WOW!! What an incredible path we have all traveled to get here! Let's see: qq is my way of writing "questions" q = question, qq= more than one question. sorry for the confusion.
German songs: As I said I heard you singing these in 1971 or so. When I went to HS you had a choice of taking French, Spanish, Latin, German and Russian. I took German becasue I knew even then I was going into science. . . and took flak from Jewish friends who believed that the language itself should be allowed to die. We're all aware of everybody else's prejudices, but a lot less so of our own. sorry for the Thread Creep but this is one of the things I love about math & science, the work speaks for itself and it doesn't matter who did it-- NOT like (to take an idle example) Galax where the banjo & fiddle contest is won by locals each year-- I once said "take the absolute value of the difference between your zip code and Galax. If more than 8000, forget it."
What's not to like about the songs you sang on New Folks? Thanks to a divorce & loss of some possessions I have been unable to play vinyl for about 10 years but REMEMBER all four artists as sounding most wonderful!
I gotta remember THIS MACHINE KILLS TIME. Thanks, Art!
I think Penn had a Gilded Age (or it seemed that way to me!)sometime in the mid-80s when a couple of my friends did folklore PhDs under Ken Goldstein--