[johnfowles]

Originally Posted by charlene

Not included in this clip is when Gordon mentions that his friend from Nashville, Kris Kristofferson wrote it and we'd be hearing aobut him if we already hadn't.

Or as I previously reported in my posting at
http://www.corfid.com/vbb//showpost.php?p=116444&postcount=8
in which I included my transcription from the superb 1969 bootleg of Gord's 1969 Charlottetown (note that is not Charlenetown!!!!)Summer Festival
Gord's introduction that early public rendition of the song was:-
"the opening remark was as so often with Gord's stage pronouncements somewhat indistinct but the gist of what he said is
"the .....song Me and Bobby Magee.......
I'm gonna tell you I'm gonna "pump?" (could be push) that song. I love that song so much. I did the Johnny Cash show we got an all night picking session with the writers in Nashville and we were swapping songs. This guy's name is Kris Kristofferson he's the son of General Kristofferson of the Air Force. Anyway he's a West Point drop-out.He's living in Nashville writing songs.
I heard Roger Miller had taken it and murdered it so we'd like to do it the way it should have been done. After he lays a big enough egg with it, I might even record it myself. (Gord laughs nervously).
This seems to prove that Gord had not at that time (summer 1969) actually recorded it but of course he included it in his next album IYCRMM/Sit Down Young Stranger recorded in LA in Sept Nov and Dec 1969"