Improbable songs, unlikely singers

Subject: RE: BS: Improbable songs, unlikely singers
From: GUEST,alvin
Date: 02 Sep 02 - 09:16 AM

The great Lonnie Donegan singing Kevin Barry? I love it. Paul Robeson, I think, did it too. And the hamburger disposal factory doing the First Time? Not bad, not as good as Roberta, and certainly not as good as Paggy Seeger. I actually own an ancient single of Horton's North to Alaska. If the info given in the first posting proves to be accurate I may be tempted to melt it down. Or is this the equivalent of book-burning? What Carthy documentary? Why do other people get better programs on their tv's than me? All I can find is big brother, very soft porn, eastenders, etc - someone else is getting Martin Carthy singing Heartbreak Hotel?!

Hey, I just thought - Tom Jones recording with the Chieftains!

Subject: RE: BS: Improbable songs, unlikely singers
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 02 Sep 02 - 08:30 AM

Martin Carthy sang a great Heartbreak Hotel on the documentary they had about him on TV a couple of months ago.

Subject: Improbable songs, unlikely singers
From: belfast
Date: 02 Sep 02 - 07:35 AM

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.