Sundown LP 30th and your memories.

[Borderstone]

Today I went to Desert Ridge Mall in N. Phx. and bought "Sundown" on CD. I've had the LP for years and now in commemoration of it's 30th anniv. this month - I have this new copy. It also helps me a great deal because on my LP "Is There Anyone Home?" is way to scratchy and I can fix that song on the tape I made.

My only distant memory of Sundown (as most of you know) is hearing the song at age 6 on the radio. When did you 1st hear the song and where and when did you buy the LP? Any special memries connected with too? Let us know. Been me,later!

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Borderstone,gonna post some lines tonight!

[This message has been edited by Borderstone (edited March 07, 2004).]

I first heard Sundown when I was on vacation in Cape Cod. I was 12 years old and my cousin had a mix of all of his favorite songs from the 70's. Thirteen years later, I am still listening to the greatest songwriter ever.

[brink]

Guess I would have to agree with "Floorian" except that I did buy it when I lived in Wyoming. That was around 1978-1980, I think.
Thanks Bill, I now have my user name and password up when I post.

[Rob1956]

When I first heard IYCRMM in 1970, I was 14 and got the album right away. Then when Don Quixote and Old Dan's Records came out I was disappointed that no singles were being played on the radio, then Sundown hit, and I remember hearing it and Carefree Highway on the radio all the time. (When you're in high school, you need to hear the artist on the radio to justify being a fan. That silliness goes away when you get older fortunately!)

[Auburn Annie]

I can't remember if I first heard it on the radio or in concert (May of that year)- though I'm sure I bought the album the day it was released as I'd been buying them since discovering Gord's music in the 60s.

[johnfowles]

quote:Originally posted by Auburn Annie:
I can't remember if I first heard it on the radio or in concert (May of that year)- though I'm sure I bought the album the day it was released as I'd been buying them since discovering Gord's music in the 60s.
I don't know the exact issue date but I wrote on my album sleeve the date that I bought it- 9 April 1974. So being England it was most likely raining that day!! I think at that time I was friendly with a record shop owner who used to tip me off when a new Lightfoot release was imminent and get a copy for me soonest.

However I note that on the CD insert(a friend bought the CD for me in the Montreal HMV store in July 1993 it says
"released in the winter of 1974" I just checked on Wayne Francis' site and he says it was released in January 1974 (not March as the "B" declared so it took 3 months for the master pressing to get to the UK my LP was made in the UK and still has the price sticker on it a mere £2.29. I really cannot recall when first heard the title track though probably the same day as soon as I got it home!!



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[SomewhereupinMichigan]

I don't recall the first time I heard it, though it would have been early upon its release, as I was a HUGE Lighthead already in those days. I do know that I, most likely, provided many persons with their first experience hearing Sundown as I was a mid-Michigan disc jockey in those days and played the devil out of the single when it hit!

I heard it when I bought the album in 74.

[Borderstone]

Actually,I had read on a seperatee website some time ago that it was March. I guess they meant the single because as I recall they did not use the terms LP or 45rpm.

Either way,it was winter '73-'74 so,close enough. Later!

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Borderstone,gonna post some lines tonight!:D

[Summerside]

How many of you, like myself, are having a difficult time wrapping your mind around the concept that it has been 30 years. So many stories, so many memories, I'd like to share with you all once I've finally come to terms.

------Summerside

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Now Take A Look Around Again ...
Is It Any Different Now Than It Was Then?

[BILLW]

I was in California, stationed with the Marine Corps, and it was ALL OVER the radio. Everywhere and at first I thought it was country music ?? Soon I knew it was Gord and my first thought was "that's different than DQ" but cool. I couldn't afford to buy it then but ya didn't have to. Darn song was EVERYWHERE - and I still love it.

Bill
P.S. I still think it's country but AC is an OK term,

[Oma]

Well, if it was 30 years ago, then I guess I was 12! I heard it on the radio a lot on WJMS out of Ironwood MI, but didn't have the song on an album until I got Gord's Gold a few years later. I doubt I understood the lyrics when I first heard them! Sundown came out during my "I love John Denver" phase of life. I probably didn't understand his lyrics either!

[John Doe]

Back in '74 or '75 my family(I was about 10 yrs old) and I went on a 2 week vacation covering all the western states up to four corners and Yellow Stone Park. AM radio was our constant companion and all the songs were great back then. (IMHO)
Lightfoot's songs were definitely heavy in rotation Carefree HWY, Sundown, If You Could Read MY Mind.

It wasn't till years later that I bought his CD's and wow what a treasure trove of wonderful music!

I recently went to a used record store and am picking up old LP's that I used to have but got rid of. I look for "near Mint" condition or newer reissues. I just got Gord's "Sundown" and put it in an LP frame on the wall with my other fave LP's. Most if not all of these I own now on CD but those were the days when vinyl ruled!

[Iron]

I'd be in that boat,Summerside,that is some scary math.
The day is etched in my thoughts almost as deeply as the J.F.K. day.Short of doing the depressing math,I was in my early teens.We were having one of those little picnic deals at a state park somewhere and I was fishing for a couple hours,not catching anything,just fishing.Finally caught this thing that had a trout head,and the rest of the body looked like a carp.Ugliest fish I ever saw.That was enough fishing so I went back to the picknickers and someone had a radio setting on the picknicking table.I was instantly hooked by the now infamous bassline of Sundown.Funny how a thing like that can stick in yer brain so vividly....