Oh Tom, I wished you hadn't asked that question. I feel like such a "groupie"!
As I hinted at in another thread, a girlfriend and I used to cruise around town listening to a "Sundown" 8-track. That all came about because at the time we were ushers at the Omni Coliseum in Atlanta, where our new hockey team (now the Calgary Flames) played and often came in contact with those handsome guys from across the border. On the team was a player named Tom Lysiak and as it so happened, my girlfriend had a crush on the guy. And being that his roommate at the time was Dwight Bialowas, naturally I had a crush on him. Anyway, in both of their bios in the media guide, they listed as their favorite artist as being Gordon Lightfoot. So, we went to the music store and checked into this "Lightfoot guy". Turned out to be someone we've heard of before but didn't know it. And as the saying goes . . . the rest is history. And to answer that unasked question- no, nothing ever came out of that infatuation with the hockey players because I was painfully shy back then and I haven't much improved over the years- hard to believe, huh? btw- if anyone cares, Tom Lysiak resides in a nearby neighborhood of mine and is a real estate big wig. Don't know whatever happend to Dwight once he was traded to the Minnesota Northstars (now Texas Star?).
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