A superb and objective thread. I must confess I came to it late, as from the the Title I thought it was going to be another trolling rant - I was wrong, repeat wrong.

As a spotty youth in London town, in the early 70's, I can recall listening to old Guthrie, Almanac anbd Weavers records. They fitted, and perhaps infuenced my political thinking.

Bob (Deckman) Art, MAg and others keep up these reminicences, for this is history, and must be recorded.

For if we do not record history, and learn, we are doomed to repeat it.

Minor points. My 80+ year old Mother can still sing such songs as the "16th Brigade" (Spanish Civil War) and the Ballad of Harry Pollitt, learnt from her student days in the late 1940's - University of Wales - Cardiff.

And on a drift, she was conscripted into the "Womens Land Army" and spent a year or two in East Anglia. She has some vestigle memory of the Songs of the Mighty 8th USAAF. And Glen Miller. I dearn't play my VCR Tape of "Memphis Belle" - it reduces her to tears. And no I'am not aking why.

Keep it up 'Cos this is real Folk History !

Gareth