GL song in Brit top 40

[SeattleRain]

Just checked the Top 40 here in the UK and Paul Weller has come in at 40 with Early Morning Rain.

And for all you Tony Christie fans, he is No 1 with 'Is This The Way To Amerillo?

[Jim Nasium]

Just checked the Top 40 here in the UK and Paul Weller has come in at 40 with Early Morning Rain.

And for all you Tony Christie fans, he is No 1 with 'Is This The Way To Amerillo?

[Borderstone]

Well,wheather Britain or the United States,that is still great,wonderful &fantabulous news! !!!!

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[johnfowles]

quote:Originally posted by Jim Nasium:
Paul Weller has come in at 40 with Early Morning Rain.


I rather thought I would like to hear this for myself sofirst I found the BBC top 40 listing at:-
and was able there to verify Jim's momentuous report http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/top40.shtml

then i saw that that page has a link to the Beeb's archived on demand player http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio...l?radio1/top40
but unfortuneately this steadfastly today fails to open

So I'll try agin tomorrow If not perhaps Jim could record it and make an mp3??
John Fowles
P.S. what I want to know is will this influence Bob Harris to play something/anything of
Gord's other than his usual unimaginative playing of Sundown??



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[johnfowles]

quote:Originally posted by Jim Nasium:
Paul Weller has come in at 40 with Early Morning Rain.


I rather thought I would like to hear this for myself sofirst I found the BBC top 40 listing at:-
and was able there to verify Jim's momentuous report http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/top40.shtml

then i saw that that page has a link to the Beeb's archived on demand player http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio...l?radio1/top40
but unfortuneately this steadfastly today fails to open

So I'll try agin tomorrow If not perhaps Jim could record it and make an mp3??
John Fowles
P.S. what I want to know is will this influence Bob Harris to play something/anything of
Gord's other than his usual unimaginative playing of Sundown??



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starts at
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot

That would be great if you could, Jim (make the mp3). I tried to find a place where I could listen to Tony Christie, but, couldn't. Either that or the link wouldn't work...(are we missing a link again here, Watchman? hehehehe)

That would be great if you could, Jim (make the mp3). I tried to find a place where I could listen to Tony Christie, but, couldn't. Either that or the link wouldn't work...(are we missing a link again here, Watchman? hehehehe)

[The Rez]

Great to hear!

Gord has so many sons that, if Aritsts and A&R peoplse would bother, they'd find hits.

Even Brooks & Dunn (not my favorites) could put a fine little rock on Sundown.

The Rez

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It was a Beautiful Rainbow
A Beautiful Time in my Life
A Thing to Share
A Time to Care
To Be Alive

[silenceandsound86]

Hi all,
Go to www.paulweller.com, and then to audio, and you can hear the song. How fabulous that new people are being exposed to the man's music!

[Rona]

Hi all,
Go to www.paulweller.com, and then to audio, and you can hear the song. How fabulous that new people are being exposed to the man's music!

Thanks for the link Rona.

I am both a HUGE Paul Weller fan (as early as his Jam days right up to his solo material) as well as being a massive Lightfoot fan.

It's wonderful to have two of my favourite singer songwriters somehow combined. His cover is lovely. Very Weller, but you couldn't ever have anything but a great cover, for the song stands up on its own. The fiddle being particularly lovely in this version. Nice

[Kel]

Thanks for the link Rona.

I am both a HUGE Paul Weller fan (as early as his Jam days right up to his solo material) as well as being a massive Lightfoot fan.

It's wonderful to have two of my favourite singer songwriters somehow combined. His cover is lovely. Very Weller, but you couldn't ever have anything but a great cover, for the song stands up on its own. The fiddle being particularly lovely in this version. Nice

[johnfowles]

quote:Originally posted by Rona:
Hi all,
Go to www.paulweller.com, and then to audio, and you can hear the song. How fabulous that new people are being exposed to the man's music!

Well I don't know how the rest of you fared but that for me was a great exercise in frustration
I realise that it might just be me or more likely both computers I tried
However I was finally able to hear the BBC program(me) this morning but found that the complete top 40 is not actually played only (allegedly) a selection between 40 and 20 then the complete top 20
so I tried Rona's link which merely produced one of those annoying "this page cannot be displayed-go and get lost" messages
But I resorted to googling for "Paul Weller" and was directed to the exact same URL that Rona posted. His site then opened but features a Macromedia Flash presentation so that although you can certainly see the listing of his album 150's content and see a credit to Gord:-

in my experience clicking on the appropriate go button merely produced a truncated version starting with Paul saying "This is the one" then the stupid thing invariably skipped to the next track.I did once hear the first 20 seconds or so, so at least I got the flavour of Paul's version
did anybody succeed in hearing it all and if so how.
Being a flash thingie you cannot "save target as" from the link or check the source code to try to see the file's URL
Hopefully it will climb into the top twenty then it will get played
John Fowles


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My Gordon Lightfoot webring
starts at
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot

[johnfowles]

quote:Originally posted by Rona:
Hi all,
Go to www.paulweller.com, and then to audio, and you can hear the song. How fabulous that new people are being exposed to the man's music!

Well I don't know how the rest of you fared but that for me was a great exercise in frustration
I realise that it might just be me or more likely both computers I tried
However I was finally able to hear the BBC program(me) this morning but found that the complete top 40 is not actually played only (allegedly) a selection between 40 and 20 then the complete top 20
so I tried Rona's link which merely produced one of those annoying "this page cannot be displayed-go and get lost" messages
But I resorted to googling for "Paul Weller" and was directed to the exact same URL that Rona posted. His site then opened but features a Macromedia Flash presentation so that although you can certainly see the listing of his album 150's content and see a credit to Gord:-

in my experience clicking on the appropriate go button merely produced a truncated version starting with Paul saying "This is the one" then the stupid thing invariably skipped to the next track.I did once hear the first 20 seconds or so, so at least I got the flavour of Paul's version
did anybody succeed in hearing it all and if so how.
Being a flash thingie you cannot "save target as" from the link or check the source code to try to see the file's URL
Hopefully it will climb into the top twenty then it will get played
John Fowles


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My Gordon Lightfoot webring
starts at
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot

[vlmagee]

quote:Originally posted by johnfowles:
Well I don't know how the rest of you fared but that for me was a great exercise in frustration
Well, it played for me without any problem. I don't like Flash sites either, but I think your problem must be your computers. If you heard the beginning, then you might get lucky. Perhaps try going to the site as the first and only thing you do after you reboot. Your problem may be a resources issue.



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[seahawk11]

Damn, that's nice...that version wouldn't be out of place any old (or new) Rod Stewart (or Faces) record.

[SeattleRain]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio...l?radio1/top40

After almost losing the will to live listening to a mountain of mindless babble, I have tracked down some of PW's version of EMR. Click the above link. Hopefully you will get the chart show as broadcast last Sunday (20th) you can advance in 15 min increments to 1hour 15mins. Then hang on and at about 1h 17m you should hear a portion of said song. Do not try to click forward too quickly as it is prone to jumping back to the start. I warn you it is quite short with a babbling F**L talking over it.

The Paul Weller website offers no help, at least to me.

[Jim Nasium]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio...l?radio1/top40

After almost losing the will to live listening to a mountain of mindless babble, I have tracked down some of PW's version of EMR. Click the above link. Hopefully you will get the chart show as broadcast last Sunday (20th) you can advance in 15 min increments to 1hour 15mins. Then hang on and at about 1h 17m you should hear a portion of said song. Do not try to click forward too quickly as it is prone to jumping back to the start. I warn you it is quite short with a babbling F**L talking over it.

The Paul Weller website offers no help, at least to me.

Okay - there is a way to hear the whole song on the Paul Weller site...

If you go to http://www.paulweller.com/ and then click on the 'media' icon on the menu bar at the top; the following icons will then appear below the 'media' icon in the same menu bar:

'audio' and 'video'

If you click on the 'audio' link, the page will load up and you will see listings of the songs on the right of the window that you merely just click on and they will play automatically (hopefully). Click on '07. Early Morning Rain' and it should just start playing for you.

Hope this works for ye...

[Kel]

Okay - there is a way to hear the whole song on the Paul Weller site...

If you go to http://www.paulweller.com/ and then click on the 'media' icon on the menu bar at the top; the following icons will then appear below the 'media' icon in the same menu bar:

'audio' and 'video'

If you click on the 'audio' link, the page will load up and you will see listings of the songs on the right of the window that you merely just click on and they will play automatically (hopefully). Click on '07. Early Morning Rain' and it should just start playing for you.

Hope this works for ye...

[johnfowles]

quote:Originally posted by vlmagee:

Originally posted by johnfowles:
Well I don't know how the rest of you fared but that for me was a great exercise in frustration
Well, it played for me without any problem. I don't like Flash sites either, but I think your problem must be your computers. If you heard the beginning, then you might get lucky. Perhaps try going to the site as the first and only thing you do after you reboot. Your problem may be a resources issue.

Thanks for the advice Val
but the skipping to the next track consistently happened on all three desktops at my disposal even after rebooting as you suggested.
And Jim when I tried that Radio 1 archive I kept going forwards in 5 minute increments to go past the annoying chit-chat until I heard them play number 20 so assumed that number 40 fell by the wayside. Never mind if the Beeb only played a short bit at least I heard enough on Paul's site to satisfy my curiousity
John Fowles


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[This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited March 22, 2005).]

[johnfowles]

quote:Originally posted by vlmagee:

Originally posted by johnfowles:
Well I don't know how the rest of you fared but that for me was a great exercise in frustration
Well, it played for me without any problem. I don't like Flash sites either, but I think your problem must be your computers. If you heard the beginning, then you might get lucky. Perhaps try going to the site as the first and only thing you do after you reboot. Your problem may be a resources issue.

Thanks for the advice Val
but the skipping to the next track consistently happened on all three desktops at my disposal even after rebooting as you suggested.
And Jim when I tried that Radio 1 archive I kept going forwards in 5 minute increments to go past the annoying chit-chat until I heard them play number 20 so assumed that number 40 fell by the wayside. Never mind if the Beeb only played a short bit at least I heard enough on Paul's site to satisfy my curiousity
John Fowles


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My Gordon Lightfoot webring
starts at
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot



[This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited March 22, 2005).]

Listening to this version by PW just serves as a reminder that 9 times out of 10 the original is far,far better. Why bother ?
It's great that Lightfoot's music may be exposed to a new group of listeners, but unless they pursue the songwriter, they are left with a very tepid "cover". IMHO

RMD


quote:Originally posted by Kel:
Okay - there is a way to hear the whole song on the Paul Weller site...

If you go to http://www.paulweller.com/ and then click on the 'media' icon on the menu bar at the top; the following icons will then appear below the 'media' icon in the same menu bar:

'audio' and 'video'

If you click on the 'audio' link, the page will load up and you will see listings of the songs on the right of the window that you merely just click on and they will play automatically (hopefully). Click on '07. Early Morning Rain' and it should just start playing for you.

Hope this works for ye...

Listening to this version by PW just serves as a reminder that 9 times out of 10 the original is far,far better. Why bother ?
It's great that Lightfoot's music may be exposed to a new group of listeners, but unless they pursue the songwriter, they are left with a very tepid "cover". IMHO

RMD


quote:Originally posted by Kel:
Okay - there is a way to hear the whole song on the Paul Weller site...

If you go to http://www.paulweller.com/ and then click on the 'media' icon on the menu bar at the top; the following icons will then appear below the 'media' icon in the same menu bar:

'audio' and 'video'

If you click on the 'audio' link, the page will load up and you will see listings of the songs on the right of the window that you merely just click on and they will play automatically (hopefully). Click on '07. Early Morning Rain' and it should just start playing for you.

Hope this works for ye...

Thanks, Reminder! It worked great! And, boy, does Paul sound great! He did an EXCELLENT job of covering GL's song!