Leslie, the version of "Bachelor's Hall" that I recorded on "Lifeline" was sung for a number of years by a wonderful balladeer named Tom Kines. Jeri's info is correct about it's origin. Tom was very theatrical, and because he had a trained voice, came close at times to being one of those "grand piano folkies". I only got to know him about a year before he died and he appeared a trifle bitter that he never got invited to folk festivals. He couldn't for the life of him understand why a twenty year old singing about a recent love affair, warranted inclusion at a gathering of folkies, and he, who had spent a lifetime carrying on Canadian ballad tradition was so rejected. I believe he was close to Richard Dyer Bennett, and Ed McCurdy. For a time he had a CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) radio show called "the song peddlar". I sing about 10 of his versions of Canadian folk songs.
Rick