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timetraveler · 03-06-2010, 10:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Borderstone

Had I had the time last year,I'd have done a thread marking the 10th anniversary of the Songbook box set. ( Not to mention the 5th anniversary of "Harmony" last May).

Hard to believe isn't it? For me it's not so much because I didn't know of it until 2001. Still,this upcoming August 7th,2010 will mark *gulp*! 9 years since I made my final "layaway payment" and brought it home.
That's without knowing more than about 10 songs on it for that matter.

I had spotted it that June at the now long gone Sam Goody's store at the mall (the one next to the library I used to post at.)
I thought,"A Gordon Lightfoot box set?"
"Are they kidding?"
"He only has 6 hits!" LOL! I used to think if you didn't have many hits,the rest of your stuff must be gosh awful.

Somehow though,my curiosity got the better of me,because my next thought was,"Well....there's got to be some reason they bothered". Especially with the big price tag of $60 + tax. So I took a big gamble that paid off thankfully. I mean,what if I had hated what I heard?

Record stores don't always readily accept," I think the music I heard was lame",as a reason for return. When I got home,on that oddly overcast day in August.....
I played all four CDs in one sitting and as we know,this was the beginning of me becoming a Lightfoot fan for life. Over a year before I came to this site.

Aside from being a fan,do any of you guys have a story to go with your "Songbook"?

I didn't know that it existed until fairly recently. I ordered mine through Barnes & Nobles Bookstore, and like you, I had no idea what to expect. I was thouroughly blown away after hearing it, and it marked the first time I'd ever heard Canary Yellow Canoe. There were numerous other tunes in the collection that I absolutely fell in love with, and I got to thinking afterwards that, like the first time I ever saw The Man in concert, that was the best money I'd ever spent. And for what it's worth, like you, I paid a little over $60 And I STILL get a thrill out of it every time I put in a disc.