I thought everyone sang all these so-called traditional songs.. I grw up where evening were spent singing songs such as The bonnie Swans, Famous Flower of Serving Men, The Bonnie Lass of Angelsy and so on.. I loved those songs because they all told such wonderful stories. The first commercial records I heard were by The Great Irish Tenor John MacCormack.....I still love those as well. Even though I went through the typical sixties thing..Beatles , Stones and so on. Like many people I enjoyed the revival of the seventies, Fairport, SteeleSpan and so on. But I still love the great tradition of the old story songs and have always sung them in much the same versions as I heard them as a child. Today I listen To June Tabor, Nick Jones, Frankie Armastron, Martin Carthy, The Watersons and, oh yes, I still get a thrill from John MacCormack.