discovering lightfoot

I didn't even know Gordon Lightfoot until I suddenly heard 'If I could read your mind love' last year. Where have I been? I took a year to find out who was singing this amazing song...and now I know. The guts of life in three or four minutes flat. Discography here I come...

I didn't even know Gordon Lightfoot until I suddenly heard 'If I could read your mind love' last year. Where have I been? I took a year to find out who was singing this amazing song...and now I know. The guts of life in three or four minutes flat. Discography here I come...

[Tyler]

Please feel free to become a member, I have learned so much about GL since I started coming here. You have chosen an amazing singer/songwriter that you will never tire of.
Brink

[brink]

Please feel free to become a member, I have learned so much about GL since I started coming here. You have chosen an amazing singer/songwriter that you will never tire of.
Brink

Great!!! And Welcome!!! I'm so glad you
like 'If You Could Read My Mind'-and let me tell you something. He has LOTS more great
music!!! Believe me when I say, "You have only scratched the surface" And just a year ago? I have been a fan for almost thirty years and am still finding Lightfoot's music
to be as enjoyable as ever. You are in for such a treat. Have fun!!

Great!!! And Welcome!!! I'm so glad you
like 'If You Could Read My Mind'-and let me tell you something. He has LOTS more great
music!!! Believe me when I say, "You have only scratched the surface" And just a year ago? I have been a fan for almost thirty years and am still finding Lightfoot's music
to be as enjoyable as ever. You are in for such a treat. Have fun!!

You must be fairly young eh? Otherwise you would have heard oh him LOL

You must be fairly young eh? Otherwise you would have heard oh him LOL

My dad had "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" downloaded on Napster about 2 1/2 to 3 years ago and it's eerie tune was very catchy. But a few months later he had it taken off but he told me he had a CD with that song on it but it was a different version. I listened to it and didn't like it all that much but it got to sounding better and I would discover other GL songs on there to.
(When I first heard Christian Island, before he started singing for a split second I thought it was "He Went To Paris" but it wasn't.)

My dad had "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" downloaded on Napster about 2 1/2 to 3 years ago and it's eerie tune was very catchy. But a few months later he had it taken off but he told me he had a CD with that song on it but it was a different version. I listened to it and didn't like it all that much but it got to sounding better and I would discover other GL songs on there to.
(When I first heard Christian Island, before he started singing for a split second I thought it was "He Went To Paris" but it wasn't.)

[Borderstone]

Dear,Deer! Not only did you discover a great song,you discovered Gordon Lightfoot's 1st top 40 American hit from 1970/71! I was 3 then! Good luck at the discography,there's a bunch! In the last year myself I went out and acquired each & every GL record released. (No bootlegs.) If you go out looking for them,they're all available on CD somewhere. Last but not least,welcome to the forum and welcome to the show! Later!

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Borderstone - "Little 'Ol Message Maker Me!"

[Janice]

quote:Originally posted by DMD3:
My dad had "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" downloaded on Napster about 2 1/2 to 3 years ago and it's eerie tune was very catchy. But a few months later he had it taken off but he told me he had a CD with that song on it but it was a different version. I listened to it and didn't like it all that much but it got to sounding better and I would discover other GL songs on there to.
(When I first heard Christian Island, before he started singing for a split second I thought it was "He Went To Paris" but it wasn't.)

DMD3, you not only like Lightfoot, but Buffett, too? - and one of his songs that is not as familiar as others, to boot?!?!? He Went To Paris is one of my favorites. You continue to impress and amaze me with your musical taste

Janice

quote:Originally posted by Janice:
DMD3, you not only like Lightfoot, but Buffett, too? - and one of his songs that is not as familiar as others, to boot?!?!? He Went To Paris is one of my favorites. You continue to impress and amaze me with your musical taste

Janice

Jimmy Buffet is pretty good but that's pretty much the only song I know of. I've heard the song "Yes I am a pirate, 200 years too late" but I'm not overly fond of that song.
Not that I wouldn't like to hear more of his songs, but my dads only got 1 CD and I wouldn't know where it is.

quote:Originally posted by Janice:
DMD3, you not only like Lightfoot, but Buffett, too? - and one of his songs that is not as familiar as others, to boot?!?!? He Went To Paris is one of my favorites. You continue to impress and amaze me with your musical taste

Janice

Jimmy Buffet is pretty good but that's pretty much the only song I know of. I've heard the song "Yes I am a pirate, 200 years too late" but I'm not overly fond of that song.
Not that I wouldn't like to hear more of his songs, but my dads only got 1 CD and I wouldn't know where it is.

[Tyler]

DMD try Cheeseburger in Paradise and Margaritaville (sp?). They are great songs. I can't imagine Gord singing one of these.
Deb

[brink]

DMD try Cheeseburger in Paradise and Margaritaville (sp?). They are great songs. I can't imagine Gord singing one of these.
Deb

"Come Monday" is a Buffet classic that I have always liked.

"Come Monday" is a Buffet classic that I have always liked.

[Tyler]

Wow I forgot about that one, that is a great one also.

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[brink]

Wow I forgot about that one, that is a great one also.

[This message has been edited by brink (edited September 24, 2003).]

[Steve DeRosa]

"Come Monday" is my favorite Jimmy Buffet song...I wish I would hear it more often! What album is it on?

[Oma]

"Come Monday" is my favorite Jimmy Buffet song...I wish I would hear it more often! What album is it on?

Oma, I do not know which album 'Come Monday' first appeared on, however a good Buffett CD to get is 'All The Great Hits' it has, Come Monday, Margaritaville, Changes in Latitudes Changes in Attitudes, He Went To Paris etc. on. A track I particularly like is 'Chanson Pour Les Petits Enfants' A song Jimmy wrote some time ago for the 'International year of the child'.

I have several of his albums, and some tracks are not as listenable as Gordons, IMHO.

They are like the 'Curate's egg', good in parts.

Oma, I do not know which album 'Come Monday' first appeared on, however a good Buffett CD to get is 'All The Great Hits' it has, Come Monday, Margaritaville, Changes in Latitudes Changes in Attitudes, He Went To Paris etc. on. A track I particularly like is 'Chanson Pour Les Petits Enfants' A song Jimmy wrote some time ago for the 'International year of the child'.

I have several of his albums, and some tracks are not as listenable as Gordons, IMHO.

They are like the 'Curate's egg', good in parts.

[Oma]

Rick,

Thanks for the info about the Jimmy Buffet album!