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Thread #155357 Message #3654365
Posted By: Musket
28-Aug-14 - 03:51 AM
Thread Name: What makes a new song a folk song?
Subject: RE: What makes a new song a folk song?
Thirty odd years ago, Dave Burland got up to sing in a folk club that rather pompously declared itself a "folk only" club. I had earlier sung one of my own songs and got a glare from the MC.
Dave sang "I don't like Mondays" written by Bob Geldof of course for his band The Boomtown Rats and recently been in the charts back then.
He introduced it as a living folk song. Gave the provenance in his intro, all the rest of it.