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johnfowles · 01-06-2005, 07:08 PM

quote:Originally posted by fortyfivesfrank:
I recently acquired a demo of 31 Gordon Lightfoot songs (by him!) of which I've only previously heard 3.
Frank there is an an excellent and detailed review of this album including links to pages with the lyrics on Wayne Francis's
site at:-
http://www.lightfoot.ca/wbdemos.htm
But in brief these 31 demonstration recordings are a collection of original songs Lightfoot recorded from November 1964
through April 1966 and presumably helped ease the way to his most fruitful recording contract with Warners a few years later
There is an interesting posting by Valerie Magee describing the original album acetate etc on the Newsgroup at:-

Val's Newsgroup posting
to a thread concerning these demos started by Mel Whitney.Note that Val discussed whether the CD should have 31 or 32 tracks
if yours came with artwork it might well have shown 32 but the actual CD was only 31??
John Fowles

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01-06-2005, 07:08 PM	#2
johnfowles Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: New Jersey U.S.A. ex UK and Canada Posts: 4,846	quote:Originally posted by fortyfivesfrank: I recently acquired a demo of 31 Gordon Lightfoot songs (by him!) of which I've only previously heard 3. Frank there is an an excellent and detailed review of this album including links to pages with the lyrics on Wayne Francis's site at:- http://www.lightfoot.ca/wbdemos.htm But in brief these 31 demonstration recordings are a collection of original songs Lightfoot recorded from November 1964 through April 1966 and presumably helped ease the way to his most fruitful recording contract with Warners a few years later There is an interesting posting by Valerie Magee describing the original album acetate etc on the Newsgroup at:- Val's Newsgroup posting to a thread concerning these demos started by Mel Whitney.Note that Val discussed whether the CD should have 31 or 32 tracks if yours came with artwork it might well have shown 32 but the actual CD was only 31?? John Fowles [This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited January 06, 2005).]