Oh I don't know. I am sat in a cafe in Scunthorpe. I reckon that's how Martin Simpson started....

The rest becomes rather tricky.

There certainly are better singers of MacColl songs than he and Peggy at a technical level, but as I said above, folk is an excellent example of putting character over pitch and other musical requirements. For my wedding a few years ago, we wanted to walk out to First Time Ever I Saw Your Face. Now, nostalgically for me, Peggy would be wonderful but for our guests and to provide good musical value, we played The Stereophonics version (with Jools Holland and his rhythm and blues orchestra.)

This gets to the nub of sharing songs as opposed to entertaining others. Or singaround v guest nights.