Thanks a lot for your reply, Linn. And to tell the rest of this story: I have had contact to Howard "Poor Howard" Stith by phone a couple of years ago, when he recovered from illness. I told him of about 15 songs performed by him and privately recorded by myself in 1969 which I still own (tape-recorded). Some time later I sent a copy to him never hearing a word about this.
Don't know whether he did receive his fine recordings or not because in those days I did not try another approach to contact him.
Well, one can say: call him again (about this or recordings he possibly performed in the meantime of nearly 40 years, which is my main interest).
On the other hand I believe, that-if so-Mudcats could remember songs issued by Howard. I know about a sampler called "Songs from the bubble (?)" but this CD -an Interlocken production- is not available outside the US.

Again, thanks for your help and interest,

Manfred from Germany (manfred.goetze@freenet.de)