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On 11/28/24 23:18, rbowman wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Nov 2024 21:10:57 -0500, bad sector wrote:
> 
>> I wasn't trying to compare, there is no comparison. I had thought that
>> Lightfoot had 'straightened out' the original lyrics used by Joplin.
>> Didn't know about Kristoffersen having recorded it too.
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZvsxe1CD-c
> 
> Roger Miller was the first to record and release it.
> 
> Then Kenny Rodgers took a shot at it.
> 
> https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/29795
> 
> Then Lightfoot released it. All those were in '69. Kristofferson's first
> album, 'Kristofferson' came out in 1970. It has several tracks that had
> been covered by others.
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phLlo_t-z-U
> 
> And finally Joplin's posthumous 'Pearl' came out in '71 and it took off.
> Miller and Price were country and western which was at a low ebb. Rodgers
> was reinventing himself.
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meJP410N9Gg
> 
> The 'Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town' album was back to country, more
> or less but that was the A track. 'Bobby McGee' didn't get noticed.
> 
> I didn't even know Lightfoot did it. He had the same problem as Rodgers.
> 'If You Could Read My Mind' was the hit, not 'Bobby NcGee'. Like
> Kristofferson, Ian and Sylvia or Peter, Paul and Mary got more mileage out
> of 'Early Morning Rain' than Lightfoot did, at least in the states.
> 'Sundown' and 'Edmund Fitzgerald' were the two big ones for him.

Jeeesus!  Cut this out! I haven't heard names like Ian and Sylvia or 
Peter, Paul and Mary in decades, making my eyes water. 'Four Strong 
Winds', yeah, that was gold. One thing I know is I immediately lock-on 
to music that I like, the first time I hear it. One very early morning 
around 0300 I was driving home on the autoroute from work in light 
falling snow with a good trace of the stuff on the road. Had this '89 
Buick PA then with the best speakers and I hear this piano piece with 
'quality deep bass' that you seldom hear. Well beleive it or not I 
pulled the fuck over just to note the time and the station on a PIECE OF 
PAPER lest I forget it. That was Enya's 'Watermark'. It was the jolly 
season and a couple of clicks further down the road I witnessed this car 
lose its rear, spin maybe once and hit the guardrail ..nothing violent, 
almost like watching figure-skaters. So I stopped and walked over to see 
if I could help; well out hops this woman maybe late 30's wearing a fur 
coat that looked like nothing 'we' could afford. She smelled really 
marinated, I mean she was totalled. She says "How about I leave my car 
here and you take me home to my cottage in the hills for the night"? She 
was wearning nothing underneath as I found out when she opened her coat 
for a full body flash :-))  Never forgot that one, I called her a tow 
service and just steamed on home to wife and kids, THAT must have been 
some office Christmas party she was going home from.