(I have also posed this question on the fRoots forum. I am trying to track down an intriguing little postscript to the history of the folk revival)

The controversy over Ewan McColl's attitude to people singing songs from other cultural backgrounds rolls on and on. Now, Peggy Seeger, in a bid to set the record straight, gave an account of how she started all this off, by jeering at an unfortunate English(??) skiffler. Here are Peggy's own words:

"It was that Cockney lad singing Leadbelly who started the rock rolling downhill. Was it 1960 or so? Yes, it was that poor fellow whose rendition of 'Rock Island Line' reduced me to hysterical laughter one night. I was literally doubled over in my seat, gasping. I had to be taken out of the room."

This a reference to a folk club night, by the way, not to Lonnie Donegan's record. Now, I find this event an intriguing bit of folk history. The man who shouted "Judas" at Bob Dylan has recently been identified and interviewed. So, can anyone supply a name for the unfortunate young chap so humiliated by Peggy Seeger?