Dining Drinking

February, 1957

More folk-song platters than you can shake a dulcimer at came sailing our way this month. "She proceeded to test if my muscles were right, Till I smoked that cigar without striking a light," sings stringy-voiced Oscar Brand on one of 17 rowdy American Drinking Songs (Riverside 12-630); while erstwhile gospel singer Ed McCurdy is given to Elizabethan exhortations like "Let her face be fair, let her breasts be bare, And a voice let her have that can warble; Let her belly be soft, bu...