Judy Collins
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
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My Father Promised Us That We Would Live in France
In 19 67, at christmas, i gave my parents a trip to hawaii as a present. And he got sick there in the hospital and then he came back. For months they didn't know what was the matter with him. So the song came very easily to me, but he never heard it - which is the sad part of it. I called an old friend, tom glazer, and i sang it to tom on the phone. It's not something that probably a person who's on his way to dying would want to hear."
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