The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #138595   Message #3911812
Posted By: Jim Carroll
19-Mar-18 - 05:00 AM
Thread Name: Peter Kennedy's Folktrax recordings
Subject: RE: Peter Kennedy's Folktrax recordings
"Carrolls post is imo not untrue but an exaggeration."
The name is Jim Carroll Dick - you are not going to give any discussion a chance if you behave the way you are prone to do
Several of us have spent a fair amount of time researching the fortunes of the BBC project in depth and we don't believe it worthwhile to make things up in doing so
Kennedy's behaviour is a fact of history - not an opinion; the fact that it has never been brought to light before now is that Kennedy was always there with the threat of legal action if it had been
A friend's family was recorded in the fifties - he has found that the the all the songs/music they gave to the 'BBC' collector (Kennedy) was not included in the BBC collection
He is at present trying to find if those recordings still exist - perhaps you might know?
Try to be helpful rather than insulting Dick - I'm sure you have something to offer other than vendettas
Jim Carroll