Hi, Teresa - I put a link for the Debby McClatchy Website (click) on our Folk Musician and Songwriter Links Page (click). The link to Debby isn't working today. I can't imagine it's permanently dead - I just helped get it revised about a month ago.

Anyhow, the site has a good discography on it, and I can't get to it. "Cremation of Sam McGee" and "Ballad of Blasphemous Bill" are on her "Lady Luck" album, which was on Green Linnet. I guess maybe she didn't record "Shooting of Dan McGrew." Debby has the Green Linnet tapes, but they're in bad shape, and she doesn't think she will be able to reissue them on CD. I don't think she does her musical setting of the Robert W. Service poems any more. I got her to sing a verse or two of Sam McGee one time when she was here, but she said the Service poems aren't what she's interested in nowadays. If any singer is known for musical settings of Robert W. Service, it's Debby McClatchy (and Hank Snow). But Hank's dead, and Debby doesn't do 'em any more.

This page (click) has transcripts of some of the more famour Robert W. Service poems, including "Sam McGee," "Blasphemous Bill," and "The Shooting of Dan McGrew." There are a number of Service poems posted here, scattered all around Mudcat.

-Joe Offer-

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This Page (click) is the old Debby Website, which is still operating.