What was the first Gord album you bought.?

[Dorothea]

Dear all,
What was the first GL album you bought?
(Maybe, When and where,also).

Frank.

[Frank v]

Dear all,
What was the first GL album you bought?
(Maybe, When and where,also).

Frank.

[timconnelly]

My first GL album was "Did She Mention My Name" I bought this album in the late 70's when I still lived in Ontario (not far from GL's cousin's place near Alvinston). My sister came home with the album first. When I listened to it, I really liked it a lot. But being teenage siblings and my sister being older, I wasn't "suppost" to touch her stuff or play her records. I then ordered the album from the record store which didn't have it at the time, and I also ordered it by mail when it was taking so long from the record store. I ended up with 2 albums.
I got looking at them both just recently.
I have one that is an "Abridged version" it has Pussywillow, Cat-tails and Boss Man missing from it and the song arrangement is different from the other. I thought this was really quite strange.
Through the years I have gradually accumulated all of GL's albums. There isn't one that I don't like.

[Kim]

My first GL album was "Did She Mention My Name" I bought this album in the late 70's when I still lived in Ontario (not far from GL's cousin's place near Alvinston). My sister came home with the album first. When I listened to it, I really liked it a lot. But being teenage siblings and my sister being older, I wasn't "suppost" to touch her stuff or play her records. I then ordered the album from the record store which didn't have it at the time, and I also ordered it by mail when it was taking so long from the record store. I ended up with 2 albums.
I got looking at them both just recently.
I have one that is an "Abridged version" it has Pussywillow, Cat-tails and Boss Man missing from it and the song arrangement is different from the other. I thought this was really quite strange.
Through the years I have gradually accumulated all of GL's albums. There isn't one that I don't like.

[Chris M]

I purchesed "If You Could Read My Mind" just before I met my future and forver husband.
And he had done the same just before he met me. Ever since then, there's been 2 of each
Gord album in our home. Mostly the extra one
just in case the first one is damaged in any way, we'll have a back and not have to have an anxiety attack.

How about you, Frank?

[midnightmisty]

I purchesed "If You Could Read My Mind" just before I met my future and forver husband.
And he had done the same just before he met me. Ever since then, there's been 2 of each
Gord album in our home. Mostly the extra one
just in case the first one is damaged in any way, we'll have a back and not have to have an anxiety attack.

How about you, Frank?

[Dorothea]

Summerside of life.(Jan 72)
I bought IYCRMM a couple of months later.
First heard Gord and (IYCRMM the song) 71.
He wasn,t very well known in England before that.His first tour in 69 got little notice.
By the mid 70's he was known everywhere.
Could have sold his concerts twice over!

Frank.

[Frank v]

Summerside of life.(Jan 72)
I bought IYCRMM a couple of months later.
First heard Gord and (IYCRMM the song) 71.
He wasn,t very well known in England before that.His first tour in 69 got little notice.
By the mid 70's he was known everywhere.
Could have sold his concerts twice over!

Frank.

[Tom]

Sundown was the first album I purchased, but I won't bore you on the details.
If you're that interested, go to the thread on when you became a Gord fan and you'll find it there.

Mary Ann

[Mary Ann]

Sundown was the first album I purchased, but I won't bore you on the details.
If you're that interested, go to the thread on when you became a Gord fan and you'll find it there.

Mary Ann

[Bill]

I "borrowed" my brother's copies of Sundown (a quad version) and Don Quixote...my first purchase was Summertime Dream soon after it came out, quickly followed by everything preceeding it (can't remember order - I bought several at a time in record stores as I found "new" ones.

[WillieMaysFan]

Gord's Gold Vol.1. Then Sundown and Summertime Dream...
GG1 was before I knew that all of Gord's music was really really good. So naive.

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"...life is only therapy, real expensive and no guarantees."
- GB

[young stranger]

Gord's Gold Vol.1. Then Sundown and Summertime Dream...
GG1 was before I knew that all of Gord's music was really really good. So naive.

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"...life is only therapy, real expensive and no guarantees."
- GB

[gathrb]

"Gords Gold" on cassette, then some older used albums. The first *new* Gordon Lightfoot album I ever got was "Salute". I thought the sound quality was fantastic on that album in its day.

[Tom]

"Gords Gold" on cassette, then some older used albums. The first *new* Gordon Lightfoot album I ever got was "Salute". I thought the sound quality was fantastic on that album in its day.

[Borderstone]

Gord's Gold,sometime in the early 1980's, right up the street from my home at that time. It was a record store called "Rolling Stone Records". (Big RS mouth and all on the sign.) I was 15 or 16 and being naive I thought that it was a standard Greatest Hits deal. (I actually thought this was the extent of his work.) Borderstone,outta here and Alberta Bound!

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Borderstone

[fowlesjohn]

The first album we ever owned of Gordon Lightfoots' was "Dream Street Rose", we were living in Tucson, Az, young family and that is a great album to dance to all night, believe me.

[gwen snyder]

The first album we ever owned of Gordon Lightfoots' was "Dream Street Rose", we were living in Tucson, Az, young family and that is a great album to dance to all night, believe me.

Summertime Dream.

My dad already had Gords Gold 2 but I got the Summertime Dream CD off Ebay so I could hear the original version of "The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald" again.

Summertime Dream.

My dad already had Gords Gold 2 but I got the Summertime Dream CD off Ebay so I could hear the original version of "The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald" again.

[2Much2Lose]

It was IYCRMM when I was 13. Not only was it my first GL album, it was my first album I ever bought. I rode my bicycle down to Myrtle Mills in Unionville, CT to go get it. I worked my way backwards and forwards from that day on.
Jenney

[Jenney]

It was IYCRMM when I was 13. Not only was it my first GL album, it was my first album I ever bought. I rode my bicycle down to Myrtle Mills in Unionville, CT to go get it. I worked my way backwards and forwards from that day on.
Jenney

[Steve DeRosa]

It was around 1979 and the album was Gord's Gold...I believe it was a 2 record set. I also bought Gord's Gold on 8 track and cassette. I bought the 8 tracks of Sundown and Endless Wire about the same time...1979 or 1980. The first Gord CD that I bought was Summertime Dream, I probably got that in the early 90's.

[Oma]

It was around 1979 and the album was Gord's Gold...I believe it was a 2 record set. I also bought Gord's Gold on 8 track and cassette. I bought the 8 tracks of Sundown and Endless Wire about the same time...1979 or 1980. The first Gord CD that I bought was Summertime Dream, I probably got that in the early 90's.

[Borderstone]

My only 2 GL cassettes are East Of Midnight which is the 1st and I also have on vinyl. 2nd is GGII which I found at a store called FYE (For Your Entertainment). My 1st Gord CD(S) were and are the Songbook collection,,then A Painter Passing Through,Waiting For You and Complete Greatest Hits. Sundown:1st 45rpm of his. My first 45 at all? My Mother got me a copy of Rubber Duckie by Ernie (Jim Henson) when I was 3 0r 4! My first Lp's were a 3 record set called 40 Golden Hits which I begged my Mom for in '79 because it had Sugar Sugar by The Archies! again I've never got rid of anything except to replace it later from use and ware. This has been me (who else right?) Borderstone,outta here and Alberta Bound!