Even though I wasn't hanging around the NG at the time, I've heard this story often and never tire of it. It has got to be the sweetest love story of all time. Last April, some of us were in Saratoga Springs for a couple of Lightfoot Tribute Band shows. Susan and John were there and I remember the Sunday afternoon, before they left to head home, they requested that Ed sing Same Old Loverman as we sat around the atrium of the motel jamming. And they danced and I cried at the beauty of their love.
John, you or Susan should tell of the gift some of the NGers made for you. I saw it in Toronto in 2001 and was totally amazed!
Janice
quote:Originally posted by johnfowles:
OK Dunkin' Douglas As long as you keep coming up with interesting and thought provoking topics like is I expect you will be forgiven for your butchering of the english language
though probably not your misuse of smilies!!
As soon as I read your posting my mind went back to a day in 1972
When I returned home after a shopping trip to Bournemouth
during which on one of my obsessive hunts in record store racks I discovered the newly released Don Quixote album. I needed cheering up as it was then about 7 weeks since my wife (who became a Lightfoot fan with me in Montreal) had walked out. I had strenuously tried to make her see that "it's all a big mistake".
Being an April day in England it was of course pouring "cats and dogs" (I can still visualize all the poodles) so I was looking out of the window when suddenly I was listening to track 4 on side 1. at this point there was a danger that there would be more water inside the house than outside.
To end on a brighter note fast forwards aboot 28 years (just where did all that time go to!!!) to June 1999. A month after the Songbook box-set was released those of us frequenting Rik's chat room had got into the habit of playing each CD in sync in rotation so we were all enjoying the same track together albeit separated by a few thousand miles of ocean or land. One evening I was startled when the smooth strains of Disk Two Track 19 brought a truly surreal invitation by one of the chatters to have a virtual dance.
you can read Susan's eloquent recounting of this and the consequences at:- http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&threadm=03e50698.ffa64d5d%40usw-ex0104-028.remarq.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DISO-8859-1%26sa fe%3Do ff%26q%3Dwhat%2Ba%2Byear%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch% 26meta%3Dgroup%253Dalt.music.lightfoot