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Thread #1153   Message #2616050
Posted By: kytrad (Jean Ritchie)
21-Apr-09 - 09:00 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Johnny Todd
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Johnny Todd
I was best friends with Isla Cameron, in the London of 1952. She sang, "Johnny Todd" often when we had singing gatherings(and party food if anyone had spare food stamps). Eventually she sang it into our tape recorder microphone, so I have it somewhere still. It's a sweet, lively song, and Isla was, also. Would she were still with us. I believe it was also included in a children's songbook of mine, From Fair to Fair. (Oxford U. Press; now the U. Press of Kentucky).