Ten Favorite Night and Day (Day) Songs: Daylight Katy (#10)
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (86910)
United States
January 5, 2017 7:54pm CST
It's time for another music series, and this one is as different as night and day. Actually, that's what the series is all about -- songs with day and night in the titles. I'll also be looking at morning songs and songs with mentions of the rest of the day later on. But let's get started with the first "day" song on the countdown.
#10: Daylight Katy - Gordon Lightfoot
Fear not, Gord will show up again on these countdowns.
I love me some Gordon Lightfoot. I got to see him for the first time last year; and, although his age has softened his voice (and one guy sitting near me said it sounded like Lightfoot's dentures weren't fitting properly in the first set 
), I was still honored to be breathing the same air as one of the greatest folk-rock songwriters of this or any other generation. Why he's not in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, given all of the country hits that others have had with his songs (including two hit versions of "Ribbon of Darkness" -- one by Marty Robbins, one by Connie Smith) is beyond me.
This was a minor flop for Lightfoot. In the year following his legendary epic story song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" he just couldn't get people to get "back on track," as it were, with his shorter songs that weren't true stories. Although "Daylight Katy" was released as a single it failed to make the US pop chart (although it did do well in "adult contemporary").
That's too bad. I always liked this song. It's not the lengthy story of "Edmund Fitzgerald" or "Canadian Railroad Trilogy," or the pure poetry of "If You Could Read My Mind," but it's still a good song.
Daylight Katy
Written by Gordon Lightfoot
Recorded by Gordon Lightfoot
From Endless Wire, 1978
She doesn't have to get up in the morning:
), I was still honored to be breathing the same air as one of the greatest folk-rock songwriters of this or any other generation. Why he's not in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, given all of the country hits that others have had with his songs (including two hit versions of "Ribbon of Darkness" -- one by Marty Robbins, one by Connie Smith) is beyond me.
This was a minor flop for Lightfoot. In the year following his legendary epic story song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" he just couldn't get people to get "back on track," as it were, with his shorter songs that weren't true stories. Although "Daylight Katy" was released as a single it failed to make the US pop chart (although it did do well in "adult contemporary").
That's too bad. I always liked this song. It's not the lengthy story of "Edmund Fitzgerald" or "Canadian Railroad Trilogy," or the pure poetry of "If You Could Read My Mind," but it's still a good song.
Daylight Katy
Written by Gordon Lightfoot
Recorded by Gordon Lightfoot
From Endless Wire, 1978
She doesn't have to get up in the morning:
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
6 Jan 17
Been awhile since you got in Gordon Lightfoot. I wonder if the most famous night and day song-Cole Porter's Night and Day-will make the cut.
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@FourWalls (86910)
• United States
6 Jan 17
Spoiler alert! No. If I did include it I would have to use Homer & Jethro's version (the lyrics are straight, they just really sped up the tempo).
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@teamfreak16 (43677)
• Denver, Colorado
6 Jan 17
My girlfriend wholeheartedly approves!
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@asfarasiknow (3340)
• Bournemouth, England
6 Jan 17
I have really liked his voice every since I heard Sundown in 1974. He has had a few low-charting hits in the UK and Daylight Katy was one of them.
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