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Thread #167339   Message #4035047
Posted By: Jim Carroll
19-Feb-20 - 02:15 PM
Thread Name: Source singers and their songs
Subject: RE: Origins: Source singers and their songs
"so they always told me."
Walter said what he said to used about broadsides - he didn't know one way or another
Produce your source and we can discuss it - if yo can dismiss what I say, I have no problem in dismissing what you do
I think we have had enough of this
Go listen to what Walter said in the British Library - - otherwise you will have to wait to see if the BL puts it on line

You need to remember that Walter was remembering and correcting things he had remembered incorrectly all the time
He was plunged into the limelight and confronted with questions and tape-recorders within a year of being discovered - we wre still getting fresh and corrected information from hi up to a year before he died
Karl Dallas was among the very first to interview him

"Henry Burstow of course springs to mind."
Phil Tanner was saidf to have had 80 odd songs (according to Alvah Liddell)
By the time he was recorded there weren't enough to fill a full LP
Jim