Yes. Until we learnt better, we were all getting our songs from The Burl Ives Songbook. I remember the first time I heard Stan
Kelly-Bootle was at a Downing College Cambridge ball in 1953, & he led off with Worried Man Blues; likewise Rory McEwen, as cabaret at a Cambridge Union ball in 1954, started off with Ives's version of The Fox. It wasn't till The Singing Island & The Seeds Of Love came out that we mended our ways.

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