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Date Posted: 03:56:36 03/28/00 Tue
Author: luxton
Author Host/IP: spider-we054.proxy.aol.com / 205.188.195.44
Subject: Re: Heavenly Blue...
In reply to: Beno 's message, "Heavenly Blue..." on 22:59:49 03/27/00 Mon

HEY BENO...
That piece in Melanie isn't really a song...the producer wanted various "pieces" for the scenes where I was supposed to be writing songs in front of Glynnis so I hastily threw a few together...one ended up being Mother Keep Your Daughters In...another one was a finished song called "The Singer Sings a Love Song" which has never seen the light of day...
Regarding Heavenly Blue I'll tell you an interesting little story...
Several yeas ago my mother was having some surgery done on her feet and they put her under a general anesthetic...after the operation, she was wheeled on the gurney into the "recovery room" where you lie until the anesthetic wears off and you come around again....
Into this room was being piped one of the local FM stations from Manitoba...as my mother came out of the anesthetic, Heavenly Blue was playing on the system...she told me later that she thought many celestial thoughts during those first few moments of consciousness...not all parents ever get to experience something like that, purely because of the nature of what their children do for a living...I was touched when my mother told me this story...I had always liked Heavenly Blue, but after that little jolt of reality, it has always been a little more special to me...
Heavenly Blue was just another song written about/for that one girl that broke my heart so long ago...Janet back in Winnipeg...I deserved her leaving me, but I've never really gotten over it down deep.
A lot of songs were written about and inspired by the same girl...Timeless Love, Rhapsody, Heavenly Blue, Stand Tall, One and Only, Something Old Something New and even a few others...and while the emotional kick in the teeth was frighteningly brutal to endure, at least some pretty fair songs have been the result...
Thank you for caring enough to be affected by what I do...I am sincerely touched...

Luck and Health

BC

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[> [> Re: Heavenly Blue... -- Linda Gerdes, 19:02:43 03/28/00 Tue [1] (1cust118.tnt38.chi5.da.uu.net/63.26.93.118)

Dear Burton,
(I cannot believe I just typed that!!) I just discovered this website and your presence herein yesterday. I haven't been this excited since the night I met you in Rockford, IL, October 15, 1987. To be able to converse with you is more than I ever dreamed could happen. Thanks for making yourself so accessible to those of us who love and respect you and your music so very much. I chose this message to respond to because you listed in it all of my favorite songs. I just recently got a copy of "Woman Love" and heard "Heavenly Blue" for the first time. Breathtaking.
Thanks for being so willing to wear your heart on your sleeve for all of us to share. Janet must have been one very special girl to have inspired such heart-wrenching emotion. Does she know what she's been missing all these years? I wish there was a way to express to you in words just what you and your music have meant to me for the past thirty years. I've never stopped listening to it, and the thirteen-year-old photo of myself with you in Rockford is still prominently displayed both in my home and at my job.
Fortunately, everyone, including my husband, understands.
Now, to ask one of the gazillion questions I have for you.
What ever happened to the recordings you and Randy made and promised us you'd release following that tour in '87? In particular, "There's Something About that Woman?" Any chance you will do any of that music this summer? When do we get the US itinerary?
I could go on here forever, but I'll continue at a later time. I just want to say that meeting you was the fulfillment of my fondest fantasy, but I had nothing else to dream about after that. Now, however, another fantasy is realized, because you are there on the Internet. My heartfelt gratitude to you and to those who have made this possible. Burton, we love you beyond measure. Thank you for sharing your self with us.

Linda


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