"One of the problems with Shirley - for me, is that would never play a recording of hers to a non-folkie in fear that they would break up laughing, AND, if that happened, I wouldn't be prepared to jump to her defence. Now if I played Tommy Jarrell, and they laughed, I'd order them out of the house!!!" (Joe Moran)

If I played Shirley Collins' recording of The Whitsun Dance to someone, and they laughed at it, I'd definitely feel like ordering them out of the house. And even if I didn't do that, I wouldn't be asking them back in a hurry.