The Lady Loves the River -- Florence Warner

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Subject: The Lady Loves the River

Author:
Carlito Suay

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Date Posted: 08:41:37 09/22/05 Thu

By chance, I happened upon this forum. My mother's vinyl LP's were a curiosity to me, mostly, but she had two album covers which intrigued me. One was a Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass LP named "Whipped Cream and other delights." On a forest green background was a very attractive brunette, seated, pictured from probably what would be from the hips up, seemingly covered only in whipped cream. Her left shoulder and an ample area below her left shoulder was not covered with cream.

The music seemed a little dippy to my friends and me, but everyone liked the picture.

The other album was Florence Warner. An innocent-looking girl, appearing to be in her late teens, sat in a bricked window frame suspended over a meadow. I don't know whether that was a picture of Florence, but it looked like the girl that every mother would want her son to be with - if the the son had to be with a female. The look of wholesome innocence was magnetic. When I'm at home, I look at the album cover often.

When I finally got around to doing a net search on "The Lady Loves the River", my favorite song on the record, I was directed to The Living Legacy, a Dan Fogelberg site (Fogelberg was the songwriter) where this message was posted:

The first Fogelberg song I actually remember hearing was in high school when someone brought in "The Lady Loves the River" by a singer named Florence Warner. In college, my girlfriend introduced me to "Souvenirs" and I have been a die-hard fan ever since. You have become such a part of my family. My children have grown up listening to your music. You are a part of every family vacation - every year for the last 20, your music has accompanied us to Colorado and North Carolina.
Now with your Christmas album, it's part of our holidays. Talk about a legacy! When my son, Adam, left for college this year, he left behind "Nether Lands" and we had to overnight it to him when he called upset about leaving it.I guess what I wanted to say was "thank you" for dedicating your life to making such beautiful music. Your music will last through the ages and will be part of my family forever. ~Guy Peshek

Mama was a big Fogelberg fan, but she didn't know he wrote that song. After researching, I found out that Florence Warner recorded several Fogelberg songs and that they sang or played together on several albums. She's four years older than Fogelberg, and Fogelberg sings about a lady who seems to be older than he, with whom he had more than a passing interest. Is it Florence Warner?

Carlito

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[> Subject: Re: The Lady Loves the River

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Broad Beam
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Date Posted: 08:49:26 09/22/05 Thu

Thanks, Carlito - great post! The link you left leads to an index. Readers who go there need to know to click on the September 18 wishes to find that message about which you wrote, or you may follow this link directly to the message:

CLICK HERE

The Lady Loves the River is a wonderful, passionate, sensuous song, and I am surprised that it did not receive more attention.

Thanks again for the great post.

BB

[> [> Subject: Re: The Lady Loves the River
Author: Carlito Suay [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 08:58:08 09/22/05 Thu Thanks, BB, for redefining the link for readers. That's what I intended to do. Also, you can click here for a picture of that Herb Alpert LP cover. The other picture I wrote about is at the top of this page, and if you follow the links on the Florence Warner website, you can get an actual size close-up of the girl on the album cover.