Gordon Lightfoot passed away May 1st
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news...84/ar-AA1aBR4t
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Gordon Lightfoot passed away May 1st
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news...84/ar-AA1aBR4t
Three44s
Last edited by Three44s; 05-03-2023 at 12:04 AM.
Quote Originally Posted by Bret4207
“There is more to this than dumping lead in a hole.”
WOW, so sad to hear. He was one of my favorite artists and I had seen a couple of his performances.
Old enough to know better, young enough to do it anyway!
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I've been a fan since I was a kid back in the 70s..one of the first albums I owned was Don Quixote...great artist. He will be missed
Besides his songs he did, he also wrote for others if I read correctly?
My father who was no fan of 70’s music even admired him because he named one of his D7 Caterpillars after him .... “Lightfoot”. He cherishes his cats and would not use a name lightly for them.
I have been trying to think of which of Gordon’s songs I like the best but have not been able to pick one or even a few.
In finally reading the history behind the song “Sundown” I find he lived it. Gordon had a wandering eye even when married but this one particular mistress had a wandering eye as well. He did not like that. At some point post break up, she was so far into drugs she was a dealer. At a particular party, she was involved with accidentally helping John Belushi out of this world.
She began bragging about it in interviews, the cops took note and she got the cross bar hotel for eighteen months for involuntary manslaughter.
I will take my boring life, thank you
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Quote Originally Posted by Bret4207
“There is more to this than dumping lead in a hole.”
His music stood large in my life. He stands up there with John Denver, Carole King and James Taylor. At 84 IMO he was not that old. I will miss him, and I will continue to play his music in memory.
I truly believe we need to get back to basics.
Get right with the Lord.
Get back to the land.
Get back to thinking like our forefathers thought.
May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord make His face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you
and give you His peace. Let all of the earth – all of His creation – worship and praise His name! Make His
praise glorious!
He is regarded as a genius by other song writers, his works are put together with precision and the melody matches the word sequences like a glove, to write like that is rare. Early Morning Rain and If you Could Read My Mind are really well done. the Wreck of The Edmond Fitzgerald is recognizable by millions immediately at the opening. Sundown is a great composition. He won the Canadian Centennial song writing contest with, The Canadian Railroad Trilogy. He was voted a National Treasure of Canada by the Government of Canada and won multiple "Best" awards in countries around the world. His compositions were really meaningful to millions of people.
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Rip. Thank you for the awesome music!!
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I was a big fan of his in the seventies. We all have to go sometime. RIP.
Yes, so true!
Whenever I hear or imagine his song, “Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald” I feel like I am watching the tragedy unfold before my eyes from start to end.
That level of professionalism permeates every song of his I have heard over the years. A real talent.
RIP Gorden Lightfoot
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Quote Originally Posted by Bret4207
“There is more to this than dumping lead in a hole.”
Another fan. Saw him in concert in the late 70’s. Love his songs, and music.
"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" - Gordon Lightfoot (HD w/ Lyrics)
Good singer.
Smooth voice.
All the good ones are getting old.
When Calgary hosted the Olympic games he and Ian Tyson sang together. I think Gordon did Alberta Bound and Ian did Four Strong Winds. I have seen a couple of you tube versions but can't find the really good one now.
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When I hear this song remind me of when I was in the navy and in rough seas because it was close to what for not serve meal most like box lunches all and went with it and one time the cook bought out desert and put it on the table to eat and took on heavy rolls and everything on the table and and table slide across the room and the desert went on the floor. We were sitting on the floor to eat our meals. It was in the North Atlantic .
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RIP. I’ve made many of miles with Gordon.
Gordon Lightfoot and Tom T. Hall were two I always wanted to see in concert and never did they have both passed not but with their music will not be forgotten .
When I think back on all the **** I learned in high school it's a wonder I can think at all ! And then my lack of education hasn't hurt me none I can read the writing on the wall.
Nothing more noisy than than a local watering hole outside the gates of a Steel Mill after shift change. Until, on the jukebox comes Gordon Lightfoot's prayer to the "Fitz", nothing but hushed voices and quiet til the end. I made the pilgrimage to White Fish Bay in 94' from half way across the country, in Feb no less, with some fellow molten metal steel workers, its our anthem and I still get misty eyed when it comes on.
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“You should tell someone what you know. There should be a history, so that men can learn from it.
He smiled. “Men do not learn from history. Each generation believes itself brighter than the last, each believes it can survive the mistakes of the older ones. Each discovers each old thing and they throw up their hands and say ‘See! Look what I have found! Look upon what I know!’ And each believes it is something new.
Louis L’Amour
The Californios
The Rectum Of Ella Fitzgerald
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