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johnfowles · 10-11-2010, 08:22 PM

This was my draft reply before I found definite dates
This is most exciting news! I hope those in the UK will keep us informed and bear in mind that the Beeb's tv on demand archive facilty does not allow access to plebs in other countries who do not pay the high UK BBC licence fee, Unlike BBC radio which is both real time and on demand
yes if somebody in the States tries to watch as I just did for example
http://www.abbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...eek_2_Results/
although the BBC iPlayer rantalisingly shows a view of the program curtly superimposed in small print is the admonition "Not available in your area"
I was in the UK in 1971/72 and saw two television appearances by Gord as detailed by Wayne Francis on
http://www.lightfoot.ca/tvappear.htm
1 In CONCERT - BBC - 1971
Excerpted from concert, Lightfoot performs Farewell To Nova Scotia; Miguel; If You Could Read My Mind; Approaching Lavender and Me And Bobby McGee.
That is not strictly true however
I believe he wrote that in 1997 after I traded my precious collection of audio recordings for 2 2 hour compilation videotapes.
I have just rechecked the photocopy of the notes that I had sent to Wayne with the cassette tape copies of item I had recorded on a cheap battery powered reel to reel tape recorder
However the superbly "stonking" Nova Scotia and sweet Miguel had been recorded directly to an audio cassette by a mate and were possibly the entire Lightfoot content of that program.I cannot recall watching it nor nor now do I have any idea on what date but in my notes to Wayne I said simply BBC2 TV 1971
At about the same time I was still using the reel to reel recorder and it seems that at some time in 1971 I also recorded IYCFRMM Approaching Lavender and Me and Bobby Magee.
I must have been watching then to use the tape recorder but again I did not note the date nor do I recall if any other sngs were sung on that broadcast
On my notes to Wayne for those three I had also attributed them to BBC2 TV 1971
Wayne obviously and naturally concluded that those 3 plus Nova Scotia and Miguel were all from one and the same program but that is almost certainly incorrect.
In addition I now find it strange that Gord was in the UK in 1971 at all as he definitely did a small tour in 1972 so that the chances of him being there twice in 1971 seem slim
Unfortunately Wayne's annual listings only go back to 1974
2,GORDON LIGHTFOOT IN CONCERT - BBC - 1972
This program titled "Gordon Lightfoot In Concert" aired on January 22, 1972 at 11 PM. Accompanied by Red Shea and Rick Haynes, Lightfoot performs Summer Side Of Life; Saturday Clothes; For Loving Me; Affair On Eighth Avenue; If You Could Read My Mind; Steel Rail Blues; Ten Degrees And Getting Colder and Early Morning Rain. The show only ran for 35 minutes, so it was certainly filled to the brim with music.
Wayne obtained that information directly from a photocopy I sent him of a cutting from the BBC Radio Times
I have now managed to mislay the original cutting but I do have a photocopy of various items that I possibly sent to,Wayne and this is a scan of the relevant part of that photocopy

It was the issue as you can see dated January 20 which in 1972 was a Thursday
As you can see from that scan of the program detail portion of the page Wayne got most of that information from the cutting except for two facts
the exact date and the program length neither of which are on the scanned portion but both would have been on the complete page.
I can see from my scan that I had folded the page before making that scan.I cannot check the original to see if it was complete. if so I might have sent a scan of the whole page
There are two other mysteries:-
1.I cannot recall watching this program and if I had I feel sure I would have attempted to try to record the audio. So why did I not watch and/or record it?
2,As it is certain that Gord was on a British tour a few months later in June how likely is it that he was in London in January as well??
the answers to these apparent visit frequency questions just might have something to do with Brita being in Europe after they split up
The BBC had similar series on Singer/songwriters a long time ago I remember two great editions one starring Hoyt Axton, whose mother cowrote Heartbreak Hotel for Elvis with Hoyt and Dory Previn one of André Preview's ex wives the other.

10-11-2010, 08:22 PM	#8
johnfowles Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: New Jersey U.S.A. ex UK and Canada Posts: 4,846	Re: Keep watching the BBC This was my draft reply before I found definite dates This is most exciting news! I hope those in the UK will keep us informed and bear in mind that the Beeb's tv on demand archive facilty does not allow access to plebs in other countries who do not pay the high UK BBC licence fee, Unlike BBC radio which is both real time and on demand yes if somebody in the States tries to watch as I just did for example http://www.abbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...eek_2_Results/ although the BBC iPlayer rantalisingly shows a view of the program curtly superimposed in small print is the admonition "Not available in your area" I was in the UK in 1971/72 and saw two television appearances by Gord as detailed by Wayne Francis on http://www.lightfoot.ca/tvappear.htm 1 In CONCERT - BBC - 1971 Excerpted from concert, Lightfoot performs Farewell To Nova Scotia; Miguel; If You Could Read My Mind; Approaching Lavender and Me And Bobby McGee. That is not strictly true however I believe he wrote that in 1997 after I traded my precious collection of audio recordings for 2 2 hour compilation videotapes. I have just rechecked the photocopy of the notes that I had sent to Wayne with the cassette tape copies of item I had recorded on a cheap battery powered reel to reel tape recorder However the superbly "stonking" Nova Scotia and sweet Miguel had been recorded directly to an audio cassette by a mate and were possibly the entire Lightfoot content of that program.I cannot recall watching it nor nor now do I have any idea on what date but in my notes to Wayne I said simply BBC2 TV 1971 At about the same time I was still using the reel to reel recorder and it seems that at some time in 1971 I also recorded IYCFRMM Approaching Lavender and Me and Bobby Magee. I must have been watching then to use the tape recorder but again I did not note the date nor do I recall if any other sngs were sung on that broadcast On my notes to Wayne for those three I had also attributed them to BBC2 TV 1971 Wayne obviously and naturally concluded that those 3 plus Nova Scotia and Miguel were all from one and the same program but that is almost certainly incorrect. In addition I now find it strange that Gord was in the UK in 1971 at all as he definitely did a small tour in 1972 so that the chances of him being there twice in 1971 seem slim Unfortunately Wayne's annual listings only go back to 1974 2,GORDON LIGHTFOOT IN CONCERT - BBC - 1972 This program titled "Gordon Lightfoot In Concert" aired on January 22, 1972 at 11 PM. Accompanied by Red Shea and Rick Haynes, Lightfoot performs Summer Side Of Life; Saturday Clothes; For Loving Me; Affair On Eighth Avenue; If You Could Read My Mind; Steel Rail Blues; Ten Degrees And Getting Colder and Early Morning Rain. The show only ran for 35 minutes, so it was certainly filled to the brim with music. Wayne obtained that information directly from a photocopy I sent him of a cutting from the BBC Radio Times I have now managed to mislay the original cutting but I do have a photocopy of various items that I possibly sent to,Wayne and this is a scan of the relevant part of that photocopy It was the issue as you can see dated January 20 which in 1972 was a Thursday As you can see from that scan of the program detail portion of the page Wayne got most of that information from the cutting except for two facts the exact date and the program length neither of which are on the scanned portion but both would have been on the complete page. I can see from my scan that I had folded the page before making that scan.I cannot check the original to see if it was complete. if so I might have sent a scan of the whole page There are two other mysteries:- 1.I cannot recall watching this program and if I had I feel sure I would have attempted to try to record the audio. So why did I not watch and/or record it? 2,As it is certain that Gord was on a British tour a few months later in June how likely is it that he was in London in January as well?? the answers to these apparent visit frequency questions just might have something to do with Brita being in Europe after they split up The BBC had similar series on Singer/songwriters a long time ago I remember two great editions one starring Hoyt Axton, whose mother cowrote Heartbreak Hotel for Elvis with Hoyt and Dory Previn one of André Preview's ex wives the other.