Yes, Jim, I agree Peggy had misremembered the date in that passage the Borchester Echo [which you misattributed to me] linked to above. It was well before the 60s, as Peggy claims {after Ballads & Blues had mutated into Singers} that I remember the rule about singing only from one's own tradition — definitely from back in Princess Louise days; I left London in early 60s and never attended a Singers Club session in another venue. (And I think Peggy misrecalled other details too - I missed very few sessions, & I certainly never heard Ewan sing 'Sam Bass': the only person who did was Alan Lomax.) I referred to the rule in my inlay note to a cassette record I made for Brewhouse 20 years ago: 'RED APPLE JUICE - Sung in memory of Isla Cameron. She used to insist on singing it at the old Ballads & Blues club in teasing defiance of Ewan MacColl's rule that English singers sing English songs, Americans sing American ones - this poignant lament for a broken marriage being obviously American'. That was certainly in the 1957-8 period, before B&B became Singers & moved venues - by which time, I repeat, I was no longer around the London clubs.