Home Planetarian Songs

Songs dedicated to the memory of old style analog planetariums, and about building a planetarium in your own home.   the Home Planetarium Association   mrgare5050@gmail.com   Gary Likert

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Home Movies:  1962

I Miss Ana Log (Planetariums)

Back in 1924 

There came a brand new thing

In Germany a man called Zeiss

Was planetarium king 

But analog’s turned to dig

Now we have to cry  

For the starlight would fizz

And the romance died

Forward to the 60’s, 

Adler was the place we could hang

We couldn’t get enough

From backyards to the very big bang 

Soon my telescope youth

Was an astro fest

and that dream would take root

And i felt so blest

Missing planet-TAY-ria 

Why’d they have to change 

What was already fine

Im just here to say to ya  and say and say 

Bringing back the analog stars

Soon became the passion of my mind 

Never mind your digi stuff

Its out of step you see

Anna Log is my new dear

you’ll fall down on your knees

Now I build my own 

My star projectors cover it all

My own constellations 

Covering the ceiling and walls 

When technology fails 

Cause it just moves on 

Then we grab what was best

And we take it along  

Planetarians Delight
Planetarians Delight (Live Version)

Ole Ron Walker, and ole Gare Likert too 

Was sitting on their porch

With nothing better to do 

Till they reached in the past           

in their memory’s haze                       

and a long lost dream

From the Adler days

then their hearts were flung

To the depths of the sky 

There came a gleam in them ole boys eyes

It was a Planetarian’s Delight

They were astounded

For none had foreseen

That a star projector and dome

Could appear on their scene 

Now some folks might blather

bout the cost that they met

but the stuff they gathered

was a good junk bet

Now you may be wondering

If this story’s untrue    hey

You never know what a dream can do …

And when they opened

No sound could be heard

But the whole world holding its breath

About what had occurred 

All that building drilling

Well it took a long time

Now their seats keep filling

For their stars are sublime

And for ages to come

We’ll all look to their skies

In the depths where their dream still flies 

It was a Planetarian’s Delight

On That Bright Lake Michigan Shore

Never thought I’d pass this way again

Rolling up that 59  

In search of a long lost friend

Never dared to hope that I would find for sure 

Those stars I cant forget

It was many years before

On the bright Lake Michigan shore

And a wind and a prayer

And I hope that they’re still there

Shining like before  

On that bright Lake Michigan Shore

Summer afternoons without a care

Sitting neath that monster bright

With a magic in the air

Does a circle come round anymore

Can a lost dream be found at that door

Look now!  dont fade away 

Dreams can carry to another day

Look now, are they strong 

Dreams can linger in the lost and found 

And I remember that gasp!

Lord how we gasped .. 

People say you can never go back again

But I’m driving up this coastline

And my heart remembers when 

We were always there

With a magic in the air  

May they shine forever more  

On that bright Lake Michigan shore

Look now,  don’t fade away! 

Stars can linger to another day

Point Blank

Since I was boy been 

missing the Adler

Threw away my toys 

Was considerably sadder

When we moved I missed those stars

And I was feeling blue 

I got a cake box, flash light

And darkened my digs

Through the pinholes came a sight and

I was flipping my wig 

And now I’m point blank 

Diggin my stars

I know that you will too  

Now dontcha see I’m coming point blank

Throwing up the stars so bright

I’m leaning back  

Cause I do it right

Projecting point blank 

All the con-stellation pictures sublime 

Well you can go outside

And try that big REAL sky  

But all these crazy city lights are

Gonna make you cry

So come on point blank 

In my dome, I’ll show you what to do 

Now I am a man 

Still projecting the fables

Legends and the stars

From celestial tables 

Man I got a big ol dome 

I started HPA …

You can visit my place

My stars are here on loan 

Or you can find a darkened space and

And you can build all your own, so just start

Point blank projecting  on your ceiling dome today!   

Point blank making those stars, there’s nothing in your way

heres to Richard E   (dedicated to Richard Emmons, the father of Home Planetaria)

Here’s to you Richard E 

May you live in history 

There was a strong undying purpose 

In your style  

You invented your own sky 

We are kindreds, you and I

Blending knowledge with such feeling  

Un-denied 

So here’s to Richard E  

What’s down under or up over  

It depends on point of view

And how we share common sky

And common ground

Are the now and then so different

It depends on what we do 

To keep your legacy alive 

With all we’ve found

So here’s to you Richard E

Your stars are more than memory

It’s as if we’ve always known you 

So we say

You live in spirit and in words

And you’ll always be heard

And your

 ever guiding presence   

Here we see

So here’s to Richard E

A Scene Pristine (Beyond 6th Mag)

You never wanted to believe 

There’d come a day when you could find the door 

You never wanted to believe

that you were missing so much more  

But it seems to me, there,s always more to see

Like the stars reflection in a winters snow 

Shining strong you know,  they can always glow  

Like the cool reflection of a winters dressing

A Scene Pristine

You say you’ve never been

But have you looked up there

To Nature’s beauty scheme

You’re always playing out your melodramas

But deep inside what are you waiting for?

Beyond sixth mag 

You say its not your bag?

To seek the deeper things 

So your attention’s lagged  

Your’e always playing out your endless traumas

But deep inside you know you yearn for more 

And it seems to me, you’re the one I see  

who let their dreams have limits 

so they just can’t flow  

Dreams are strong you know

They can always grow 

Like the cool reflection of the stars best blessings

Remembering Milky Way (Final Version)

I once had a horse called Milky Way

A light coat fringed with black

He was a bay

Remembering Milky Way

Remembering Milky Way

I never rode him up where air is clear

On mountain top he’d fall, that was my fear

Remembering Milky Way

But then one night he broke his stall

I searched all night, no hope at all

I finally heard him crying down to me

I climbed up where the stars were bright

Reflecting off his coat just right 

I knew right then just what his name should be 

I once had a horse called Milky Way  

And on his back the stars lived every day

Remembering Milky Way

Remembering Milky Way

The Ballad of Ron-go  (Karaoke - Ringo)

In a desert not so parched
In a conference held in Marched
On the edge of a Creek so bold
That came out of a Cave of old

To the one that was the best
His triangles surpassed the rest
But it will be a very long ride
To see Ron-go

Its a Bob!  Its a Bob!
Its a two sided sword
With a magic touch
One shines north
The other, not so much
It can do stars so large
But you know it depends on
Who's in charge
When you stand fast and snark
You know who you need in that dark
You need Ron-go

More Home Planetarian Songs

Lets all go to the OC

The Omaha Postman

Maybe Its A Sword

Lost in Thought (just missing planetarium skies)

Sell My Starball

Home Planet-TAY-Rium Donate Rap

Nothing Happening Here 

Loud Jacket Man Theme

Crank

MInolta Part 2


KARAOKE PARODY SERIES

Planetarium Pipe Dream (Instrmental Version)

By the Time I Get to Cave Creek  (By the Time I Get to Phoenix)

Heard it Through the Gare-Vine  (Heard it Through the Grapevine)

It Dont Move  (I Walk the Line)

Ballad of Ron-Go)  (Ringo)

Ol Carls Dumbbells  (Fat Bottomed Girls)

The Stars of Earl  (The Duke of Earl)

Welcome to the Star Barn Planetarium  (Hotel California)

Ronnie B Goode  (Johnny B Goode)

Desperate Garo  (Desperado)

StarBoys  (Mommas Don't Let Your Babies Grow up to be Cowboys)

El Zeisso   (El Paso)

Up in the Tarium  (Up on the Roof)

Help!    (Help me sell these lamps)  Help!

Desperate Garo,

 why don't you stop riding ranges?You been out makin changes for so long now
Oh, you're a crazed one
But you know you moved too many couches
and now your back slouchesand  it hurts you somehow 

Don't you sell the Stephen Smith boy 
His skies are very stable
You know the Armand Spitzballs always second best 

Now, it seems to me these aint toys
that have been laid upon your table
But you only want that Zeiss that you can't get

Desperate Garo

why don't you stop all your cheatin

and put in some heating , tear down that shack 

it may be raining so you need a dry roof above you

you better let some big dome love you

you better let some big dome love you 

and that's just a fact

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