Bill--my memory IS faulty. It was not on the PM East show, at all, that Bikel made those remarks. The venue was the Skip Weshner (radio) Show out of New York, which was heard later, several days later on tape, in Los Angeles.

As I was reading your responding post, I flashed back to an evening in my bedroom studying. We moved from that house in mid-1962, the interview in question was sometime before that. A few years later Weshner moved west, and did a live show in Los Angeles for a couple of stations, probably into the '70s...maybe even longer. It was also from his New York show that I first heard the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem.

That's my corrected memory and I sticking to it!

Another eastern folk show we got for a while back then was the Oscar Brand music and interview program. I think those were on Saturday AMs, here.

Writing these memories is beginning to make me feel like a codger, as I'm approaching my Biblical life span of 70 years occurring this fall.