[Sca-cooks] OT: GAFilk

[Huette von Ahrens]

But you have totally ignored Allen Sherman, who
created this genre long before science fiction
filking was ever done.  And you made no mention
of Weird Al Yankovitch, who is probably the most
recognizable filker now.  Granted, they don't
do science-fiction filking, but SF filking is
only one element of filking in general.  

Huette, who was part of the LA Filkharmonics
first performance, author of quite a few SCA
filks and a proud co-author of three Dark 
Shadows filk songbooks.

wanders off singing one of her "hits":

Deck the halls with cloves of garlic.
Fa la la la lah; la la la lah.
For the vampires soon will frolic.
Fa la la la lah; la la la lah.
Don we now our silver crosses
Fa la lah; la la lah; la la lah.
Soon we'll have to count our losses.
Fa la la la lah; la la la lah.

--- Susan Fox-Davis <selene at earthlink.net> wrote:


> GA for Georgia, USA;  Filk for filk singing,
> Science Fiction Fandom's 
> answer to Folk Singing.  Some parodies or songs
> set to previously 
> existing tunes, some highly original.  Of
> course, the term has crossed 
> over into SCA bardic circles. A few filkers
> have crossed over into the 
> public via Dr. Demento's syndicated radio show,
> such as Leslie Fish and 
> The Great Luke Ski.   A closer examination of
> Filking can be seen in 
> direct-to-video feature TREKKIES 2, I know
> because I'm there in the 
> background of scenes shot at Con-Chord in Los
> Angeles.  GAFilk is the 
> first full weekend of January and I wish I
> could go.
> 
> Selene
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