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Thread #88522 Message #1668849
Posted By: Richard Bridge
14-Feb-06 - 10:43 PM
Thread Name: BBC 4 folk program
Subject: RE: BBC 4 folk program
A rummage elsewhere here reveals another falsehood from the programme: it was quite definite that "She moves through the fair" was contemporary and learned by folk singers from a recording by the legendary Irish tenor Count John McCormack. A different story appears elsewhere on the mudcat and the consensus seems to be that the song was trad adapted Colm.