As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Thursday, April 16, 2015

LP #17 Gordon Lightfoot – The Way I Feel (1967)


This was another early LP purchase (at the bookstore in the basement of the college center) once I arrived at college. I was feeling pretty adventurous back then with my record purchases – I’m not sure if I’d heard any of these songs before, although I was probably familiar with better-known Lightfoot tracks such as “Early Morning Rain” and “For Lovin’ Me”, which were both covered by Peter, Paul & Mary. Lightfoot’s voice is still in great shape here, the arrangements are effective, and the songs (all written or co-written by Gordon) are great. Over time, I wound up buying all of his albums that I had missed, and picked up new ones as they came out through the end of the Seventies. (WARNING: Stay away from the Gord’s Gold collection, on which many of the tracks are re-recordings.)
 
Favorite tracks:
The Way I Feel
Softly
Crossroads
Song For A Winter’s Night

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