quote:Originally posted by vlmagee:
Yes, Brink, that's the joke that John was making in his first response above.
Perfectly correct Valerie
>>so it isn't clear who wrote the music.
Semantics.semantics Valerie are you quite sure that there is any actual music? Sure Wayne's site's lyrics page does show guitar chords (no doubt this helps in strumming along to the lyrics) but this isn't this song really early (and superior) rapping??
I do recall once finding a site with the lyrics attributed to John D. Loudermilk himself possibly because he felt he contributed the tune??
I found this on another site:-
http://members.chello.nl/~k.vanderhoeven/JDL4.html
"A Gordon Lightfoot song. Gordon plays guitar on the session, he did not record this song for an album of his own. Ray Stevens plays organ.
The song tells about Ronnie Hawkins going into a Toronto Rolls dealer, buying a new car...
Great song, as far as I know JDL was the only one to record it"
Anyway this reply gives me the chance, as befits an ex Rolls-Royce Apprentice and 10-year employee of displaying one of these lovely machines
In the U.S.A. the Silver Cloud II was tremendously successful and the slogan coined by David Ogilvy's advertising agency "At 60 mph the loudest noise in this new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock" became a classic of its own.
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My Gordon Lightfoot webring
starts at
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot