DYN: "The Nap"

I just noticed that in "The Nap", (the one where Kramer swims in the East River, Elaine gets a mattress delivered from her boyfriend, Jerry gets his kitchen remodeled, George has his desk set up for sleeping): when Kramer bumps into Elaine and her boyfriend on the street and Kramer says to Elaine, "I still got your key..." and Elaine Says, "ooh, baby" --- ---there is then a shot of Elaine's boyfriend with a shocked look on his face where he has an expression (and similar actual physical characteristics) that the actor Jim Carrey would make. It then cuts right to a shot of George turning off an alarm clock while being under his desk. The "People" magazine that George puts away has Jim Carrey's face on it.

i thought the People magazine had Mel Gibson's face on it.

"888eight888" wrote in message news:[email]...

I thought it was Ted Danson... He has the high paying show, the good plane, might as well have the People cover.

Er

"Aqxea" wrote in message news:3n2Bd.31717$F25.18394@okepread07...

plane,

I thought it was Edmund Fitzgerald.

Rerics

I LOVE Edmund Fitzgerald!

"Boho Mojambo" wrote in message news:[email]...

I have never heard of this guy.

Who is he?

"Kevin V. Russell" wrote in message news:[email]...

66 year-old Gordon Lightfoot is a Canadian balladeer who enjoyed moderate success on the pop charts back in the 1970s. His hits included "Sundown", "Carefree Highway", and "If You Could Read My Mind". Lightfoot's 20th album was released 8 months ago.

The S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald was a ship that went down in Lake Superior in November, 1975. 29 people were killed. Lightfoot was inspired to write the song after he read a headline in a Canadian newspaper that spelled "Edmund Fitzgerald" wrong. The newspaper's error (and what Lightfoot deemed as disrespect) ended up giving the singer/songwriter the 2nd biggest pop hit of his career, 1976's # 2 smash, "The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald".

This said, it doesn't seem logical or appropriate to say that I love Edmund Fitzgerald's voice.....

dave

"Dave" wrote in message news:N_iId.27563$[email]...

I remember the song now that you mention it.

"Does anyone know where the love of God goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours"

I always liked Gordon.

He was a great lyricist.

(Not so good at singing other people's songs however)

And he still is a great lyricist. As for singing other people's songs, he's fabulous, though he seldom records other songwriters' works these days, by choice. Once he got his feet under him as a songwriter, so to speak, he wanted to showcase his own work, which is only natural when you can compose your own. Unlike so many other 'artists' these day, he's a trained musician who learned very early on in his career how to read and write music and make his own arrangements.

He's covered Dylan's "Ring Them Bells" (along with a kazillion other people), Hamilton Camp's "Pride of Man", Shel Silverstein's "On Susan's Floor," Ewan McColl's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" - a version I much prefer to the very slow Roberta Flack rendition - and Phil Ochs' "Changes," among others.

For a real treat try and find a copy of "The Two Tones at the Village Corner" where you'll hear very early Gord (1962) with the late Terry Whelan doing the folk thing with standard numbers like "Sinnerman" and "Children Go Where I Send Thee." My favorites are "Dark as a Dungeon" and "Fast Freight."

As for the misspelling issue, the news article he read about the ship just after it happened spelled the ship's name "The EdmOnd Fitzgerald" instead of the proper "The EdmUnd Fitzgerald." Something of a sailor himself, it ticked him off that the factcheckers/publisher didn't bother to get the name right. Nobody, most of all Gord, expected the song to make any waves (sorry) on the charts. He's very protective of the families of the crew, setting up a scholarship fund for the children, quietly turning up for anniversaries on occasion, and keeping in touch with a number of people directly affected by the loss. The line, "does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours," still haunts.

Auburn Annie

How many people do you lose on a normal cruse? 30? 40?

• Mark

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 21:38:01 -0500, Dave wrote:

Where is that misspelling?

Lars Stockholm

wrote in message news:[email]...

the

"Edmund

of

not sure... all the literature i've ever read never actually SAID how it was misspelled...

here's a pretty comprehensive website if you're interested:

http://www.ssefo.com/

dave

"Rerics" wrote in message news:[email]...

i love edmund fitzgerald's voice!

888eight888 wrote:

it.

Anyone got a screenshot from the show?