Well I have only been on this site for a few weeks now, but in reading some of the archives, I feel as though I have discovered Gord all over again. A lot of these posts are really interesting. My Lightfoot experience started back in grade school in the mid-seventies when I was about 8 or 9. At that time, we would have music class once a week to learn singing and music. Our singing teacher was an old Catholic nun who often lacked patience with kids. Even more disturbing was that she would like to bring her own records to class. Some of this music was rather boring, but on occasion she would bring in a Lightfoot album and put it on the portable record player. I can't remember which album it was, but as soon as she played it, she seemed to be more pleasant and less frightening. I can still see her by the piano with a big smile, "Now kids, listen to Gordon Lightfoot!" she would say.
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