Who was the bloke who did 1000 folksongs

Subject: Who was the bloke who did 1000 folksongs
From: GUEST,tip of my tongue
Date: 11 Mar 13 - 05:13 AM

Was his name Malcolm Crooks? He did a folk song a day for a year, or 1000 folk songs - gaaaah!

Subject: RE: Who was the bloke who did 1000 folksongs
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Mar 13 - 05:29 AM

Raymond Crooke

Subject: RE: Who was the bloke who did 1000 folksongs
From: open mike
Date: 11 Mar 13 - 05:41 AM

did 1,000 songs? meaning he sang them? wrote them?
http://raymondfolk.wetpaint.com/
http://www.raymondcrooke.com/

Subject: RE: Who was the bloke who did 1000 folksongs
From: Leadfingers
Date: 11 Mar 13 - 06:03 AM

Web Site

Subject: RE: Who was the bloke who did 1000 folksongs
From: GUEST, Paul Slade
Date: 11 Mar 13 - 01:57 PM

You're not thinking of Jon Boden's A Folk Song A Day, are you? Though there were "only" 365 of them.

http://www.afolksongaday.com/about/

Subject: RE: Who was the bloke who did 1000 folksongs
From: Reinhard
Date: 11 Mar 13 - 03:04 PM

366

Subject: RE: Who was the bloke who did 1000 folksongs
From: Artful Codger
Date: 11 Mar 13 - 05:24 PM

And let's not forget John Thompson's impressive follow-up Australian Folk Song a Day blog.

Maybe Reinhard can give us a rough estimate of how many songs Martin Carthy has recorded, between his solo recordings, collaborations with Dave Swarbrick and as a member of Steeleye Span, The Albion Country Band, The Watersons, Blue Murder, and such. He must easily have passed 1000.

Subject: RE: Who was the bloke who did 1000 folksongs
From: GUEST,Gerry
Date: 12 Mar 13 - 12:43 AM

I think Pete Seeger has recorded pretty nearly every song ever written.

Subject: RE: Who was the bloke who did 1000 folksongs
From: Gibb Sahib
Date: 12 Mar 13 - 01:17 AM

Ray's work is good IMO because he doesn't circumscribe "folk song" too tightly. He could go on indefinitely, and has.

As long as we're on tangents...I am working on doing every chantey known to have existed (and for which there is sufficient information to make a rendition). Over 500 so far.