Favorite Song : Make Way (For The Lady)

Because of these lines:

This life I've bin given
It don't tell you no lies
Could've been somewhat wasted
How could it be otherwise
When the sound of the laughter
Brought the tears in to my eyes

Because of these lines:

This life I've bin given
It don't tell you no lies
Could've been somewhat wasted
How could it be otherwise
When the sound of the laughter
Brought the tears in to my eyes

[Borderstone]

I know this guys' not here anymore but Make Way For The Lady is the song that I like the most off of Dream Street Rose, It's not my all time favorite but I love it's cool jazzy simplicity,along with it's lyrical cleverness. I think it should have been the single,instead of the title track. Definete top 10 in my opinion. I especially like the line,"Makin' hay with no gravy,brings the good folks down." Mainly because it's weird at 1st but once I thought about it,I got it! Catch ya later!

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

Make Way For The Lady is actually the one song I don't like on LIVE FROM RENO or the DREAM STREET ROSE album. It's jazzy feel doesn't spark anything in me and so I don't think it holds a candle to "On The High Seas" or "Sea of Tranquility." Are there any other jazz-style songs Gordon does?

Make Way For The Lady is actually the one song I don't like on LIVE FROM RENO or the DREAM STREET ROSE album. It's jazzy feel doesn't spark anything in me and so I don't think it holds a candle to "On The High Seas" or "Sea of Tranquility." Are there any other jazz-style songs Gordon does?

[Borderstone]

Yes! Let It Ride-A Lesson In Love-Morning Glory (sort of). Those can be found on East Of Midnight. A few of the tracks on Shadows and 1 or 2 on Salute also. I guess the 80's was his jazz & rock & AC phase. Later!

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

I don't hear anything on the Shadows album as being jazz. I hear a lot of cymbals on "Let It Ride" and horns on "Lesson in Love" but does that make it jazz? What IS jazz, exactly? Much of what I hear when I listen to jazz is the drummer playing the cymbals any old haphazard way and the bass player going up, then down, then up, etc. etc. while the beat accents the second note (the "swing") as opposed to rock music accenting the first or third of something in 4/4 time.

I don't hear anything on the Shadows album as being jazz. I hear a lot of cymbals on "Let It Ride" and horns on "Lesson in Love" but does that make it jazz? What IS jazz, exactly? Much of what I hear when I listen to jazz is the drummer playing the cymbals any old haphazard way and the bass player going up, then down, then up, etc. etc. while the beat accents the second note (the "swing") as opposed to rock music accenting the first or third of something in 4/4 time.

[TheWatchman]

I think that "Salute" was a little out-of-the ordinary because of his electric guitar and more of a rock feel to it, but certainly not jazz.

"East Of Midnight" is nothing like jazz. Have you ever listened to jazz? If you must categorize EOM, it is Adult Contemporary. That's what it is. It's not rock, folk, bluegrass, metal, industrial, easy listening, jazz, blues etc. It's adult contemporary and definitely not jazz.

None of Lightfoot's music sounds at all like jazz. Not if you really know jazz music. The jazz purists out there would cringe at the notion that some of Lighftoot's tunes are jazz. No offense, it's just not jazz.

It'd be a compliment being a Gordon Lightfoot fan to hear a jazz purist say it sounds nothing like jazz. THANK GOD! He'd be right...that's why I love Gordon! (He must have done "Make Way For The Lady" in that style to throw them a bone). Gordon goes from and/or combines country, folk, rock...and I'm still not sure if "14-Karat Gold" opens up to disco, a polka, or Russian folk (what does that driving bass make it, anyway?)..I LOVE IT whatever it is and THANK GOD it's NOT jazz!!!

It'd be a compliment being a Gordon Lightfoot fan to hear a jazz purist say it sounds nothing like jazz. THANK GOD! He'd be right...that's why I love Gordon! (He must have done "Make Way For The Lady" in that style to throw them a bone). Gordon goes from and/or combines country, folk, rock...and I'm still not sure if "14-Karat Gold" opens up to disco, a polka, or Russian folk (what does that driving bass make it, anyway?)..I LOVE IT whatever it is and THANK GOD it's NOT jazz!!!

[SomewhereupinMichigan]

I LOVE jazz. I also LOVE Lightfoot. I listen to a lot of both. NO, Lightfoot is NOT jazz.

Hi

You must like the blues buddy. Viva la GL.

Hi

You must like the blues buddy. Viva la GL.

[Borderstone]

I guess I should have explained more in full. I'm talking about 80's style (so called) light jazz. I know what real jazz is but in the 80's it seemed like any AC song that had a mellow sax or keyboard accompnying it,was labeled eroniously as jazz. In that sense,true jazz has been (excuse my words here)bastardized and misunderstood. Real jazz is deep,emotional and moving,wheather fast or slow. The kind I'm talking about is misnamed Adult Contemporary. Radio programmers sometimes just don't know music from a hole in the record! If they had called Gord's music then what it was,I guess I would have said AC,but out of habit I call it what they called it then. Guess I should stop doing that. It's been me,later!

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

[BILLW]

Borderstone, I know what you mean. That light jazzy garbage some radio stations play on Sunday mornings as part of their "lite brunch" program from about 8am till 1pm or so...eeeewwwww! Remember, Gord had a lot of "outside" help with East of Midnight...some people who were telling him what to do in order to get more radio a/c airplay...remember, he had just come off of the sales failure of Salute and the record company was pretty much slapping him on the hand. The liner notes of the album suggest that David Foster only had a hand in "Lesson in Love" but I am sure I hear his evil influence coming thru in other parts of the album. They told Gord he needed saxophones in order to succeed...didn't work...and Gord never went back. I'll take trueness to one's better judgement over sales numbers anytime!

[Rob1956]

Borderstone, I know what you mean. That light jazzy garbage some radio stations play on Sunday mornings as part of their "lite brunch" program from about 8am till 1pm or so...eeeewwwww! Remember, Gord had a lot of "outside" help with East of Midnight...some people who were telling him what to do in order to get more radio a/c airplay...remember, he had just come off of the sales failure of Salute and the record company was pretty much slapping him on the hand. The liner notes of the album suggest that David Foster only had a hand in "Lesson in Love" but I am sure I hear his evil influence coming thru in other parts of the album. They told Gord he needed saxophones in order to succeed...didn't work...and Gord never went back. I'll take trueness to one's better judgement over sales numbers anytime!

[Borderstone]

Actually,Rob...I like the early Sunday morning music on my local jazz station here in Phoenix. At least no one is singing that early in the morning,I like Sunday to start off quiet like that. It's KYOT ("The Coyote". "Smoooth Jazz,95.5 KYOT!") The announcer for the station is the African-American actor with the Jamaican flavored voice who was in "Live And Let Die" with Roger Moore and also did 7-up ads in the late 70s. As for the 80's "jazz" with vocals? Can you say "plastic"? /// On my copy of East Of Midnight Mr. Foster is also credited (big surprise *) with Anything For Love. I've said before that I think he was still in the St. Elmo's Fire groove at that point. It's a nice LP but I'm glad it didn't change Gordon Lightfoot! Later!

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

[SomewhereupinMichigan]

Hey Bord...that would make him the...(are you ready for this)...


"UN-nouncer"

[Borderstone]

Good one! Took me a moment to get it but good one! Ah-ha-ha-ha-ahhhhh!

[Steve DeRosa]

Make Way For the Lady is the one song on Dream Street Rose that I skip through quite often (sorry GL!)! I don't know why, but I just can't get into that song. I love the rest of the album, though.

[Oma]

Make Way For the Lady is the one song on Dream Street Rose that I skip through quite often (sorry GL!)! I don't know why, but I just can't get into that song. I love the rest of the album, though.