AND, to fill up space they all have obscure songs from Broadway shows you've barely heard of. Rarely (even when you're in a mainstream night club) does anyone actually ask for the unknown songs from "Annie", "Unsinkable Mollie Brown", or "I Can Get if for you Wholesale". But the companies who put out the "Fake books" own the copyrights on these songs.

The REAL fake books are the ones with "200 Irish Songs" (etc.) that lump trad in with modern composed ones (sans name of author). Flat out illegal, but they get away with it. I'm a fine one to mention this, 'cause I've learned a lot of lyrics that way.

Rick