Perfectly rendered in my opinion.

Absolutely. Who was that, VT?

Here's one right back at ya! Again, perfectly sung (budgie included).

Child #2 Sung by Mrs. Allie Long Parker of Eureka Springs, Arkensas, April 1958.

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I once heard a Revival singer doing a Harry Cox impression IN FRONT OF Harry Cox!!

The sincerest form of flattery?

Thing is, we were all moved by listening to someone and those influences and mannerisms can be telling, even up to them being considered a tradition in themselves. As well as the Old Singers, I love a lot of great revival singers old & young; I love the singing a lot of people I've heard in singarounds; but I also love Revival I singers who don't bother with the Revival II Folk Voice, for the origin of which you might look no further than the late great Tim Hart, who, like Shirley Collins, spawned a generation of singers who thought that was how to sing folksongs. Well, it certainly was for Tim Hart and Shirley Collins anyway, but, as I say, imitation is the sincerest form etc. etc. That said, there is a convivial correctness about the Folk Voice which amounts to a sort of misguided pedantry, but I do love those big-voiced morris-blokes, even though their swagger & showboating can be a little irksome at times. A dying breed? God, I hope not.

All this talk of Little Girl Voices and seductive 14-year-olds seems more than a little perverted. If I think of a LGV I might think of Lena Zavaroni, and there is a fashion that adopts certain Comhaltas Sean-Nos stylings to other traditions but when I listen to such singers I'm not hearing children or adolescents, but a mature musical singing style, and very powerful too, like Susie Jones of Preston, who I've seen silence huge audience with the power and subtlety of her singing without a PA!