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Originally posted by geodeticman:
Peter,
Your charitable endeavours are remarkably giving. You and the others are to be applauded indeed , as Char put it.
One song and writer you mentioned in the event set-list was of special interest to me. John Hartford's "Gentle On My Mind".
I agree it is one of the most beautiful songs I have heard, too. Did you know that while of course most of us remember Glen Campbell's cover of it that was a chart-topper cross-over
country hit into pop. What I thought might be interesting though, was that it may not be known widely that Hartford wrote many more of Campbell's string of similar hits. I believe relatively few were
recorded by Hartford; many more penned.
Interesting though is for reasons I have never tried to research on the 'net, or in the library is that Hartford stoppped writing (and recording too) that particular "easy-listening" style of country-folk-contemporary such as GOMM. He had a remarkably pleasasnt and listenable voice that Lightfoot fans would take to right away; I did.
Oddly, after writing a string of hit-driven
albums, maybe more like a few anyway, he changed labels from Warner-Bros Reprise (I believe) to what I think was his own label (......Fish). Flying Fish, I think. He also dramatically changed his style to a "wacky" version of bluegrass which I enjoy in general, but this was a little fringe odd to my taste.
me. - Steve (Geo)

HI Steve,
I agree with you about "Gentle on my Mind". it is a beautiful song. Another great song by JH was "natural to be Gone". Glen used to do that one too on this show. If you you go to "Apple ITUNES" there is a great version of that song featuring Bela Fleck on Banjo.
Bill Hall