Hi, Tony -

I, too, am trying to assemble a complete collection of Sing Out! Magazine. But if you're searching in the rarefied air of the 1950s, you must be well ahead of me. I'm missing most of the 1980s, and almost all of the 1950s and 1960s until 1966. The magazine's Website (click) has an index of recent years (back to 1994), but I don't know of an index of the entire run of Sing Out!

The Website does have a Song Index. Using [CTRL-F] to search for 1#8, 1#9, and 4#7, I can tell that the magazine did indeed publish the issues you're seeking, because there are songs from those issues in the index.

Good luck in your quest. If you do assemble a complete collection, put it in your will for me, willya? At the prices people charge for Sing Out! on eBay (click), I'd never be able to afford to buy myself a collection.

I wish the complete run of the magazine would be made available online. That would be a boon to all of us aging U.S. folkies.

-Joe Offer-