[nfb-talk] nfb songs

[Lloyd Rasmussen]

I was tweaking you folks a bit.  The style of singing and instrumentation is
very different from the latest offering by Risky Biz and the Cane Tips.
More choral and somewhat more rehearsed.

The Cane Raisers, sometimes also known as the Sligo Creek Digital
Communications Consortium, created a cassette of about 26 NFB songs in 1997.
Some tracks were recorded in Harold Snider's house in Wheaton, Maryland,
while most were recorded in the NFB recording studio.  It was a fundraising
project for the NFB of Maryland.  1,000 copies were made, and they sold for
$5 each in 1998 and the succeeding years.  Curtis Chong played keyboard.
Singers include Debbie Brown, Lloyd and Judy Rasmussen, Andrea Brandies,
Terry Powers, Tom Bickford and Gail Snider.  A few cassette copies exist,
and I think that a digital version is in the tenBroek Library.  We put a few
months into that project, but some of it is not as good or as enduring as I
would like.  Many of the songs are in the NFB songbook, published most
recently in 1990.  Another one is in "The Care and Feeding of the Long White
Cane", by Tom Bickford, a pseudo-kernel book that is in braille and DB in
the NLS collection.

Later!

Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
Work:  http://www.loc.gov/nls
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Joshua Lester
> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 10:38 PM
> To: lras at sprynet.com; NFB Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] nfb songs
> 
> Could you please find some contact information for me?
> I'd also like to hear that other group, you refered to, from the 1990's.
> Thanks, Joshua
> 
> On 7/12/12, Lloyd Rasmussen <lras at sprynet.com> wrote:
> > Risky Biz and the Cane Tips are from Tennessee, I think.  Not to be
> > confused
> > with the Cane Raisers of 1997, or the NFB of Pennsylvania who did a 33
> RPM
> > record of NFB songs in 1978 or 1979.
> >
> > Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
> > Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
> > Work:  http://www.loc.gov/nls
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On
> >> Behalf Of Ed Meskys
> >> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 1:30 PM
> >> To: nfb-talk
> >> Subject: [nfb-talk] nfb songs
> >>
> >> During National Convention I bought a music CD for $5 at a table in the
> >> Huckster Room. I do not remember at which table it was, but I think it
> >> was
> >> near the snak pak table of the Merchants' Division. The CD had three
> new
> >> NFB songs on it, a new P.A.C. song, one about the joys of moving around
> >> with a free NFB white cane, and one about the joys of going to a
> National
> >> convention. The CD was unedited with two of the songs being there
> twice,
> >> and some odd chatter between the songs. The songs were good and I will
> >> keep the CD, but I lost the envelope which had held the CD. I want to
> put
> >> it in a sturdy container and label it with Braille Dymo tape. Does
> anyone
> >> know the name of the group which did it, and whether the disk has a
> >> title?
> >> Thanks, Ed Meskys
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