Those of you who know Will Holt's music already know how precious it is and how important that it not disappear forever. There is one seller at Amazon, offering Holt's best known volume, "The Exciting Artistry of Will Holt," on vinyl, for $50. Fortunately, I recently found a cassette tape my late ex-husband had made for me, a collection of Bobby Short, Helen Merrill, but mostly Will Holt." I'd like to be able to put the collection on CD (it's on metal tape, so the first big task was finding one of our many components that could read metal tape. We finally found a fairly old Koss player that can read the tape. The next task will be to move it to the computer, then download onto CDs.

It would be nice if I could get in touch with Will Holt himself, to discuss distribiution rights, royalties, etc.. So, if anyone knows him, or knows someone who knows someone who knows someone (etc.) who knows Will Holt could you please get me in touch with him. Apparently, he no longer has even a copy of that brilliant album, and Elektra, the music publishers for the best of 50s and 60s folksong, jazz, and whatnot, is now defunct.

So I'm sending out this request to any and all who might have ideas about contacting Will Holt to discuss the issues. He's already in his 80's and his work much be preserved for the future.

So let me know if you have any ideas or contacts. I and a number of others on this forum, will be very grateful.

Thanks very much.

Reliza