No wonder Gordon Lightfoot kept touring all his life. Probably trying to make back what his divorce settlement cost him. Cheating really is not worth it. The only good thing to come out of Lightfoot's affair with Cathy Smith was the song "Sundown."
@sharonjensen... - Gordon was a simple guy, who LOVED the life of a minstrel & THAT'S why he kept such an extensive tour schedule; NOT because he was someone driven by money!! I KNOW, because I was a close friend of his for MANY years!! He was good w/money & made MANY smart investments, but he was "casual" enough about money that he allowed his 1st wife, Brita, to completely manage his money for YEARS after their divorce was final. He had a deep, abiding respect for Brita, & loved their children, Fred & Ingrid. He carried w/him a keen sorrow for the failure of that marriage, but life on the road exacts a heavy toll. Still, in all, he LOVED writing ,touring, performing, testing his limits & pushing the boundaries.
Groupies aren't about drugs or sex it's about infamy. Cathy Smith hung around Vancouver lower East side she didn't brag about killing Belushi but she did brag about how famous his death made her.
His first wife, Britta was extrenmly beautiful. Gordon Meridith Lightfoot will always be the very finest Canadian singer/songwriter ever in this lifetime. We all lost a real true treasure May 1st, 2023, as he passed away on that day at the age of 84. He's more than a fine man, he's one of the very best ever out there.
My tiny little fame tale is My grandpa used to bar hop with Gordon Lightfoot. He would live my mom in the care of Gords wife well they were gone,sometimes for days.
@@DUCKSAREEVILLLLLLLLsure, he brought a drug dealing whore into the group that was the Guinea for John Belushi. JB was nothing more than a heroin addict himself.
Gordon is the only one to say “ Lots of people have bad stuff to say about Cathy. But she had a good heart & I ain’t got nothin bad to say about her”.. .. I also heard it was an extremely tumultuous relationship .. Drugs make people do crap they wouldn’t normally. Sucks what happened with Belushi, but that’s a risk you take, especially when you’re booting it .. What a shame.. he was truly talented
My tiny little fame tale is My grandpa used to bar hop with Gordon Lightfoot. He would live my mom in the care of Gords wife well they were gone,sometimes for days.
@surfootage - I hope I have your name right. As a close friend of Gordon Lightfoot for many years, I also am getting up in years, so my eyes aren't what they used to be. 😊 I wish people everywhere knew what an incredibly decent & loyal guy he was!! Yes, he cheated on Brita, but he paid dearly for that lapse - & NOT just money!! Cathy Smith took full advantage of Gordon's feelings of guilt & his deep sense of loyalty (qualities she lacked completely) when she needed help.
@@wrmacdonald9383 - Her lawyer WAS amazing & deservedly so, considering the fees Gordon paid!! If she'd had a lesser lawyer, Cathy would likely have been handed a MUCH stiffer sentence!! Everyone was shocked that she only got 15 months!! Almost all of Gordon's friends thought he was FAR more generous than she deserved, but we mostly kept our mouths shut!! And, you have to remember Gordon wasn't the only musician she'd had an affair with - he just was the ONLY ONE who didn't turn his back on her. His gift was HUGE, but then, I think he was probably the most decent & generous man I've ever known!!
@@wrmacdonald9383 I guess you deleted your pervious commet,wise choose. I live in a Country that abides by the freedom of speech, I dont where you live nor care but as I said freedom of speech dear, don't knock it.
The Band (from Canada) played on SNL in 1976 and Cathy sang backup (and was a groupie). She met John there. John introduced Cathy to the Stones later on.
@@wrmacdonald9383 - It's clear you feel somewhat conflicted in your assessment of Cathy Smith. If I learned anything during my 40-year friendship w/Gord, it's that nearly everyone has some redeeming quality. If you have fond memories of Cathy, keep them!! Don't let others tell you what to think/feel. She's dead now, so no need to recruit more haters!! Besides, you may have seen a side of her that others missed.
@@janjerge1484 You didn't have a friendship with Gordon Lightfoot. Only in your delusional mind. And quit sticking up for this selfish junkie of a groupie 🙄
Yeah, she was Gordon Lightfoot's flame all right and supposedly the subject of his biggest hit Sundown and Sundown was not her, as I discovered later, but whoever was doing her besides Gordon. Everybody thought cocaine was harmless back in those days and everybody was doing it. Surprise!
But how many thought that the common cigarette was harmless as well and could even enhance one’s love life. Eventually the contrary evidence proved to be overwhelming, which led to the explosion of public smoking bans.
Dennis Weaver did a movie showing how fine, ‘it was not.’ Picture McCloud or Chester high on cocaine, and the violence it brings out. It was in the same timeframe if I can remember, as his Spielberg movie, ‘The Dual. Both good movies.
@@ivangranger8494 oh yeah, i saw that movie on youtube. can't think of the title but it was a made for tv movie, and i think it came out shortly after belushi passed away.
@@RadioWhoPoo at 4:26, you said the woman pictured between Aykroyd and Belushi was Cathy Smith. I just thought you'd want to know that it's Penny Marshall in that photo.
I am one of the few who believes that Mr B caused his own death by becoming heavily dependent on drugs no matter who was supplying them. People were looking for someone to blame so they blamed her. Terrible how once he died all the stars who had used her. turned on her. Especially sad that The Band and it's members who used her, as well as Lightfoot & Axton, didn't help her. Drugs are a bitch and drug addiction is a bigger bitch & fame is the worst bitch of all. No winners in this story except those who quit using.
@@RadioWhoPoo "Catherine Evelyn Smith, born April 25, 1947, was an orphan adopted by Hector and Evelyn Smith in Burlington, Ont. She adored her mother, who suffered from clinical depression. Both parents were active with Alcoholics Anonymous. She had two siblings, Hugh and Bonnie, whom she leaves. At 16, Cathy quit school. Her father suggested she try her hand at data processing, but she went in a different direction: rock ’n’ roll. After hearing a band called the Hawks at the Grange tavern in Hamilton, she became smitten with the group’s smooth-talking, Southern-drawling American drummer Levon Helm. The Hawks would later become the Band, a pioneering roots-rock quintet featuring Helm and four Canadians. By 17, Ms. Smith was pregnant. She claimed the father was Mr. Helm, but he never accepted responsibility for the child. She gave birth to daughter Tracey Lee and moved to Toronto. Ms. Smith initially intended to keep the baby, but later opted for adoption. Source: BRAD WHEELER PUBLISHED AUGUST 26, 2020 UPDATED AUGUST 28, 2020 Article Titled: Cathy Smith, who admitted to killing John Belushi, was a woman of mystery
@@RadioWhoPoo Catherine Evelyn Smith, born April 25, 1947, was an orphan adopted by Hector and Evelyn Smith in Burlington, Ont. By 17, Ms. Smith was pregnant. She claimed the father was Mr. Helm, but he never accepted responsibility for the child. She gave birth to daughter Tracey Lee and moved to Toronto. Ms. Smith initially intended to keep the baby, but later opted for adoption. Mark Lavon "Levon" Helm (May 26, 1940 - April 19, 2012)[1] was an American musician and actor who achieved fame as the drummer and one of the three lead vocalists for the Band, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. ~ Wikipedia - Levon Helm ~ Six weeks later, Smith discovered she was pregnant. Helm wouldn't accept responsibility for the child, who became known as "The Band Baby." Manuel offered to marry her, but she turned him down. She wanted to keep the baby but in the end gave up her daughter, named Tracey Lee, for adoption. ~ Tokin Woman ~ Friday, March 11, 2022
John was a prolific drug user. He participated in his death, too. Ihave nothing good to say about that woman, but you have to remember that Belushi's body, by that time, was seriously degraded by his partying. So sad. She didn't force him to use drugs. Truth.
she didn't actually 'kill' Belushi. Whether an irresponsible thing to do, Belushi asked her to hit him up, and he knew he was mixing heroin with coke. Maybe doesn't make her a good person, but get real
Visiting his friends graves and laughing is just like a classic SNL skit John Belushi did where he dances at the “graves” of his SNL costars. It’s on RUclips.
My tiny little fame tale is My grandpa used to bar hop with Gordon Lightfoot. He would live my mom in the care of Gords wife well they were gone,sometimes for days.
@@RadioWhoPoo Oh ya no since my mom was being babysat she wasn't with them, this was in Orillia. They would be bar hoping and it would last for days so they probably went to every bar there was, or maybe had a favourite spot, I can asking mom thought. She something, she had quite the upbringing and went on to hitchhike across Canada before settling down with my dad. She only told me this like a year ago cause she didnt know I liked Gord stuff, I was like Mom what the hell that still a really cool story even if I didnt dig his stuff.
Why don't you focus that same energy on Canadian immigration which is utterly ruining Canada? Waiting www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/221026/dq221026a-eng.htm
Crazy loves crazy, man. There are many stories of wild, manipulating women who enchant men and ruin them. Look at Pattie Boyd or Courtney Love. And also... There's a boatload of drugs involved
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I can't believe the lady that had a hand in John's death is from my hometown of Hamilton.
Believe it!
Small world.
@@BRUTUSPLAC Sundown is indeed about her..... but "Sundown" is in reference to the guy she may be fooling around with.
John Belushi actually.
I had one of her early albums growing up.
No wonder Gordon Lightfoot kept touring all his life. Probably trying to make back what his divorce settlement cost him. Cheating really is not worth it. The only good thing to come out of Lightfoot's affair with Cathy Smith was the song "Sundown."
The two probably had fond memories of each other in addition to the bad, which might’ve influenced Lightfoots song writing for years.
Mr. Gordon Lightfoot just love his career so he keep on touring. It's his happiness.
Thank you for thorough & complete story of Cathy Smith & John Belushi &what happened to Belushi
You are welcome :)
@sharonjensen... - Gordon was a simple guy, who LOVED the life of a minstrel & THAT'S why he kept such an extensive tour schedule; NOT because he was someone driven by money!! I KNOW, because I was a close friend of his for MANY years!! He was good w/money & made MANY smart investments, but he was "casual" enough about money that he allowed his 1st wife, Brita, to completely manage his money for YEARS after their divorce was final. He had a deep, abiding respect for Brita, & loved their children, Fred & Ingrid. He carried w/him a keen sorrow for the failure of that marriage, but life on the road exacts a heavy toll. Still, in all, he LOVED writing ,touring, performing, testing his limits & pushing the boundaries.
Groupies aren't about drugs or sex it's about infamy. Cathy Smith hung around Vancouver lower East side she didn't brag about killing Belushi but she did brag about how famous his death made her.
Cathy or no Cathy, Belushi would've eventually OD'd. Can't pin the blame on her.
They did pin his death on her
His first wife, Britta was extrenmly beautiful. Gordon Meridith Lightfoot will always be the very finest Canadian singer/songwriter ever in this lifetime. We all lost a real true treasure May 1st, 2023, as he passed away on that day at the age of 84. He's more than a fine man, he's one of the very best ever out there.
Wonderful message.
Not very discriminating in relationships, though. Too much pressure and stress for entertainers, so they make bad decisions in their private lives.
My tiny little fame tale is My grandpa used to bar hop with Gordon Lightfoot. He would live my mom in the care of Gords wife well they were gone,sometimes for days.
@@DUCKSAREEVILLLLLLLLsure, he brought a drug dealing whore into the group that was the Guinea for John Belushi. JB was nothing more than a heroin addict himself.
Gordon is the only one to say “ Lots of people have bad stuff to say about Cathy. But she had a good heart & I ain’t got nothin bad to say about her”.. .. I also heard it was an extremely tumultuous relationship .. Drugs make people do crap they wouldn’t normally. Sucks what happened with Belushi, but that’s a risk you take, especially when you’re booting it .. What a shame.. he was truly talented
You have a great voice. I enjoyed this.
Thanks so much for watching!
After Belushi's death, nobody would touch her. Gordon Lightfoot was the only one to reach out and help her when nobody else would..
My tiny little fame tale is My grandpa used to bar hop with Gordon Lightfoot. He would live my mom in the care of Gords wife well they were gone,sometimes for days.
@surfootage - I hope I have your name right. As a close friend of Gordon Lightfoot for many years, I also am getting up in years, so my eyes aren't what they used to be. 😊 I wish people everywhere knew what an incredibly decent & loyal guy he was!! Yes, he cheated on Brita, but he paid dearly for that lapse - & NOT just money!!
Cathy Smith took full advantage of Gordon's feelings of guilt & his deep sense of loyalty (qualities she lacked completely) when she needed help.
Her lawyer Greenspan was amazing btw
@@wrmacdonald9383 - Her lawyer WAS amazing & deservedly so, considering the fees Gordon paid!! If she'd had a lesser lawyer, Cathy would likely have been handed a MUCH stiffer sentence!! Everyone was shocked that she only got 15 months!! Almost all of Gordon's friends thought he was FAR more generous than she deserved, but we mostly kept our mouths shut!! And, you have to remember Gordon wasn't the only musician she'd had an affair with - he just was the ONLY ONE who didn't turn his back on her. His gift was HUGE, but then, I think he was probably the most decent & generous man I've ever known!!
@@wrmacdonald9383 I guess you deleted your pervious commet,wise choose. I live in a Country that abides by the freedom of speech, I dont where you live nor care but as I said freedom of speech dear, don't knock it.
2:40 The Stones first appeared
on Saturday Night Live in October 1978.
I remember!! That was the very first episode of SNL I ever saw. Good episode to lose my SNL cherry on.
The Band (from Canada) played on SNL in 1976 and Cathy sang backup (and was a groupie). She met John there. John introduced Cathy to the Stones later on.
Cathy was trash.
Just a scumbag baby boomer.
Cathy seems to have lost all her morals when she was the groupie of the band. The sins of the past affected all she met in the future. What a storm.
She was (hate to use the past tense) poetic, crass, class, slapstick, chic alone friend. And she loved my mother. Rodger over.
@@wrmacdonald9383 - It's clear you feel somewhat conflicted in your assessment of Cathy Smith. If I learned anything during my 40-year friendship w/Gord, it's that nearly everyone has some redeeming quality. If you have fond memories of Cathy, keep them!! Don't let others tell you what to think/feel. She's dead now, so no need to recruit more haters!! Besides, you may have seen a side of her that others missed.
sounds like every addicted Canadian born before 1980.
@@janjerge1484
You didn't have a friendship with Gordon Lightfoot. Only in your delusional mind. And quit sticking up for this selfish junkie of a groupie 🙄
"With that jaded faded junkie nurse Oh what pleasent company"
Let it bleed - Stones! I never put this together. Thank you for the reference
Yeah, she was Gordon Lightfoot's flame all right and supposedly the subject of his biggest hit Sundown and Sundown was not her, as I discovered later, but whoever was doing her besides Gordon. Everybody thought cocaine was harmless back in those days and everybody was doing it. Surprise!
But how many thought that the common cigarette was harmless as well and could even enhance one’s love life. Eventually the contrary evidence proved to be overwhelming, which led to the explosion of public smoking bans.
Dennis Weaver did a movie showing how fine, ‘it was not.’ Picture McCloud or Chester high on cocaine, and the violence it brings out. It was in the same timeframe if I can remember, as his Spielberg movie, ‘The Dual. Both good movies.
@@ivangranger8494 oh yeah, i saw that movie on youtube. can't think of the title but it was a made for tv movie, and i think it came out shortly after belushi passed away.
So she basically got off because she had dirt on a lot of people does that sound about right
Well she could not be their supplier if they did not ask for it
Correction:
The one photo depicted in your segment, is of Penny Williams,not Cathy Smith.
You mean Penny Marshall? That was commented on 2 months ago.
That’s Penny Marshall in the photo, not Cathy Smith.
The main photo is from Cathy Smith's 1986 trial. You can see it reproduced by the LA Times.
@@RadioWhoPoo at 4:26, you said the woman pictured between Aykroyd and Belushi was Cathy Smith. I just thought you'd want to know that it's Penny Marshall in that photo.
@@jasonjohnson3577 Ah ok thank you!
It is definitely not Penny Marshall - it is Cathy Smith!!
@@helenanderson3334 @ 4:26 it is Penny Marshall. They look nothing alike.
My hometown too.
Very cool
That was Penny Marshall in that photo hugging John with Robin. Not Cindy
That's what I thought too.
I am one of the few who believes that Mr B caused his own death by becoming heavily dependent on drugs no matter who was supplying them. People were looking for someone to blame so they blamed her. Terrible how once he died all the stars who had used her. turned on her. Especially sad that The Band and it's members who used her, as well as Lightfoot & Axton, didn't help her. Drugs are a bitch and drug addiction is a bigger bitch & fame is the worst bitch of all. No winners in this story except those who quit using.
Sad but true. If it wasn't her it would've been someone else (or just Belushi himself), and not long after.
@@MelancoliaI exactly
I cannot help but wonder how familiar this narrator is with fame.
She scored for him and other famous who could have been blackmailed.
@@jackson4404 exactly and not one of them tried to help her. Although Gordon Lightfoot wrote kindly about her in his book.
She worked for a company in T.D Center as a facilitator when she got deported to Toronto.
Interesting how so many more people could fly under the radar compared to the surveillance today.
1:07 The baby was given up for adoption.
Can you share the source on this?
@@RadioWhoPoo "Catherine Evelyn Smith, born April 25, 1947, was an orphan adopted by Hector and Evelyn Smith in Burlington, Ont. She adored her mother, who suffered from clinical depression. Both parents were active with Alcoholics Anonymous. She had two siblings, Hugh and Bonnie, whom she leaves.
At 16, Cathy quit school. Her father suggested she try her hand at data processing, but she went in a different direction: rock ’n’ roll.
After hearing a band called the Hawks at the Grange tavern in Hamilton, she became smitten with the group’s smooth-talking, Southern-drawling American drummer Levon Helm. The Hawks would later become the Band, a pioneering roots-rock quintet featuring Helm and four Canadians.
By 17, Ms. Smith was pregnant. She claimed the father was Mr. Helm, but he never accepted responsibility for the child. She gave birth to daughter Tracey Lee and moved to Toronto. Ms. Smith initially intended to keep the baby, but later opted for adoption.
Source:
BRAD WHEELER
PUBLISHED AUGUST 26, 2020
UPDATED AUGUST 28, 2020
Article Titled:
Cathy Smith, who admitted to killing John Belushi, was a woman of mystery
So that refers to Cathy Smith, not Cathy Smith's baby. Cathy Smith was born in 1947.
@@RadioWhoPoo Catherine Evelyn Smith, born April 25, 1947, was an orphan adopted by Hector and Evelyn Smith in Burlington, Ont.
By 17, Ms. Smith was pregnant. She claimed the father was Mr. Helm, but he never accepted responsibility for the child. She gave birth to daughter Tracey Lee and moved to Toronto. Ms. Smith initially intended to keep the baby, but later opted for adoption.
Mark Lavon "Levon" Helm (May 26, 1940 - April 19, 2012)[1] was an American musician and actor who achieved fame as the drummer and one of the three lead vocalists for the Band, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.
~ Wikipedia - Levon Helm ~
Six weeks later, Smith discovered she was pregnant. Helm wouldn't accept responsibility for the child, who became known as "The Band Baby." Manuel offered to marry her, but she turned him down. She wanted to keep the baby but in the end gave up her daughter, named Tracey Lee, for adoption.
~ Tokin Woman ~
Friday, March 11, 2022
Thank you!
She went to Aldershot High School here in Burlington On. The tuba she played used to be in the music room in the late 80s
Cool they should've put it on display or donated it to a music museum.
Groupies aren't about the drugs. It about 'making' love' with rock stars.
It also seems to be about the drugs - the scene, the look etc
@@RadioWhoPoo Groupies are groupies. Dealers are dealers. She happened to be both.
Love has nothing to do with it
She died 40 years after she killed Belushi. Sometimes lowlifes get away with murder.
John was a prolific drug user. He participated in his death, too. Ihave nothing good to say about that woman, but you have to remember that Belushi's body, by that time, was seriously degraded by his partying. So sad.
She didn't force him to use drugs. Truth.
Wasn’t she convicted of manslaughter?
Not if they reject Jesus.....and go to hell.
she didn't actually 'kill' Belushi. Whether an irresponsible thing to do, Belushi asked her to hit him up, and he knew he was mixing heroin with coke. Maybe doesn't make her a good person, but get real
Plot Twist: Cathy Smith was a CIA operative tasked with getting stars hooked on Heroin.
Wouldn't surprise me. Fyi, read Strange Times in the Canyon or something similar... Its about cia infiltration of 60s rock.
Celebrities didn't need anyone's help for that in those days. Drugs were everywhere.
Thumbs Down on this BULLSHIT! The CIA would never hired somebody like Cathy Smith, because she would be to much of a security risk!
Visiting his friends graves and laughing is just like a classic SNL skit John Belushi did where he dances at the “graves” of his SNL costars. It’s on RUclips.
Not funny at all......the normalization of degeneracy
@RadioWhoPoo It is quite an interesting skit called " Don't look back in anger". Irony
My tiny little fame tale is My grandpa used to bar hop with Gordon Lightfoot. He would live my mom in the care of Gords wife well they were gone,sometimes for days.
Very cool, do you know where they would go? Was Lightfoot songwriting all the time?
@@RadioWhoPoo Oh ya no since my mom was being babysat she wasn't with them, this was in Orillia. They would be bar hoping and it would last for days so they probably went to every bar there was, or maybe had a favourite spot, I can asking mom thought. She something, she had quite the upbringing and went on to hitchhike across Canada before settling down with my dad. She only told me this like a year ago cause she didnt know I liked Gord stuff, I was like Mom what the hell that still a really cool story even if I didnt dig his stuff.
A few mistakes in this.
Good work though😊
This sounds like a book report.
You're welcome for the knowledge!
Cathy Smith was so pretty!
maybe for twelve minutes back in 1967.
Beauty is definitely in the eye of the beholder.🤷♀
He would laugh at his dead friends? Did I hear that correctly
Yes.
@@RadioWhoPoo wow I had no idea
I’m not so sure that picture with Dan is Cathy.. I believe that might be Penny Marshall aka Laverne
Richard manuel the super simp
leech
What ???!!!
Soul stealer
Some women are nothing but trouble, but John B let her in.
Let's speak, please. Don't call my friend silverbag.
Why don't you focus that same energy on Canadian immigration which is utterly ruining Canada? Waiting www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/221026/dq221026a-eng.htm
Cant hear!
Subtitles!
Hard to believe a 7/10 back then could get A list celebrities to go nuts for her.
Uhh have you looked at men lately
Crazy loves crazy, man. There are many stories of wild, manipulating women who enchant men and ruin them. Look at Pattie Boyd or Courtney Love. And also... There's a boatload of drugs involved
"physical humor" ? 3:18
I think she meant "physical comedy". Using his body & weight as part of the comedic delivery.
Thank you.
Invol. Mans. Avg. is 12-24 months in the US