I know what you mean Les but I wouldn't worry if I were you, I got all my songs 40+ years ago from revival singers like Dave Burland and Tony Rose, with two exceptions the pace egg song and the waltz for the veleta from Emma Vickers. Keep singing Les.

Likewise - I don't stop playing tunes because Bellowhead do them, any more than I do because any other high-profile band do. There was a roaring version of the Rochdale Coconut Dance at the session I was in on Tuesday, and that version owed far more to the Dead Horse Morris version than the Bellowhead one ...

Twenty (blimey, probably more) years ago it was The Albion Band who would popularise a tune and for a few years afterwards the ignorati would assume that you were only playing, say, Durham Rangers, because the Albions did.

Apart from the minor annoyance of the homogenisation that a famous version brings (in that the aforementioned ignorati assume that the Spinners / Albions / Bellowhead version is the only correct one and everyone else is 'playing it wrong'), does it really matter?