"I wonder if singing those songs at school all those years ago had any subliminal influence on our chosen path in music"

I never much cared for them at the time - 'Spanish Ladies' seemed deeply turgid when there were Beatles and Stones to listen to. But no doubt something seeped in, as it will also have done from the Burl Ives children's song EP that my Mum and Dad bought me. Familiar music from childhood tends to be comforting when you're a bit older.