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From: jaw@ames-lm.UUCP (James A. Woods)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Stan Kelly-Bootle, dual careerist extraordinaire
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Date: Tue, 13-Mar-84 14:07:10 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 13 14:07:10 1984
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		Still I sing bonny boys, bonny mad boys;
		Bedlam boys are bonny.
		For they all go bare, and they live on the air,
		Any they want no drink nor money.

			-- The Boys of Bedlam (trad)

     To add to the music vs. machine moonlighting discussion, Stan Kelly-Bootle
certainly gets my nomination.  Mr. Kelly-Bootle, largely known as the author
of the infamous Devil's DP Dictionary and the inventor of Errosol (TM)
bug spray ("caution:  may require a second application for CP/M programs"),
has the distinction of being the world's first Computer Science graduate
(Cambridge University, 1953.)

    Lesser known, however, is his distinguished career as a folksinger.
Do investigate Topic Sampler #7, Sea Songs and Shanties, for Kelly's striking
rendition of Maggie May.  His own compositions have been recorded by the
likes of Cilla Black and Judy Collins.  If you are aware of other disks,
please submit titles/reviews to these pages or to the location below.
I've never met the man, but I understand his last known whereabouts, after
high jinks in England, is somewhere in Silicon Valley, teaching UNIX seminars.

		-- James A. Woods  {dual,hao}!ames-lm!jaw