Remember the Christmas classic " A Year Without A Santa Claus"? One Christmas, Santa takes ill and decides to take a holiday and cancel christmas. Santa insists that he won't be missed and that no one cares about Christmas. Mrs. Claus sends elves Jingle and Jangle to Southtown to find out if Christmas is still in people's hearts.
It's a classic that I've watch since I was
four or five years old and it gave me an idea.
My brother and I took our vast collection of
Lightfoot Cd's up to the bar and grill on
Friday night. Our town of Pittsfield, Il
is a good mix of white and blue collar people. Our mission was to see if anyone else cared about GL anymore. We were like elves with a goal to get drunk, have fun,
listen to Lightfoot and see if we would get kicked out for listening to such "outdated" music. After several Crown Royal Canadian
whiskeys I got up the nerve to give the bartender my Gord's Gold CD. I asked him to skip ahead a few tracks and he did. The first song to ease into the minds of every patron was "Beautiful". I almost immediatly
noticed people tapping their foot!!!!
When "Rainy Day People" came on, it was as if someone flipped a switch on. Someone yelled"I think this is Gordon Lightfoot"
and someone else said," Oh my god, I haven't heard this song in fifteen years."
I knew that things were going well when people stared to come up to my brother and I
and looking at our Cd's. We even had some requests. When "Edmund Fitzgerald" came on
the whole bar ( at least 90%) began to sing
in harmony. My brother and I felt like folk heroes. We gave the gift of Gord.
Even though Gord has been out of the spotlight for some time now, I had a chance to actually see how much his music has touched the lives of most everyday people.
My brother and I had a blast and got to share Gord's music with about 75 drunk and happy people. We listened and remembered
for about 3 hours. I will never forget my night as an elf for Gord. Am I a Dork or what?
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