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The revenge of the Edmund Fitzgerald!
by Anonymous | reply 1 | May 2, 2023 2:31 AM |
This is one of my faves from him.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 2 | May 2, 2023 2:32 AM |
That song has some of my favourite lyrics. "The lake it is said never gives up her dead!" Oh, chills down my spine!
by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 2, 2023 2:36 AM |
OP, I was about to post this news too. It’s as If You Could Read My Mind….
by Anonymous | reply 5 | May 2, 2023 2:38 AM |
“If You Could Read My Mind” is a beautiful masterpiece
by Anonymous | reply 7 | May 2, 2023 2:38 AM |
Predictions for the next two celebrity deaths- Johnny Depp and Jack Nicholson .
by Anonymous | reply 8 | May 2, 2023 2:39 AM |
"Fellas, it's been good to know ya."
by Anonymous | reply 9 | May 2, 2023 2:40 AM |
This one was banned by some US radio stations.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 10 | May 2, 2023 2:43 AM |
Gordon interviewed by Alex Trebek sixty years ago.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 12 | May 2, 2023 2:53 AM |
I love what Barbra did with it.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 14 | May 2, 2023 2:58 AM |
He was kinda hot as a younger man.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | May 2, 2023 2:59 AM |
Carefree highway let me slip away on you.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 16 | May 2, 2023 3:10 AM |
If you could read my mind is brilliant. Beautifully written. I put it on repeat every so often.
If I could read your mind, love What a tale your thoughts could tell Just like a paperback novel The kind the drugstore sells When you reach the part where the heartaches come The hero would be me But heroes often fail And you won't read that book again Because the ending's just too hard to take
by Anonymous | reply 17 | May 2, 2023 3:29 AM |
Stupid lack of formatting. Don't know how to fix it so lyrics will stay a run-on sentence.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | May 2, 2023 3:31 AM |
He did a great cover of Me And Bobbie McGee.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 19 | May 2, 2023 3:39 AM |
Loved his distinctive voice. I’m glad I grew up during a period where music/the radio had a place for it.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | May 2, 2023 3:51 AM |
And he sang in my key!! No one sings bass/baritone anymore.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | May 2, 2023 3:58 AM |
So what is it about that generation of singers that so many of them are soooooo distinctive?
I'm talking Gordon Lightfoot, Willie Nelson, Dolly, Neil Young, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan etc....
by Anonymous | reply 23 | May 2, 2023 4:02 AM |
Wasn't Lightfoot "light in the loafers"?
Seriously, I seem to recall hearing that he was gay.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | May 2, 2023 4:04 AM |
R16, I grew up with Lightfoot on the radio and until this very moment, I thought it was "Every highway lets me slip away on you." Oops
by Anonymous | reply 25 | May 2, 2023 4:06 AM |
He was involved for a period of time with Cathy Smith the woman who injected John Belushi with the deadly speedball.
Sundown was inspired by the Lightfoot/Smith relationship.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | May 2, 2023 4:06 AM |
Grew up listening to his music. Dang.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | May 2, 2023 4:11 AM |
Robin Williams came to Belushi's bungalow the night he died. Williams left early because he thought Cathy Smith was sleazy. How sleazy does a dealer have to be for a coke addict to say no thanks?
by Anonymous | reply 28 | May 2, 2023 4:16 AM |
Ew so old so he must be like creepy af
by Anonymous | reply 31 | May 2, 2023 4:22 AM |
My favorite. Don Quixote.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 32 | May 2, 2023 4:25 AM |
Willie Nelson just turned 90 and seems to be going strong.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | May 2, 2023 5:07 AM |
[quote] according to his longtime publicist Victoria Lord.
I don't like this atall.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | May 2, 2023 5:21 AM |
Quote] Predictions for the next two celebrity deaths- Johnny Depp and Jack Nicholson .
R8 Don't cunt Jack or Jack Sparrow out so fast
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 35 | May 2, 2023 6:03 AM |
It's too late for praying.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 36 | May 2, 2023 7:16 AM |
Too Late for Prayin' was on the B side of the 45 for Sundown.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 37 | May 2, 2023 7:21 AM |
R17, you have to double space between line.
I did that here.
I did not do it Here.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | May 2, 2023 9:23 AM |
Lightfoot disavowed some lyrics that some would say are misogynistic/ getting him attention from the MeToo crowd......
the lyric below from For Lovin Me seems so perfect.....what does DL think about having to cater to current taste in content?
So don't you shed a tear for me
'Cause I ain't the love you thought I'd be
I've got a hundred more like you
So don't be blue
I'll have a thousand 'fore I'm through
by Anonymous | reply 40 | May 2, 2023 12:27 PM |
Lightfoot's songwriting prime was in an era, the 60s and 70s, when hit pop and country songs could still be about adult themes.
"If You Could Read My Mind" isn't sophomoric, far from it.
For all the deserved acclaim and fandom that Taylor Swift and, say, Lightfoot's fellow Canadian, The Weeknd have earned, they both still sound, and write lyrics, like slightly more mature variations of bubble gum pop, and I write that as a fan of bubble gum pop.
"The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald" belongs in a class by itself.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | May 2, 2023 12:53 PM |
That Edmond Fitzgerald song to this day gives me the creeps.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | May 2, 2023 1:40 PM |
Didn’t he sing that classic 70s ballad "Danny boooo"?
by Anonymous | reply 44 | May 2, 2023 1:43 PM |
Ah, I loved him. His (largely) gloomy songs were the soundtrack to the 70s!
by Anonymous | reply 45 | May 2, 2023 1:43 PM |
One of my favorites of his.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 46 | May 2, 2023 1:50 PM |
If You Could Read My Mind is one of the best songs ever written. Even though I prefer Neil Young's cover version.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | May 2, 2023 3:03 PM |
Never heard of John Grant, R49...
by Anonymous | reply 51 | May 2, 2023 3:36 PM |
[quote]r46 One of my favorites of his.
This version is pretty
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 53 | May 2, 2023 4:11 PM |
Re: popular music, is the key change dead to us?
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 54 | May 2, 2023 5:32 PM |
He looks like Chris Pratt and Bryan Cranston had a baby.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | May 2, 2023 5:37 PM |
[quote]R52 My favorite; I think.
APPROACHING LAVENDER must be appropriated as our gay anthem!
by Anonymous | reply 56 | May 2, 2023 6:08 PM |
I don't know exactly how you'd characterize his music - kind of folk/pop mashup? Whatever the case, there's nothing like listening to one of his songs when you're feeling sad, maudlin and half-drunk, crying over the lines "I don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone and I just can't it back."
It's hard to imagine an artist like GL being popular today
by Anonymous | reply 57 | May 2, 2023 8:31 PM |
One of his lesser known songs.
It's just so.....emotional.
MARY!
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 58 | May 2, 2023 8:47 PM |
For those of you who enjoy music analysis, here's a cool video.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 59 | May 2, 2023 8:54 PM |
He looks dead in op’s pic
by Anonymous | reply 60 | May 2, 2023 9:14 PM |
I was a kid growing up on Lake Superior when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down. That song was like a dirge/anthem for us back then. Still makes me sad.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | May 2, 2023 9:31 PM |
That song is very long, and it doesn’t have a chorus or any other variation.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | May 2, 2023 9:58 PM |
I thought it happened at the turn of the century or something and I told my mom (who grew up as a lighthouse keeper's daughter about this neat song I'd heard about a boat called the Edmund Fitzgerald and she told me about how we were all on a car ferry across Lake Michigan (I was a tiny baby) and the weather was awful that night on Lake Michigan too. I was shocked. Such a good fucking song
by Anonymous | reply 63 | May 2, 2023 10:14 PM |
The Edmond Fitzgerald song is chilling in parts. Certain parts of it give me goosebumps.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | May 2, 2023 10:17 PM |
If you ever look up the facts and details of the actual sinking of the Fitzgerald, then couple it with the song, it's amazing. It's like he got every detail down to the minutest one and somehow put it to music. An absolutely amazing song.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | May 2, 2023 10:17 PM |
[quote]"The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald" belongs in a class by itself.
[quote]That Edmond Fitzgerald song to this day gives me the creeps.
Oh, DEAR!
by Anonymous | reply 68 | May 2, 2023 10:18 PM |
Awww, that's a shame. He was a really good chef, 3 Michelin tires, I believe.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | May 2, 2023 10:19 PM |
[quote]The Weeknd
You spelled weekend wrong, luv.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | May 2, 2023 10:20 PM |
If you just read r17's post, instead of singing it to yourself, you're not doing it right.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | May 2, 2023 10:20 PM |
He apparently changed some lyrics as new information on the disaster became available.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 72 | May 2, 2023 10:35 PM |
Where does it say that in your link, r72?
by Anonymous | reply 73 | May 2, 2023 10:43 PM |
Oops, wrong link, R73. Here it is.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 74 | May 2, 2023 10:48 PM |
"And I will never be set free As long as I am a ghost, you can't see"
Some of the best lyrics ever written in pop history
by Anonymous | reply 75 | May 2, 2023 11:17 PM |
Holy shit, R12, Alex Trebek was gorgeous in 1963. He looks a bit like Robert Goulet in the same era , and I’m not saying that because they’re both Canadian. I wish men were still as clean-cut and neatly groomed as those two were in their heyday.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | May 3, 2023 12:05 AM |
Sundown was written about Cathy Evelyn Smith who gave Belushi that final speedball. When you know that it changes the meaning of the song.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | May 3, 2023 12:07 AM |
R67, I visited the Whitefish Point Lighthouse (“the searchers all say they’d have made Whitefish Bay if they’d put 15 more miles behind ‘em”) a while back. There’s a museum with exhibits and a lot of detail about the Edmund Fitzgerald and the many other ships that have sunk in the vicinity. Various versions of "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” was playing more or less continuously while I was in the museum, which was a little weird, but otherwise it was a fun visit. The Lake Superior beach is made of pebbles and small rocks of many beautiful colors. I still have a small bowl of them in my living room.
The UP of Michigan is absolutely gorgeous, and this particular spot is especially appealing because of the museum and lighthouse, the views of Lake Superior and the remoteness. You really feel like you’re in the middle of nowhere. It’s worth a visit if you’re ever up that way.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 79 | May 3, 2023 12:07 AM |
^^^ "... WERE playing ..."
by Anonymous | reply 80 | May 3, 2023 12:08 AM |
So Lake Superior is called Gichigami in Ojibwe. Interesting tidbit that proves how much detail Lightfoot put into his song.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 81 | May 3, 2023 12:41 AM |
[quote]R78 Sundown was written about Cathy Evelyn Smith
Would it be trashy to name one’s daughter Sundown?
I wonder if anyone ever was.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | May 3, 2023 12:46 AM |
He said that this one was one of his favourites.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 83 | May 3, 2023 1:11 AM |
My parents saw him play at a Native casino in the UP sometime in the 90s. What they didn't know was that first two rows held family members of the crew. Well, you can imagine.
It apparently aligned with some sort of opening or exhibit at the Whitefish Point museum mentioned above.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | May 3, 2023 1:20 AM |
He stayed in touch with the families of the victims for years, R84. He also donated some concert proceeds to them and established scholarships in some of the crew members names.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 85 | May 3, 2023 1:29 AM |
....authentic, rugged sexy mother fucker
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 88 | May 6, 2023 12:59 AM |
I’m probably the youngest one here who’s a big fan of Gord (26). He has always been a favorite of mine and of which the songs I tend to cover in my act. He had such a sensibility in the folk music idiom that is pretty much unsurpassed. He was a real legend and a hell of a thinking man. I hope he rests in peace.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | May 10, 2023 9:36 PM |
[quote]r91 I’m probably the youngest one here who’s a big fan of Gord (26).
I [italic]look[/italic] 26!
by Anonymous | reply 92 | May 10, 2023 9:59 PM |
Gordon made a comment during one of his concerts he was proud "Approaching Lavender" had been appropriated as a gay anthem by several groups in Canada.
by Anonymous | reply 93 | May 10, 2023 10:27 PM |
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