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Originally Posted by johnfowles
Interesting and amazing RDM
I have the vinyl album On Every Street with Calling Elvis on but had never spotted that particular similarity.
However that is by no means the only evidence of Lightfoot's influence on Mark Knopfler on that final Dire Straits album (On Every Street)
I did once record (back in the old days using a turntable hooked into my computer) back to back the instrumental breaks on another track on that album, (which was also the last vinyl LP I ever bought),together with the break on another Lightfoot song and you really could not tell where the join was. at the time of writing this I cannot recall either of the two songs in question, but will shortly try to retrace my thoughts and if I can replicate the recording I'll upload it and post a link.
(I now have On Every Street on DVD, so once I identify the two songs I will use Audacity to cut and paste to create the replica of my long lost earlier effort
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I guess the most obvious influence one artist have had on another, when it comes to song writing, must have been the influence Gordon Jenkins’ song ”Crescent City Blues” from the ”Seven Dream Album” recorded in 1953 and performed by Beverly Maher, had on Johnny Cash, when he changed the lyrics and titled the song ”Folsom Prison Blues”. The influence was absolutely noticeable, and Cash paid Jenkins off in 1970 with 75 000 dollars.
A lot of tunes and melodies are floating around in the air, and sometimes there will be similarities, when singers and songwriters comes up with new material. And by the way, perhaps there is a similarity between Johnny Cash’s ”Ballad Of A Teenage Queen” and Lightfoot’s ”Don Quixote”?
”Ballad Of A Teenage Queen”
”Don Quixote”