Today in Music History for Nov. 17: In 1938, singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, who became Canada's most famous, and arguably most important, pop musician in the late 1960s, was born in Orillia, Ont.
The band that recorded it had just lost its lead singer. Meanwhile, those responsible for it were just starting their careers, with the lyricist still in her teens. And it hit not only once, but twice ...