When I was 9 my Dad took me to see "Those Magnificent Young Men In Their Flying Machines," an entertaining movie for a 9-year-old. (Which I was in 1965 when it

When I was 9 my Dad took me to see "Those Magnificent Young Men In Their Flying Machines," an entertaining movie for a 9-year-old. (Which I was in 1965 when it came out.) I knew the theme song by heart, music and lyrics, after only being exposed to it in the movie, and remembered it years later. That's the only time I can think of when I had anything like that kind of ability except for one: I was watching TV, still as a kid, and Harry Belafonte sang Leonard Cohen's song Suzanne. For years after I would sing the chorus to people, asking if they knew who had written it because I wanted to hear more from the writer. Finally when I was at summer camp a counselor told me it was by a guy named Leonard Cohen. As soon as I got home I got an LC album and I've been a huge fan ever since, and have played and sung Suzanne myself on guitar for people many times.