and a prayer for change. It refers to the moon missions, in the light of our general situation here on Earth, and was written in the early 70's sometime.

MOONSHOT

Up into outer space you go, my friends
We wish you bon voyage
And when you get there we will welcome you
And still you'll wonder at it all

See all the wonders that you leave behind
The wonders humble people own
I know a boy from a tribe so primitive
He can call me up without no telephone

See all the wonders that you leave behind
Enshrined in some great hourglass
The noble tongues, the noble languages
Entombed in some great English class

Up into outer space you go, my friends
We wish you bon voyage
And when you get there we will welcome you again
And still you wonder at it all

(musical break)

An anthropologist, he wrote a book
He called it "Myths of Heaven"
He's disappeared, his wife is all distraught
An Angel came and got him

His hair was gold, his wings were Love, his words were true
His eyes were lapis lazuli
He spoke in a language oh so primitive
But he made sense to me

Up into outer space you go, my friends
We wish you bon voyage
And when you get there we will welcome you again and again and again
And again you'll wonder at it all

(Buffy Sainte-Marie)

It's on the album "Moonshot" and is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.

- LH

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: Joe_F
Date: 28 Feb 02 - 09:47 PM

Bill Sables: The song you quote is "Space Girl's Song" by Ewan MacColl (1953; updated by Peggy Seeger, 1960, 1964). It is in _The Essential Ewan MacColl Songbook_, compiled & annotated by Peggy Seeger (Oak, 2001); see http://www.pegseeger.com/html.

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: Amergin
Date: 28 Feb 02 - 09:20 PM

Eric Bogle has a song about Star Trek.....can't remember the name right off hand, though....

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: GUEST,ET
Date: 28 Feb 02 - 09:16 PM

OKay - I'm being obscure but there's a recording of Spock singing. One side is ordinary songs and the other has Bilbo Baggins and a song with the line "There goes the neighborhood" referring to humans wandering off earth. Haven't listened to it for years, I'll try to find the record.

Also there's a lot of small filk publishers - how about the one with the crippled spaceliner - rescued by crew of Our Favorite starship - who end up wiht "A jet, it's quite simple, you can build one right here - just ... and one tank of beer.

We drank up the fuel and were feeling no pain, when the Navy man left with a look of disdain."

Anyway, despite my faulty memory, there are a couple dozen on that record alone. Solar Sailor was the record title, I think was done by Mord in Milwaukee around the 70's for science fiction convention.

Good lord, if you want filk, I've got dozens, including all the 70's Tolkein set to music (steal tunes from only the best).

Funny ones - well, maybe I eat little fire lizards - Look for Leslie Fish on Google and see what you get or check out Mercedes Lackey because I know there's an associated music site.

I have to go home now and look up all the real names of all these for ya! (Was held hostage to my folks VCR to tape "Survivors" - they just got back from the Marquesas and were'nt allowed on that island cause they were taping - wanted to see what they missed. Elaine

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 28 Feb 02 - 08:48 PM

The Asteroid Light in the DT has "mutes" rather than the correct "mutants." See erratum

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: MikeofNorthumbria
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 07:15 AM

Sorry to be picky, AllanS, but "The Green Hills of Earth" was by Robert Heinlein, not Ray Bradbury - but what the heck, it's still a great yarn.

Wassail!

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: GUEST,Allan S.
Date: 26 Mar 01 - 03:59 PM

Back in 1946 The Ray Bradburry story "The Green Hills of Earth" Was done as a Radio Program and Oscar Brand sang a song or wrote the song for the show to the tune of Acres of clams I only remember the last line of the chorus as "I pray for one last landing on the Green hills of earth" Actually the words were in the story as a poem and Oscar just put them to the music. You could probably find the story in an anthology of Bradburrys works

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: MMario
Date: 26 Mar 01 - 02:36 PM

Susan Elgin - in the Judas Rose starts several chapters off with "folk songs" set to traditional tunes - but revamped for the setting of the novel - several hundred years from now.

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: GUEST,rana
Date: 26 Mar 01 - 02:30 PM

I was beaten to the Bonzo's above! However, for a comic song why not look at the stuff by Christine Lavin. The following are a few titles (and comments) from her web page.

"If We Had No Moon" (a studio version of this will be released later this year on an album produced by the National Space Society).

I Want To Be The First Folk Singer On The Space Shuttle

"Planet X" was inspired by an article I read about the plight of Pluto - is it or is it not a planet? The album begins by looking at the moon, ends gazing up at the whole big sky, and in between looks at life on this planet as experienced in the late 1990s.

Cheers Rana

Subject: Lyr Add: COME TAKE A TRIP ON MY AIR SHIP
From: GUEST,Roll&Go-C
Date: 26 Mar 01 - 01:21 PM

And speaking about sci-fi oldies, let's not forget "Come Take a Trip on My Airship" which I can still hear on quiet nights as sung by Sally Rogers and the Elderly Instruments gang:

COME TAKE A TRIP ON MY AIR SHIP
(George Evans and Ren Shields, Public Domain)

I once loved a sailor, once a sailor loved me;
He was not a sailor who sailed on the rolling sea;
He sailed in an airship, free as a bird on the wing,
And every Sunday evening, he'd fly past my window and sing:

Chorus:

Come take a trip on my airship,
Come let us sail to the stars;
Come let us fly off to Venus,
Come take a trip around Mars;
No one will see when we're kissing,
No one will know when we spoon;
Come take a trip in my airship
And we'll visit the man in the moon.

One night while sailing away from the crowds
We passed through the Milky White Way;
Whiule idly drifting and watching the clouds,
He asked me if I'd name the day;
Just by the dipper I gave him my heart;
The sun shines on our honeymoon;
We swore to each other we never would part
And we'll teach all the babies this tune. (CHO)

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: mousethief
Date: 26 Mar 01 - 11:33 AM

Why?

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 26 Mar 01 - 09:49 AM

Refresh

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: Matt_R
Date: 27 Feb 01 - 10:13 PM

Lol! That's probably because there's an underscore...Matt_R that disappears when my name is underlined.

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 27 Feb 01 - 10:08 PM

Hey, Matt, I tried PMing you but couldn't do it for some reason! Surely you know about the H2G2 (for HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy)website? It's temporarily down for now but frequent users have a "refugee camp" . My son qualifies as a frequent user.

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: Matt_R
Date: 27 Feb 01 - 09:56 PM

The musical theme to The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy features a banjo...

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: Kernow John
Date: 27 Feb 01 - 06:41 PM

Why are there no Melodeons in Star Trek?
Because it's the future!
KJ

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: Les from Hull
Date: 27 Feb 01 - 01:17 PM

Cosmic Wheels by Donovan was mentioned. On the same album (can we still call them that?) is The Intergalactic Laxative. When my partner Maggie does this one nobody ever believes it's a Donovan song. But it's definitive 'adult space folk' stuff.

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: Trapper
Date: 27 Feb 01 - 01:06 PM

Here's an oldy but a goldie!

- Al

Eight Foot Two, Solid Blue
Words: Allan Sherman
Tune: Has Anybody Seen My Gal?

Last night I met a man from Mars, and he was very sad.
He said, "Won't you help me find my girl friend, please?"
So I asked him, "What does she look like?",
And the man from Mars said, she's...

Eight foot two, solid blue,
Five transistors in each shoe,
Has anybody seen my gal?
Lucite nose, rust-proof toes,
And when her antenna glows,
She's the cutest Martian gal.

You know she promised me, recently,
She wouldn't stray,
But came the dawn, she was gone
Eighteen billion miles away.

Her steering wheel has sex appeal,
Her evening gown is stainless steel,
Has anybody seen my gal?
How I miss all the bliss
Of her sweet hydraulic kiss,
Has anybody seen my gal?
Lovely shape, custom built,
Squeeze her wrong and she says "tilt",
Has anybody seen my gal?

She does the cutest tricks, with her six stereo ears.
When she walks by, spacemen cry,
'Specially when she shifts her gears.

If she's found, rush like mad,
Put her on a launching pad,
Down at Cape Canaveral,
And shoot me back my cutie,
My supersonic beauty,
Send me back my Martian gal.

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: GUEST,Patrish
Date: 27 Feb 01 - 11:33 AM

Sorry about that, took so much trouble getting the line breaks in, that I never checked what I typed - didn't even manage the line breaks that well! I need to practice more, at least two hours a day on mudcat!
Patrish x

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: LR Mole
Date: 27 Feb 01 - 11:32 AM

"I'm the Urban Spaceman" by the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band.

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: GUEST,Patrish
Date: 27 Feb 01 - 11:29 AM

Someone sent this to me ages ago, i don't know who wrote it, but I presume it ia a parody of "Ramblin Rover"

Oh there's astronauts -a-plenty and launches barely 20
They'll wait out the 1990's and may never get off the ground
But give me a Martian rover. Just send a hundred over
And with Option Shift and Clover I will tele explore around

Oh there's eager anticipation of weightless copulation
It's become a pre-occupation for which many a pair rehearse
Just call me a doubting Thomas Hold on to your pajamas
'Cause a trip to the Bahamas would be easier on the purse

Oh there's many who planned on swimmin' with naked Martian women
In canals they believed were brimmin' for their steamy romantic spree
They must feel a mite embarrassed: we found no Martian heiress
But there's Valles Marineris; that's romantic enough for me
I have roamed throughout the planets You wonder how I can?
It's that wherever the robots land it's just a matter of tuning in
You may think a spacesuit better but I feel so much wetter
With a sea of molten lead or liquid methane against me skin

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 27 Feb 01 - 11:12 AM

Jean-Luc, Geordi's specs
Myst'ries on the Holodecks
Asteroids, triple droids, telepathic Betazoids
Transporter, deadly claw
Visitor from LA Law
Photons, no Kirk, Captain has gone berserk
Shuttlecraft, Counselor Troi, Dr. Crusher's little boy
Klingon rites, parasites, new heights, phaser fights
Data's head, Tasha's dead, Riker's hanging by a thread
We didn't start the series, it's the Next Generation on your favorite station...

to the obvious tune...

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: GUEST,Matt_R
Date: 27 Feb 01 - 08:52 AM

Check out ELO's entire album Time. Lots of musical spaceman stuff. From "Ticket To The Moon" to "21st Century Man" to "Rain Is Falling".

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: Dunc
Date: 27 Feb 01 - 06:34 AM

I'm taking all these ideas onboard and may end up writing something made up from bits of this and bits of that. I'm working on an idea about a musical spaceman who falls for a strange looking alien and then ends up with a broken heart 'cause she leaves him when she finds out he sings Leonard Cohen songs whilst playing a banjo.

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 27 Feb 01 - 12:43 AM

Ground control to...

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: Matt_R
Date: 26 Feb 01 - 11:13 PM

Ooops, fergot "Subterranean Homesick Alien" by Radiohead. Great song.

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: catspaw49
Date: 26 Feb 01 - 06:12 PM

Maybe folk and rocket travel should be "Focket".......whatever it is, focket.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: Matt_R
Date: 26 Feb 01 - 06:00 PM

No, I think it's Folce. And I like Space Oddity!

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: catspaw49
Date: 26 Feb 01 - 05:57 PM

No, I think it's "Spolk."

Aw Matt, you beat me AND Hawk to it!! What a piece of work.......but I feel secure in the knowledge that Little Hawk will be around soon to defend "Space Oddity," the tale of a psychotic astronaut trippin' to nowhere.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: mousethief
Date: 26 Feb 01 - 05:43 PM

Isn't folk music about space called filk?

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: Matt_R
Date: 26 Feb 01 - 05:24 PM

Yo Spaw!!!

Space Oddity--David Bowie
D'Yer Wanna Be a Spaceman --Oasis
Serenade --Steve Miller Band
Lady of The Stars --Donovan
Space Truckin' --Deep Purple

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 26 Feb 01 - 05:11 PM

Cosmic wheels by Donovan. Star trekking by who ever.

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: Bill D
Date: 25 Feb 01 - 01:14 PM

The Asteroid Light

Subject: RE: Space - The Final Folk Frontier?
From: Sorcha
Date: 25 Feb 01 - 12:35 PM

By the Time I Get to...

Dark Side of Mars

Deep Space Cyber Space

Go to Songworm Parodies and check the title lists..........I'm sure there is lots more, I only checked thru the "C's"