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Dave, Melbourne,Australia · 05-14-2009, 09:49 PM

Don't know if it's been raised here before, but I've always been amazed at the high proportion of songs written and released by Gord which are in 3/4 (waltz) time. IYCRMM has Saturday Clothes and Cobwebs And Dust (consecutively) and Your Love's Return. SSOL has Same Old Loverman and the first part of Cabaret. ODR has That Same Old Obsession. Sundown has Seven Island Suite. COTS has Bells Of The Evening, A Tree Too Weak To Stand and Fine As Fine Can Be. SD has The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald and I'm Not Supposed To Care (consecutively), The House You Live In and Too Many Clues In This Room. EW has Sweet Guinevere, If There's A Reason and If Children Had Wings. DSR has Sea Of Tranquility and On The High Seas. Shadows consecutively has All I'm After and Triangle (whose 'triangular' beat I suspect was no coincidence). Salute has Romance and Tattoo. WFY has Welcome To Try and Waiting For You. Harmony has the title track. And earlier albums include Leaves Of Grass, Pussy Willows Cat Tails, Affair On 8th Avenue and the middle part of Canadian Railroad Trilogy. I doubt if any other modern songwriter has had 30 songs published with 3/4 time.

05-14-2009, 09:49 PM	#1
Dave, Melbourne,Australia Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 557	Many of Gord's songs in 3/4 (waltz) time Don't know if it's been raised here before, but I've always been amazed at the high proportion of songs written and released by Gord which are in 3/4 (waltz) time. IYCRMM has Saturday Clothes and Cobwebs And Dust (consecutively) and Your Love's Return. SSOL has Same Old Loverman and the first part of Cabaret. ODR has That Same Old Obsession. Sundown has Seven Island Suite. COTS has Bells Of The Evening, A Tree Too Weak To Stand and Fine As Fine Can Be. SD has The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald and I'm Not Supposed To Care (consecutively), The House You Live In and Too Many Clues In This Room. EW has Sweet Guinevere, If There's A Reason and If Children Had Wings. DSR has Sea Of Tranquility and On The High Seas. Shadows consecutively has All I'm After and Triangle (whose 'triangular' beat I suspect was no coincidence). Salute has Romance and Tattoo. WFY has Welcome To Try and Waiting For You. Harmony has the title track. And earlier albums include Leaves Of Grass, Pussy Willows Cat Tails, Affair On 8th Avenue and the middle part of Canadian Railroad Trilogy. I doubt if any other modern songwriter has had 30 songs published with 3/4 time.