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johnfowles · 10-26-2005, 12:22 PM

On the news this morning was a financial report about amazon.com. I bring this up because it reminded me to go to their site to check on the reissue of the Gord's Gold CD
What reissue I hear you all asking??
well not quite all
Valerie on her truncated "folk music" site http://gordonlightfoot.com
recently added
"In other Lightfoot news, Rhino has reissued Gord's Gold, Lightfoot's 1975 Greatest Hits album which has gone double platinum. This CD was withdrawn in 2002, shortly after the release of Complete Greatest Hits. Unfortunately, Rhino did not take the opportunity to add back the omitted song, Affair On 8th Avenue, nor did they remaster the CD. In my opinion, Rhino has missed a big business opportunity, as I suspect that most Lightfoot fans would buy a remastered and complete Gord's Gold, even though they already have the CD"
After some searching I have concluded that both the Amazon and Rhino websites seem to be ominously disinclined to say anything about this yet unless my eyes deceived me I have seen one copy!
whilst waiting after one of the recent concerts I saw a gent in the row in front of me with an unfamiliar looking CD and it looked to me that the jewel case front insert although largely white had "Gordon Lightfoot" writ upon it and what just might have been a reduced sized facsimile of the familiar original brown Gords Gold artwork.
i now have a sore ankle after kicking myself for nor asking said gent if I could have a look at it. (at the time I assumed it had just gone on sale and would be easily found on amazon for example)
http://www.cdconnection.com also declines to offer this new gem
Of course I could be wrong but perhaps Val can shed some light on this because after some determined googling I found reference to such a mythical reissue only on her site
John Fowles
Incidentally I also checked out the Warner Bros site and discovered
http://www.warnerbrosrecords.com/find.php
where there is a drop down box hopefuly headed
"FIND ARTIST BY NAME"
but strangely Gordon is not included but so no big surprise there!!

[ October 27, 2005, 13:37: Message edited by: johnfowles ]

10-26-2005, 12:22 PM	#1
johnfowles Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: New Jersey U.S.A. ex UK and Canada Posts: 4,846	On the news this morning was a financial report about amazon.com. I bring this up because it reminded me to go to their site to check on the reissue of the Gord's Gold CD What reissue I hear you all asking?? well not quite all Valerie on her truncated "folk music" site http://gordonlightfoot.com recently added "In other Lightfoot news, Rhino has reissued Gord's Gold, Lightfoot's 1975 Greatest Hits album which has gone double platinum. This CD was withdrawn in 2002, shortly after the release of Complete Greatest Hits. Unfortunately, Rhino did not take the opportunity to add back the omitted song, Affair On 8th Avenue, nor did they remaster the CD. In my opinion, Rhino has missed a big business opportunity, as I suspect that most Lightfoot fans would buy a remastered and complete Gord's Gold, even though they already have the CD" After some searching I have concluded that both the Amazon and Rhino websites seem to be ominously disinclined to say anything about this yet unless my eyes deceived me I have seen one copy! whilst waiting after one of the recent concerts I saw a gent in the row in front of me with an unfamiliar looking CD and it looked to me that the jewel case front insert although largely white had "Gordon Lightfoot" writ upon it and what just might have been a reduced sized facsimile of the familiar original brown Gords Gold artwork. i now have a sore ankle after kicking myself for nor asking said gent if I could have a look at it. (at the time I assumed it had just gone on sale and would be easily found on amazon for example) http://www.cdconnection.com also declines to offer this new gem Of course I could be wrong but perhaps Val can shed some light on this because after some determined googling I found reference to such a mythical reissue only on her site John Fowles Incidentally I also checked out the Warner Bros site and discovered http://www.warnerbrosrecords.com/find.php where there is a drop down box hopefuly headed "FIND ARTIST BY NAME" but strangely Gordon is not included but so no big surprise there!! [ October 27, 2005, 13:37: Message edited by: johnfowles ]