Cover of IRENE in 1948 - as Goodnight Irene with slightly altered lyrics Pete Seeger found in a Scottish songbook; millionseller US; royalties Alan Lomax obtained on behalf of his father were all re-invested in folk research in general and for his fieldtrips throughout Europe in particular; however, the fact father and son Lomax systematically took credits on folk fieldrecordings they made, was and still is controversial; Bart Bull (Michelle Shocked' ex) found out there's no less than 890 compositions crediting Alan Lomax in the BMI files, 694 compositions crediting John A. Lomax; then there's ASCAP and probably some international collection societies too; in 1971, Gerry Sharp (Topic Records) along with A.L. Lloyd tried to obstruct genuine folk fieldrecording (words and music) to be subject for copyright control, unless fees or a substantial portion thereof should go into a fund for research and such; it was outvoted.