Hello LMS. I love reading your "stuff". You sound like a typical GL "junkie". I think elsewhere on this board I mention about the first time I heard him but lets go at it again....
To be exact, December 15, 1970. I cut afternoon classes at my high school and went for a joy ride with my buddy to Erie, Pennsylvania which is about 90 miles east of Cleveland. We were listening to CKLW, radio station from Windsor, Ontario. It always came in very clear across Lake Erie and was very popular in the Cleveland area. They must have played "If You Could Read My Mind" 5 times in six hours and I fell for it, the first time I heard it. I couldn't get enough of it, bought the 45 and away I went.
As a sidelight, the first song I heard him sing in concert was "The List" at John Carroll University in 1974.
By the way, I thought his name was a "phoney made up" name and that he would never make it. That's the truth. Boy was I wrong....
It's funny how you don't forget certain things.
Anyway I love your posts, keep it up,
Wes.....
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