Apologies and Commercials

Subject: Apologies and Commercials
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 21 Apr 97 - 10:39 AM

As you've undoubtedly noticed, we've had some (as the TV folk say) technical difficulties.We lost a week's worth of threads--if anyone has been keeping copies, it would be great if they could be re-posted--and it's been impossible to create new ones. That part, at least, seems to have been fixed (as witness THIS new thread.) We're very sorry about the inconvenience. One of the lost threads dealt with our new sponsor, Camsco music (that's the red logo that appears on the database search page. We think it's an important thread, so I'll paraphrase it here: PLEASE read on.

As you can well realize, the income that Mudcat and the Digital Tradition can realize by giving everything away is severely limited (you could say non-existent). On the other hand, it costs to maintain a website. Worse, both Max Spiegel, Mudcat's bartender and webmeister, and dick greenhaus, the DT's curator, are self-employed. Which means that the time taken to maintain and improve this site is taken away from the time required to earn money for things like food and mortgage payments. We're hoping that a limited number of worthwhile sponsors will enable us to spend more time on what you-all seem to think is a worthwhile project. Camsco Music is most definitely a worthwhile sponsor. Camsco Music has a pretty unique focus. It specializes in traditional music. Camsco offers recordings from some of the larger labels like Rounder, Yazoo, Arhoolie and Green Linnet; Camsco also carries hard to find recordings from the UK on the Veteran and WildGoose labels, Canadian recordings on Singsong, American old time music on Marimac and quite a few other smaller labels. What makes Camsco different is that the company distributes music of artists who independently produce their own cassettes and compact discs. The recordings all come from performers who are firmly rooted in traditional music. And, in most instances, until the advent of Camsco, these recordings were only available at performances. The singers and musicians had no other distribution methods. So if you're looking for independently produced recordings by the Deseret String Band from Salt Lake City, the Copper Family from Rottingdean, England; Andy Cohen of Memphis, Ian Robb from Ottawa, Phil Cooper and Margaret Nelson from Chicago, Jim and Kim Lansford from Missouri, Helen Schneyer or Margaret MacArthur from Vermont, or more than a hundred others, take a look at the Camsco Music website. Wally Macnow, the founder of the.company, has been involved with traditional music in America for quite a while. He has been performing since 1958 and was an original member of Rock Creek, the a capella trio, from 1977 to 1986, He's also been on the boards of Pinewoods Folk Music Club in New York City, the Folk Song Society of Greater Washington, the Baltimore Folk Music Society, the Country Dance and Song Society of America, and numerous folk festivals. He also was heavily involved with the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress in its formative years. By the way, Camsco Music donates 3% of all sale profits to organizations dedicated to the preservation and presentation of traditional music.

To which I can add that Wally is knowledgable, helpful and generally good people to deal with. Patronizing Camsco will help Camsco, Mudcat, the DT, folkmusic in general, and you.

Subject: RE: Apologies and Commercials
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 21 Apr 97 - 11:42 PM

Just moving this back to the top where it may be noticed.

Subject: RE: Apologies and Commercials
From: Teru
Date: 22 Apr 97 - 05:26 AM

I'll post only a few threads I have been keeping.

Regards

Teru

Subject: RE: Apologies and Commercials
From: LaMarca
Date: 23 Apr 97 - 09:32 AM

I'll just re-enter my addendum to the Camsco commercial: Wally Macnow will have a Camsco booth at NEFFA this coming weekend, April 25-27. NEFFA (North East Folk Festival Association) is a great traditional music and dance festival held at Natick High School in Natick, Mass. (an ex-urb of Boston). They have a web site with a complete description and schedule whose address I don't have; just enter "NEFFA" in Yahoo or Infoseek to pick it up.

Anyway, if you're in the Boston area this weekend, NEFFA is great fun, and you can actually browse through Camsco's stock and thank them personally for sponsoring this web site!

Subject: J. PAGE: Amazing and expanding universe
From:
Date: 10 Apr 97 - 02:29 PM

I am looking for the title and words to this song. I believe it was done by the Northwests' folk singer Jimmy Page. It was also the finale song in Monty Python's "The Meaning of life".

thank for the help

Subject: Lyr Add: GALAXY SONG (Eric Idle, John Du Prez)
From: Ralph Butts
Date: 10 Apr 97 - 03:04 PM

From "The Meaning Of Life"....Tiger

GALAXY SONG—Music by Eric Idle and John Du Prez, Lyric by Eric Idle

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whiz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.

Subject: RE: J. PAGE: Amazing and expanding universe
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 10 Apr 97 - 05:24 PM

It's in the database. While you may not think of looking for the title (Global View). you could search for universe and/or expanding or even the keyword @astronomy

Subject: RE: J. PAGE: Amazing and expanding universe
From: JHILL
Date: 11 Apr 97 - 11:15 AM

THANKS FOR THE HELP, RALPH AND DICK. I DID FIND THE WORDS BY ACCESSING THE (UNOFFICIAL) "MONTY PYTHON" HOME PAGE. REAL INTERESTING STUFF FOR ANY PYTHONHEADS. SIMPLY ENTER MONTY PYTHON ON ANY SEARCH ENGINE. I USED YAHOO.

THANK AGAIN

JHILL

Subject: RE: Apologies and Commercials
From: John in Brisbane
Date: 31 Jan 00 - 09:39 PM

Better known as The Galaxy Song, I heard this on the radio this morning and was compelled to look it up. As Dick says it's in the DT under the obscure title of Global View. I'll send the Monty Python MIDI to Alan to post at Mudcat MIDIs so we can all enjoy it. Regards, John