I was more of an Over the Hills and Far Away person. Lightfoot made me want to heave, but for some reason now I do have the lyrics to the The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald running through my head...

>I guess you weren't a big fan of the movie Jonathon Livingston Seagull then? I read the book probably 10 times before the movie came out. I thought Neil Diamond was the bomb back then. We all thought his writing was more conciously aware - sheesh, that was the 70s afterall. I listened to too much Gordon Lightfoot.
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>>>>>Now you've gone and done it. The only way I got this song out of my head was to replace it "OOO OOO OOO Looking out my back door"
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>>>>Dangerous territory for those of us of a certain age and geographic location circa early 70s. Memories of elephants ...
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>>>( and now I can't get Yellow River and Cracklin' Rose out of *my* head )
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>>Ok. That does it! From the guy who quoted "Do You Hear the People Sing", we now get "Cracklin' Rosie"????? Jeez. Man, I'm beginning to think you alone were separated at birth. The mere idea of Neil Diamond makes me want to run and hide. Big fan too of I Am, I Said? Stupidest song ever written... well, ok, maybe not counting MacArthur Park.