The SERAFFYN LP recording is now up on YT (twice) and credits Bayard Rustin with the music, which has Yeats' "Song of the Wandering Aengus" set to it : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRJ3LG48Wsg "SERAFFYN - The Last Great Troubadour . 1964 . Columbia - CS 8957 . Seraffyn (Donald Mork) is, according to his record cover, the "last, great troubador." Now he is certainly not the last, and is greatness is arguable (although the album is entertaining enough), but he certainly seems to have been a troubadour, and a wandering one at that (again according to the record cover). He also was born & raised in New England (not Old Scotland), graduated from Harvard and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, and in 1953 won the Folksong Award at the International Eisteddford in Wales." There are quite a few YT clips now from the 50s of Seraffyn & Cherubim (his wife at the time, Ania Romaine), doing their Wandering Minstrel thing, e.g. : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGg-wNdcAQg ("Song of the Wandering Aengus", to Bayard's tune). Cheers, R-J
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