"there are no Music Hall songs in his collection so he was also being selective,"
Nor Victorian tear-jerkers, or op songs of the day, or popular operatic pieces - totally selective
How dare these people only write down folk songs - who on earth did they think they were, Folk song collectors ?
When VWML issued a cassette of our Traveller songs, one reviewer in Dance and Song (I think) slagged us off for not including Country and Western songs
The rot was beginning to set in even then
Jim Carroll