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I finally updated my web page tonight. (I was planning on doing it last summer after Concertino announced me being a guest.)

I added the cover and song list for Dr. Seti's new CD, 'Sing More Songs of SETI', which was officially released this weekend at Boskone, along with the cover and song list of Paul Estin's CD 'Mind the Stopgap'. These are the latest 3 CDs I have done audio engineering on.

In addition, the Contata 2008 housefilk CD song list is now on my web page. 'Flying Stone - Doo-wop Version', which is on that CD has been on the filk archive since August 2008. I will see about more permissions to put songs from there on the filk archive. (Cover art is coming soon. Along with a couple of more songs to be uploaded onto the filk archive.)

A song I recorded for Roberta Rogow is a retelling of an urban legend. She mentioned that she had gotten the story from a book of Urban legends and did a retelling of that story as a filk song.

What I am wondering is.... Should I be contacting the author of the urban legend book for permission to use the song on a CD or for posting to filk archive.

Mostly the permissions I am wanting to get (and wondering if I need their permission) are permission to post the song to the filk archive (eventually) and for putting it on a filk CD. (Roberta's next CD being the main one planned for, but potentially a convention/compilation CD, too.) A copy of the CD(s) would be sent to the author as a standard thank you for permission and their archives if their permission is required.

I do have the author's name and book name so I can try to contact them via their publisher (or the fanish community if a contact exists.)

The song in question is 'The Woman in the Snow' which Roberta has performed at a few conventions including Worldcon 2008.

Crossposted to FILK.

Home from OVFF. Good visit to Ohio. I am going back again next year. I ended up with a lot of CDs (most being relayed to a filk dealer @ Philcon.) My collection has a number of new CDs (and 5 cassette tapes including a couple I only previously had mp3s.) I ended up assisting all weekend with the sound crew. Fuzzyvanman was great to work with again. I am glad I was able to assist him out by mic wrangling. (yes, I am back next year to do the same over all 4 days.)

Pegasus awards were wonderful. Congratulations to all of the winners.

It was nice to put faces to the names I have been talking to on here for a while. Concerts (and one/two shots were wonderful.)

A CD I put together for Contata 18 (2008) was donated to interfilk since I can't sell them and raised over $300. (I think the number was $325.) my jaw dropped when it cracked $200. I still have a few copies I owe for thank you copies (many were delivered over the weekend, so I am happy. The remaining to be delivered copies is down to 3 copies. (2 for replacement/problems with disc (one had an empty case!) and one more contributor copy.))

CDs released @ OVFF (or fairly new (aka since Worldcon in Denver)) -

Jeff & Maya Bohnoff - Mobius Strip
Graham Leathers - Bears All (this was out pre-worldcon, but I am not sure when in 2008 it released)
Randy Hoffman (featuring Kira Heston) - More Vocals in the MOnitors
OVFF GOHs - Tim and Anne Walker/Wilderwood - Dancing Through The Past
Juliana McCorison - Not Just Lullabies from Planet Earth
Paul Estin - Mind the Stopgap (CD-R released @ ConChord when he was an interfilk guest). He numbers his CDs and #42 was donated to interfilk.

Reprinted - BOTH Duras Sisters CDs with 2 extra tracks on each CD. (4 new songs - Live recordings.)

And a fundraiser for Duckon -

DVD video (not audio) - Live from Duckon 16 - In Concert Murray Porath, Frank Hayes and Michael Longcor. (2007 Duckon)
DVD Video (not an audio CD) - Acoustic Vs Electric (parody of the apple Mac/PC commercials) About an hour in length, from Duckon 2008. (I don't have the details off hand, but I believe its Rand and Adam English from Ookla the Mok.)

Time for me to head to bed. I have to work in the morning.

Current Music: Tim and Anne Walker - GOH concert from OVFF 24

I just found on the pegasus awards site that the 2008 Ballot is Live!

Congratulations to those nominated!!!

http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/2008finalballot.html

A few weeks ago, I ran sound @ Contata. This morning, I found on my friends list, some links to songs from Contata by the group, Sassafrass.

Link to their posting -

http://community.livejournal.com/sassafrassmusic/2038.html

They have one CD out and are working on their 2nd one. (The first CD is now only available as a 2nd printing on CD-R.)

Their web page (with song samples.)

http://adapalmer.com/sassafrass/index.html

Just wanted to share the song list that was on the CD that everyone got @ Contata 2008. All members were given a copy. (This will save everyone the retyping time.)

Thank you to everyone who gave permission for the CD to be published. Its is appreciated.

It was a limited print run of 150 copies. Reprints are NOT planned. When I have time (a few weeks from now), a cover scan and this track list will appear on my web page.

The track listing and liner notes:

1. Ho! For the Death of Time, Narf! – Joshua Kronengold, Batya Wittenberg, I Abra Cinii (Feld/Smith) 2:46
2. Jabbercroce – I Abra Cinii (Caroll/Croce, Arr. Cinii) 2:12
3. Dried Frog Pills – Batya Wittenberg (Wittenberg/Fish*) 1:43
4. Geist – Dave Weingart (Weingart) 2:11
5. Precious – Leah Smith (Smith/Trad) 1:03
6. Evil Is A Four-Letter Word, Too! – Batya Wittenberg (Leger/Fish*) 3:35
7. Grew It Myself – Joshua Kronengold (Kronengold/Sutton†) 2:00
8. Eat It Slow – Batya Wittenberg (Wittenberg/Faber) 1:23
9. Chocolate Jesus – Rennie Levine (Levine/Rush&Cromarty) 3:55
10. Banned from Pesach – Liam Browne (Browne/Fish*) 0:16
11. Fluorine Atom – Paul Estin (Estin) 4:23
12. The Old Issue – Batya Wittenberg (Kipling/Fish*) 2:55
13. Dollar Fifty Movies – Dave Weingart and the whole room (Bellavia/English/Hoffman) 3:52
14. Monster in the Lab – Joshua Kronengold (Kronengold/Trad) 2:04
15. Run Little Bird – Merav Hoffman and Batya Wittenberg (Hoffman/Wittenberg/McGuire) 3:01
16. Flying Stone (Doo-Wop Version) – I Abra Cinii and the whole room (Cinii) 6:17
17. A Gown Too Blue – Batya Wittenberg and Dave Weingart (Sutton) 4:03
18. Yielding to Temptation – Yehuda Porath (Mandel/Faber) 2:35
19. Swing Low, Sweet Double-A – I Abra Cinii and the whole room (Cinii/Trad) 5:54

Bonus tracks Recorded Live @ GaFilk 2008:
21. Man in the Moon and Time Travel – Team B – Greg McMullan, Nancy Louise Freeman, Larry Kirby (McMullan/Freeman/Kirby/Trad) 1:07
22. Broccoli and Fishing Pole – Team A – Mark Bernstein, Beth Runnerwolf, Judi Miller (Bernstein/Runnerwolf/Miller/Smith) 1:39
23. Instafilk response to previous 2 songs – Tom Smith (Smith) 2:12

* Please support Leslie Fish by visiting LeslieFish.com
† Music copyright 1985 Bill Sutton / Mad Tom Music.

Thank you to everyone for your permission to use your song(s) on this CD.

Recording, Production, Editing: Harold Stein | Lots of advice for this CD: Merav Hoffman
FFS-005

Since it was officially announced while I was busy running sound @ Contata 2008, I did not take the time to do more than a BRIEF check on everyone's LJs over the weekend. (And the occasional comment on my friend's LJs.)

I will be attending Concertino 2009 as Techno-Guest. http://www.concertino.net/

The rest of the guest list for Concertino are -

GOHs - Bill and Gretchen Roper
Toastmistress - Kathleen Sloan
Interfilk guests - Brooke Lunderville and John Caspell
Ghost of Honor - Lois Mangan

I know I am going to be looking forward to seeing all of them @ Concertino. They are worth the trip to see live!

Now that I am home from Contata (and backing up the recordings from the digital recorders running @ the con.)

Contata 2008 - a project that has been at least 2 years in the making. (I have been a member of the Concom since I heard about the planning meeting @ Concertino 2006 which I was attending.) We ran this past weekend. It was great. I was behind the sound desk (and on the stage setting up microphones and running between rooms checking/changing the digital recorders) all weekend. When I did actually get a chance to sit down and listen to everyone (I think there was about 2-3 points during the weekend and during part of the dead dog.), it sounded great.

The sound team who jumped in and helped out and did an excellent and commendable job (AND DESERVE A LOT OF CREDIT!!!!!) were http://jslove.livejournal.com/, Joe Kessleman and from England, http://fleetfootmike.livejournal.com/ (was on his 2 con tour due to a work conference in Chicago during the week between cons). THANK YOU GUYS!!!!!!! You did a great job and deserve a standing ovation and a round of applause!

I can confirm the con was recorded in all 3 rooms for most of the convention (dead dog/open filks might have had a song missed when equipment changes were occurring).

The few concerts I actually DID hear (and not ran around like a headless chicken) were great. The Tom Smith Tribute was wonderful and had lots of songs (including a wonderful 5 part harmony on Falling Free.). I will be posting into the filk LJ what the song list for the concert was in the near future.

LadyMondegreen ran a great con and was an invaluable help in getting out the housefilk sampler CD. Thank you for doing that. To answer the obvious - yes to sound crew for 2011. I will do it again. (Can you get me the same crew again? They were GREAT and were wonderful to work with.)

Wow! I am actually using this for a change... Its time for the once a year post.. :)

Best way to reach me is still via email.

I released a CD for Roberta Rogow back in August and NEVER advertised it online beyond emails to the dealers. Today, I came across a posting for people to advertise CDs and I finally got around to advertising Roberta's CD. I posted this in Filk, FilkNews and rec.music.filk.

Ok. Time for me to finish updating the web page files. (2 songs (combined intro and music) are going up, updates to the recording locations on about page and a listing of KNOWN usage of my recordings. (Conterpoint 2007 Songbook CD, 2 FuMP songs, Dr. Seti's new CD.))

Harold

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"Roberta Rogow - Alive and Filking" is now available. Its a live album recorded at two of her 2006 concerts (Lunacon 2006 and Philcon 2006).

Most of the songs have never appeared on Roberta's tapes.

CDs are available directly from the following sources -

Tales from the White Hart (Kathy Sands) - via email @ talwhi at earthlink dot net
Dag - Filk.com - now in the store - http://www.filk.com/xcart/product.php?productid=16211&cat=0&page=1&featured
Secret Empire (Dodeka/Bill Roper) - Cons only

And of course, Roberta at conventions she is attending. (Philcon next week where she is running Filk).

Web page (where I am going to go update and post some sample songs. Songs will be available tonight (after 9pm EDT, 10 Nov 2007)) is at http://www.floatingfilk.com.

Song intros are separated from the songs themselves as a separate track.

Song list is as follows -
1 & 2. DS9 Farewell (tune: ‘Jamaica Farewell’ by Erving Burgess)
3 & 4. Salute to a Lady (tune: ‘The Queen of Argyll’ by Andy M. Stewart)
5 & 6. Padme’s Lullaby (tune: ‘Layla Layla’ by Mordechai Zeira)
7 & 8. Darth Vader’s Confession (tune: ‘The Patriot Game’ by Dominic Behan)
9 & 10. Palpatine, He’s No Good! (tune: ‘You're No Good’ by Clint Ballard, Jr.)
11 & 12. Clones (tune: ‘Boots’ by Leslie Fish)
13 & 14. Selling the Rings (tune: ‘King of the Road’ by Roger Miller)
15 & 16. Do-Svidanya, Mir (tune: ‘Those Were the Days (Dorogoi dlinnoyu)’ by Gene Raskin & Boris Fomin)
17 & 18. The Little Rover That Could (tune: ‘The Little Engine That Could’ by Mark Mueller)
19 & 20. Pluto’s Degradation (tune: ‘Annie Doesn’t Live Here Anymore’ by Harold Spina)
21 & 22. The Flight of Apollo Thirteen (tune: ‘Ballad of Transport 18’ by Leslie Fish)
23 & 24. Warning: Dangerous Planet (tune: ‘Little Fuzzy Animals’ by Frank Hayes)
25 & 26. The Writer’s Revenge * (tune: ‘Sell a Lot of Beer’ by Bill Anderson, Brad Warren, Brett Warren)
27 & 28. Blind Date (tune: ‘She Never Cried When Old Yeller Died’ by Danny Mayo, Freddy Weller, Diana Rae)
29 & 30. Dragon Riding (tune: ‘Donkey Riding’ Traditional)
31 & 32. Meerkat Mad Love (tune: ‘La ci darem la mano’ from Don Giovanni, by W. A. Mozart)
33 & 34. Fact/Fiction (tune: ‘Both Sides Now’ by Joni Mitchell)

All songs performed by Roberta Rogow. Guest appearance by Dr. H. Paul Shuch from the audience at Philcon on ‘Pluto’s Degradation.’

Current Location: Home - working on Web page and audio editing
Current Music: Do You Dream of Electric Sheep? CD

Ok... This account was created for posting on other people's LJs. At the time, I needed a throw away name for something I was not going to use. Hence, the previous LJ name I used. Since then, its become something I regularly use. I have been thinking about changing this to what I normally go by for a while...

I actually changed it today.

I still will not be posting very frequently.... When I do, its likely going to be filk announcements of what is new out there.

The fastest and best way to reach me is still via email.

Harold

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Filk song publishing - permissions question - opinions wanted
OVFF 24
2008 Pegasus Awards Ballot is Live!
Contata 2008 songs on YouTube
Live from New York CD - NYC Housefilk Sampler CD
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