[johnfowles]

Or is it "Silver Cloud Talking Blues (see below)??
This if you do not already know is a rare Gord penned ditty about Ronnie Hawkins' attempt to buy a Rolls Royce based on a true incident.
On Wayne's site he includes it on his "covers" page but says little about it
It is in fact one of the few songs that Gord wrote but never ever recorded himself.However there is an amusing rendition by John D Loudermilk that WAS issued as a 45 single (are you listening 45s Frank??). I first heard it back in 1999 when it was played on BBC Radio Merseyside in a great interview with Gord recorded in Toronto by the BBC personality Spenser Leigh complete with Gord's spoken introduction
it was also included in an album called "It's My Time"

and Amazon have a short sample of John's version on:-
http://www.amazon.com/gp/recsradio/r...k=010&disc=001
I have just bid victoriously to the tune of $11.00 (plus $3.00 postage from Texas) on an auction for a copy of the single:-

[img]http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot/images/SilverCloudTalk.gif[/img]
I wanted to illustrate the confusion over the question of the correct song title
Wayne's site in his listing of "unreleased songs" at
http://www.lightfoot.ca/unresngs.htm
includes
"TALKIN' SILVER CLOUD BLUES
This was a poem, no music, about Ronnie Hawkins going into a
Toronto Rolls dealership and buying a new car - with cash!"
which is the title referred to on several websites including lyrics ones and
in particular a Ronnie Hawkins biography page at:-
http://www.oldies.com/artist-biograp...e-Hawkins.html
"while his experience in buying a Rolls-Royce was recounted in Gordon Lightfoot's "Talkin' Silver Cloud Blues".
also on that page I was highly amused to read this about another sadly recently departed pioneer rocker:-
"The burly singer also appeared in Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue enjoyed some amusing lines as "Bob Dylan' in Renaldo And Clara; Hawkins" segment with "happy hooker" Xaviera Hollander includes the line: "Abraham Lincoln said all men are created equal, but then he never saw Bo Diddley in the shower."
whereas on the Loudermilk single it is shown as
"Silver Cloud Talking Blues"
I am pretty miffed at this forum
in my last posting I particularly wanted to display the scan of the actual 45 record,
spoon my first attempt I used the address as shown on the actual ebay auction to wit

http://www.karavanrecords.net/George...rCloudTalk.gif

However immaculately inserting it inside the bulletin board image tabs [img] and [/img]
[img]http://www.karavanrecords.net/George/SilverCloudTalk.gif[/img]
This as you can readily see did not work.So thinking it might be a fault in the link I uploaded the image
to my own site at:-
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfo...rCloudTalk.gif
and again adding the correct tags to produce a syntaxically perfect display code
[img]http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot/images/SilverCloudTalk.gif[/img]
and yet again zilch. yet if you click both of the bare URLs the picture will open.
This sort of absurdity has happenned to me several times now and I am sick of it as it wastes valuable time.
But I am determined that you should see the image so I will now resort reluctantly to attaching it.
You should thus be able to see it by clicking the thumbnail below

the seller states quite categorically
"John Loudermilk was a wonderful songwriter who gave us many, many hits in the late '50s through the '60s. Beyond writing songs, he too was trying to be a successful singer, and cut many records for RCA, most which have a fun novelty nature to them. He didn’t write this one, but it sure is a fun song!

THIS SINGLE is from May of 1966 and had John singing his version of the Gordon Lightfoot tune "Silver Cloud Talkin' Blues." This is a very cool little talkin' blues that Gordon never recorded, and it seems that Loudermilk is the only one that ever put it to wax.

The song is about a rocker buying a new Rolls Royce and is said to have been inspired by Ronnie Hawkins on a buying trip to a Toronto Rolls dealer. Wanna hear something that really adds to it? Gordon plays guitar on the session and that organ in the mix is Ray Stevens !

Since this tune isn't on a Gordon LP, this is the only way to hear it. On the flip you get John singing his own song "Run On Home Baby Brother." It's a nice little romp too."
My question is does anybody have confirmation or could tell by listening to it that Gord really was accompanying John on this recording??
Are you reading this Tom Salter?If so you will know that you are hereby advised that this must be added to your list of vistories to be done as it "just" qualifies as one of Gord's recordoings!!.
The Silver Cloud in question is arguably the best looking Royce ever built.
I have displayed below a small thumbnail as a link to the full sized picture which be warned Ron is over 289663 Bytes and this particular Silver Cloud III is for hire by a company in Buckinghamshire,England and is shown complete with UK issue wedding ribbons just like one that one of my kind friends in Sherborne,Dorset England hired to take us away from our reception just 9 years ago last Monday.Yes I remembered!!

If there is anybody who has never heard it and would like to please send me a Private Message and I'll see if I can help.