well scotty reckons that no decent vocalist has come out of canada! lol... well ill draw your attention to gordon lightfoot. he only had 4 hits here in the 70's, but i rate every one of them!

 

the wreck of the edmund fitzgerald...... a modern day folk song, superb!

 

 

daylight katie

 

if you could read my mind

 

and my fav

sundown

I love If I Could Read Your Mind.

 

As for no decent vocalists out of Canada, is Scotty mad???

 

So the likes of (in alphabetical order) Jane Arden, Randy Bachman (Guess Who / Bachman Turner Overdrive), Tal Bachman, Michael Buble, Basia Bulat, Win Butler (Arcade Fire), Jane Child, Rick Danko (The Band), Feist, Nelly Furtado, Diana Krall, K.D. Lang, Gordan Lightfoot, Anna & Kate McGarrigle, Sarah McLachlan, Joni Mitchell, Alanis Morissette, Alannah Myles, Robbie Robertson (The Band), Buffy Sainte-Marie, Ron Sexsmith, R.Dean Taylor, Shania Twain, Martha & Rufus Wainwright are all rubbish vocalists?

I love If I Could Read Your Mind.

 

If You Could Read My Mind was probably his best known (and certainly my favourite) COD. You don't mind if I call you COD do you?

 

Sundown is a really close second and I do like the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (although its a bloody depressing song).

 

By the way, Rufus Wainwright was born in New York.

 

Norma

Edited April 18, 200817 yr by Norma_Snockers

By the way, Rufus Wainwright was born in New York.

 

Norma

 

True. Also Wim Butler was born in Texas.

 

But the point being (it's the Olivia Newton-John debate all over again), it does not matter where they were born, but what nationality they are, and Rufus Wainwright & Wim Butler both very definitely regard themselves as Canadian. As evidenced by their passports and the fact they've both won Best Canadian Male Vocalist of the Year (Rufus 1999 & 2002, Wim 2005 & 2008) at the Junos (The Canadian equivalent of the BRITs or Grammies).

 

 

 

I like what I've heard from Gordon Lightfoot, he was probably my guilty pleasure in the 70s, I liked just about every single I heard by him on the radio. My favourite by him is a song which was on the US Hot 100 30 years ago today, "The Circle Is Small (I Can See It In Your Eyes)". Excellent song.

I liked Sundown the best, good singer deserved more success

I've always liked If You Could Read My Mind. Great song! I know it isn't exactly retro, but Johnny Cash did a terrific version of that song on his final recording American V - A Hundred Highways.

Sundown is a really close second and I do like the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (although its a bloody depressing song).

 

yeah but thats the point... besides i was big into traditional folk music in the 70's (steeleye span mainly) and 90% of that was about death in some form! :lol: so edmund fitgerald was quite understandable to me...

 

i thought of gordon because we had him in the pop quiz on thursday, sundown..... love it!