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Originally Posted by johnfowles
Welcome to the forums Ray. I trust that the "luna" part of your screenname is not a shortened version of the word for somebody who is a few marbles short!
Like you Ray... back in 1966 I was immediately drawn to Gord's hauntingly beautiful rendition (it was indeed only the second Gord recording I ever heard, after the sadly neglected Spin Spin that is, but if you read the small print you should spot what has been pointed out on this forum many times before it is one of the very few songs that Gord has recorded that were not as he once put it in concert his own "original shit" (sic) as it was in fact written by Ewan McColl and a google will reveal that he wrote in in honour of his wife (Peggy Seeger) see the inevitable wiki at:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewan_MacColl:-
Peggy herself is the sister of the redoubtable "we shall overcome" Pete; see another wiki at:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Seeger
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"Sir" John Fowles Bt |
No, the "Luna" stands for moon, not lunatic!
I know all about "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" by Ewan MacColl, except that I don't remember Gordon Lightfoot doing a cover of it.
Read the song title!
