Thanks, Joe, for resolving that issue, and Stefan, I was not calling your information into question, sorry if it seemed I was.

The track listings illustrate another problem mainstream folklorists have had with Gellert. His primary interest was the song. He seems in at least some cases to have regarded ancillary information—like the singer's name and other precise data—as not all that important.

In Gellert's defense, the field was barely opened up when he began, and he came at the music, not as a scholar, but as a fierce proponent of political views. Thus the lyrics, and what they said, were everything.

Still we'd all be grateful today, I'm sure, for even his most fragmentary information, just to hear that archive and see those books.

Bob