She told the radio host she wrote that song in a bathtub.
He laughed and said no wonder that song is so clean! (hahaha)
Sylvia responds:
"No, I wasn't taking a bath. It was the only place in that Greenwich Village hotel where the cockroaches didn't go."
The radio host laughed and asked Sylvia if she complained to the manager?
Sylvia responds:
Ian phoned the hotel manager and told him about those cockroaches.
The manager burst out laughing and told Ian the cockroaches came with the room. There's no extra charge.
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Ian Tyson wrote Four Strong Winds to a girl he broke off with two years before. Her name was Evinia Pulos.
During an interview, they had asked Sylvia who is Evinia Pulos?
Sylvia didn't mince words. She said:
"Evinia Pulos was the third person in our marriage."
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All versions of Tomorrow Is A Long Time are excellent. This is a marvellous song written by a young Bob Dylan. (21)
I read somewhere that Ian & Sylvia were going to release this song as a single. As fate would have it, Ian Tyson, while in NYC,
happened to go to (manager) Albert Grossman's apartment, and within 30 minutes wrote "Four Strong Winds."
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