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Gordon Lightfoot The Way I Feel - Sunday Concert, Plus - Did She Mention My Name - Back Here On Earth (3-CD)

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Gordon Lightfoot: The Way I Feel - Sunday Concert, Plus - Did She Mention My Name - Back Here On Earth (3-CD)

1-CD with 36-page booklet, 26 tracks. Playing time approx. 78 mns.
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No voice that resounded through the radio waves in the 1970s sounded as gloriously and unadulteratedly Canadian as that of Gordon Lightfoot. His angular phrasing and full, resonant timbre literally screamed of a northern origin, and his brilliant songwriting reflected his native environment while telling universal truths.

Lightfoot, who died on 1 May 2023 aged 84, was a true folk troubadour whose material effortlessly crossed idiomatic boundaries. Born on 17 November 1938 in Orrilia, Ontario, Lightfoot sang in his church choir as a child and soon performed on the radio. By the age of 12, he was singing at Toronto's prestigious Massey Hall. In high school he learned to play guitar and in 1958 travelled to Hollywood to study at Westlake College of Music. "I left the small town where I lived in central Ontario because of an ad in 'Downbeat' magazine," Lightfoot says. Back in Toronto, he sang with The Swinging Eight on the CBC-TV programme 'Country Hoedown' in 1960.
Lightfoot teamed up with fellow folk singer Terry Whelan as The Two Tones, and the duo recorded the album At the Village Corner in 1962. But the singer's first two solo singles, produced by Louis Innis and Art Snider in Nashville for the Canadian Chateau label and recorded in the US by ABC-Paramount, were much more pop-heavy. Daisy-Doo and Negotiations were closer to rock'n'roll, while the ballad (Remember Me) I'm The One was a hit in Toronto (the 45 was released under the slightly shortened name Gord Lightfoot).

After spending much of 1963 in Europe and England (where he hosted the BBC-TV event "Country and Western Show"), Lightfoot returned to Canada, where his compositional skills grew by leaps and bounds. In 1965, Canadian folk duo Ian & Sylvia recorded his Early Mornin' Rain as the title track for their fourth album for Vanguard. The seeds for its creation were planted during Lightfoot's stay in L.A..

"When a car was available to drive to the airport, the start at LAX was pretty exciting. I remember one particularly rainy morning - which you can have in January in L.A. - and watching it and remembering the vision maybe 10 years later while I was taking care of my first child while my wife was shopping, back to the runway at LAX and a feeling of homesickness that I had at the time," he said. "Because I was homesick when I went out there."

Ian & Sylvia recorded another Lightfoot classic, For Lovin' Me, on the same album, and Marty Robbins landed a C&W chart-topper that year with Ribbon Of Darkness. "I got in touch with Ian & Sylvia with some songs I'd written and they picked a couple of the songs they thought were really nice, added them to their repertoire and recorded them. From there they went to Peter, Paul & Mary, which got me into American management," he said. "So I was able to find a manager in the States. That was big news here in Canada."

And this wasn't just any manager: Albert Grossman also managed Bob Dylan as well as Peter, Paul & Mary. His business partner John Court produced the singer's United Artists debut album "Lightfoot!" in 1966, which included the three songs that had served Ian & Sylvia and Robbins so well (Peter, Paul & Mary had hits that year with Early Mornin' Rain and For Lovin' Me; Waylon Jennings stormed the C&W Top Ten with the latter in 1966). Court produced Lightfoot's UA encore set 'The Way I Feel' the following year, before giving way to John Simon for Lightfoot's '68 album 'Did She Mention My Name?" and Elliot Mazer for 'Back Here On Earth'. "I was doing one album a year back then," he noted.

Lightfoot's prolific songwriting came in handy. "I was also in a kinetic energy to write more and more," Lightfoot said. "I had a young family to take care of at the time, and that played a part too. I just wrote and wrote and wrote. I just kept writing."

After the '69 live set 'Sunday Concert', recorded at Massey Hall, Lightfoot left UA and signed to Warner Bros's Reprise label, where he enjoyed huge success. If You Could Read My Mind, produced by Lenny Waronker and Joe Wissert, was released in late 1970 and was Lightfoot's first US pop hit. He topped the pop charts and went gold in 1974 with his smouldering, bluesy Sundown. Was he surprised by the huge success? "I was indeed, although at the time we thought it might be something," Lightfoot said. "It moved me further up the pecking order".
Carefree Highway was another big hit for Lightfoot that year.

The rousing, real-life sea saga The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald was Lightfoot's last blockbuster in 1976. "When I say something, I try to keep it accurate, or in chronological order," he said. "This was in chronological order. There is some conjecture. About halfway through the book there's a point that you can only speculate about, which is whether the old cook really stuck his head out on the deck, whether a hatch cover failed or not, whether they grounded it beforehand or not. There are all sorts of reports from the coastguard about the whole incident. It's a song that we take great pleasure in playing on stage because it's that kind of song.

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Lightfoot, Gordon - The Way I Feel - Sunday Concert, Plus - Did She Mention My Name - Back Here On Earth (3-CD) CD 1
01 Rich Man's Spiritual Gordon Lightfoot
02 Long River Gordon Lightfoot
03 The Way I Feel Gordon Lightfoot
04 For Lovin' Me Gordon Lightfoot
05 The First Time Gordon Lightfoot
06 Changes Gordon Lightfoot
07 Early Morning Rain Gordon Lightfoot
08 Steel Rail Blues Gordon Lightfoot
09 Sixteen Miles (To Seven Lakes) Gordon Lightfoot
10 I'm Not Sayin' Gordon Lightfoot
11 Pride Of Man Gordon Lightfoot
12 Ribbon Of Darkness Gordon Lightfoot
13 Oh, Linda Gordon Lightfoot
14 Peaceful Waters Gordon Lightfoot
15 Walls Gordon Lightfoot
16 If You Got It Gordon Lightfoot
17 Softly Gordon Lightfoot
18 Crossroads Gordon Lightfoot
19 A Minor Ballad Gordon Lightfoot
20 Go Go Around Gordon Lightfoot
21 Rosanna Gordon Lightfoot
22 Home From The Forest Gordon Lightfoot
23 I'll Be Alright Gordon Lightfoot
24 Song For A Winter's Night Gordon Lightfoot
25 Canadian Railroad Trilogy Gordon Lightfoot
26 The Way I Feel Gordon Lightfoot
Lightfoot, Gordon - The Way I Feel - Sunday Concert, Plus - Did She Mention My Name - Back Here On Earth (3-CD) CD 2
01 In A Windowpane Gordon Lightfoot
02 The Lost Children Gordon Lightfoot
03 Leaves Of Grass Gordon Lightfoot
04 I'm Not Sayin' Ribbon Of Darkness Gordon Lightfoot
05 Apology Gordon Lightfoot
06 Bitter Green Gordon Lightfoot
07 Ballad Of Yarmouth Castle Gordon Lightfoot
08 Softly Gordon Lightfoot
09 Boss Man Gordon Lightfoot
10 Pussy Willows, Cat-Tails Gordon Lightfoot
11 Canadian Railroad Trilogy Gordon Lightfoot
12 Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues Gordon Lightfoot
13 Movin' (Version 1) Gordon Lightfoot
14 I'll Be Alright Gordon Lightfoot
15 Spin, Spin (Nashville Version) Gordon Lightfoot
16 Movin' (Version 2) Gordon Lightfoot
Lightfoot, Gordon - The Way I Feel - Sunday Concert, Plus - Did She Mention My Name - Back Here On Earth (3-CD) CD 3
01 Did She Mention My Name Gordon Lightfoot
02 Wherefore And Why Gordon Lightfoot
03 The Last Time I Saw Her Gordon Lightfoot
04 Black Day In July Gordon Lightfoot
05 May I Gordon Lightfoot
06 Magnificent Outpouring Gordon Lightfoot
07 Does Your Mother Know Gordon Lightfoot
08 The Mountains And Maryann Gordon Lightfoot
09 Pussywillows, Cat-Tails Gordon Lightfoot
10 I Want To Hear It From You Gordon Lightfoot
11 Something Very Special Gordon Lightfoot
12 Boss Man Gordon Lightfoot
13 Long Way Back Home Gordon Lightfoot
14 Unsettled Ways Gordon Lightfoot
15 Long Thin Dawn Gordon Lightfoot
16 Bitter Green Gordon Lightfoot
17 The Circle Is Small Gordon Lightfoot
18 Marie Christine Gordon Lightfoot
19 Cold Hands From New York Gordon Lightfoot
20 Affair On 8th Avenue Gordon Lightfoot
21 Don't Beat Me Down Gordon Lightfoot
22 The Gypsy Gordon Lightfoot
23 If I Could Gordon Lightfoot
24 Spin, Spin (New York Remake Version) Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Lightfoot GORDON LIGHTFOOT OBITUARY   No voice gracing the 1970s... more
"Gordon Lightfoot"

Gordon Lightfoot

GORDON LIGHTFOOT OBITUARY

 

No voice gracing the 1970s radio airwaves sounded as gloriously, unabashedly Canadian as that of Gordon Lightfoot. His flinty phrasing and rich, resonant timbre veritably screamed north-of-the-border origins, and his brilliant songwriting reflected his native environs at the same time it related universal truths.

 

Lightfoot, who passed away Mai 1st at age 84 in 2023, was a genuine folk troubadour whose material effortlessly crossed idiomatic boundaries. Born November 17, 1938 in Orrilia, Ontario, Lightfoot sang in his church choir as a child, soon graduating to performing on the radio. At 12, he sang at Toronto’s prestigious Massey Hall. He learned to play guitar in high school, then journeyed to Hollywood in 1958 to study at Westlake College of Music. “I left the small town that I lived in in central Ontario, and I went because of a ‘Downbeat’ magazine ad,” said Lightfoot. Back in Toronto in 1960, he sang with The Swinging Eight on CBC-TV’s ‘Country Hoedown.’ 

Lightfoot teamed with fellow folkie Terry Whelan as The Two Tones, the duo cutting a 1962 album, ‘At the Village Corner.’ But the singer’s first two solo singles that same year, produced by Louis Innis and Art Snider in Nashville for the Canadian Chateau label and picked up in the U.S. by ABC-Paramount, were much more pop-slanted. Daisy-Doo and Negotiations were closer to rock and roll, while the ballad (Remember Me) I’m The One was a hit in Toronto (the 45s were issued under the slightly truncated handle of Gord Lightfoot).

 

After spending much of 1963 in Europe and England (where he hosted BBC-TV’s ‘Country and Western Show’), Lightfoot returned to Canada, his compositional prowess growing by leaps and bounds. In 1965, Canadian folk duo Ian & Sylvia cut his Early Mornin’ Rain as the title song to their fourth album for Vanguard. The seeds were planted for its creation during Lightfoot’s stint in L.A

“When a car was available to take a drive out to the airport take off at LAX was quite thrilling. I remember a particularly rainy morning--which you can have in January in L.A.--and watching them, and having the vision come back to me perhaps 10 years later while minding my very first kid, while my wife was out shopping, back to the airstrip at LAX and a feeling of homesickness that I had at that time,” he said. “Because I was homesick when I went out there.”

Ian & Sylvia also included another Lightfoot classic, For Lovin’  Me, on that same album, and Marty Robbins scored a C&W chart-topper that year with his Ribbon Of Darkness. “I connected with Ian & Sylvia with some songs that I'd been writing, and they chose a couple of the songs they thought were very nice, and put them in their repertoire and recorded them. From there, they went to Peter, Paul & Mary, which took me into an American management situation,” he said. “So I was able to get a manager there down in the states. That was big news up here in Canada.”

Not just any manager, either: Albert Grossman also handled Bob Dylan as well as Peter, Paul & Mary. His business partner, John Court, produced the singer’s 1966 United Artists debut album ‘Lightfoot!,’ containing the three songs that had served Ian & Sylvia and Robbins so well (Peter, Paul & Mary had hits with Early Mornin’ Rain and For Lovin’ Me that same year; Waylon Jennings crashed the C&W Top Ten with the latter in 1966). Court produced Lightfoot’s UA encore set ‘The Way I Feel’ the following year before giving way to John Simon for Lightfoot’s ’68 album ‘Did She Mention My Name?’ and Elliot Mazer for ‘Back Here On Earth.’ “I was making an album a year then,” he noted.

 Lightfoot’s prolific songwriting skills were serving him well. “I was also in a kinetic energy to write more and more,” said Lightfoot. “I had a young family to support at that time, and that was coming into the equation. I just wrote and wrote and wrote. I just kept on writing.”

After the ‘69 live set ‘Sunday Concert,’ cut live at Massey Hall, Lightfoot left UA and signed with Warner Bros.’ Reprise label, where he really hit the bigtime. If You Could Read My Mind, produced by Lenny Waronker and Joe Wissert, came out in late 1970 and was Lightfoot’s first U.S. pop smash. He topped the pop hit parade and went gold in 1974 with his smoldering, blues-kissed Sundown. Was he surprised at its massive success? “I was indeed, though we had thought it might do something at the time,” said Lightfoot. “It got me further up in the pecking order.”

Carefree Highway was another major hit for Lightfoot later that year.

The rousing true-life nautical saga The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald was Lightfoot’s last blockbuster in 1976. “If I'm going to say anything, I like to try to keep it accurate, or in chronological order,” he said. “That was in chronological order. It has some conjecture. It has one point of conjecture about midway through about the midships--that's whether the old cook really did poke his head out on the deck, whether or not a hatch cover failed, whether or not they ground it out earlier on. There are all kinds of Coast Guard reports on the whole event. It's a song that we play with great gusto onstage, because it is that kind of song.”

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Lightfoot, Gordon - The Way I Feel - Sunday Concert, Plus - Did She Mention My Name - Back Here On Earth (3-CD) CD 1
01 Rich Man's Spiritual
02 Long River
03 The Way I Feel
04 For Lovin' Me
05 The First Time
06 Changes
07 Early Morning Rain
08 Steel Rail Blues
09 Sixteen Miles (To Seven Lakes)
10 I'm Not Sayin'
11 Pride Of Man
12 Ribbon Of Darkness
13 Oh, Linda
14 Peaceful Waters
15 Walls
16 If You Got It
17 Softly
18 Crossroads
19 A Minor Ballad
20 Go Go Around
21 Rosanna
22 Home From The Forest
23 I'll Be Alright
24 Song For A Winter's Night
25 Canadian Railroad Trilogy
26 The Way I Feel
Lightfoot, Gordon - The Way I Feel - Sunday Concert, Plus - Did She Mention My Name - Back Here On Earth (3-CD) CD 2
01 In A Windowpane
02 The Lost Children
03 Leaves Of Grass
04 I'm Not Sayin' Ribbon Of Darkness
05 Apology
06 Bitter Green
07 Ballad Of Yarmouth Castle
08 Softly
09 Boss Man
10 Pussy Willows, Cat-Tails
11 Canadian Railroad Trilogy
12 Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
13 Movin' (Version 1)
14 I'll Be Alright
15 Spin, Spin (Nashville Version)
16 Movin' (Version 2)
Lightfoot, Gordon - The Way I Feel - Sunday Concert, Plus - Did She Mention My Name - Back Here On Earth (3-CD) CD 3
01 Did She Mention My Name
02 Wherefore And Why
03 The Last Time I Saw Her
04 Black Day In July
05 May I
06 Magnificent Outpouring
07 Does Your Mother Know
08 The Mountains And Maryann
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10 I Want To Hear It From You
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15 Long Thin Dawn
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