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I took the song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face from a folk singer called Bonnie Dobson. I knew her and she had a record with that track on it.
Gordon Lightfoot
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Gordon Lightfoot
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 17
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I got to sing solo in the junior choir when I was 10 or 11 and won a competition, and my sister's piano playing improved to a certain level. One time my sister and I worked together. The first song we ever sang in High School was Rags to Riches by Tony Bennett.
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Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.
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I can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove.
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My parents got my sister and I to go to church and have piano lessons. We were keen and they could see that.
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I'm not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.
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I was a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it.
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Silent waters rocking on the morning of our birth, like an empty cradle waiting to be filled. And from the heart of God the Spirit moved upon the earth, like a mother breathing life into her child.
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I try to write songs. At our concerts, we take the cream of the crop from my back catalogue and I don't know if I could write something now that would replace any of that. We don't lose any of the standards. We have lots of songs in rotation.
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Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.
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I had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.
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Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
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My first song was Hula Hoop Song, in 1955. It was a novelty song. I had to find someway to reach out and it was with a novelty song. Now, all of my recording obligations have been taken care of. I made 14 albums for Warner Brothers. Five for United Artist before that.
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Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
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