> The tenor of your post suggested: How dare they permit such a radical on > that sacred list. <snip> > > If you reread what you wrote, you may see that it sounds as though written > by a neo-McCarthyite. Your sarcasm was lost on me, I'm afraid, without the > explanation you provided above. > >Mike Is there an emoticon for sarcasm?;^=) The sarcasm wasn't lost on me, though the irony of Woody's inclusion wasn't.. My friend Michael Hurley (a fine songwriter and folksinger in his own right), at a Folk festival once, said "Seeing as how we're at a Folk festival, I think it's only appropriate that I do one of Woody's", and then launched into "The Woody Woodpecker Song". -Matt Sohn (who was surprised that the list failed to include Billy Murray's cylinder recording of "You're a Grand Old Rag")