We've not had a Gordon Lightfoot thread in a while - Favourite tune?

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Poll question: We've not had a Gordon Lightfoot thread in a while - Favourite tune?

I'mnot saying and Early Morning Rain are two of my favs - but they all rule.
I also have to add what I love about Lightfoot. He's just so comforting. His music seems to relate so well to life. When I hear his tunes I get images in my head almost like a music video.
When I lived in New Brunswick I first started listening to him - with my buddies, on vinyl, drinking coffee in a dingy apartment after class while the snow fell outiside.
In Alberta, on days off, it'd be minus 30 outside and I'd sit in my Apartment with a fire on and a cup of tea listening to Gordon. Perfect gord weather is cold weather.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. You make it hard

There are too many great songs! But the Edmund Fitzgerald still haunts me....

[Bunny]

2. How's Gord doing?

Didn't he get real sick last year? I haven't heard much more about that.

It's a good day for a little Gord!! ;)

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3. He's hosting a show on CBC now, so I assume he's better

:-)

[Bunny]

4. That's good news!

Thanks!

[CanuckAmok]

12. That doesn't mean anything...

...the CBC has been employing dead hosts for years: Elwood Glover, Gordon Sinclair, Jonathan Kincaid, Rita McNeil...

[Dan-W]

5. A tie between

Did She Mention My Name?

and

The Last Time I Saw Her Face.

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6. I love that first one

He really hits that whole feeling on the head.

[Lautremont]

7. Seven Island Suite

In spite of that crazy synth break. Oh, all right, because of it.

[Jobu]

8. Good to hear he is doing better...

"Beautiful" is probably my favorite.

[welshTerrier2]

9. Steel Rail Blues

great tune ... not as well known as the other listed in the poll ...

but it's my favorite by far ...

[Bridget Burke]

10. "Your Love's Return/Song for Stephen Foster"

Could someone at the end of the 20th century write a song with the phrase "roses are waiting for dewdrops to fall" & have it come out beautifully?

Gordon could.

And he's certainly written many other good ones.

[CanuckAmok]

11. If you Could Read My Mind, but the Supreme Bagg Team's version.

n/t

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13. If I ever see you face to face - you're getting a slap

[CanuckAmok]

14. eliminate the middleman and just slap your mom for me.

n/t

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15. You Island folk and your wierd ways

Put on your ty-died shirt and flourescent purple swim trunks and take a hike!

[MrSandman]

16. Ribbon of Darkness

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17. That's a good one too

[2Design]

18. sloop John B

[Florida_Geek]

19. Where is ALL of the Above ??????????????

I am looking forward to him going back in concert.......

[Krupskaya]

20. Edmund Fitzgerald...

...always makes me cry. ALWAYS.

I like "Race Among the Ruins," too.

[Lautremont]

21. I just got a CD with a version of I'm Not Saying

by German model/chaunteuse Nico. It's brilliant.

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22. kick for gord - who has released a new album