I am very glad to have revived this thread. It looks like we may see a favorable blip in our subscriptions, which we can always use. Thanks for the support.

Several people responding here have asked me questions which might call for personal replies, except that I don't understand the workings of the Mudcat internal e-mail system so I will briefly respond here.

WyoWoman - Depending upon the organization involved I might be willing to serve on other Boards. It is best to contact me about that sort of thing on my personal e-mail: BZurofsky@ReitPar.com or at my law office: Reitman Parsonnet, P.C., 744 Broad Street, Suite 1807, Newark, N.J. 07102 telephone: (973)642-0885.

Wysiwyg - Sing Out! is always interested in participating in benefits, joint or otherwise. Other than our good will, artist contacts and ability to promote the benefit to our subscription list, however, we don't have a lot of resources to devote to the actual production of benefits. For this we are largely dependent upon particular Board members or other volunteers. I am probably as appropriate a person at Sing Out! as any to contact about putting together a benefit, so please feel free to get in touch with me at the above address to share your idea about a joint Mudcat/Sing Out! benefit.

Big Mick - Because demand for the "Collected Reprints" volumes is quite low, we have trouble keeping them in print. The capital cost of new press runs can be prohibitive when it takes a long time to sell through a pressing. I am not certain of the current status of the particular volume you seek but, even when we are "out of print" for trade purposes (since we cannot supply enough copies for the distributor to offer it to stores) we often have a few copies available that can be purchased directly from Sing Out! JohnInKansas was kind enough to copy all of our contact information onto this thread directly above this posting.

Speaking of "out-of-print" books, Sing Out! now operates Legacy Books (formerly of Hatboro, Pa.) and is trying to expand its services as a vendor of hard-to-find "Folk Music" books from other publishers, in addition to the books that we publish ourselves. The Sing Out Corporation is now considerably larger than the magazine, although that is still our best-known and largest enterprise.

Mudcatters might also be interested in our extensive hard-copy archive of books and recordings which is available to Sing Out! members at our Bethlehem, Pa. offices.

Keep those new, renewed, and reincarnated subscriptions coming in!