Johnny Cash - "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"

linda_lakeside · Post by **linda_lakeside** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 11:26 pm

Oh, Paula, you are so right. I couldn't believe it when that Timberlake guy won for best video in whatever awards show was happening at the time. "Hurt" has to be one of the best videos ever. What a shame that not enough people saw it that way.

Linda.

Kush · Post by **Kush** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 2:24 am

Linda - "Your Gordie" sang that song in one of his earliest albums. I have it as a 2CD compilation ...you can check out a snippet of it here

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ ... 52-4336156

Sure I can see Willie Nelson singing 'The Impossible Dream' - he likes those high, wide swinging melodies (e.g., Always on My Mind, Angel Flying too close to the Ground) - he'd take to it like a lemur swinging effortlessly on branches of trees.

I have the first volume of Johnny Cash's American Recordings which was pretty good - I probably won't spend more of my money on the great man just yet but maybe down the road.

linda_lakeside · Post by **linda_lakeside** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 2:44 am

Hi Kush,

Well, I'll be. I guess you're right in that Willie could probably take on such things, I was simply looking for a parallel and failed.

I was obviously surprised at Lightfoot trying such a thing. He's not really known as a 'singer'. First Time..needs a singer or, in the case of Cash, a strong individual. A personality. A voice. This is not Lightfoot.

Ah well, Gordie has given much to music. Especially Canadian music. For many years, Canadian Music was a misnomer. Apparently he's given more than I thought he had.

Thanks for the link and the info and for putting up with my incredulous response!

Linda.

Bobbie · Post by **Bobbie** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 5:58 pm

Speaking of Gordon Lightfoot.. thought you guys would get a kick out of this tidbit. Someone asked me the other day if Leonard Cohen is really Gordon Lightfoot. Meaning, I presume, a stage name. (I didn't ask for clarification... I don't want to know the details of how she came to that conclusion. :--) That's almost as good as when I ask people if they know the music of Leonard Cohen (some of you have heard me tell this before) and they say...

"Sure! He's that classical music guy, right?"

"Er, no.. that's Leonard Bernstein."

"Oh."

Bobbie

linda_lakeside · Post by **linda_lakeside** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 6:15 pm

Hi Bobbie,

Oh, yes. I can relate. 'Tis a sad life these people must live. Worse if they're Canadian. If so, they should be deported.

Thanks for the, uh, info.

Linda.

tom.d.stiller · Post by **tom.d.stiller** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 9:13 am

"Oh!"

This "Leonard Cohen" you're talking about, isn't he the guy who wrote "Fliesinthebuttermilktwobytwo"? I still remember the first time ever I sang this song.

Oh Oh Oh

linda_lakeside · Post by **linda_lakeside** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 5:47 pm

Tom, really. Do try to control yourself!

Linda.

tom.d.stiller · Post by **tom.d.stiller** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 5:50 pm

linda_lakeside · Post by **linda_lakeside** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 6:33 pm

"Oh"

oh oh oh

Andrew McGeever · Post by **Andrew McGeever** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 4:41 am

For those interested, please visit http://www.pegseeger.com to find out the life of Ewan McColl. His daughter, Kirsty, drowned in a boating "accident" in Mexico a few years ago. She famously duetted with Shane MacGowan in "A Fairytale of New York".
That's the guy on the left of this post.
Andrew.

linda_lakeside · Post by **linda_lakeside** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 5:48 am

The guy wearing Andrew's shirt, you mean?

Linda.

linda_lakeside · Post by **linda_lakeside** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 5:58 am

He wrote that song for Peggy. Beautiful. What a supreme gift! I only had time to skim the site and didn't see reference to Kristy. I wonder why Andrew bracketed her "accident"? I knew Pete (Seeger) would be in there somewhere.

linda_lakeside · Post by **linda_lakeside** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 6:05 am

Oh. I see. That's too bad. I'd never heard of Ewan McColl before this thread. Peggy is certainly busy. I'm both glad and sad to finally know the orign of this song.

Linda.