Somewhere in all this, John Renbourn's arrangement is surely worth a mention. That said, was it ever a lute tune?
Tony ----- Original Message ----- From: "doc rossi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lute Net" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 9:00 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Scarboro Fair >> Try >> http://www.guitarnoise.com/article.php?id=76 >> >> Paolo Declich >> >> >> > > A little history - Paul Simon took Martin Carthy's arrangement of > S.F. (which Martin had kindly (and rather naively, I guess) written > out for him one evening at dinner) and copyrighted it out from under > him. Fortunately for Martin he had recorded it on his Landfall LP, > which had come out about a year before S&G's recording, so eventually > Martin won the case. The upshot is, when someone says "Paul Simon's > arrangement" of S.F., as on this site, it should read, "Martin > Carthy's arrangement." > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
