BK Lick, your post of 18 Feb 08 - 03:49 a.m. is a monumental job, listing 1,319 names, presumably of "little known 60's folk singers," but a fair number of names that got caught in your net are not singers, they are people who were associated with folk music in one way or the other, such as John Timmons, who didn't sing, but ran a coffeehouse.

It would probably be a real chore to separate those folks from the singers. But I would say a lot of them deserve honorable mention for "services rendered"—such as Elmar Lanczos (pronounced "LAWN-shoss" – I'm probably one of the few people who knows how to spell his name) who, during the late 1950s and through the 1960s, threw his house open almost every weekend when singers wanted to get together in someone's living room for a song fest. Elmar couldn't sing for sour apples and he knew his limitations, but he enjoyed folk music, and he had a massive collection of folk records which many of us learned songs.

Elmar is gone now, but he's probably hosting a song fest in the Great Beyond.

Don Firth