Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind
Stars on 54 (Amber, Jocelyn Enriquez, Ultra Naté) From the Studio 54 movie.
Stars On 54 (Club Mix)
Stars On 54 (slow mix)
Viola Wills
Viola Wills (Club Mix)
Chad Doucette
James Last
Spotnicks
Kalan Porter from Canadian Idol

This recording by a frail and weak Johnny Cash toward the end of his life is just haunting.

i can't easily explain it, but gordon lightfoot always sends me to my "happy place". always has, always will.

I was so excited when that album came out. His first on WB. It was originally titled "Sit Down Young Stranger," and then retitled when that other song became a hit.

Among tracks was my first-ever hearing (and IMO still the best cover) of Me and Bobby Magee. Very simple, with Red Shea doing his usual very tasteful and erudite accompaniment, and some sort of "hand jive" percussion. He also pronounces Salinas *Sa leye ness*. Those funny Canadians, anyway!

Other tracks, esp. the ones with the Van Dyke Parks strings treatment, were lamentable.

For me, who had ALL the UA albums, this was the apogee of the shark-jump for me. Even though he got very rich after that.

iirc, the first pressings of the retitled album still had "sit down young stranger" printed as the title on the spine.

i'm with you on his united artists years, danf. and, yeah, the van dyke parks stuff was a little heavy handed and schmaltzy...

if i remember later, i'll see if i can find my copy of the butthole surfers breaking into an impromptu version of "the wreck of the edmund fitzgerald" in the middle of a radio interview.

iirc, the first pressings of the retitled album still had "sit down young stranger" printed as the title on the spine.

I believe I still have that. I wonder if I could turn it into a modest amount of cash. . .

The Johnny Cash version is heartbreaking.

I believe I still have that. I wonder if I could turn it into a modest amount of cash. . .

nah, keep it. if it's in good shape, and played on the right equipment, i'll bet it sounds better than a cd. besides, with albums like that, a little bit of surface noise just adds to that happy, fuzzy nostalgia feeling. at least for me. your mileage may vary.