I will question anyones credentials,nobody questioned Berts credentials, or his intellectual honesty and look at the problems it caused.
[It rather gives the lie to the suggestion that printing destroys the oral tradition if the so-called oral tradition was a print one anyway.]quote FD.
Interesting if that is the case,why do folk song collectors differentiate between revival singers and singers who have learned their songs orally,their guideline are completely artificial and phoney.
Mike Yates was right when he collected Bob Blake[by mistake],he was a good singer singing in the accepted style it didnt matter a fiddlers fart that he learned the songs from the printed source,yet collectors like Peter Kennedy would prefer to collect anything providing it had been learned orally[regardless of quality].
the logical conclusion of this is that collectors could end up collecting the white cliffs of dover because its been learned orally
its not just football thats afunny old game,yours disgusted of Ballydehob .