Thanks for posting the links and interviews. This is a very good and useful thread. This would be a great popular culture topic for someone needing to write a paper. Trouble with delivering it would be that you would have to play samples and you generally only have 20 minutes. What to choose!

The Irish Ballad--I always laugh when I hear that, but since my father sang that one from very early on I always think of it as one of his songs also. It was a bedtime song for us, of course!

SRS