We've giving you a bonus post today, because no one has won more Juno Awards than Anne Murray, with 26. This Canadian Music Hall of Famer is quite probably the biggest thing musically coming from Canada.
Tonight, she is being awarded only the second JUNO Lifetime Achievement Award. The first guy who won it was Pierre Juneau, the guy the awards are LITERALLY named after.
Born in Nova Scotia, I'd love to tell you that she wrote this song, but, as we know from Family Guy and Stewie Griffin's reaction, it was written by Gene MacLellan.
Yes, she voiced that.
And she sang Gene's beautiful song, which he wrote in twenty minutes on Prince Edward Island. That's not a joke. Anyway, she sang it to the top of both the pop and country charts in the US and Canada. It was the first US gold record awarded to a Canadian female solo artist.
And really, listen to the lyrics here. It is a sad song. It's a lonely song.
Here she is singing it live on David Frost's show in 1972. The accompanying music is very light, so it is pretty close to acapella, but she was equal to the task.
In her day, Anne Murray was an icon. In 1980 - when she was still making hits that my mother LOVED, she appeared on the Muppet Show performing her huge 1970 hit.
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