Derek Brimstone was a very gifted musician, an excellent performer, and a most likeable man. But as to his having "thought carefully how to convey traditional songs to contemporary audiences", as asserted by Al above -- when would that have been? I certainly never heard him sing a traditional song: EVER; from the time I first heard him at the competition of the 1st Cambridge FF 1965, in which he won Second Prize [First Prize: Lee Nicolson; No Prize At All: MGM] onwards. Was he ever a performer of traditional songs in any shape, manner or form whatsoever? I suspect not.

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