Subject: RE: John Lennon - Folk Singer
From: Waddon Pete - PM
Date: 02 Feb 08 - 01:17 PM

Take the ordinary person in the street.

Ask them to sing a folksong.

OK that was disappointing.....

Now ask them to sing a Beatles song.

Well....what do you know!

Not that that proves anything.......but.....all down the ages the "pop" songs of the day have become the folk songs of tomorrow.....

I, too, can't be doing with labels...especially those very sticky ones that leave a layer of glue behind that you can't get off for love nor money!


sorry Pete,the pop songs of the day all through the ages have not become the folksongs of tomorrow.Since when has, Rock around the Clock,OR Are you lonesome tonight,Catch a Falling Star,How much is that Doggy,become a folk song,they are what they are POP SONGS.
AND Furthermore if Ihad sung them at your folk club,at Croydon[or any of the other surrounding south east folk clubs]Iwould not have enjoyed all the return gigs that I got.
people went and go to folk festivals/clubs not to hear Tin Pan Alley and the aforesaid popsongs,but to hear folk music,be it JackHudson/ Dick Miles,Jo Anne Kelly or Willie Scott, we all know the approximate boundaries.
neither Paul Macca or John Lennon OR Perry Como are folk singers,They are singers of popular/art songs.