[johnfowles]

internet malefactors and benefactors
In common with several others here such as Annie and Char I have signed up for google alerts and several times a week I receive an email detailing the mention of Gordon in some publication or other. I have just received one such missive that nobody else has yet mentioned and thought that all corfiddlers should see it
So here is the complete email,that I received earlier
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Google Alert - "gordon lightfoot"
From: Google Alerts (googlealerts-noreply@google.com)
Sent: Sunday 2/31/08 1:00 AM
Google News Alert for: "gordon lightfoot"
Internet Malevolence and Benevolence
Timbuctoo Daily Record And Inquirer,Mali???
the good and the bad aspects of cyberspace......
Famed British mathematician,scientist and physicist Sir Isaac Newton and ionic Canadian Poet Genius Laureate Gordon Lightfoot on the internet .......
Sir Isaac once postulated that for every action there was an equal and opposite reaction.Mr Lightfoot in his inimitable way once countered with a stunning composition entitled "Wherefore and Why".This may be interpreted in the case of the internet as for every action by an irksome hacker spammer or virus peddlar there is an example of help,free advice, tribute websites, free information, indeed all manner of "free stuff"
in the case of Gordon there are the 3 wonderful information sites run from Vienna Austria Colourful Colorado and Prince Edward Island Canada.In addition the online GL resources are now richly enhanced by Tom Salter of the Stonewall Studio in Niagara Ontario who with the two other members of his "Lightfoot Tribute Team" have declared their ambitious goal of covering every one of Gordon's repertoire of at least 250 published masterpieces by September 2009.His success seems to be inspiring others to similar endeavours including "duinart", "gony82" and a Canadian "Krazy Kritic" name of Mike.
In fact under the Video Player of Mike's Pride Of Man offering it says "This is a video response to Sixteen Miles - Gordon Lightfoot -V13":-
Tom's disclaimer
"Note to All Viewers: This Tribute Channel is for the sole purpose of sharing the experience of the magnificent music of Gordon Lightfoot. No production is being sold or will ever be offered for sale. This is a true labour of love based on the "reasonable use" provisions of the Copyright Act"
Tom also exhorts his viwers in most of the vistory descriptions to"Buy Gordon Lightfoot CDs"
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OK seriously folks
the complete listing of Tom's videos is now on his three YouTube pages where you can now find a total of 53 vistories
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=thomasj157&page=1
20 GL vistories
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=thomasj157&page=2
20 GL vistories
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=thomasj157&page=3
13 GL vistories
and as for Mike,he also usually urges his viewers to purchase the relevant album
he has 13 GL videos amongst his 3 pages
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=krazykritik
contains 11 GL videos including three which will apparently eventually each be in 3 parts as shown by the irrepressible Nova Scotian below!!
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=krazykritik&page=2
2 /GL videos
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=krazykritik&page=3
No GL but a rather nice medley of two of my favourite 60s instrumentals
Mason Williams' Classical Gas and Paul Mauriat's Love Is Blue
Mike at least once has posted a comment in which he says "I have Ton of GL coming over the next while and I mean a Ton!.. many were almost impossible to find on mp3 so the majority will be brand new to YouTube. yes BUY GORDON LIGHTFOOT CD's if you please..Mike" has a current tally of 13 devoted to GL (out of 46 videos in total) includes three uploaded in the last two days at:-
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=krazykritik
Innadition to the above two sites
there are also a pair of videos by "gony82" at:-
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=gony82
and 4 more by "duinnerfs" at:-
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?p=r&user=duinnerfs&page=1
If You Got it
Walls
I'll Be Alright
Rich Man's Spiritual
For myself I am manfully trying to keep up with this prodigious output and intend creating complete text file listings to display here shortly
I also intend contacting via the YouTube message facility the other three creators and alert them to this thread and ask if they are indeed members here and would they care to comment??