At work, we listen to a local am station that carries "The Music of Your Life" (a nationally syndicated, or sattelite feed or something like that featuring Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, etc. and some occasional Gordon Lightfoot). Anyway, today they had a birthday tribute to Gordon. For about 15 minutes, they interspersed sound bytes of Gordon talking about his music, and how a lot of artists have done covers of his music, and short one-verse samples of some of them. I couldn't make out much of what he was saying, or who was singing even though I got up and went over to the radio to listen, because a very loud customer was at the counter and drowned him out. But I did get to hear Marty Robbins's version of Ribbon of Darkness. It's excellent!!! There was something that Gordon said, but I'm not sure if I heard it right-- something about there being 350 recordings of his music by other artists (or it may be 350 of one song)? I know from reading your posts that his birthday was really a couple days ago, but then again the announcer wished him a "happy 61st birthday". What they lacked in chronological accuracy, they made up for in excellent music!
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