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By: roxannafirehall

roxannafirehall — Sat, 03 Oct 2015 22:56:23 +0000

Will do so. Love discovering new music, even if it’s not new, just new to me. I’m surprised I don’t know Stan Rodgers, but I figure, thanks to you, we’re going to meet. Thanks COSF.

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By: cold_old_steelers_fan

cold_old_steelers_fan — Sat, 03 Oct 2015 21:28:07 +0000

Hard to say. There were a lot of good folkies. I think Stan Rodgers took Gord’s crown and, in spite of his early death, never relinquished it. Google Stan Rodgers sometime (the Mary Ellen Carter, Barrett’s Privateers or 45 years to name a few).

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By: cold_old_steelers_fan

cold_old_steelers_fan — Sat, 03 Oct 2015 21:25:16 +0000

The only problem with Canadian content when you lived in Canada, especially in the early days, was it meant you heard nothing but Snowbird,The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and Sweet City Woman. Things are better now as there is a lot of quality Canadian music available but back then it was painfully thin. Because of the endless air play I learned to hate some songs that probably do not deserve my hate but like love, you don’t get to choose who or what you love or hate (though you can choose how you behave about those things).

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By: roxannafirehall

roxannafirehall — Sat, 03 Oct 2015 20:37:33 +0000

Homer, I haven’t thought of CKLW in a thousand years. I grew up in Erie and listened to CKLW a lot in the sixties and seventies. Wow! That takes me back.

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By: Homer J.

Homer J. — Sat, 03 Oct 2015 18:57:11 +0000

Homer worked at an all-news station in Cleveland from 1975, and lived in a 22nd floor high rise apartment downtown, overlooking the lake. Every day, he could look out his window and see the Eddie Fitz and/or her sister ship docked a few blocks away. Then came the disaster. I came into work early that October morning and everyone was abuzz that the big ore carrier had gone missing. For weeks, it was THE big story.

Lightfoot’s song story is brilliant, evoking timeless themes, phrases, and tonalities of English and Scotch-Irish sea chanteys. Back then, Canadian radio stations had to play a certain percentage of “Canadian content” songs, and you couldn’t listen to CKLW or any of the big border stations for more than twenty minutes without hearing him. It is especially haunting on a cold night in late autumn or early winter. So long as men go down to the sea in ships, this song will be heard, sung, and appreciated. It’s that good.

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By: roxannafirehall

roxannafirehall — Sat, 03 Oct 2015 12:05:54 +0000

Another plus 1 for Gordon Lightfoot in general. Gord is the BB of folkies?

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By: cold_old_steelers_fan

cold_old_steelers_fan — Sat, 03 Oct 2015 05:15:41 +0000

I always thought of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to be one of his lesser works but maybe it is just a personal preference. The one of his I have most often heard performed by my friends and contemporaries is the Canadian Railroad Trilogy though I am more partial to Steel Rail Blues and Song For A Winter’s Night.

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By: Bill S.

Bill S. — Sat, 03 Oct 2015 03:51:36 +0000

Plus one for the Edmond Fitzgerald reference.

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