IYCRMM was my first favorite, too, but I had heard songs off his UA albums from the time I was 8 or 10 years old, because my parents were Lightfoot fans. At that time, I thought he was an old, Al Martino type character, because that seemed to be the style of music Mom and Dad were into, so I didn't pay a lot of atttention. It was after seeing him on Canadian TV (oh yes, we do get that in Northern Maine), in the early '70s, sitting on a stool with a spotlight on him, singing IFYCRMM, that I realized he was a great singer, and also kind of cute. That started my long obsession with his music.
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