Thank you for writing this. I’ll tell you the sad sad story about the song I wrote years ago for a group of friends who sometimes sang corny songs at infrequent gatherings. It’s a tiger song to give non-tiger spouses a musical identity, but it’s suitable for alumni too. After I wrote it, life happened and the group stopped gathering, so it was never sung. The song lay dormant for years. It was fading into oblivion until I decided to record it for my 20th reunion. It now lives on BandCamp, and there’s a copy of the sheet music in the Princetoniana collection in Firestone. I’ve been sharing it every year around Reunions, and it gets a smattering of appreciation. It is a good song. But mostly it doesn’t matter and I feel like a lunatic for having written something that people don’t want. Maybe people don’t want songs like this to be written by someone who is still alive, or maybe they don’t want them to be written by a woman. Maybe they just don’t want songs like this. :’(
Thank you for writing this. I’ll tell you the sad sad story about the song I wrote years ago for a group of friends who sometimes sang corny songs at infrequent gatherings. It’s a tiger song to give non-tiger spouses a musical identity, but it’s suitable for alumni too. After I wrote it, life happened and the group stopped gathering, so it was never sung. The song lay dormant for years. It was fading into oblivion until I decided to record it for my 20th reunion. It now lives on BandCamp, and there’s a copy of the sheet music in the Princetoniana collection in Firestone. I’ve been sharing it every year around Reunions, and it gets a smattering of appreciation. It is a good song. But mostly it doesn’t matter and I feel like a lunatic for having written something that people don’t want. Maybe people don’t want songs like this to be written by someone who is still alive, or maybe they don’t want them to be written by a woman. Maybe they just don’t want songs like this. :’(
Here’s a link if you’d like to hear “Black and Orange Me”; I also made this YouTube video to help people learn the words.