Do you know, fellow 'Catters, I do believe I have fathomed what triggered this thread.

Captain Birdseye would love to be a traditional singer, source singer ; but, by his own definitions, he can't, any more than I could, and any more than Jim Carroll could, in the days when we were singing (long ago and far away, for me).

And it don't half get on the good Captain's tits.