MAN TO WATCH:
The next Toronto performer who should move out of the folksong field into bigger things is GORDON LIGHTFOOT, now in the second week of another of his frequent engagements at Steele's Tavern. Lightfoot hunches over his guitar, and amiably and engagingly tosses off topical songs, not necessarily political, but those written by himself and his contemporaries (Ian and Sylvia and Bob Dylan for example). His one complaint about singing is that it keeps him up late at night and when that happens he spends too much of the day in bed, and when that happens he doesn't concentrate on his song-writing, which, at the moment is where most of the money is. The most successful number he's written so far is "That's What You Get For Lovin' Me". Peter, Paul and Mary have taken a great fancy to and were supposed to do it on a Bell Telephone Hour appearance. Then they had a fight with the producer who wanted them to stick to singing and omit all the between-number chatter. As a result, they didn't appear and Lightfoot lost a royalty that would have amounted to $500.00.
|
I always like reading about what went on before an artist acheived their fame. So amazing to think Gordon (in Canada) has now had 40 years of fame. 
