[LAU] New (old) Song

Folderol folderol at ukfsn.org
Mon Dec 13 12:53:30 UTC 2010


On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 23:42:24 -0800
"Patrick Shirkey" <pshirkey at boosthardware.com> wrote:

> On Sun, December 12, 2010 1:49 pm, Folderol wrote:
> > Some friends and I wrote this in 1990 for the Romanian orphans. We had
> > hoped to
> > get it recorded and published but didn't have a clue what we were doing,
> > so it
> > never happened.
> >
> > From time to time the rough tape we did would surface and I'd feel guilty
> > about
> > it. A few years ago I went as far and transcribing it and making a basic
> > recording of the melody. Recently, after much self castigation, I finally
> > got
> > down to making a proper recording and singing the song so here it is.
> >
> > It is not only for those orphans of 20 years ago, but for my friends (who
> > are
> > now gone) and for all the children still being abandoned around the world.
> >
> > http://www.musically.me.uk/music/Corridors_Of_Shame.ogg
> >
> > Hmm. I don't think 'enjoy' is the right word.
> 
> 
> Very powerful lyrics.
> 
> Your voice has aspects of Roger Waters and Eric Clapton. Maybe you could
> get this track into their hands and they could really take it somewhere?
> 
> Thanks for sharing.

Thank you very much for your comments Patrick.

Unfortunately I expect mainstream artists would regard this as 'old news'. Then
again I wouldn't have a clue how to contact them. I expect they have an entire
industry filtering out the fan-mail!

-- 
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.


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