I know Echo Helstrom...met her when I lived in L.A. We worked together at MGM Studios. She dated Bob fo a year in high school...they spent a lot of their time listening to music...I'm sure she was an inspiration to him, encouraging him. He gave her his ID bracelet, which was kind of like a going steady ring back then. But she gave it back when she felt he was seeing other girls. The lyrics of the song tell me he is talking about Echo...especially when he talks of the "cold winds by the borderline"...Canada is to the north of Minnesota and Hibbing is far north not too far from the border...cold.. You can tell by the look on his face when he sings the song when he is young....he is thinking of someone and still kind of sad about it....this is no generic song.
I know Echo Helstrom...met her when I lived in L.A. We worked together at MGM Studios. She dated Bob fo a year in high school...they spent a lot of their time listening to music...I'm sure she was an inspiration to him, encouraging him. He gave her his ID bracelet, which was kind of like a going steady ring back then. But she gave it back when she felt he was seeing other girls. The lyrics of the song tell me he is talking about Echo...especially when he talks of the "cold winds by the borderline"...Canada is to the north of Minnesota and Hibbing is far north not too far from the border...cold.. You can tell by the look on his face when he sings the song when he is young....he is thinking of someone and still kind of sad about it....this is no generic song.