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JEL ELLIFF
Cotton Jenny (Gordon Lightfoot) Australia 1971 #32 Brisbane  Charted March 1972. Single on HMV (Australia) by Australian singer who had three charting singles in various cities. The other two were What Are You Doing Sunday (1971, #44 Adelaide # 30 Brisbane #23 Perth) and Going Nowhere (1971, #28 Adelaide: not the Los Bravos song). He also released Silvertown Girl (1972). < br/>  In November 1971 Jel Elliff represented Australia with Going Nowhere at Yamaha's World Popular Song Festival. Jel Elliff singles discography: See Jeff Elliff singing Going Nowhere: YouTube link.
GORDON LIGHTFOOT
Cotton Jenny (Gordon Lightfoot) Canada 1971 Original version On 1971 album Summer Side Of Life by Canadian singer-songwriter (b. 1938) whose biggest chart hits were If You Could Read My Mind (1975, #5 USA), Sundown (1974, #1) and Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald (1976, #2). He also wrote the Peter, Paul & Mary songs For Lovin' Me (1965, #30) and Early Morning Rain (1965, #91). The Lightfoot! website lists 36 artists who have recorded Cotton Jenny, including Lynn Anderson, Val Doonican, Anne Murray and Olivia Newton-John. Reference: All Music Guide to Rock, entry on Gordon Lightfoot, also online. Further reading: Lightfoot! The Gordon Lightfoot Internet Companion Corrections or comments? Contact the writer. |