It strikes me as rather ironic that when I first started to sing in Folk Clubs over 40 years ago, I would get my repertoire from listening to songs from singers I knew like Dave Williams and Geoff Jerram or those recorded by other singers, eg. Harry Cox, Walter Pardon or indeed - Martin Carthy, etc.. Therefore in a way I was learning songs Orally. From the mouths of the singers?..
However, as time has gone on and I have had the wish to find and sing songs that only I sing - I have gone back to Manuscripts and found and performed songs from there. Therefore learning songs from printed material???.

Maybe I should go back to my old way of obtaining songs???

Which is right?

Tim Radford