A lot of people influenced me as I was learning but probably Bing Crosby was the most influential, because I would hear his Christmas albums, which my parents played a lot.
Gordon LightfootI don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back.
Gordon LightfootYou will go with me everywhere. When I'm dreaming, you still share my lonely nights.
Gordon LightfootSome years later I met Queen Elizabeth II, in our capital Ottawa at a Canada Day celebration. David Foster and I were doing the show and we both met her afterwards. She told me how much she loved the Canadian Railroad Trilogy. She looked at me and said, "oh, that song", and then said again, "that song", and that was all she said.
Gordon Lightfoot