I can clearly remember the first time I heard certain songs. Back in 1964(?) I attended a folk music concert at the Hope Hall, Liverpool, and at some point in the evening one of the acts sang " Shoals of Herring", and, when the refrain came around, a group of people sitting near me joined in. I thought it was magical. I also remember the first time I heard " Three Score and Ten"; it was in a folk club in St Austil, Cornwall in the summer of 1967.

p.s. The Hope Hall later morphed into the Everyman Theatre and presently hosts a weekly folk club run by Hughie ( ex-Spinner ) Jones.