Mudcat Café message #3594758

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Thread #54563 Message #3594758
Posted By: dick greenhaus
22-Jan-14 - 03:20 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Shoals of Herring (MacColl)
Subject: RE: Origins: Shoals of Herring (MacColl)

For the record, "Singing the Fishing was aird on BBC in 1959. Before the end of 1960, the song was well known (and badly overdone) in Greenwich Village folk circles.