Talk:Rise Up Singing

Origin
According to page II, under Acknowledgements, "This book took fifteen years to bring to birth. ... We want to thank the Farm & Wilderness campers who first helped develop the idea of organizing a lyric book like this one".

The book was originally distributed as photocopied sheets, then spiral bound into a small book, which was distributed "just for our own use" sans copyright information. Over a three year period the copyright status and authorship was "exhaustively" researched, and some songs were tossed because they could not be included, many added, and "just for our own use" was no longer needed. The result, now called "Rise Up Singing", was published first in 1988. Maybe someone else can remember what the earlier versions were called. "Wasn't that a time". And no, that wasn't what it was called. That's just a reference to that period in history. 199.125.109.126 (talk) 03:47, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

"fake" book
I have no clue what is meant by this phrase. Perhaps it's some technical music term, but it's confusing. This book is not fake at all. It just doesn't contain sheet music. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Skysong263 (talk • contribs) 17:22, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
 * See Fake book. It appears to be an applicable term for this type of music book. Meters (talk) 03:28, 3 February 2019 (UTC)
 * That term is (and was at the time the original concern was posted) even linked in the lede. DMacks (talk) 03:40, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

Revisions of article
I was the Associate Editor of the sequel to "Rise Up Singing," "Rise Again." I got my hand slapped for correcting a link in the article on "Rise Up Singing," so I won't bother trying to edit anything again. But there used to be a pretty good and accurate article on "Rise Up Singing," and now it has been edited down to almost nothing. This songbook is very popular in singing circles all over the United States, and it has sold over a million copies since it was first published in 1988. It has lyrics and chords for 1200 songs, and there is an accompanying Website, https://www.riseupandsing.org/ that has YouTube recordings of almost every song so people can learn the songs. The book emphasizes folk songs, but includes religious, pop, Broadway, and other genres of music. Please consider revising this article and including some of the information that used to be in the article. Joe Offer, Associate Editor, Rise Again Songbook — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joeoffer (talk • contribs) 05:14, 10 December 2020 (UTC)