The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #118486 Message #3299703
Posted By: MGM·Lion
31-Jan-12 - 11:41 AM
Thread Name: Mainly, but not exclusively, traditional
Subject: RE: Mainly, but not exclusively, traditional
Whatever confidential info Betsy claims to have got about Scarboro Fair tune & Martin Carthy, Mark Anderson's version [source of that tune] had been recorded by Ewan MacColl on Argo's The Long Harvest in 1966, which I think was before Martin ever sang it; and certainly before Sim & Garf got their claws into it. I have often wondered if Mr Anderson was still around for all these goings-on [how old was he in 1947, anyone know?], what he thought of it all, and whether he got anything, in terms of either reward or credit, out of it.
~Michael~