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Algeh · 03-09-2000, 03:09 PM

I'm 18 and I've been a Gordon Lightfoot fan all my life. My mother's a fan, and so I grew up with it. I think I've seen him in concert at least 4 times. I remember in 6th grade I failed a test on Canadian geography (I have a learning disability that makes it very diffcult for me to memorize certain types of information) and my mom said, "but honey, you do know all of the Great Lakes. Remember that verse in Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald? That has all of the lakes, and they're in order except for Lake Erie." I did fine on the retest...

It's kind of interesting here at college. Very few people have heard of Gordon Lightfoot (although one guy who lived down the hall from me last year could sing the first part of Canadian Railroad Trilogy...) but most of them asked their parents about him over break and their parents dug out their old records...it's fun. I'm one of the few people in my dorm with a car, and my radio's broken and only the tape player works...slowly but surely, they're getting used to it...some of them may even become fans....one girl sings along now...

I've actually gone out and bought all of the albums I could find. My mom had most of his Warner Brothers stuff, but I went to the local used record store and picked up the rest of it and his UA stuff. Now I'm more familiar with most of his songs than she is...I think I have all of his offical albums now, although I have abridged versions of Sunday Concert and Lightfoot!

. My next project is to start buying this stuff on CD...

03-09-2000, 03:09 PM	#14
Algeh Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2000 Posts: 9	I'm 18 and I've been a Gordon Lightfoot fan all my life. My mother's a fan, and so I grew up with it. I think I've seen him in concert at least 4 times. I remember in 6th grade I failed a test on Canadian geography (I have a learning disability that makes it very diffcult for me to memorize certain types of information) and my mom said, "but honey, you do know all of the Great Lakes. Remember that verse in Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald? That has all of the lakes, and they're in order except for Lake Erie." I did fine on the retest... It's kind of interesting here at college. Very few people have heard of Gordon Lightfoot (although one guy who lived down the hall from me last year could sing the first part of Canadian Railroad Trilogy...) but most of them asked their parents about him over break and their parents dug out their old records...it's fun. I'm one of the few people in my dorm with a car, and my radio's broken and only the tape player works...slowly but surely, they're getting used to it...some of them may even become fans....one girl sings along now... I've actually gone out and bought all of the albums I could find. My mom had most of his Warner Brothers stuff, but I went to the local used record store and picked up the rest of it and his UA stuff. Now I'm more familiar with most of his songs than she is...I think I have all of his offical albums now, although I have abridged versions of Sunday Concert and Lightfoot! . My next project is to start buying this stuff on CD...