Onchord,
It was driving me nuts that I couldn't remember who commissioned CRT, so I looked and found it either in the Songbook book or the Collins (gasp!) bio. The CBC commissioned the song. Wreck, however, was not commissioned by anyone. The story goes that GL read about the wreck in Newsweek magazine and was moved to write about the tragedy and heroism of the men. I think he was commissioned to write another "shipwreck song" but not Wreck. Someone will correct me on that if I'm wrong. What I found interesting in the Songbook book was the number of songs people actually did ask him to write throughout his career.
chris
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"It took most of my time to do what never was done" -- GL
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