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Originally Posted by JohnStinson
Oh one more thing... and maybe this is an 'oops'. I have no clue when Gord wrote CYC...could have been his first song.
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hi John, CYC was noted as an out take from the 1981 Shadows recordings
in case some don't have the wee font-ed Songbook liner notes (or need a new spectacles presciption, lol) here's some gordspeak (when will this term finally be included in Websters?):
" I actually had a canary-yellow canoe, a Royalex. I wrapped it around a rock. It was there about 14 hours, and we never could free it. In the song I listed a whole bunch of places I have been canoeing, but there may be one or two I haven't been yet. I haven't been across to Resolute, on Victoria Island. Some of the places in the song are rivers and some of them are towns, like Ross River. Ross River is a little town in the Yukon Territories, right in the middle of the northern Rockies. You have to drive up the Alaska Highway and turn right and drive 150 miles to get there."
...even in sports, some make it into the Finals even if they didn't have a good 'record'...many examples, how about the Cards in the shooper bowl this past year?
the problem with the March Madness (horizontal pyramid) format is some potential finalists are pitted head to head in the early or semi rounds...rm, did well in avoiding this to a large degree
if Couchiching didnt have sentimental value ('i will sing my final number by lake couchiching'...probably true) and have that intersting chorus cadence, then i'd have to agree: that as standard releases go and your prior poll indicated, it's takes the Razzie award for fairly lame composition and verse lyrics...if you pop it on after a few coolies, you gotta admit that the bass line and congo-like percussion set a pretty catchy groove
sorry for the diversion...let's get back to deep analysis of pin the tail on the donkey, and my elephant too
ps) glad to hear Tim's making the Legiondary gig...exciting stuff, guys!