Folksongs have no real existance of their own, and only survive if they can be transmitted from one generation to the next by some sort of carrier, be it busker, balladeer, or Barney--

Mitch Miller and Gordon Jenkins made folksongs part of the lives of a lot more people than Richard Dyer-Bennet did--all matters of taste aside--and that is what makes it folkmusic, rather than an collection of anthropological artifacts--