Seasons with Gords' Songs

[gwen snyder]

Which songs of Gords' make you feel a certain season. Or perhaps it is the opposite... SFAWN is a winter song for me.
others promote thoughts of spring, some are summer (Spanish Moss), and now fall is approaching (and or upon us). Any of you have this feeling about any of his songs?

[Oma]

For me, "The Wreck" will always be a Fall song. If I remember correctly, it was on the radio non-stop in the Fall of 1976...I heard it a lot on the school bus heading to High School. Of course, the setting for the song was in the Fall..so...yep, it's definitely a Fall song!

[Cubfan64]

Sundown and Carefree Highway - summer songs - mostly because I remember hearing them alot on the radio while spending alot of time in the summer at our cottage on a lake in Michigan.

Edmund Fitgerald - definitely a fall song, not only because it's centered around an event that happened in the fall, but because everytime I've had the opportunity to see and be around Lake Superior, it's always been cold, cloudy, rainy, etc... it's ALWAYS felt like fall to me.

[Borderstone]

Song For A Winter's Night (obvious). I Can See it In your Eyes Feb./March for some reason. Gord's moody or sad ballads always remind me of late fall or early winter. The upbeat positive ones are spring and summer. Summer Side of Life though,is a somewhat pensive song,so I'd place that as the hottest day in Aaugust. 80s Gord where he's kind of light jazz or AC makes me picture a mild (or cool) night in the city. His rock songs are early summer,like when you 1st get out of school. Lastly,his straight folk music can only make me picture the great outdoors and pleasant weather. I wish I had the time to go song by song but I think I covered it well. It's been me,later!

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Borderstone (An,"Avid Listner" of G.L.)

The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald- reminds you of November(of course)
Song For A Winters Night-Winter
Circle Of Steel-Winter
Ghosts Of Cape Horn-Winter
Summertime Dream-either really early or really late summer.
Sundown-Summer
Canadian Railroad Trilogy-Summer
Its Worth Believin-Summer night
Somewhere USA-Spring
Sea Of Tranquility-Early spring
Drink Yer Glasses Empty-Early in the morning
Thats it for now.

[gwen snyder]

Thanks all who responded and after my husbands toad encounter I must say that "uncle Toad" is a song that reminds me of summer, and "ring neck loon" reminds me of fall. I have a question this song the "ring neck loon" was it a song Gord wrote for the committee who were looking for a song that identified Canadas avarian choice?

[gwen snyder]

Cubfan64, I agree with the thoughts about Superior. The lake is in a class of its' own. That is probably why Gord wrote the Wreck as he did.

[Iron]

Christmas, it's not always glitter and gold as in most songs it is told, for those who may be unable to sing, the bells of the season do not ring. Xmas on the flipside,My favorite Xmas song,..Circle of steel..

Iron

Which one of the 5 great lakes did the Fitzgerald sink in? I'm thinking Ontario...

[Auburn Annie]

Superior:

"...The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call 'Gitche Gumee'.
Superior, they said, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early!"

From "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"