Happy Birthday, Tom Paxton

Subject: Happy Birthday, Tom Paxton
From: rangeroger
Date: 31 Oct 02 - 07:32 PM

Since nobody else started a thread on it, I thought I would.

Tom Paxton turned 65 today,Oct.31.

rr

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Tom Paxton
From: Sorcha
Date: 31 Oct 02 - 07:37 PM

Gawd,is he that old? I can't belive it.......

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Tom Paxton
From: kendall
Date: 31 Oct 02 - 07:44 PM

Gordon Bok is 63 today.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Tom Paxton
From: Amergin
Date: 31 Oct 02 - 07:51 PM

Gordon bok??? who is that?








ducking and running

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Tom Paxton
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 31 Oct 02 - 07:54 PM

I'm happy for them both. But, it's a frightening idea that either of them are in thier sixties.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Tom Paxton
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 31 Oct 02 - 08:35 PM

Hey, the sixties are beautiful!


Happy birthday to both... not that either of them are likely to read this thread..

Jerry

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Tom Paxton
From: Cappuccino
Date: 01 Nov 02 - 04:28 AM

Their loss. Happy birthday to both.

- Ian B

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Tom Paxton
From: songs2play
Date: 01 Nov 02 - 08:35 AM

What about Uncle Dave O
There's a thread going and no ones wishing him all the best.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Tom Paxton
From: GUEST,Melani
Date: 01 Nov 02 - 01:24 PM

Amergin, you have a very strange sense of humor. Ya shoulda been at Freight and Salvage in Berkeley the other night. Now if only one of you guys can convince Gordon to visit the West Coast more often...

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Tom Paxton
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 01 Nov 02 - 03:05 PM

Jerry- don't mind me. That was just a reaction to how old it makes me feel. I'm still freaking out at the idea of being a grandfather.

Stephen Lee

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Tom Paxton
From: Big Tim
Date: 01 Nov 02 - 03:17 PM

I didn't think Tom was that old either! I first saw him live in Glasgow, at the Woodside Halls, in April 1965, I was 19! Tom was a bit thin on top even then but I would never have figured him for 28. I think it was his first British tour, certainly his first gig in Scotland. I think Matt McGinn brought him over. Matt certainly intoduced him and compered the show that night. The audience amounted to seven people! myself, three friends, a drunk waiter(!) and a couple of others! Tom performed as if the hall were full, I've been a fan ever since.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Tom Paxton
From: kendall
Date: 03 Nov 02 - 03:03 PM

For those who are interested, (and who isn't) Tom will be in Toronto soon. Details in his new web site.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Tom Paxton
From: The Shambles
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 12:46 PM

Happy Birthday Tom

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Tom Paxton
From: jacqui.c
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 12:47 PM

Happy birthday Tom - come back to Maine and more lobster soon!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Tom Paxton
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 12:48 PM

A man for all seasons if ever there was one.

Many happy returns Tom Paxton

Giok

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Tom Paxton
From: kendall
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 01:14 PM

My wife doesn't usually invite men to come here, but in this case, I approve of this message.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Tom Paxton
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 01:54 PM

YOO HOO!
Today is October 30th.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Tom Paxton
From: Duke
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 04:20 PM

He was born in 1937 which makes him 69 on the 31st.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Tom Paxton
From: kendall
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 04:59 PM

Today is the anniversary of the sinking of the Destroyer Reuben James off Iceland in 1940.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Tom Paxton
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 05:34 PM

Tell me what were their names..................

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Tom Paxton
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 05:52 PM

Happy birthday to both my favourite US songwriters, and I hope they'll ignore their ages for a long time yet and go on writing and performing instead.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Tom Paxton
From: Elmer Fudd
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 06:52 PM

Happy birthday, Tom Paxton. I sat beside a roaring fire between you and Phil Ochs, 'n all of us singing along with the New Lost City Ramblers, just a couple of years ago. It was great good fun. I hope you're having even a better party today.

Elmer

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Tom Paxton
From: Greg B
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 06:23 PM

>I sat beside a roaring fire between you and Phil Ochs

That was the same weekend when fire was first discovered,
right?

(Next day, they invented the wheel, left the folk-fest
and moved into Greenwich Village, and the rest was
history.)

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Tom Paxton
From: gnu
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 07:16 PM

Gordon and Tom... seems like a good day to have a bday, then.... happies.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Tom Paxton
From: Elmer Fudd
Date: 02 Nov 06 - 02:21 AM

Ouch, Greg B. Do we know each other? You got a problem?

Elmer

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Tom Paxton
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Nov 06 - 08:35 AM

best wishes to Tom from all the gang in Columbus Ohio --

from Fred the REALLY small-town Okie

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Tom Paxton
From: Betsy
Date: 02 Nov 06 - 11:17 AM

Very Very Beat Wishes Tom,
For all our U.S. cousins - (you may not know) Tom was probably the most
influential singer/songwriter here in Britain in the 60's/70's.
At the very small risk of of exaggeration, I suspect that an evening at any folk club in the British Isles in those times could not have been spent without someone performing one of his songs. They're still widely sung. Brilliant !! and I still sing a few of 'em - and I always make sure people know who wrote the song before or after I've sung it.
If he had a penny for every time one of his songs had been sang in a folk club - goodness knows to how much it would amount .Bless ya Tom !!!!!

Cheers

Betsy.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Tom Paxton
From: Lanfranc
Date: 02 Nov 06 - 12:07 PM

A belated Happy Birthday to the man who has written more singable songs than anyone else I can think of (Tom Paxton) and to one whose songs, on the basis of those I have heard, I wish I knew better (Gordon Bok).

63, 69 or 65, stick around until you're at least as old as Derek Brimstone. (Even if nobody is as old as he!)

Alan