"Original Godspell Cast - Peggy Gordon/Gilmer McCormick - By My Side"

[spoonwalk]

Ms. Gordon, this is amazing! I'm a friend of Rick Shutter's & a longtime fan of the show & its music. Are there other songs recorded from this night? Thank you for this beautiful song! Sincerely-Frank Walker

[larkluster]

@spoonwalk Just, unfortunately, snippets of other songs that have been uploaded to a Flickr site that doesn't accommodate long videos. But, we had so much fun. We sang through practically the entire show. Ricky was amazing because we didn't rehearse but all the musicians played as if they'd just done the show yesterday!

[hollysdad]

Ms. Gordon. So wonderful to see you perform this gorgeous song again. The connection you share with your music is clear.

Incredible and timeless.

Thank you for this.

[TheBlueCream]

love this..I played guitar on one of the Australian tours back in 1973...thanks for this !

[larkluster]

@GodspellFreak For I fear I shall weep and never laugh again. I do want to laugh again and again. I want to smile inside, and put my eye in every flower. Please take my hand.

[BelfastBailey]

Okay, great...LOL Watched it, started reliving our moments...I'm a teary eyed, runny nosed mess again. SUCH A GREAT SHOW, such a great performance this is. In fact, Our Peggy and I are singing this at our church on July 10, then on the 14th, our Jesus, Peggy and I are singing On the Willows. :-)

[BelfastBailey]

OH, I WISH I could have been there, and I wish I could be there for the Broadway revival. Thank you again, Peggy, for corresponding with me during our rehearsals for "Godspell." We won at state competition and went on to regionals, but did not advance to nationals, darn it. But I have never had such an amazing time in a show. I was John the Baptist/Judas and thanks to your helpful, kind words, I played my heart out every night for David and I hope I did him proud. BLESS YOU, PEGGY!!!

[larkluster]

@BelfastBailey WONDERFUL!!!!

[larkluster]

@GodspellFreak There is, the first ever Broadway revival is opening on Nov. 7th. Both the director and producer are wonderful so I feel confident this will be a revival we'll be really proud of!

[flatdisk]

wow! I'm cryin' - Rich

[larkluster]

@flatdisk Richie Labonte, I swear to god, if this is you, you've no idea how we were searching for you to come to this. We googled you; we looked for you on Facebook (all of us, especially Ricky Shutter). I'm stunned that we might have found you after the fact since we trying to get the original band that created all these arrangement together, back together one last time!!!!

[flatdisk]

@larkluster Peggy - Oh, well. I did make it to the 1980s reunion - and I don't actually own a bass at the moment anyway (still playin, but computers have stolen my soul :o)> Get in touch with me on FB /people/Rich-La-Bonte/10000028­9136540 - Seriously, all those memories flooding back... Love to all of you guys!

[larkluster]

@flatdisk We were all talking about you, Sonia especially. Okay, stand by, there's some good stuff coming your way through the e-mail address you gave me! xo Peg

[SeltzerAddict]

Hey Peggy! This is Rebecca. Thank you so much for sharing this! You and Gilmer sing so beautifully. I look forward to meeting you in person one day. :)

[larkluster]

@SeltzerAddict Hey sweetie, I'm so sorry it didn't work out at this reunion. I'm going to send you a link to a photo album site so you can see all the photos. But, we're aiming for this fall when the Broadway revival opens! Hopefully we can get Annette here too!

[blbeachgoer2]

Okay clue me in ..... I've always loved this song from Godspell, but how could Peggy mess up the song? Didn't she help write it?

[larkluster]

@blbeachgoer2 No, the musicians hadn't rehearsed the this verse in 40 years since it was cut during previews at Cherry Lane Theater. So, I remembered it but they didn't; so I had call out the chords. Gilly hadn't sung it either since the verse was cut. So, I warned everybody that we were doing this on the fly, per request, but as I said in my introduction, we hadn't done it in 40 years so it could be a fun train wreck. And, it was! We had so much fun!

[blbeachgoer2]

@larkluster Oh I'm so sorry ...... I was on the phone during the explanation and obviously wasn't paying attention to the explanation. Please forgive me.