Professor of Rock

Go to https://buyraycon.com/professorofrockCLIP to get 20% off. Thanks to Raycon for sponsoring! If you’re a rockstar. There’s nothing quite as brutal as watching the song you despise become the one the world won't let you forget. Today we're counting down the musicians who built their legacies on songs they absolutely could not stand. Including a teenage rock prodigy whose debut smash turned him into an overnight rockstar. But he spent the next two decades refusing to perform it and stating that no amount of money would ever make him play it again. Then there’s one of rock's hardest-hitting bands that buried a soft, sentimental love ballad so deep in their back catalog that even the man who recorded it can’t remember the words. Also, there’s a singer-songwriter whose biggest hit made him a global superstar who walked onto American television specifically to tell millions of viewers he was not coming to America to perform it… and that he wanted nothing to do with it! And finally, there’s the band that accidentally created the best-selling 12-inch single ever, but lost money on every copy sold, racking up 70,000 pounds of dollars in debt from their signature song. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive Producer Brandon Fugal Honorary Producers Frank Kuna, zachery perry, Shayne Smith, Tom Stokes, Walter O. Wright II ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe to the Professor of Rock Podcast Apple: https://apple.co/445fVov Spotify: https://spoti.fi/42JpfvU Amazon: https://amzn.to/44b5D6m iHeartRadio: https://bit.ly/444h8MO ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: http://bit.ly/ProfessorofRockVIPFan Merch Store: https://professor-of-rock-lsn-shop.fourthwall.com/' Instagram: https://bit.ly/Instagram_Professor_of_Rock #classicrock #80smusic #vinylstory #onehitwonder Gordon Lightfoot Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBWpi5pGGMw Hey Music junkies professor of rock always here to celebrate the greatest songs and the greatest artists of all time . if you had a helluva time getting the straw in to your capri sun as a kid. you’ll dig this channel of deep musical nostaliga. make sure to subsribe and like share and comment. It’s time for another edition of our show fear and loathing in in songcraft where artists detest their. own hit songs with a passion Great stories today. Let’s get into it. Starting us off At #7, it’s Gordon Lightfoot and For Lovin’ Me… At the time Gordon Lightfoot wrote “For Lovin’ Me’ in 1964, he was newly married to his first wife, Brita Olaisson, and was living the grueling, nomadic life of an aspiring touring musician. When Canadian folk duo Ian & Sylvia heard Lightfoot perform his compositions in Toronto, they introduced him to their manager, Albert Grossman who impressed by Lightfoot's lyricism. Grossman signed him to his roster alongside folk heavyweights Bob Dylan and Peter, Paul and Mary and quickly began circulating Lightfoot's demo tapes to major recording acts… including For Lovin’ Me. Narratively and lyrically, "For Lovin' Me" is a portrait of an unrepentant rambler warning his partner about his inability to stay faithful. With blunt lyrics like "I've got a hundred more like you... I'll have a thousand 'fore I'm through," the narrator shifts the blame for heartbreak to the person who dared to love him.Commercially, "For Lovin' Me" was Lightfoot's big break and launched his international reputation as a master songwriter. Ian & Sylvia were the first to record the song in 1964, but it was Peter, Paul and Mary’s upbeat 1965 cover that turned it into a Top 40 hit, reaching #30 on the Hot 100. The success of the song—alongside "Early Mornin' Rain"—secured Lightfoot a recording contract with United Artists… allowing him to record his own version in December 1964 for his 1966 debut album, Lightfoot!. But while the upbeat, breezy cover launched Lightfoot's songwriting career into the mainstream, it tied him to lyrics he grew to despise. And over time, singing about being a proud cheater felt like a dark, self-fulfilling prophecy that began to eat away at his marriage and his soul. In middle age, Gordon Lightfoot had a moment of reckoning, and began to realize just what a toxic message he was projecting into the world. Said Gordon, “After I sang that song for a while, I asked myself, 'What am I saying?!' ... I don't want to come off like a male chauvinist pig at all!” The Canadian folk icon openly disowned this track later in life and said it was a song that reflected a dark, arrogant period of his youth. It took a quarter of a century of concert torture before he finally snapped and struck it from his setlists. Gordon would publicly apologize for writing it, admitted he hated it, and explained,