I found this looking for Gordon Lightfoot live.
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I remember that.
I was 15 when this came out and remember it well. Living near Detroit everybody listened to CKLW if all you had access to was AM.
They played mostly top 40 stuff with a heavy hit of Motown.
That recording came out as a 45 and stores around here couldn’t keep them in stock.
That was right on the heels of the Bicentennial so it stayed on the airways around here for a long time.
Wish I could go back. Those days were good but followed up by smiling Jimmy Carter.
My Irish expat hubby says stuff like that all the time. He, like a lot of (LEGAL!) immigrants, admires and appreciates this country more than many people who were born here. I have been fortunate to learn from the perspective of a foreigner who takes none of our rights and opportunities and generosity for granted.
When Lightfoot started talking, I thought at first I was hearing Norm Macdonald.
The Canadian’s commentary touches on a large part of what Trump means when he says that the world is laughing at us (again) under Brandon.
I also grew up listening to CKLW in NE Ohio. That was fun to listen to, except the moon thing. That did not happen.
That has been around for quite a while, I’m surprised others are not familiar with it
Written and originally broadcast June 5, 1973, over CFRB in Toronto as a radio editorial by long time Canadian journalist Gordon Sinclair, this commentary created an unprecedented response and was eventually released on a 45 in December ’73 with “Battle Hymn Of The Republic” added as background music. His profits from this commercial single went to the American Red Cross.
Released the same month was a version by Byron MacGregor (real name Gary Mack), who was then news director at the powerhouse Top 40 AM station CKLW in Windsor, Ontario, right next door to Detroit. His version, simply titled “Americans,” purportedly sold 3½ million copies in the U.S. and reached #1 on two of the three national singles charts (proceeds also donated to The Red Cross)
https://youtu.be/2VqmSdAi1tk?si=hYnmPTpaaMgwG9ui
Saw a BRISTOL, two-tone, chrome-glistening, immaculate, 1957 Chevy today at Krogers. I hollered at a kid one car over, “Do you see that car? I drove across the U.S. in that model. And you can take it apart in a weekend and put it back together!” He nodded and smiled. /off topic
The Canadians really helped the US after 9/11 with Operation Yellow Ribbon. Planes were diverted to Canada and when US citizens were stranded after all the airplanes were grounded, Canada housed thousands of them.
Canada’s large cities are absolute shitholes of leftist kookdom. If you get out in the real world a lot of them are pretty decent folks.
except the moon thing. That did not happen.
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I hope you’re joking.
Gee, you mean there were hurricanes, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions BEFORE global warming??? Who knew…
That moon thing that did not happen??? I recall seeing a recent article of the Moon flyover by India (I assume they were looking for landing sites recorded images of remnants of the U.S. landings!
Now if people would quit believing what MSNBC tells them maybe we can put that BS to rest!
He sounds a lot like Paul Harvey
Wild Bill, There’s a Broadway play, called “Come From Away” that’s about Canadian citizens helping Americans during 9/11 as you described.
I’ve seen it at a theater in my city and it was very good and didn’t bash the United States or Americans. Very sympathetic.
https://youtu.be/bijwE0ZBdrM?feature=shared
Fur, DaveVA is NOT joking.
I believe he has spouted that nonsense here before.
Bless his heart…