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johnfowles · 01-10-2006, 06:02 PM

Abject apologies to all
I have just realised that having brought this topic back from the dead/discarded/deleted I omitted to contribute anything about my own experience.
in fact I have previously fully described how I got started at least once most recently lst August 2005 in Topic: First Lightfoot You Bought
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=003365#000015"
in which I confided that my first purchase was in fact the Lightfoot! album on the basis that from what I had heard so far this dude was worth the money for an album rather than a single.Sure was!!!:-
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I have said before here that I was mightily impressed by hearing Spin Spin and The First Time Ever I saw Your Face on Montreal radio in 1966 and according to a note on the vinyl album sleeve I bought Lightfoot! in April 1967 in Canada almost certainly it was the then cheaper monaural version.
Yes kiddies records were not always all stereo so initially the opportunist record companies were able to cheekily charge more for an identically costed stereo version. Whatever.I made the mistake of lending it to a young lady in our apartment block whose record player was fitted with a size 50 knitting needle witch comprehensively wrecked that copy.
a few years later (in 1979) back in the UK I was eventually able to replace it with a stereo "Early Lighfoot" UK issue.
And threw out the original disk but as I very much liked the original Canadian liner notes I contrived to convert the UK sleeve into a gatefold layout by sticking the original Canadian sleeve in two pieces to the insides of the opened out UK sleeve.Hence a while ago I could use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) on my scanner image to capture the text of both the
Canadian and UK sleeve backs see this topic:-
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/ultimatebb...=001699#000000
John Fowles
So to directly answer this topic's question I first heard "Spin Spin" whilst listening to Montreal radio station CJFM at about the time it was a Canadian top ten hit in 1966. At least my old memory thinks that I heard that single before the superlative TFTEISYF(ace)

[ January 11, 2006, 14:06: Message edited by: johnfowles ]

01-10-2006, 06:02 PM	#11
johnfowles Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: New Jersey U.S.A. ex UK and Canada Posts: 4,846	Abject apologies to all I have just realised that having brought this topic back from the dead/discarded/deleted I omitted to contribute anything about my own experience. in fact I have previously fully described how I got started at least once most recently lst August 2005 in Topic: First Lightfoot You Bought http://www.corfid.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=003365#000015" in which I confided that my first purchase was in fact the Lightfoot! album on the basis that from what I had heard so far this dude was worth the money for an album rather than a single.Sure was!!!:- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have said before here that I was mightily impressed by hearing Spin Spin and The First Time Ever I saw Your Face on Montreal radio in 1966 and according to a note on the vinyl album sleeve I bought Lightfoot! in April 1967 in Canada almost certainly it was the then cheaper monaural version. Yes kiddies records were not always all stereo so initially the opportunist record companies were able to cheekily charge more for an identically costed stereo version. Whatever.I made the mistake of lending it to a young lady in our apartment block whose record player was fitted with a size 50 knitting needle witch comprehensively wrecked that copy. a few years later (in 1979) back in the UK I was eventually able to replace it with a stereo "Early Lighfoot" UK issue. And threw out the original disk but as I very much liked the original Canadian liner notes I contrived to convert the UK sleeve into a gatefold layout by sticking the original Canadian sleeve in two pieces to the insides of the opened out UK sleeve.Hence a while ago I could use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) on my scanner image to capture the text of both the Canadian and UK sleeve backs see this topic:- http://www.corfid.com/ubb/ultimatebb...=001699#000000 John Fowles So to directly answer this topic's question I first heard "Spin Spin" whilst listening to Montreal radio station CJFM at about the time it was a Canadian top ten hit in 1966. At least my old memory thinks that I heard that single before the superlative TFTEISYF(ace) [ January 11, 2006, 14:06: Message edited by: johnfowles ]