For youse R. Service fans out there, some more fun recordings (glad to learn about the Hank Snow, too!)

Both Debby McClatchey and Bob Zentz have set "The Ballad of Soulful Sam" to Music; slightly different tunes. Debby's version is on her "Light Years Away" album (I think...) and I don't know if Zentz has recorded his; if so, it'd be on his latest release, "It's About Time".

The late, great Canadian folksinger, Dave Parry, did a whole album of Service pieces, both as recitations and as songs, called "The Man From Eldorado" and other poems on another recording "The Wind That Walks the World(?)"; also has some great Kipling recitations and Canadian folksongs from the Yukon and NW Terr. We bought the tapes from Ian Robb; don't know where else to get them...

I don't think "The Face On the Bar-room Floor" was written by Service; Dave Parry recites it wonderfully on one of his tapes. I'll look up the author when I get home; I think it's printed in Frank Shay's "My Pious Friends and Drunken Companions."