Re: Thankgiving Thanks To GNU/Linux

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.