Re: The Early Lightfoot album and a different type of "Axe"

[Richard Harison]

"johnfowles" <fowle...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Early Lightfoot
> OK not OK
> I am not doing very well here after three new threads so far started
> I have to note an overwhelming response just a solitary reply
> (by Artfizz ) many thanks for that and your subsequent email Arthur
> So here is another attempt to stimulate particiption.
> I have just resurrected an old corfid topic
> http://www.corfid.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=003875&p=3
> which included discusion about the axing of an unauthorised
> compilation album in 1971
> an album proudly owned by Yuri who managed to get Gordon to autograph
> it last November in Massey Hall
> see his newsgroup thread from far off 1998 at:-
> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.music.lightfoot/browse_frm/thread/a27c38e9ed4a0cd4/38ca80229decb2ef?lnk=gst&q=early+lightfoot+yuri&rnum=3&hl=en#38ca80229decb2ef
>
"Fine as Fine Can be was for daughter Ingrid. Played it on the piano in mid
1970's

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All the Best,
Richard Harison

[Richard Harison]

"johnfowles" <fowle...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Early Lightfoot
> OK not OK
> I am not doing very well here after three new threads so far started
> I have to note an overwhelming response just a solitary reply
> (by Artfizz ) many thanks for that and your subsequent email Arthur
> So here is another attempt to stimulate particiption.
> I have just resurrected an old corfid topic
> http://www.corfid.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=003875&p=3
> which included discusion about the axing of an unauthorised
> compilation album in 1971
> an album proudly owned by Yuri who managed to get Gordon to autograph
> it last November in Massey Hall
> see his newsgroup thread from far off 1998 at:-
> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.music.lightfoot/browse_frm/thread/a27c38e9ed4a0cd4/38ca80229decb2ef?lnk=gst&q=early+lightfoot+yuri&rnum=3&hl=en#38ca80229decb2ef

Let's set the record straight! The record in question was "Early
Lightfoot," and it was quickly put together to capitalize on the #3 surprise
success of "If You Could Read My Mind." Gord got wind of it and bought all
the copies he could directly from the record company. Then one sunny
afternoon he asked me to play lumberjack. I took an axe and destroyed them
and then took them to the dump. I called him later and said it was the only
time I had even considered hitting him in the face with an axe. We both got
a laugh out of that.
By the way, out of respect for my friend, I did NOT keep a copy for myself.
I axed them all..

[artfizz]

Richard Harison wrote:
> "johnfowles" <fowle...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1185292558.8...@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
>> Early Lightfoot

...

>> which included discusion about the axing of an unauthorised
>> compilation album in 1971
>> an album proudly owned by Yuri who managed to get Gordon to autograph
>> it last November in Massey Hall
>> see his newsgroup thread from far off 1998 at:-
>> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.music.
>>lightfoot/browse_frm/thread/a27c38e9ed4a0cd4/38ca80229decb2ef?
>>lnk=gst&q=early+lightfoot+yuri&rnum=3&hl=en#38ca80229decb2ef
>
> Let's set the record straight! The record in question was "Early
> Lightfoot," and it was quickly put together to capitalize on the #3 surprise
> success of "If You Could Read My Mind." Gord got wind of it and bought all
> the copies he could directly from the record company. Then one sunny
> afternoon he asked me to play lumberjack. I took an axe and destroyed them
> and then took them to the dump. I called him later and said it was the only
> time I had even considered hitting him in the face with an axe. We both got
> a laugh out of that.
> By the way, out of respect for my friend, I did NOT keep a copy for myself.
> I axed them all..
>

A number of instances spring to mind where the original artist wished to
- or may have wished to - suppress their work. Douglas Adams' posthumous
book "The Salmon of Doubt" was retrieved from his hard disk - allegedly
after he had erased it. Tolkien's "The Silmarillion" was completed by
his son from fragments Tolkien left. Cat Stevens - in his early Islam
days - tried to stop his songs being reproduced. Interestingly, 30 years
later, he revised his opinion that the Qur'an banned guitar music - and
he began playing his original songs again.
The Lightfoot boxed CD set contains several examples of early Lightfoot
songs; few are ones that I would list among my favourites.

[Cathy Cowette]

"Richard Harison" <no...@invalid.com> wrote in message
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Uh-uh. I have one, as do a few other people around here.

Cathy
http://www.cathycowette.com