We have here in the Vancouver Ballad Group (New Westminster, actually) a fairly good collection of transcriptions of Child ballads. There's 305 in the collection, tho' Bronson only found about 200 to write about, and since some of those had ascribed tunes (rather than tunes known to have been collected "from the singing of...") I'd say that there are about 180 or so with tunes traditionally passed on. I know that some folk have made tunes or borrowed tunes to fill a lacuna in the tradition (Lloyd's "Price Heathen" is one and "Alison Gross" another - I'm sure there's more). Of the 180 or so, we've got 139, some in one version, some with as many as 22 versions. We hope to be setting up a site soon, with much of our research, papers, bibliographies, lists of tunes we have, etc. posted there and freely available. Sorry if this is thread creep but the (implicit) idea expressed by Claire K. at the top of this thread (that there might usefully be an index of songs sung by who on what LP's and CD's) is a brilliant one - what I'd call "practical socialism". Jon Bartlett