I recently downloaded a couple of unusal tracks – Lonnie Donegan singing "Kevin Barry" and "My Only Son Was Shot In Dublin". Implausible but not impossible.

Somewhat more unlikely, I thought, was the recording by a drug-abusing rightwinger of a tender lovesong penned by an implacable communist revolutionary. Elvis singing "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" by Ewan MacColl.

Most disturbing and unpleasant was to find that Johnny Horton whose "North to Alaska" was a childhood favourite of mine had also recorded some of the nastiest rascist shite I have ever come across. Which has spoiled "North to Alaska" for me.

You just never know who will record what.