This hour program was really just a teaser, a sampling of what Lomax was able to experience and record for the rest of us.

It's interesting that when the inteviewers revisited the villages where the original recordings were made they were usually able to find someone who had powerful memories of the sessions. I'm sure that often there is nothing left behind but the echo of the recoding.

I was particularly amazed at the film footage of the Scottish women singing their work song as they rhythmically reworked the wool.

I was also intrigued by Lomax's efforts to statistically classifiy the songs he collected. His sociological interpretations may be suspect but I bet that sociolinguists today are performing even more sophisticated analysis.

Charley Noble