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[lastly, i think Gord smirks when he introduces On the TV, not as a joke but becuase of the irony of him playing the tune on the television...you can sense his overall discomfort in general...posted by: jj]
Also that Soundstage program was recorded in a TV studio & Gord had said earlier in the show, I just get nervous it's a dry space to play in a television studio having those TV cameras so close as compared to having them way at the back where he could not see them.
I will stick with what I think was the reason for him saying "On The TV".
But I may be wrong of course !
Even with this written @ lightfoot.ca
SOUNDSTAGE - PBS - 1979
Ah yes, the legendary Soundstage Special. Lightfoot performed Cotton Jenny, The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald, Endless Wire, Summertime Dream, Don Quixote, If You Could Read My Mind, Ghosts Of Cape Horn (the first performance ever of this one), Beautiful, Hangdog Hotel Room, Sundown. At this point they broke for intermission and each band member said a few words, while in the background pictures and sounds from an earlier rehearsal were seen and heard. The second set went like this - Early Morning Rain, Whisper My Name, On The TV (later to become On The High Seas), Old Dan's Records and the Canadian Railroad Trilogy.