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Posted by gavortnik on July 9, 2009
Well, now that you mention it, Shanoah, it’s funny just how many songs from Gordon Lightfoot are well known. There’s The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, there’s Sundown, and then there’s Carefree Highway.
Don’t recognize the name? Well, you’ll recognize the hook. You’ve heard that very distinctive “Carefree Heeeeeeh-waaay” more times on the radio than you’d care to admit.
Throw in a performance by a singing Peterbilt and… well, it’s memorable.
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Posted by shanoah on July 9, 2009
Sorry about the lateness of this post. Been a little preoccupied.
If we’re playing Gordon Lightfoot, though, we may as well play one of his more popular songs, probably the next more popular after Sundown. That would be The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. A depressing song, but a good one.
What you might not realize is that this song has also been borrowed by irish nationalists. Bobby Sands took it, rewrote the lyrics, and created the song Back Home In Derry, sung here by Jed Marum.
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Posted by gavortnik on July 9, 2009
Well, I have absolutely no problem with lingering on Gordon Lightfoot for a while. Here he his, live and even mellower than usual, with one of his most recognizable songs, Sundown. And if you don’t hear that “Sun-daaaaahn” hook on your local classic radio station at least once a day, then there’s something wrong with your local classic radio station.
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