If not wurst, he certainly was a bad käse! I remember coming across some of his songs - think someone lent me an LP. This was the first time I heard The Peat Bog Soldiers sung; I was totally unaware of the German original but started to check it out after that.

Don wasn't a bad singer, if slightly bland. I liked his voice. But he also authored a 'Folk Lexicon' published by Fischer Verlag. By the time I discovered it I knew enough about folk music to realise how inadequate it was. Basically, the guiding principle was 'People I have recorded with / met on the road', with a few unavoidable names thrown in.

I never heard the programme Ernest mentions (we didn't have TV at the time) and can't remember anything else about Don Paulin.