those young as me and older may remember rowdy yates, the character on rawhide -the great early sixties cattle drive t.v. show, played by clint eastwood... but apparently what made joni think of rowdy yates and a few other names for her song dancin' clown was that they were the names of horses at the santa ana racetrack...as relayed to "mimi gal", who had a smoke with joni at the edmonton folk fest... now the other names sound like horses to come to think of it..."last-word suzie", "Jove"... story: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rawhide/message/572 shane http://www.angelfire.com/art/cactussong
