Re: Thankgiving Thanks To GNU/Linux

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.