The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #155128 Message #3646218
Posted By: mikesamwild
29-Jul-14 - 04:32 AM
Thread Name: AL Lloyd, is he the one that got away
Subject: RE: AL Lloyd, is he the one that got away
Most CDs of trad songs by contemporary singers have sleeve notes that tell how they conflate and tweak songs to suit their interpretation. They don't usually give sources or say what they made up themselves. At the latest Bradfiled Trad weekend vic Smith played a long recording of Gordon Hall where Gordon explained the same process which he used.
What annoys me is how Bert and McColl 'alledgedly' invented people to authenticate their words and songs. Their motives would be interesting to understand, hoax, academic respectability, authority, pathology???
I'm sure it goes on all the time to afford authority to the academic.like all foundation myths.
To ordinary singing people you just tweak the words or make mistakes. it's only when we get into academia and reputations that it seems to matter very much.