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jj · 04-06-2009, 12:32 PM

fun to shootdown Daisey Doo but it's also fun to listen to Gord experimenting and trying to 'fit in' and write something that had that 'success formula factor' before he finally just started writing naturally

as far as Remember Me, I can't believe how many folks here haven't heard that...after all, it's the very first song on his Songbook, his first and only collection other than the UA set...is this not yet widely available in the US?

I sure wish i sounded like Jim Reeves....anyhow, for those without Songbook or who haven't bookmarked the Liner notes section from the lightfoot site, here's Gord's notes:

"This was part of the American Metropolitan Enterprises catalog. A gentleman named Art Snider was trying to get a record company going, and he set up the sessions. It's maybe the third song I ever wrote. I think the first song I wrote was done at the age of about 17--a topical song about the hula hoop craze that was sweeping the nation. I took it down to BMI Canada to Harold Moon and he encouraged me to continue writing. So I did. By the time I was about 19 or 20, I got a job as a backup singer on a television show, and four of us drove to Nashville to cut some material. Chet Atkins put together a great backup band on those recordings that included Floyd Cramer and Grady Martin. The general feeling was that the songs sounded too much like Jim Reeves or Pat Boone."

04-06-2009, 12:32 PM	#16
jj Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: ontario, canada Posts: 5,265	Re: Lightfoot - 1962 fun to shootdown Daisey Doo but it's also fun to listen to Gord experimenting and trying to 'fit in' and write something that had that 'success formula factor' before he finally just started writing naturally as far as Remember Me, I can't believe how many folks here haven't heard that...after all, it's the very first song on his Songbook, his first and only collection other than the UA set...is this not yet widely available in the US? I sure wish i sounded like Jim Reeves....anyhow, for those without Songbook or who haven't bookmarked the Liner notes section from the lightfoot site, here's Gord's notes: "This was part of the American Metropolitan Enterprises catalog. A gentleman named Art Snider was trying to get a record company going, and he set up the sessions. It's maybe the third song I ever wrote. I think the first song I wrote was done at the age of about 17--a topical song about the hula hoop craze that was sweeping the nation. I took it down to BMI Canada to Harold Moon and he encouraged me to continue writing. So I did. By the time I was about 19 or 20, I got a job as a backup singer on a television show, and four of us drove to Nashville to cut some material. Chet Atkins put together a great backup band on those recordings that included Floyd Cramer and Grady Martin. The general feeling was that the songs sounded too much like Jim Reeves or Pat Boone."