Still More on Sam's Song

Cliff's Notes #2

 From Sam Armitage:

The photon torpedo I first heard of (again) from Chris Chivers.  It is lethally strong, and I have distinct recall of a young (well, she was then) lady crawling up to me at a dead-dog party announcing she'd had seven and where was her 8th?

But having a litre would probably kill your ,liver in about 5 minutes.,

And Hunter (it's capitalised) was my fictional identity at the time beyond Soren

Verse two:  if you don't knoiw what a Nyrond is, read Zander's oeuvre (it's available on Lulu for reasonable prices); the Nyrond stuff is credited as co-authored with me;

The warpdrive, Nyrond smallships don't use, but it made the song explicable to Star Trek fen (which a lot of the London Mob were)

The Vigilante were the Intergalactic Police of the Sagittarian Era, and used to run in Nyronds on principle.

And, at the time, I was a barrister, and my life was going away from me.

From Philip Alcott:

I think the tradition (of playing the song at the closing ceremonies) started at VIbraphone (1994) when - I need to check - I think it won a UK filk award. Before they were christened "Sams" even.  Which years I couldn't say after that. Has it stopped?  It's up to each year's committee.

According to filk.co.uk, Sam's Song did indeed win the "All time great" award at VIbraphone 1994.

The UK Filk Awards were called "The Sams", after Sam Armitage, the eponymous "Sam" of Sam's Song, from Didgeri-Douze 2000.

Also according to filk.co.uk, Sam's Song was included in "On Filkley Moor" Beccon Publications 1988.