Leave it Dick
Ewan made albums in order that the songs and ballads he researched would be passed on and resung - I know hat for a fact
He and Peggy mde them for a record company that specialised in Education and the Arts - much of their work was 'specialist' - it wan financed by a big record company, but rtheir output -folk (national and international), poetry, prose literature, and Classical music, was aimed at educating people into the betterment of society rather than profiting from it - Decca made enough money from the Music Industry to b able to allow Argo to do that
Thet fitted in quite well with Ewaan and Peggy's own outlook on life, and they passed athat attude on to people like me - and they did it by making sacrifices, their time, their home weekly, a constant sharing of their knowledge
As far as their records went, the important ones we hawked around to the clubs they performed at and sold at cost (pretty much as we do with the few we've put out)
When they fell into money accidentally through a love song Ewan wrote to Peggy, thy ploughd a lump pf it back into the music they loved and thought important - making recordds of folk and their own songs for a small section of the folk music population they had always worked for
Ewan told ne of his total bemusement when his first significant royalties cheche laded on the doormat of their somewhat cramped, three bedroom maisonette on the upper floors of a house in a London Suburb
They never moved - they could have done - they never really upped their life-style, when they bought a tiny holiday home in the Scottish Borders they threw it open to people like Pat and I for our pleasure - the only payment they asked in return is that we took on a few hour long minor cleaning job in the house to help keep the house habitable for the next guest
In all the twenty years I knew Ewan - and the thirty odd years after his death I have kept in contact with Peggy - the last thing you associated them with was "money"
Anybody who now wishes to do that - especially those who don't appreaciate their art - and would make a major issue of a tiny possible amount of royalties to be made out of the faled of a minute number of specialist records which might be sold to a tiny number of people, (overpriced, in my opinion), then split between three sons, a daughter and several grandchildren - after a large lump having being taken out by the production company - shows no respect for Ewan as an artist, nor any real concern for his family
Ewan's raison d'être was to popularise the People's music and to create new songs using its forms
In a small, small way - that's the attitude I take - to echo what he taught me to do and be
Anybody who wants to change that objective by hanging a pathetic few sheckles worth of price tag on Ewan's legacy, undervalues Ewan as an artist and is not worth t'the oxygen of publicity' (to borrow mad- Maggie's phrase)

Incidentally - Ewan once boasted to me that if he had been paid the royalties owing to him by theatre companies in Eastern Europe like Brecht's Berliner Ensemble, and other Socialist groups still performing his plays up to the end of the last century, he could have retired wealthy - he was proud of that fact - nor resentful or litigious
Ewan was prone to exaggeration, but whatever he claimed had a basis in fact, in my experience
Jim