"Apparently not Jim, it was PPM, who furnished that song for the Frost and Fire album. "
Do you have any proof for this Al - sound like one of those 'MacColl like urban legends to me?
I was never a great fan of the Watersons, but I have always respected the amount of work Carthy and the others put into researching their material.
All the songs that went on to their albums came from the BBC came from the material that the BBC 1950-55 recording project - I find it a little hard to believe that it had been regurgitated by anybody as anodyne as the same Tiresome Trio that astounded the world with 'Puff'.
Maybe I've overestimated them
Jim Carroll