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Originally posted by charlene:
IGeeze, he never mentioned any raise when he called..lol
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Err Umm delete or edit this if you will Ma Dame Moderator but it seems to me more likely that he was the one getting the raise when he called you!!
Regarding the Lightfoot voice for myself, what it is worth, whilst I obviously still regret the change from the glorious 60's Gordsound even though his renditions of "The Last Time I Saw her" were still powerful as late as Folkfest 1987,
I can recall having much the same thought as Ken when I first heard the Waiting For You CD in 1994 (yes I know it was released in 1993, but not in the UK that I was aware of from my vigilent monitoring of countless record stores.It took the visit of a close friend to Toronto for a wedding in 1994, armed with a detailed listing of all my GL collection, and she finally found WFY and the
brilliant "original" 3-CD box set in Montreal's HMV store
It took me years to even want to play WFY but now after hearing "Restless" live many times and after watching Tom (gahoendoe)'s brilliant "vidstory" at:-
(Oh no you can't now watch it dang)
that song and its 1993 studio recording is probably top of my favourites listing.
I would go so far as to say tbat with certain exceptions (Cotton Jenny in particular)
Gord's current "lived in" voice actually improves many of his songs.
(Am I the only one who wishes he would instigate a policy of adding one more rerotated number to his repertoire for every concert to bring back the element of surprise??
I guess that is enough of a though provoking suggestion to merit a new topic of its own)
Getting back to the immediate subject matter
I well remember the day (25 June 1998) when I was working out the installation of a boiler flue in a new office block (Princess House at Hayes Middlesex right next to Heathrow's runways since you ask) and with some recently new found knowledge gleaned fromm this wonderful new resource called the internet, I phoned the HMV record store on Oxford Street London , and finding that they had but one copy of APPT I asked them to put it aside and high tailed it the many miles in from the London Airport area,but alas not having at that time a CD player in my car I then dashed 130 miles back home and eagerly played it. Just like Ken I was initially bitterly disappointed and save for the great Drifters have never really got to like this album.
As Cathy sagaciously opined
"Keep listening to the CD. It will grow on you."
and as Al wisely counselled
"Be thankful for all the great music, past and present."
[ April 10, 2007, 09:34: Message edited by: johnfowles ]