![]() ![]() He played piano, drums and guitar as a teenager, and while still in high school wrote his first song, a topical number about the Hula-Hoop craze with a catchy last line: “I guess I’m just a slob and I’m gonna lose my job, ’cause I’m Hula-Hula-Hoopin’ all the time.”Īfter studying composition and orchestration at the Westlake College of Music in Los Angeles, he returned to Canada. “Man, I did the whole bit: oratorio work, Kiwanis contests, operettas, barbershop quartets,” he told Time magazine in 1968. As a boy, he sang in a church choir, performed on local radio shows and shined in singing competitions. ![]() Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr was born Nov 17th, 1938, in Orillia, Ontario, where his father managed a dry-cleaning plant. “I’m a professional musician, and I work with very professional people. “Sometimes I wonder why I’m being called an icon, because I really don’t think of myself that way,” he told The Globe and Mail in 2008. His personal style, reticent and self-effacing – he avoided interviews and flinched when confronted with praise – also went down well. ![]()
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