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Thread #136405   Message #3115186
Posted By: Don Firth
16-Mar-11 - 04:08 PM
Thread Name: Youtube Bold Fisherman tune copyright?
Subject: RE: Youtube Bold Fisherman tune copyright?
I first encountered the "Bold Fisherman" that Bogart sings in "The African Queen" in A Treasury of Folk Songs, compiled by John and Sylia Kolb and published as a drugstore paperback.

When I first got actively interested in folk music around 1952-53 (dashed out and bought a $10.00 guitar), the dozen or so folk song junkies I fell in with all had copies of the book, so I armed myself with a copy. Everybody had the 1948 edition. I got a reprint, 1953. Same book, different cover, cost 35 cents instead of the previous 25.

I don't recall that anything in it was copyrighted.

Great collection. Still have it, use it.

Don Firth