I never got to know him, per se, but he recognized me for a while afterward.
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where he had a short-lived TV show, and was back in Canada appearing on CBC shows like “Singalong Jubilee.” He was starting to write songs and had great ambition. He’d been to music school in Los Angeles, went to the U.K. He was as class an act then as he is now. I had a job on the Orillia Packet & Times, a daily that went out of business a few years ago, and in late spring or early summer of 1963 Lightfoot came into the office and I interviewed him. He was singing duets with his pal Terry Whelan and they were on a program with folk-music greats like Ian & Sylvia, Mary Jane and Winston Young, Ed McCurdy, Oscar Brand, The Travellers and others. I first saw Lightfoot at the Mariposa Folk Festival in his hometown of Orillia, Ont. I promise, though, that there will be an automotive reference, or two, to make this column legal to appear in Wheels. Tonight, he will wrap up a three-night stand marking the reopening of Massey Hall.
So I’m going to write today about a national treasure, Gordon Lightfoot. We are four weeks away from Christmas, which is good in one way ’cause ‘tis the season, and not so good in the automotive and racing world because hardly anything is going on anywhere except in the Middle East, where there are still two Grand Prix races on the calendar.
Turn head: It’s time Massey Hall was renamed after Canada’s troupadour