... or perhaps Stan Kelly, who was anchorman at the club Bruce Dunnett established at the Cranbourne in Gt Newport St in 1958. Residents were Isabel Sutherland, Sandy Paton, Dominic Behan, Shirley Collins -- one each Scot, US, Irish, English -- + Stan himself: all traditionalists, which was obviously the policy & USP. Occasional floor singers, tho not an invariable feature. I remember Stan once asking (can't recall why) if anyone knew a version of The Bitter Withy other than the one Bert Lloyd had remembered from his youth, and it happened that I did [the one in Matthew Hodgart's book The Ballads, collected by CSH iirc], so he called me up to sing it. After that he would ask me to sing one or two songs most weeks.

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