Famous Songs by Best Unknown Performer

Subject: BS:Famous Songs by Best Unknown Performe
From: GUEST,#1
Date: 07 Apr 01 - 06:25 PM

Now we can get back to folk songs. Let's have 3 cheers for Child #1. Anyone here known any other folk songs?

Subject: RE: BS:Famous Songs by Best Unknown Performe
From: hesperis
Date: 07 Apr 01 - 11:43 PM

"God's Gift To Warthogs" is a really good humorous song by the little-known George Coventry. Oh, wait... you asked for a FAMOUS song? Sorry.

...um, "Love Is A Flame", by the same guy?

Subject: RE: BS:Famous Songs by Best Unknown Performe
From: GUEST,#1
Date: 08 Apr 01 - 01:03 AM

When did that become a folk song?

Subject: RE: BS:Famous Songs by Best Unknown Performe
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 Apr 01 - 06:17 PM

Oh, please! Not that discussion again about what is and is not a folksong....

It's never been on the radio. It's normally played acoustically by one person with a guitar. It's popular among those who have heard it, which is a small number of people in a small part of Canada, plus a few people in Cuba. They all heard it live. Other local musicians like it and some have covered it. It was not written to make money but for its own sake.

Good enough?

- LH