Part of the reason that RUS caught on, despite it's flaws, is that it had lots of more contemporary stuff in it, songs that were (God forgive me for using the word) POPULAR--Which is to say, more just the stuff everyone had been singing since the year one.

A lot of songs have been written, collected, and listened to since those "hoots" that some of you still recall--A hundred times more (at least) than any single one of us has been able to learn in the interim--which means that if we want to sing together, there have to be accommodations made.

The jackpot question here is, how many of you "old hoots" can even name, let alone sing, a set of the songs that the twenty somethings and teens of today grew up with? If you want to sing with them, you'll need the song sheets, otherwise, you can sit in the back room--


You may prefer the way that it was done then, but that was then and this is now. They delivered milk in horse drawn carriages then as well, and the world has changed in a whole lot of ways, so it ain't gonna happen again--