I fell in love with Pete's settings after hearing John Roberts and Tony Barrand sing some of them in the early 80's, and then Peter himself on some of his last American tours. Heather Wood was selling one of Peter's home re-releases on tape, "Puck's Songs" at New York Pinewoods events and festivals - I don't know if she has any left. The tape has all the songs Peter set from Puck of Pook's Hill and Rewards and Fairies, my 2 favorite Kipling children's books.

Another great collection of other folks doing Peter's settings is "The Widow's Uniform", which is all soldiers' songs from Barrack Room Ballads and other poems, sung by Dave Webber, Anni Fentiman, Brian Peters and ?, from a stage show they did several years ago. Dave, Anni and Brian did a set of those at Pinewoods this summer for the first time in several years, and had so much fun they started talking about trying to revive the show!

I have two current favorites: I sing "The Land", a Reader's Digest condensed version of English history from the Romans to the 1800's, and my husband and I have been performing "A Smuggler's Song" for years. This spring we're going to do an entire set of Kipling songs at NEFFA.

I am still looking for a copy of "Rudyard Kipling Made Exceedingly Good Songs" - I keep getting beat out every time one shows up on www.rockinworld.com or recordorium.com. Any folks out there have an extra copy they'd like to sell me, or would be willing to tape for me? Please send me a PM...