Filk Song: Difference between revisions

** For example, Bob took one of Leslie Fish's Kipling tunes and wrote "They're Singing 'Banned From Argo,'" about how many veteran filkers have come to dislike the song from overexposure. One verse states that Leslie Fish has plugged her ears because ''she just doesn't want to hear it.'' And he got Leslie to perform it.

* [[League of Legends]] is becoming quite a popular subject, thanks to Riot's [https://web.archive.org/web/20130702152120/http://na.leagueoflegends.com/news/songs-summoned-contest-results Songs of the Summoned] contests. Searching "League of Legends songs" on Youtube will get you about 9,500+ hits

** Frequently, Fish or Alexander would, with Lackey's explicit encouragement, take the songs that appeared in her novels and set them to music.

** In what can only be described as an auto-[[Shout-Out]], Lackey named one of her minor characters Leslac, after the filkish term for a '''Les'''lie Fish-Mercedes '''Lac'''key collaboration. (Naturally, the character was a bard, albeit one who...didn't always get the story right.)

* [[Frank Zappa]] wrote at least one song ("Cheepnis") about his love of horrible low-budget science fiction movies. The movie he mentions in his pre-song patter on ''Roxy and Elsewhere'' would show up on ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' twenty-five years later.

* A number of [[YouTube]] videos, described as "Literal Videos", feature an original song video with the lyrics reworked to describe what is on screen. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj-x9ygQEGA Like this one].

* There's a song called ''Aquaman's Lament'' which seems to be by a guy named Mark Aaron James... it's pretty excellent, anyway.

* When Marni Nixon ("the Ghostess with the Mostest," a great singer famous for having dubbed over many [[The King and I|great]] [[My Fair Lady|movie]] [[West Side Story|musicals]] and never once getting credit) performed at the Hollywood Bowl in ''[[A Prairie Home Companion]]'' (which itself frequently features filks), she sang a parody of "[[My Fair Lady|I Could Have Danced All Night]]," called "[[Crowning Moment of Funny|I Could Have Dubbed Myself]]."