One of most influential songs of the Revival was Irish traveller Margaret Barry's wonderful, heartbreaking rendition of She Moved Through The Fair, which everyone, but everyone, was singing in fine traditional style in the late50s-early60s [despite its traditionality being disputed, whatever Wiki sez]. When ultimately asked in an interview [by Karl Dallas if memory serves] where she had learned it - on the road? from parents? from other travellers? - she replied cheerfully, "Oh no, I learned it off a gramophone record by Count John McCormack".

Not the first time I have mentioned this; but I thought it belonged on this thread also