Thought it was wierd (spooky) that I was listening to the "Summer Side Of Life" CD tonight and that was one of your recent topics.

I remember many years ago when I bought the album. I had it for years before I listened totally to "Cabaret", the final song on the album. As I am sure you are familiar with, "Cabaret" starts off very slow....almost agonizing and then "picks up" with the second half of the song (after GL takes a swig of Ice Cold Canadian Ale)...."North Ontario".

I fell in love with the second half of the song immediately... I remember I was coming back from Balitmore and was listening to it on my 8 Track Tape Player...(wow, am I old). It took a long trip with much time on my hands to listen to the whole song. I probably had the album 2 years before I heard the whole song.

Always thought "North Ontario" could have been a hit....

Sorry if I rambled...

Wes
________
GSX1100S

Thought it was wierd (spooky) that I was listening to the "Summer Side Of Life" CD tonight and that was one of your recent topics.

I remember many years ago when I bought the album. I had it for years before I listened totally to "Cabaret", the final song on the album. As I am sure you are familiar with, "Cabaret" starts off very slow....almost agonizing and then "picks up" with the second half of the song (after GL takes a swig of Ice Cold Canadian Ale)...."North Ontario".

I fell in love with the second half of the song immediately... I remember I was coming back from Balitmore and was listening to it on my 8 Track Tape Player...(wow, am I old). It took a long trip with much time on my hands to listen to the whole song. I probably had the album 2 years before I heard the whole song.

Always thought "North Ontario" could have been a hit....

Sorry if I rambled...

Wes

not rambling at all. i agree .. excellent underrated tune!

The whole album is great

The whole album is great

The album as a whole is one of my favorites as well and I love the song - even the slow part.

I may have said it before,but I thought "North Ontario" was "on the air I go". :rolleyes:

I forget why just now but ...back to the point,10 star LP and 10 star song! :cool:

I never knew he was taking a swig of beer, but I always liked that for some reason-the sound was intimate, like he was right there. Does that make any sense?

I never knew he was taking a swig of beer, but I always liked that for some reason-the sound was intimate, like he was right there. Does that make any sense?

Opening a beer? I thought it was a Zippo! Derek are you out there?

Opening a beer? I thought it was a Zippo! Derek are you out there?

> Opening a beer? I thought it was a Zippo! Derek are you out there?

here we go again! :)

I didn't even know there was a sound until now! :eek: Gotta go home & listen again! :rolleyes:

Hello Watchman... I hope you are well.

The REAL question I have about "Cabaret" is not the Beer/Zippo question but........

Why is GL drinking Ice Cold Beer out of a can?...YECCCHHH. Personally, I drink Ice Cold Beer out of Cold Bottles. I love Bottled Beer. Can't believe he drank it out of a can. I do love Draft Beer in a Ice Cold Frosted Mug.

Also, the next question is what Beer is he drinking? I believe it was the "Crawdaddy" article that had him drinking Labatts Blue which is good beer if you buy it in Canada. Also, there was a picture of GL somewhere drinking that Australian beer (name escapes me now).

Ice Cold Bottled Beer.... Nature's most perfect drink...

Wes

Just checked, sure looks like Heineken to me. Don't they have light and dark variations? Looks like the dark one. Yecch! And I thought cigarettes *are* faggots (in England).

Ewwwwwwww!!!

It's not a joke. It's the honest truth. Way back when we Lightfoot fans didn't know any other really devoted fans, and there were no chat rooms or discussion groups to talk this out, Derek Kidd had concluded that the sound was a Zippo. Honest. So when somebody asked what it was on the newsgroup (I think it was?), he stepped in and proudly answered ... only to be set straight by a bunch of other fans. His funny mistake has become part of the lore of Lightheads, and we all love to joke about it, but it really happened. Derek may be the only person on the planet who thought it was the sound of a Zippo, but he did.

to be fair it was a genuine error on Derek "Zippo" Kidd's part
see his masterly wriggling excuse at:-
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...e937c79?hl=en&
the full topic is 16 mesages long
plus the ensuing song at:-
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...88eaf65?hl=en&
I have said before that for a long time I had thought it was the sound of a guitar string
breaking.
But if it was in fact a beer can it cannot have been Gord's own beer
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfo...tfoot_beer.jpg
because AFAIK that was only ever sold in the UK and in bottles not cans
Nor could it have been the Cleveland Ohio brew Edmund fitzgerald Porter
http://www.mylifeisbeer.com/beer/bot...topics/795.jpg
because that was not yet available or relevant when
SSOL was recorded (long before 1976)
and Sheryl cigarettes in England are "fags"
This use of the abbreviation should not be confused with the Public (i.e. private) school
and my old 50's boarding school practice of older boys using the younger boys as "fags/servants" see:-
FAGGING.
And a faggot is either a bundle of wood used in bonfires or a delicious meat concoction made sinfully and cholesterrolly from Pigs liver and suet see a recipe here
John Fowles
The boardinghouse reach is a thing no school can teach you
from:-
http://gordon-lightfoot-lyrics.wonde...rderstone.html
Ah hah now I realise why I like that "rarity" so much!!
Whatever you do don't visit http://www.fags.org it is not very nice!!
but
http://www.fakefags.co.uk/
is a hoot
Interestingly
http://www.sexisforfags.com/
is a website describing
"The Sex is for Fags! Abstinence-Only Education Program produced by the US Dept. of Health & Human Services and the White House Office of Youth Purity."
so there you go!!!

to be fair it was a genuine error on Derek "Zippo" Kidd's part
see his masterly wriggling excuse at:-
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...e937c79?hl=en&
the full topic is 16 mesages long
plus the ensuing song at:-
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...88eaf65?hl=en&
I have said before that for a long time I had thought it was the sound of a guitar string
breaking.
But if it was in fact a beer can it cannot have been Gord's own beer
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfo...tfoot_beer.jpg
because AFAIK that was only ever sold in the UK and in bottles not cans
Nor could it have been the Cleveland Ohio brew Edmund fitzgerald Porter
http://www.mylifeisbeer.com/beer/bot...topics/795.jpg
because that was not yet available or relevant when
SSOL was recorded (long before 1976)
and Sheryl cigarettes in England are "fags"
This use of the abbreviation should not be confused with the Public (i.e. private) school
and my old 50's boarding school practice of older boys using the younger boys as "fags/servants" see:-
FAGGING.
And a faggot is either a bundle of wood used in bonfires or a delicious meat concoction made sinfully and cholesterrolly from Pigs liver and suet see a recipe here
John Fowles
The boardinghouse reach is a thing no school can teach you
from:-
http://gordon-lightfoot-lyrics.wonde...rderstone.html
Ah hah now I realise why I like that "rarity" so much!!
Whatever you do don't visit http://www.fags.org it is not very nice!!
but
http://www.fakefags.co.uk/
is a hoot
Interestingly
http://www.sexisforfags.com/
is a website describing
"The Sex is for Fags! Abstinence-Only Education Program produced by the US Dept. of Health & Human Services and the White House Office of Youth Purity."
so there you go!!!

And, then, too, John, is the expression, "I'm all fagged out."

I can not tell you what"Key" that song is in,pick a string on a guitar and I will not be able to instantly tell you what note it is...
The Cabaret vision in Question is without a doubt,snap,gulp/swallow,Ahh.