And a big LOL for your nailing my OWN major error in attributing Mudcat to the UK. Simple if inadequate explanation - most of the threads I've read and used have pertained to English, Irish, and Scottish folk songs, and there is a really impressive number of genuinely knowledgeable people who are from the UK (internal evidence in their posts) who contribute to those threads.

My off-handed "fraught with errors" remark was intended to refer to some of the particulars about the Kingston Trio, not to the very useful info about Geis and Holstein. The "recognizable" element derives from the fact that initially most of the audience for my blog consisted of KT fans, an aged and graying lot like myself who would recognize the mistakes.

I had no idea when I started the blog three and a half years ago that its audience would ever extend beyond the KT fanbase, which it most definitely has. I still have a great affection for the KT and have really enjoyed the often volatile discussions of the group in Mudcat threads over the last decade and more, and I would add that my own interests in folk music have also broadened and deepened in the five decades since the Trio and the other pop folk groups were in their heyday.

Thanks for the link to my own pop folk group, the Chilly Winds, doing our replication of the KT. I have the first verse, FWIW.

And I now need to go back into the 140+ posts on my Comparative Video 101 site to correct every reference to Mudcat that lists it as a UK site. Apologies for the error, and thanks for the gently ironic correction.

Jim Moran