Annie, I agree with you about Rise Up Singing. As I indicated in a recent thread in this forum (see IN DEFENSE OF RUS), it is mainly critized not on its own merits, but on the way some use it, (or overuse it as the case may be).

In fact, a lot of complaints in the current thread are less about songs than about the taste or behavior of other singers. The complaints are in the general format of

I HATE SONG X BECAUSE....

A) Everyone wants to sing it all the time B) Nobody wants to sing my songs because they always sing SONG X. C) Too many people sing SONG X really badly.

None of which have much to do with the song itself.