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   Joe Fineman to Daniel Cohen   
   Re: ALERT: BBC4 9pm "Shanties and Sea So   
   10 May 10 17:32:07   
   
   From: joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) writes:   
      
   > They did not seem to know that MacColl wrote it, though. Could one   
   > reasonably say that it was based on Scottish styles and themes of   
   > folk songs? And Jimmy Miller presumably wanted to be thought of as   
   > Scottish or he would not have changed his name.   
      
   Indeed, for a while he claimed to have been born in Scotland.  That   
   disinformation can be found on some of his albums.   
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