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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

Greetings and felicitations. I was reminded within the last hour or so of a song on one of my tapes about "lawn worshiping like the rest", and the singer's dislike of Lone Star Beer (which the lawn worshipers drink). It's possibly by and/or sung by Mercedes Lackey. What are the title and album?

Edit: Solved!: "Oklahoma Weed Whacker Massacre" by Leslie Fish, sung by Mercedes Lackey. (I should know better—I tell people all the time on low traffic book subs to do just this.)

he was pulling a job like so many before when they caught him and put him in jail

he was sentenced to transport to far away shores when the prison ship London set sail

I know more of the lyrics but not in order and I'm typing on mobile

And now, for something completely different! Well, a bit different. These tapes were donated in lossy formats. Other people did the work, but only had the lossy version available to share. Most of these are redundant with ones I've also digitized, but not all, and you may prefer these versions. I'm sticking them in a dedicated subfolder.

Containing Folder > Tapes Donated in Lossy Formats

• By The Sword
• Freedom, Flight, & Fantasy
• Heralds, Harpers, & Havoc
• Lovers, Lore, & Loss
• Magic, Moondust, & Melancholy
• Not Canned or Frozen
• Oathbound
• Oathbreakers
• Owlflight & Gryphons
• Shadow Staker - Songs of Vanyel's Time
• Songsmith - Songs from Andre Norton's Witch World
• Sun & Shadow

These are are sourced from the community - Thank you!

You can find more details about these albums in the filk wiki.

The raw .wav files are here, on the Internet Archive.

Interested in helping this filk preservation project by contributing tapes or their digitizations? Click here for details.