Thursday, October 24, 2013

Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind ('74)

Today I'm experimenting with music.  I love this Gordon Lightfoot song, "If You Could Read My Mind".  His voice is so haunting and the words are so beautiful, and I love the story-telling nature of it. Listen carefully to the lyrics and you will find yourself singing it over and over again.  You can also pretend you are the heroine.


However, I equally love the Viola Wills DISCO version.  I even bought the album when I was young  (I wonder if I still have it).  How can one song be sung so differently, yet so well? Evoke so much emotion from both, but in two different worlds.   I remember dancing to it at the Palladium, The Underground, Studio 54, where else?






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