Origins: Is this how myths are created?

Subject: RE: Origins: Is this how myths are created?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 25 Jun 21 - 10:15 PM

You can never predict a Mudcatter, Malcolm - especially us American Mudcatters.
Joe Offer, Wisconsinite in California

Subject: RE: Origins: Is this how myths are created?
From: GUEST,Malcolm Storey
Date: 25 Jun 21 - 10:05 PM

Good one Joe - didn't realise Americans did that sort of humour.
(two spellings in that bit Americans would not recognise + one in this)
Are you are sure you are on the right side of the pond?

Subject: RE: Origins: Is this how myths are created?
From: G-Force
Date: 25 Jun 21 - 04:30 PM

A chap at our folk club once sang "Fiddlers' Green", calling it an Irish sea shanty.

Subject: RE: Origins: Is this how myths are created?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 25 Jun 21 - 04:00 PM

Nah, Malcolm, not a myth - a myth-take.

Subject: RE: Origins: Is this how myths are created?
From: RTim
Date: 25 Jun 21 - 03:54 PM

Like "The Shoals of Herring" is traditional...and sometimes Irish at that as "The Shoals of Erin" - not forgetting that other traditional song - "Dirty Old Town"......Myths beyond recovery I think sometimes....

Tim Radford

Subject: RE: Origins: Is this how myths are created?
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 25 Jun 21 - 03:40 PM

I can only imagine it was a bit of wishful thinking - that he thought of EM as being Scottish, like him.

To be fair he did introduce it as
",,, he had written it for her,,,"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000x6cj

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Subject: Origins: Is this how myths are created?
From: GUEST,Malcolm Storey
Date: 25 Jun 21 - 02:45 PM

On Desert Island Discs this morning actor Richard Wilson (Victor Meldrew) claimed that The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face is a Scottish song?!
The song was of course written by James Henry Miller (Ewan MacColl) who was from Scottish parents and born in Salford where he spent a good deal of his early life before eventually moving to London, where he died.
The song was written for an American lady, Peggy Seeger, for a show she was involved in in America. It became internationally known following its recording by Roberta Flack, another American lady.
Lots of reasons then to claim the song is Scottish!