johnfowles
07-25-2003, 10:42 AM
I ask because earlier this month Walter posted a topic about a hits CD he proposed
the exact title I do not have but I know I am not dreaming because I copied and pasted his words to save for a reply later
this is what I saved on July 9th as a text file:-
"Okay,the title makes the point,so I'll get to it.
If I did a "Best Of",it would go like this.
Disc 1:The Hits>
Sundown-
Wreck Of
Carefree Highway-
If You Could Read
Rainy day People
Circle Is Small
Baby Step Back
Beautiful
Talking In Your Sleep
Race Among The Ruins
Summer Side Of Life
That Same Old Obsession
You Are What I Am
If I Could
Anything For Love.
I'd also include the charted cover versions of GL songs.
Peter Paul and Mary's E.M. Rain
and For Lovin' Me
Spyder Turner's "I Can't Make It Anymore"
Glen Campbell's,"Last Time I Saw Her"
Anne Murray's,"Cotton Jenny" a
and even Stars On 54's,"If You Could read My Mind".
All of these songs were singles and charted on one Billboard chart or another.
So,that's the 1st one but I'll have to do #2 another time bacause I'm out of time! Later!
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Borderstone (Also known as,"The B!")
[This message has been edited by Borderstone (edited July 08, 2003).]
I have searched the discussion board for the original but all searches on singers names
or even selected text failed to locate this topic nor is there any evidence of it around the relevant dates
So I guess Walter musy have deleted it
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I wanted to reply/comment as follows
Most impressive B/Walter
It to my mind made a nice change from the usual "my favourite Gordy songs are......"
If I may be so bold as to make a minor bit of constructive criticism though.
did you actually add up the running times of your proposed selection of hits?
I say this because one day in the future you no doubt will get your own computer;
most likely with a built-in CD burner and will start making your own CDs.
(albeit with a different set of GL favourites since every Lighthead's choice changes on a daily even hourly basis.
You will then find that the standard CD-Recordable blank discs will in fact hold 80 minutes of music.
My first impression on looking at your listing was that you had possibly seriously busted the limit!!
But as I am planning on making a few CDs for my own pleasure such as "Songbook Discs 5 and 6 or Gord's Gold III and IV. With the other great songs so far omitted from the Songbook box set; GG1; GG2; Complete Greatest Hits; and Classic Master
(and the other few hundred United Artists hits compilations)
I have devised a simple spreadsheet using an old DOS-based programme to rapidly check the total running time of any selection.
Note that I did also find on one site a Microsoft Access spreadfsheet to do just that but have now mislaid it
Much to my surprise I totalled your list at 73 Minutes 26 seconds of which the GL tracks make up 55mins 30secs.
I have converted the text file that my programme produced to HTML and put it on my web site
at:- http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/borderstone
You might therefore like to reconsider your initial effort to make use of the full 80 minutes
If and when you reply you might also explain what happenned to your threatened #2 CD??
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My Gordon Lightfoot webring
starts at http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot
[This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited July 25, 2003).]
the exact title I do not have but I know I am not dreaming because I copied and pasted his words to save for a reply later
this is what I saved on July 9th as a text file:-
"Okay,the title makes the point,so I'll get to it.
If I did a "Best Of",it would go like this.
Disc 1:The Hits>
Sundown-
Wreck Of
Carefree Highway-
If You Could Read
Rainy day People
Circle Is Small
Baby Step Back
Beautiful
Talking In Your Sleep
Race Among The Ruins
Summer Side Of Life
That Same Old Obsession
You Are What I Am
If I Could
Anything For Love.
I'd also include the charted cover versions of GL songs.
Peter Paul and Mary's E.M. Rain
and For Lovin' Me
Spyder Turner's "I Can't Make It Anymore"
Glen Campbell's,"Last Time I Saw Her"
Anne Murray's,"Cotton Jenny" a
and even Stars On 54's,"If You Could read My Mind".
All of these songs were singles and charted on one Billboard chart or another.
So,that's the 1st one but I'll have to do #2 another time bacause I'm out of time! Later!
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Borderstone (Also known as,"The B!")
[This message has been edited by Borderstone (edited July 08, 2003).]
I have searched the discussion board for the original but all searches on singers names
or even selected text failed to locate this topic nor is there any evidence of it around the relevant dates
So I guess Walter musy have deleted it
-------------------------------------------------
I wanted to reply/comment as follows
Most impressive B/Walter
It to my mind made a nice change from the usual "my favourite Gordy songs are......"
If I may be so bold as to make a minor bit of constructive criticism though.
did you actually add up the running times of your proposed selection of hits?
I say this because one day in the future you no doubt will get your own computer;
most likely with a built-in CD burner and will start making your own CDs.
(albeit with a different set of GL favourites since every Lighthead's choice changes on a daily even hourly basis.
You will then find that the standard CD-Recordable blank discs will in fact hold 80 minutes of music.
My first impression on looking at your listing was that you had possibly seriously busted the limit!!
But as I am planning on making a few CDs for my own pleasure such as "Songbook Discs 5 and 6 or Gord's Gold III and IV. With the other great songs so far omitted from the Songbook box set; GG1; GG2; Complete Greatest Hits; and Classic Master
(and the other few hundred United Artists hits compilations)
I have devised a simple spreadsheet using an old DOS-based programme to rapidly check the total running time of any selection.
Note that I did also find on one site a Microsoft Access spreadfsheet to do just that but have now mislaid it
Much to my surprise I totalled your list at 73 Minutes 26 seconds of which the GL tracks make up 55mins 30secs.
I have converted the text file that my programme produced to HTML and put it on my web site
at:- http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/borderstone
You might therefore like to reconsider your initial effort to make use of the full 80 minutes
If and when you reply you might also explain what happenned to your threatened #2 CD??
------------------
My Gordon Lightfoot webring
starts at http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot
[This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited July 25, 2003).]