Re: "I wonder as I wander"

[Robert A. Rothstein <rar...>]

Robert Cohen wrote:

>Our Bob Rothstein wrote, re my adducing "I Wonder as I Wander" 
>and implicitly attributing it to John Jacob Niles:
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>>The copyright was presumably for his arrangement of what is cited as a
>>"traditional Appalachian carol."  
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>No doubt it is; but I think it is now generally accepted that, in an odd 
>inversion of the appropriation of many traditional songs by collectors/
>arrangers, Niles actually *wrote* many of the songs that he presented
>as "traditional"!
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       Thanks to Robert Cohen for gently reminding me not to rush to 
presumption.

             Bob Rothstein