It has that feel and that rhythm we’d be a bunch of old Irish guys crying in our beer because of these hockey memories. I could sit in a pub with a Guinness, recite these lyrics, and know that it would destroy the bar. “It rings, true, y’know? Curtis has done an amazing job, and it’s the kind of book that a parent will get as much as a kid. It might be an expensive endeavor, but Plume is rightfully proud of the book, just as he is of the lyrics that initially prompted it. Let me tell you, if you think putting out an album is expensive, you should try putting out a hardcover book.” Instead of seeing if someone would be willing to publish it I just went ahead and paid for it myself. And you wont read that book again because the endings just too hard to take. I should really go to an agency like FACTOR to see if I can get a grant, which you have to do before you start recording, but I get impatient and just do it. “When I want to make a record I just go into the studio and record. “I’m really terrible at planning anything,” admits Plume, who also released a vinyl edition of his most recent album, Lonesome Stretch of Highway, in September. More Than a Game, a new children’s book by Mike Plume and Curtis Irving Johnson. Finally, Plume enlisted the help of Rob Suggitt (of the Suggitt Group) to assemble the self-published book, of which he’s ordered 1,000 copies. He sent along the lyrics in April of 2019 and Johnson responded with paintings every month, completing 16 by August of this year.
It took over a decade for Plume to find the perfect teammate for his idea, but after hooking up with Johnson things moved apace. You'd know that I'm just tryin' to understandThis advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Of bringing all the good things out in me.Īnd I've got to say that I just don't get it. Then you reached the part where the heartaches come,īecause the ending's just too hard to take! If You Could Read My Mind, ©1969 by Gordon LightfootĪs long as I'm a ghost that you can't see.
Learn how to play If You Could Read My Mind on guitar - click here (Buy DVD) If You Could Read My Mind remains one of the key highlights of his concert performances, and is delivered with feeling and poignancy night after night. The song was used in the soundtrack of the UK TV series Trigger Happy TV, as the theme for the portrait artist, but was not on any of the TV series soundtrack albums. If You Could Read My Mind reached #5 on the Billboard pop charts. Lightfoot's recording of If You Could Read My Mind was the surprise hit of his first album for Warner Brothers this caused Warner Brothers to rename the album from Sit Down Young Stranger (one of my favorite songs) to If You Could Read My Mind, to match the hit song. He confirms this in the liner notes of his boxed set, Songbook, where he says, If You Could Read My Mind is one of his most personal songs, and is about the breakup of his first marriage - a theme he continued to use as late as 1982 (If You Could Read My Mind was written in 1969). If You Could Read My Mind, by Gordon Lightfoot, is one of the most covered songs in popular music history, having been recorded by stars like Barbra Streisand, Olivia Newton-John, Duane Steele, Petula Clark, Kenny Rogers,ĭon McLean, Liza Minnelli, Johnny Cash, and - in disco versions - by Viola Wills and Stars On 54.
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