John I did not know what a
jongleur was, so I looked it up. My guess was a Mediaevil times troubadour by context, but the French sound threw me, so I then guessed maybe a multi-skilled entertainer because of the sounds-like "juggler" quality to it. Sounds French, and maybe the term jugglers comes from it ? here is what I saw when I looked it up:
the
jongleurs, a group of travelling entertainers in western Europe who sang, did tricks, and danced to earn their living; the
troubadours in the south of France and the
trouvères in the north; and the
minnesingers, a class of artist-knights who wrote and sang love songs - Encycl. Brittanica
-pretty much what the context looked like !
I was wondering about all this prescience you'd mentioned on
desert island.... i see....
And regarding
COR BLIMEY , which must be a British exclamation of exasperation or frustration by context, I found this :
*from*: "The Phrase Finder"
Cor blimey
Meaning
An exclamation of surprise.
Origin
A euphemism (specifically a minced oath) derived from 'God blind me'.
hhm much similar to what I once heard the origin of the British adjective "Bloody" was: a contraction of By-Our-lady [the Queen]. Say it fast, and one can guess at a stretch that is the case - your opinion John ? As a gen-u-ine England'er ?
pretty much what the context looked like
Now, importantly, return for me to:
ON-THREAD:
since the rules bent to allow any
release, I'll go with
,
For the purist, a single LP or CD , I'd still stick with Sundown - which has all of his "range of song types for the first half of the '70's", IMO; except one - the great love Ballad eg "Your Love's Return", "A Minor Ballad", "The Last Time I saw Her", and I don't know why I overlook the enigmatic IYCRMM, in that genre of his, I guess because I think of it as unfulfilled love....I think the song is magnificent; almost defining for Gordon Lightfoot, at least for maybe a 5-year period - especially to people who were/are not Lightheads that did/do not know of his great works previously such as CRT, Softly etc/.
I wonder what song people associate with him career-wise, when asked as a non-fan, but know of him and a handful of hit songs. Surely Sundown, TWOTEF, IYCRMM, Carefree Highway in my experience are candidates; and in my experience they are the 4 songs that people who know of him; but are not fans, but are at that stage of (barest of knowledge of his music): "Oh yeah...I LOVE that one song..uhm.... Read my Mind, your mind, that one".
AND, its not unusual they do not connect Sundown with it [IYCRMM] at that level of "song on the tip of their tongue of his" they loved [in college, High School, etc - I hear that a LOT in the 50 - 55 age group of my contemporaries, i think because it was his first IMO widespread Gold blockbuster. Then, thinking of the sound of IYCRMM, they then have difficulty "hearing in their mind" the other 3 of the big 4 they probably heard many, many times on the radio, other 3 being Sundown, TWOTEF, and "Carefree Highway"- which could not be MORE different - which for one thing completely diffuses the categorical, ignorance-based criticism of Lightfoot, that is in my experience "All his stuff sounds alike" - look at just those 4 are SO different from one another, except maybe the 2 from Sundown.
I can really picture people not connecting any one to the other two at all when they can count on one hand the tunes they can almost work out in their head, but may not know the names of... I know that is a bit off-thread there, but its not substantive enough a of subject for its own thread. Or is it ? Actually, it might be - as in A Thread: "What songs in your opinion uniquely define GL's different styles, or best typify them." - I may try that. Shortened-up so it'll fit in the thread name spot !
For this post, this thread, it builds on to my album choice reasoning.. - that of Sundown, for the vary reason of so many styles of Gord's - Sundown vs. Too Late for Prayin, etc.
Thats my choice, if one.
~geo steve