Gord's getting some radio airtime!

[paredbear]

Well it's not exactly BILLBOARD but this past weekend, I have heard a few Lightfoot tunes on the radio.

Saturday morning, CBC RADIO, "Let It Ride", "If You Could Read My Mind", "Diamond Joe"

Sunday night, 820CHAM Hamilton Country Radio, "Carefree Highway"

Monday night, 820CHAM Hamilton Country Radio, "Inspiration Lady"

Its good to hear Gord on the air again, especially stuff from the new album.

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"The station is for travelers even you must ride someday"

[stationmaster]

Well it's not exactly BILLBOARD but this past weekend, I have heard a few Lightfoot tunes on the radio.

Saturday morning, CBC RADIO, "Let It Ride", "If You Could Read My Mind", "Diamond Joe"

Sunday night, 820CHAM Hamilton Country Radio, "Carefree Highway"

Monday night, 820CHAM Hamilton Country Radio, "Inspiration Lady"

Its good to hear Gord on the air again, especially stuff from the new album.

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"The station is for travelers even you must ride someday"

[LSH]

WOW! I have never heard Let It Ride or Inspiration Lady on the radio. Comes from living in the NW of the US. fuggedaboudit! grrrr! I'm glad you're hearing though, let's hope it continues...

[Borderstone]

"Diamond Joe"? Okay,I know this makes me look stupid but where's that song from?! I know my Gord collection and that's not in it. A liddle help please?

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"A knight of the road,going back to a place where he might get warm." - Borderstone

[vlmagee]

The Saturday morning CBC broadcast was the one-hour Peterborough concert highlights. Those three songs were from the concert the night before. He also sang Inspiration Lady (and Couchiching), but the Hamilton broadcast was probably from the CD.

Diamond Joe is a Ramblin' Jack Elliott song that Lightfoot occasionally sang when he played solo. I know he played it at Rhino in the employee lunchroom when he visited around the time of the Songbook release. I had not heard it before. It's a nice song for him, which he plays with his characteristic Travis-style fingerpicking.

Ramblin' Jack: www.ramblinjack.com

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Valerie Magee

Visit my business site at mageenet.biz, Hamilton Camp's Offical Web Site at hamiltoncamp.com , and Cathy Cowette's web site at cathycowette.com. Also visit Dr. Jack's Lightfoot page.

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[Station Master]

yeah, i think lsh didn't realize let it ride was 'live', i've never heard the cd cut it on radio either ...i got choked up hearing Gord's vocal straining during the higher sections on the live version ...kinda like in Only love would Know fashion (or End of All Time), wish i could have heard more of Couchiching cos i'll bet he sounded similar in that chorus cadence, wish they played that on CBC radio (and Insp Lady too!)

SM, AM1430 is what i listen to while doing inner garage and shed work, i must hear GL tunes 5 times a day on there... bitter green, spin spin, rainy day, ribbon darkness, insp lady (a real lot months ago) wwere played over the last few days... it may be a station geared to folks 2x my age but the dj's also to throw in GL-related comments after his songs (they just talked about how much the folks in Peterborough area are still loving Ronnie and Gord's thoughtfulness and how so much $$$ was raised, then they played Ronnie doing Home from the Forest, which is up there with John McDermott's, imo)... the problem is, there's lots of retirement home commercials and you have to listen to Gord sandwiched between Wayne Newton and Perry Como, etc, etc (oh, that sounded gross, lol)

neat link, valerie! i thought it was Dr. Phil at first but i dig Jack way more and really admire such a well rounded person

great pics there also! i'd never seen a pic of Barry Harvey before, i now realize that i've seen him quite a bit and remember getting in his way a few times, he didn't smile, lol ...keep it up Dr. Jack and Val

ps) SM, if you can stomach that CHAM mono twang, you can deal with the 1430 cheese

Gord's gonna have to do a duet with Celine (Bocelli-like) before we hear him on FM

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[jj]

yeah, i think lsh didn't realize let it ride was 'live', i've never heard the cd cut it on radio either ...i got choked up hearing Gord's vocal straining during the higher sections on the live version ...kinda like in Only love would Know fashion (or End of All Time), wish i could have heard more of Couchiching cos i'll bet he sounded similar in that chorus cadence, wish they played that on CBC radio (and Insp Lady too!)

SM, AM1430 is what i listen to while doing inner garage and shed work, i must hear GL tunes 5 times a day on there... bitter green, spin spin, rainy day, ribbon darkness, insp lady (a real lot months ago) wwere played over the last few days... it may be a station geared to folks 2x my age but the dj's also to throw in GL-related comments after his songs (they just talked about how much the folks in Peterborough area are still loving Ronnie and Gord's thoughtfulness and how so much $$$ was raised, then they played Ronnie doing Home from the Forest, which is up there with John McDermott's, imo)... the problem is, there's lots of retirement home commercials and you have to listen to Gord sandwiched between Wayne Newton and Perry Como, etc, etc (oh, that sounded gross, lol)

neat link, valerie! i thought it was Dr. Phil at first but i dig Jack way more and really admire such a well rounded person

great pics there also! i'd never seen a pic of Barry Harvey before, i now realize that i've seen him quite a bit and remember getting in his way a few times, he didn't smile, lol ...keep it up Dr. Jack and Val

ps) SM, if you can stomach that CHAM mono twang, you can deal with the 1430 cheese

Gord's gonna have to do a duet with Celine (Bocelli-like) before we hear him on FM

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[vlmagee]

Thanks for checking out Dr. Jack's Lightfoot page JJ! I met him online (like all the folks here), and in person at a concert in Concord, NH a couple of years ago. He writes novels and songs in his spare time, with a real life job in the biotech industry.

He has been friendly with Gord for about 30 years. Gord actually recorded one of his songs, but didn't release it. The song is "Sometimes Hearts Have To Wait". It's a really beautiful song and I can certainly hear Gord singing it. Wish I could for real! Jack does a damn good job too. There's a clip of it on his web site.

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Valerie Magee

Visit my business site at mageenet.biz, Hamilton Camp's Offical Web Site at hamiltoncamp.com , and Cathy Cowette's web site at cathycowette.com. Also visit Dr. Jack's Lightfoot page.

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[stationmaster]

jj I will have to check out that station. There are a lot of "old" stations on the AM dial, but this is the first time I heard Gord a few times.

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"The station is for travelers even you must ride someday"

[Station Master]

watchout, some nights they play all 'big band' stuff....that means it's tv time, lol

earlier today, Spin Spin

[jj]

watchout, some nights they play all 'big band' stuff....that means it's tv time, lol

earlier today, Spin Spin

[Station Master]

oh, i meant to reply earlier, Valerie
i tried to listen but the tune won't play for me, i can play .mp3's and .wmf's, but not .ra's (had program conflict prob last time i downloaded real player) so maybe that's my problem ...if you have the song available in either of the former formats i'd love to hear it, otherwise i'll try again from a friend's (i'll find one sooner or later, lol) pc who is ra campatiable
.jj's

[jj]

oh, i meant to reply earlier, Valerie
i tried to listen but the tune won't play for me, i can play .mp3's and .wmf's, but not .ra's (had program conflict prob last time i downloaded real player) so maybe that's my problem ...if you have the song available in either of the former formats i'd love to hear it, otherwise i'll try again from a friend's (i'll find one sooner or later, lol) pc who is ra campatiable
.jj's

[Tyler]

I am sitting here waiting for my credit card rep. listening to Beautiful sung by our Gord! Makes sitting on terminal hold not too bad.

I thought it was just my computer JJ, I can't hear it either.

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[brink]

I am sitting here waiting for my credit card rep. listening to Beautiful sung by our Gord! Makes sitting on terminal hold not too bad.

I thought it was just my computer JJ, I can't hear it either.

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[vlmagee]

jj, I made an mp3 from the Real clip. Just remember that this was not made directly from the CD (my copies are in CO), so I had to make it by recording it from the mixer (that is, while it was playing). But, for a song sample, it works. Here's the link:

mp3 clip

You might want to right click and download it first, so it plays smoothly; mp3 files are much bigger than RealMedia files.

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Valerie Magee

Visit my business site at mageenet.biz, Hamilton Camp's Offical Web Site at hamiltoncamp.com , and Cathy Cowette's web site at cathycowette.com. Also visit Dr. Jack's Lightfoot page.

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[LSH]

WOW!
I wish I could hear Gord sing it too, Val. Beautiful guitar, lyrics and voice there.
Made me want to hear more...

[Tyler]

Thanks Val, fantastic song. Thanks for sharing with us.

[brink]

Thanks Val, fantastic song. Thanks for sharing with us.

[Station Master]

thanks for taking time to do that, valerie
really enjoyed it, love that writing style

[jj]

thanks for taking time to do that, valerie
really enjoyed it, love that writing style

"Diamond Joe"? That must be an unreleased song ...

"Diamond Joe"? That must be an unreleased song ...

[Tyler]

DMD why don't you read before you ask questions or are you too tired from all that fighting you do?

[brink]

DMD why don't you read before you ask questions or are you too tired from all that fighting you do?