Happy Birthday, Gordon Lighfoot!

[Florian]

Happy Birthday, Gordon Lightfoot!

Gordon Lightfoot's birthday is on November 17th, 2000.

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As suggested, I'd like to collect all birthday wishes under one topic, and I'll then print it out and send it to Gordon Lightfoot.

Please post your birthday greeting by clicking on the "Post Reply" button.

I'm sure he will be most happy to see how much he is appreciated all around the world.

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[Silver Heels]

Great idea Florian. Count me in!

[knottypine]

Me too!
Barbara

[Florian]

Hi SilverHeels, Hi Barabara,

Thanks for joining the bandwagon. Well then, let's hear your birthday wishes.

Post them right here...

[A Painter]

Count me in too. I'll be back soon with a greeting.

Love the picture !

[theotterjudy]

Well, Gord, I guess you can tell by all these birthday greetings just how much you are thought of by all of us. In all our cases you have made a big difference in our lives, since the first time we heard you on the radio, or at a concert, or on a friend's stereo. We listen to you to calm down, dream, fall in love, make it through the tough times, and appreciate life.
So, from all of us to you:

MAY YOU HAVE THE HAPPIEST OF BIRTHDAYS
AND MANY,MANY MORE TO COME.

(By the way: "Otter than nothin', what's new?)

Fondly, theotterjudy

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"the mornin' after blues, from my head down to my shoes..."
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"Laughing eyes and smiling face..."

[classicmixdj]

As for me, I'd have to say you put on the best show to take a date to...guess it's all those romantic tunes. Thanks for all the wonderful songs you've shared with us.
I praise God for you. Happy Birthday Gordon.
-David

[freebenn@prodigy.net]

I was at your concert in Marquette/Michigan in the 70's when you sang "The Wreck of the Edmund FItzgerald" for the first time there. It was an awesome concert!

[sandyo]

Dearest Gord,

Hope you have the best birthday ever and a wonderful, happy, healthy year ahead.

Thank you for so many years of songs and stories that mean so much to so many.

I'm looking forward to seeing you again soon!

God bless,

Sandy

[Silver Heels]

Dear Gord,
may your birthday bring you as much joy
and happiness as your music has brought me
over the years. There's an old saying which
sums up my feelings exactly: MAY YOU LIVE
A THOUSAND YEARS, Gordon Lightfoot!
Please come and see us in the UK again soon.
HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

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[Rose]

Dear Gord,
Hope you have a wonderful Birthday and many more to come. Thank you for all the wonderful years of your beautiful music, and thank you so much for taking the time at the end of your concert's to let your fans meet you, it was one of my biggest blessings to have had the honor to meet you back-stage at the Erie, Pa. concert. Till we meet again.
Thanks again,
Sharon

[Rusty]

Hey I'm with you Florian

[Rusty]

Hey I'm with you Florian

[midnightmisty]

Happy Birthday, Gord!

Now, you're not going to be working on your birthday again, are you?!! (Massey Hall mid- 80's. You recorded "I'll Tag Along" AND gave a concert that night! oh, pleeeeaze....)

Much Love & Best Wishes from Kate and Marty!

[Scott Mac]

Happy Birthday Gordon! I pray that this is your best one ever. Your music has brought me more joy and inspiration than words could ever say!

[Gerry & Huguette Maillet]

You are the most talented musician we have ever known. We listen to your CD's everyday and we never get tired of them.
You have to be the best musician and composer ever.....there will never be another one like you....ever.
We love you!
Gerry & Huguette Maillet

[A Painter]

Happy Birthday Gord. Thank you so much for many years of fantastic music. Keep it coming. You are the best !

Reaching for my saddlebag
I take a Lightfoot tape into my hand
Then striking up a knightly pose
I shout across the ocean to your shore
Please play England once more.

All the best, Alan & Gill (England).

[storm]

Happy birthday Mr Lightfoot. I hope you are truly happy at this point in your life, and I hope you have many wonderful years to come to enjoy it.

[Alice]

Hi Mister Lightfoot! Have a nice birthday! I've grown up with your music (my parents are fans, but i swear I'm not a fan by default) Eat a giant piece of yummy cake!

[charlene]

Happy Birthday!
I hope the coming years find you in good health, with a happy heart and a knowledge that you and your music mean more to so many people than they could ever express. The accomplishment of touching the world with your talent is astounding. Meeting you in Orillia this past July was truly an honour for me and one I will never forget. I understand you heard my name from town to town this summer from fellow Lightfoot lovers who came to see you. I find this quite amusing seeing as I have been a fan for 30 years, live up the road from Toronto and always kept my distance! Except for Hallowe'en 1993 when I dropped by with my children! It has been a true joy to have had your music in my life all these years and I rest easy knowing that I always will. I hope this finds you surrounded by your loving family and true friends. Know that all of us will be there in spirit, toasting a light in all our lives - you.
Charlene Westbrrok
Whitby,Ontario

[jmorg@aol.com]

happy birthday Gordon! I understand you have an upcoming PBS concert special. I look forward to seeing it. I also hope someday you'll tour in Northeast Pennsylavania.

[phinzzz]

Happy Birthday. May you have as much joy and happiness in this birthday, and more to follow, as I've had brought to my life with your music. I appreciate all you do; the tours you make, the songs you write. I can absolutely feel your music and your stories.You have such a gift. Thank you for sharing it with me, and all the many people who love you.

Jen

[Bruce Shapiro]

HAPPY Birthday.
THANK YOU again for the music! Your gift is a true gift. Thanks.
Bruce S. Nov. 25, 44
Encino

[HCC321@aol.com]

Gordon,

Happy Birthday and our wishes for many more. Had a great time at our last concert at the Majestic Theatre, in North Tonawanda, NY. Looking forward to Massey Hall next spring.

Harold, Pam and Michael Christie
Tonawanda, NY

[shotgun@paulbunyan.net]

What a talented man. I am hoping to see you when you are in Minnesota.

[Rob Wells]

Happy Birthday Gord.

May the day be filled with just a little of what you have given to the entire World. I speak on behalf of not millions of fans, but billions. May God give back to you just 1% of what you have given the World, you would thus be the richest man, in pocket and Heart on the planet.

SOMEDAY, we will finish our conversation about Bob Gibson. In the meantime, may the Joy of Heaven rain down upon you and yours.

I'll also take the liberty of sending along the Best wishes from Noel Stookey and Peter Yarrow.

Your Friend In Grand Junction, Colorado

Dr. Robert (Rob) Wells.

P.S. Say Hi and Thanks to Barry Harvey for me.

[roro]

Dearest Gordon, I've enjoyed your music since i was 12. Many years have past since then and I always come back to your music. I've seen you many times over the years. I was thrilled to see you at Majestic Theater In Aug. One reason is I brought my girls with me. While they weren't too thrilled to see someone mommy liked the did passify me by tagging along (They really had no choice as the are only 6 & 11!) They surprised me on the way home to Geneva, By having little question and answers sessions about your music. They did tell me that they did know alot of your tunes because they hear them around the house. Only goes to prove they do pay attenion. Also now they can tell the difference between Your voice Clapton's and Joel's. All favorites but you top the list! Many warm wishes on your birthday and many more to come.Love Rosemarie

[renepiano]

Merci Gordon pour toutes vos belles chansons.
Je suis un admirateur depuis très longtemps.
J'ai tous vos disques ainsi que les cd's.

René From Switzerland

[Dan Star]

Happy Birthday Gord! Maybe see you someday East of Midnight.

[dowreyct]

Happy Birthday!

I've been a fan since the 60s in Buffalo, and have spent many a peaceful day since listening to your music. Thanks for the great music, and here's to many more healthy, happy years.

Tony in Cincinnati

[n3wmg]

Gordon -

Thanks to you and the band for visiting Central PA not once, but TWICE this year. Saw both shows and got to speak with you briefly afterward, when you graciously gave me an autograph and posed for some pics. Your music has brought me through some rough spots, and is the one constant I have had in my life, so thank you very much! You have a terrific band and Barry Harvey is a nice fellow too. All the best and please come back to PA/MD again soon. Happy Birthday and God Bless!

Larry Dillon
Lancaster, PA



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[Bob Graham]

Dear Gordon,

I met my wife in 1973, right around the time I discovered your music. One of our first dates was you opening night concert at Artpark in Lewiston, NY. We fell in love listening to your music and have been happily married for 23 years.

Happy Birthday and Thanks for the Happiness you have brought to our lives!

Bob and Alice Graham

[jwcaddo3@aol.com]

Happy Birthday Gordon! Why are you not playing in TEXAS?! We miss seeing you here! My birthday is 2 days before yours so the gails of November will be welcome to me.

Happy Birthday and have a great year!
Sincerely, Jennifer Wommack, Texas

[mytoyota]

Gordon,
Like many others, I've been under your spell since I first heard, "If You Could Read My Mind". Being a dreamer, your music always takes me away to good spaces. I've been searching for the man in the songs my whole life, but I guess there is only one you.
You have been such an inspiration to me. I am in the process of buying my first guitar, a Martin, and learning how to play it, thanks to you.
I love you Gord! Have a wonderful birthday!
I hope I get to say these things to you in person November 4th in Wabash, Ind. It'll be a 4-5 hour drive for me, but so worth it.

Sincerely,
Kim McBroom

[Dan Dobrjanskyj]

Happy Birthday Gordon and thank you for your wonderful gifts of lyrics and music that have been so much a part fo my life. I saw you in concert at Avery Fischer Hall in NYC when I was 15 (I'm now 44) so nearly thirty years your music has been interwoven in the tapestry of my life. Through the highs and the lows and all the points in between. So on November 17th I will raise a glass of Laproiagh put on Gord's Gold (both 1 and 2) and drink your health.

[Paul J B]

Happy birthday Mr. Lightfoot,
I would just like to thank you for all the great memories, and good times you've given all of us here. May this birthday, and all your birthdays to come be happy, and all your birthday wishes come true.

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"If people could look into each other's eyes
What a wonderful place this world would be"
GL

[Cp53ol@aol.com]

Happy Birthday Gord! Sitting here listening to the Songbook collection that I got as a birthday gift. Wishing you the best and many, many more to come. Chuck

[k3]

Happy Brithday Gordon. I've been listening to your music for about 16 years now and can't believe that I haven't seen you in concert. I hope you will consider visiting the state of Maine sometime soon.

[KarlsKorner]

Gordon, May you have a joyous birthday, surrounded by your loved ones, and friends. Thank you for the many years of songs and stories you have brought us that make life a little more enjoyable when we hear them.

[Dick Loftin]

Gordon,
Happy Birthday, and thanks for the decades of great songs. You are not only a Canadian treasure, but a world treasure, and I hope you're life is full of joy. You seem to really enjoy playing live. I saw your show in Salina, Kansas on Aug 24th and will be in Springfield Mo., for the show there in November. You are the greatest. Don Quixote is my favorite album. Best wishes to you and your family.

Dick Loftin
Tulsa, Oklahoma
DLoftin@msn.com

[Mister hoot'n holler]

I'm sitting here late at night
At my old desk in the yellow light
I'm working myself up to write a song
About a guy I've known for so long

This guy taught me how to carry a tune
And that the Sea of Tranquility is on the moon
He also showed me that love can be hard
And to always smile when I cut the cards

He's forgotten more about life than I'll ever learn
He's worked hard for every dollar that he has earned
And he can tell a great story from beginning to end
And he can cheer me up when I'm on the mend

He's spent most of his life out on the road
He's amazed at what's grown from the seeds that he sowed
For fifty years or more he's been sharing his gift
I think deep down he knows that he'll never quit

He made us all a promise when he sang his first song
It's a rare man these days who can keep his word for so long
He's made a lot of money from the records that we've bought
But it was never the money---it was respect that he sought

In all the world he's the finest troubador
But in my mind's eye I see him sitting on Susan's floor
Singing and smiling and playing his guitar
And drinking bad whiskey from an old jelly jar

This amazing guy---his name is Gord
And because of his music I'll never be bored
From "Rich Man's Spiritual" to "Uncle Toad Said"
And all the songs in between that run through my head

I'll always think of him as one of my best friends
And it's the kind of friendship that never ends
Tho' I've only met him twice to shake his hand
By the look in his eyes I know he understands

Just one more verse in this rough draft
You see I'm a novice in this particular craft
Alliteration, cadence, meter and rhyme
How the heck does Gord do it ---every time

So here's a Birthday wish my friend
May you find the road that never ends
May you recieve all of the blessings from the Lord above
And most of all I [and millions of others] wish you Love----
John and Cindy Hooton
Colorado Springs, Colorado

[timmine]

Have a great one Gord - a long way from the days at the Purple Onion and Steeles Tavern! Coffee with Bernie at the 'Boat afterhours always was a treat. Many more to come, chum!

[jwallace4914]

GORD, HAPPY BIRTHDAY When I was "On The High Seas" you gave me a way to Shore. I Feel as though we have been friends since I first heard you in Nam! GOd BLESS! J.W.

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J.W.

[steve brownp]

christ man, where do I begin? The voice?
The guitar? The words? Add them all up, and
all i've got to say to you good sir is thank
you for a lifetime of avenues and escapades.
Here's to your health, here's to sticking to
your guns, and telling it like it is.
Bless you!

[Northernsky]

Hi Gordon

Next time you're in England, let off some steam by giving your record company a good kick -- we have to use MI5 to track down your albums here!

Very best wishes

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[Skystone@care4free.net]

Wishing you a wonderful birthday Gordon.

I have been a fan for so, so many years. You write the most beautiful songs I have ever heard, with a voice to match. They have seen me through so many years of life's events and happenings.

I only hope that one day you will come back to the England so that at last I will be able to meet my idol.

Love and Best Wishes:
Janice Wolage-Smith

[Gerry Jenkins]

Hi Gordon,
Happy Birthday, I want to add my best wishes to this list of greatful millions who have enjoyed your music over the last 40 years!
Back in the early 80's you were making a movie in my home town Jasper, staying at the Lobstick Hotel. but I was overseas (as now)in Saudi at the time!
The concerts my Wife & I have attended, from your first in Edmonton at NAIT, (loud air conditioning had to be turned off!)to the yearly Calgary/Edmonton visits have always been a wonderful experience!
I did some Lounge work in the past, and as a fellow Scorpio, thank you for the deep, loving feelings that were always there in your words & music.
Happy Birthday old Friend, and many more!
Gerry Jenkins.







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[teacat]

Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!

First, let me say.....You Rule. You have been inspiring me since the 70s. I hope the day never comes that you willingly stop recording.
Second, from the list of wellwishes, it's plain as plain can be you are admired near and far. This is as it should be for the body and quality of your music. I thank you for sharing it with us.
Third, I have only seen you in concert twice, so keep touring!!!!!! Give a girl a chance!
Lastly, I hope this day and many more bring you great joy and warmth. Cheers!

Chris Caturani

[Peter Bellairs]

We're growing old together Gordon. It's 30 years this year since I bought my first album of yours. It's been a long and one sided relationship. Twenty six years ago you came down here to Australia and played at the old Festival Hall in Melbourne (no longer with us thank goodness). It is high time you came back. Have a great birthday mate and keep making your music.
Kindest regards
Peter Bellairs

[Kenyon Wallace]

Hi Gordon!

I've been all around the world and I've always made sure that I have some of your tunes in my walkman...from the streets of Tokyo to the fields of the Black Forest in Germany I've always had a piece of home in your music.

You truly are the greatest songwriter I've ever listened to and I thank you for sharing your gift with me and the world. Have a wonderful birthday and I look forward to seeing you soon!

Kenyon Wallace
Age 19

[DaringDo]

Happy birthday, Gord. I'm 60, play an old Martin D-18, and when I and friends sing around the campfire, Lightfoot songs are the highlights and always will be for me at least. Happy campin'.

[jay]

Hi, Gord. I first heard your wonderful music in about 1968, when I heard "The Last Time I Saw Her" on an am radio. I didn't discover who the artist was until 1975, when I saw the title on an album in a record store in Minneapolis. I have been listening to you ever since, and you have provided countless hours of wonder to me, both with friends and alone.

Hope you have a very happy and healthy birthday and many happy returns of the day.

And thank you. Thank you so much.

[jrsmith]

Dear Gord,
Just wanted to get in on wishing you the brightest and best birthday wishes! I've been a fan since the early 70's when I heard Don Quixote while traveling with a friend. I immediately bought it at the first opportunity (on 8-track). Since that time, I have purchased many of your albums on vinyl, tape, and CD. I'd just like to let you know that your music and voice are timeless. I still listen to the vinyl and old 8-tracks that still work. Someday, I hope to get to see you live. I know you have performed around here in Kentucky, but it seems I always find out about it after the fact. Anyway, have a great birthday and keep the great music going.

Rick Smith

[Debbie B.]

Happy Birthday !!

I have enjoyed your music since I first saw you in Detroit at a shopping mall in 1970. I still enjoy your concerts and hopefully will enjoy them for many more years.

[Lightfoot678]

Dear Gordon

I am writing this to wish you a wonderful birthday. My name is Jeff Wilder and I am a 22 year old college student in Florida. I have listened to your music since I was 4 or 5 years old. It has touched me emotionally and helped me get through a troubled period in my life. I hope you enjoy your birthday and may you experience many more. Also best wishes from Gary Wilder, Christina Wilder, Louise Lopushansky and Christine Reardon.

[Bill]

Happy birthday Gordon! We saw you at Wolftrap this year...looking forward to the TV special and North Carolina concerts next year. Great to see how happy you are these days with family and career!

[dandms2]

Best of Birthday Wishes Gordon! I shall drink a great Cabernet in your honor. You've seen me through 2 marriages, & darn, I was hoping you would be my 3rd, haaa!
Take care, sorry to have missed your San Diego concert. I'll see you next year!

[dandms2]

Birthday Wishes Galore! I play your fabulous music in the operating room. What a soothing way to get through a frazzled day, knowing I can function with you on board! Take care, see you in San Diego in 2001...

[oldmill@rideau.net]

Happy Birthday Gordie,

have a great B-day. Thanks for the inspiring music.

- a young fan

[A_Guinness]

Happy Birthday, Gordon!

[C.Tucker]

Dear Mr.Lightfoot,
Happy Birthday!!I can remember as a child at the ripe old age of 11 hearing your song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" it made me feel so sad I cried for the lives lost and became hooked on Folk music for the rest of my life. thank you for opening a young boys eyes to a whole new world of people and places. My the best of the last year be the worst of the new year.
C.Tucker
Orlando,Florida

[Margie]

Dear Gord,
Sending you wishes for a wonderful Birthday from here in Central Pennsylvania. Your music has been part of my life since the the 70's and to see you in concert for the first time in Carlisle, PA in May was the thrill of my life (tickets still pinned by the computer). Your music touches the heart, heals the mind..starts and ends my day. Have a wonderful day with those you love and know that all your fans are there with you.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Margie Zavacky

[CapnBob]

You have been an inspiration and a Beacon in my Life for more than 35 years.
You have shaken Me to my Soul,
and I Thank You for that.

Happy Birthday

Bob Perkins

[pmar]

Husband, son and I caught your performance in Denver in August at Paramount Theatre. It was wonderful! Hope your birthday is great. Best wishes

Marilyn Samples
St. John, KS

[ughugh]

Gordon ,
Thank you for these wonderful years of music and warmth !!!
As I have said in the past , " You have touched our hearts and souls ".
May God Bless You and have a , "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Sincerely,
David & Barbara Peace

[Dakota4748]

Hey Happy birthday and many happy returns, its fom me(dakatah) and icesk8rjan. Your music makes so many of us happy and except for that one song about the boat is good party music.

[Bob from Westphlia, Mich]

Whenever the days gets long, and hard to take....when ever I've had enough of the "every day grind" that is life...I go to my room and put on one of Ole Gord's Records" and it always brings me back to my sanity ! Gord....if YOU could read MY mind...you'd know what your music has done for me ! Happy Birthday 'ol chap....you deserve the best ! Bob Schaar, Westphalia, Michigan

[GRAHAM DONACHIE]

Dear Gordon Lightfoot, I'm a scotsman who discovered your music in the sixties and have followed it ever since.The passage of my life since that beginning can be echoed in the majic of your lyrics.In the early seventies I travelled from the east coast of Scotland to Glasgow in the west..for you were appearing in the Apollo Theatre .The crowd that night were not forgiving,the first half of the concert did not go down well...you walked off..people walked out ...I prayed ..you walked back...you sat down on a stool,your guitar in hand,,said something like,,"to show the this guy can still sing",,the theatre hushed ,,you sang,, at the end I remember jumping up slapping palms together until they were numb,,cheering and cheering,,,you showed them all,...You never came back to Scotland ,,but we never forgot you. It is twenty odd years since then ,I made a journey to Canada,,for adventure,,fuelled by the images you created,,from Ontario across country ,,to BC,,Vancouver Island ,,Saw you in Victoria last year,,like me you are a wee bit older,but still ,you have the majick,,god bless and keep you safe ,,a Happy Birthday from your number one Scottish fan.Graham from Dundee.

[GRAHAM DONACHIE]

Dear Gordon Lightfoot, I'm a scotsman who discovered your music in the sixties and have followed it ever since.The passage of my life since that beginning can be echoed in the majic of your lyrics.In the early seventies I travelled from the east coast of Scotland to Glasgow in the west..for you were appearing in the Apollo Theatre .The crowd that night were not forgiving,the first half of the concert did not go down well...you walked off..people walked out ...I prayed ..you walked back...you sat down on a stool,your guitar in hand,,said something like,,"to show the this guy can still sing",,the theatre hushed ,,you sang,, at the end I remember jumping up slapping palms together until they were numb,,cheering and cheering,,,you showed them all,...You never came back to Scotland ,,but we never forgot you. It is twenty odd years since then ,I made a journey to Canada,,for adventure,,fuelled by the images you created,,from Ontario across country ,,to BC,,Vancouver Island ,,Saw you in Victoria last year,,like me you are a wee bit older,but still ,you have the majick,,god bless and keep you safe ,,a Happy Birthday from your number one Scottish fan.Graham from Dundee.

[Graham Donachie]

Dear Gordon LIghtfoot, I am a scotsman who first discovered your music way back in the sixties.To say that I was captivated would be an understatment.My chance to see you perform live did not come until the mid seventies when you appeared at the Apollo Theatre in Glasgow.I travelled from Dundee on the east coast to the west for the concert,,.The evening was not the most enjoyable I ever experienced as the audience was very vocal and not at all sympathetic.You walked off....people began leaving...with a lump in my throat I prayed,,,You walked on,,,the crowd hushed...You said something like.."This is to prove this guy can still pull of f a tune "..then you started to sing..no backup,just you and your guitar,,When you finished I thought I would burst for joy,,my palms were sore for the clapping of them,my throat hoarse with the emotion that I felt..I will never forget that night...It is twenty odd years now and in that tyme I came to Canada on a whim seeking and finding adventure..From my travels east from Toronto by bus to the shining sea in the west I was carried overland singing the songs of Gordon Lightfoot..May the good lord bless you and keep you around for many birhdays to come..from your number one Scottish fan..Graham Donachie..

[Graham Donachie]

quote:Originally posted by Florian:
Happy Birthday, Gordon Lightfoot!

Gordon Lightfoot's birthday is on November 17th, 2000.

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As suggested, I'd like to collect all birthday wishes under one topic, and I'll then print it out and send it to Gordon Lightfoot.

Please post your birthday greeting by clicking on the "Post Reply" button.

I'm sure he will be most happy to see how much he is appreciated all around the world.

[This message has been edited by Florian (edited September 24, 2000).]

[acecooker]

DEar Gordon,
Have been listening to your music since High School back in Detroit, Mich days. Too many years to mention. But we saw you for the first time while living in Los Angeles. When you sang about the Edmund Fitzgerald it made us very home sick. Didn't even know The Maritime Sailors cathedral existed until you sang about it. Now we always go by when we visit the area. We have enjoyed your music all these years. We have played it to our children and now you will be visiting Univ. of Missourri where our daughter goes to school and we will go there to hear you in concert there. Happy Birthday and may you keep on wrinting moe great songs. Please sing Don Quiote when you come.
Paul and Laurel

[Dawne]

Thanks for the memories. It's been a great ride. Your music takes me back to a time of innocence. May you stay forever young!

[Laura]

The Best Birthday Wishes to one of my favorite singers. Many of your songs I have listened to frequently and now hold some of my favorite memories. Thanks for the years of great music... from my favorite records as a child, to my CD collection today. Thanks.
Best Wishes in the years to come!

[donnartiste@home.com]

Happy Birthday Gordon
To a Canadian Legend, much loved and admired. Your songs have touched us all and painted a vivid picture in our hearts and minds, of this vast country,Canada. Thank you for being a part of our lives providing us with the treasures of your artistry. Please know that you mean so much to so many and we wish you all the good things that life has to offer.

[Celeste]

Happy Birthday Gordon. I just watched your special on Canadian Television and you are as great as ever. I saw you perform at HARRAH'S Reno about 17 years ago and was lucky enough to meet you with a group of people and hear songs from the album you were about to release at that time. The best to you in all you do and may this be your best birthday ever. Celeste CLSMITH528@aol.com

[dleadley]

The Happiest of Birthdays to you Gordon Lightfoot

The first time I heard you sing I was 10 years old. Now at forty it seems like a
life time ago. You are one of those singers that we will never forget. Your songs
have so much depth and soul to them. You can be in the lousiest of moods, put
on one of your songs and it takes you away to a special place, and makes you feel like you're on top of the world again.
I watched a live concert on CBC on Oct.15/2000, your voice still has that something special. And boy, did you bring back some memories. I told my 12 year old son that I started to listen to your tunes when I was his age. He was
dumbfounded, and believe it or not, he sat there with me and watched the rest of the concert. Both him and I really enjoyed it.
So, not only do you have the old die hard fans still listening to you, you may also
have peeked interest in the younger generation and hopefully have a new following.
I hope you have the best birthday...and many more to come.
Miss Dale Leadley
Vibank, Saskatchewan

[John Messmer]

Mr. Lightfoot,

Hoping your birthday is a great one. I'll be seeing you in Kansas City on November 8th. It will be my third (and hopefully not my last) concert. I'd love to meet you and say "Thanks" in person for all of the great music. I've been listening to your songs since I first heard "Cherokee Bend" from the "Cold on the Shoulder" album. It was my older brother's 8-track tape (I can't believe it was that long ago) and I would listen to it when no one else was home. I've been a fan ever since.
Thanks again for all the great music and enjoy your birthday. I'm wishing you many more. Take care.

John Messmer
Olathe, Kansas

[emmasargant]

Happy Birthday

Please tour the UK soon!!

Emma & Adrian Sargant

[camel@gdi.net]

We share the same month for a birthday. Mine is on the 27th. My soon-to-be wife and I saw you when you were in Washington, DC in the 1970's. We want to wish you the best. Keep singing those wonderful songs and we'll keep buying them!

Jim & Donna

[dwayneo]

Dear Gordon:

I can only hope that thru some miracle of modern technology this message actually reaches you...

First of all, happy birthday!

I am 33 years old and living in Edmonton, Alberta. I first heard your music, as many did, way back when I was 5 or 6 years old. I started playing the guitar at the age of 7, primarily due to your influence. Thank you so much for the many years of great music.

As I got older, I trained in classical guitar and followed that route for some time. I periodically teach classical guitar and am the founder of our local classical guitar society which now has over 50 members. I have not persued my folk/country roots for some time now, but I recently tuned into your Canadian TV concert special on October 15/2000 (recorded in Reno, NV) and within seconds from when you started playing the first song my hair started to stand up. It was then I realized how powerful and influential your music has been on me. The next day I went out and purchased the 4 cd set "Songbook" and have been enthralled with it.

Your recent concert in Edmonton at the Winspear Centre was sold out so fast, I did not have a chance to get tickets. I can only hope for next time..

Finally, do you think at some point in the future you may run a workshop for guitarists/singers?? Im sure there are many (including myself) that would cherish the opportunity to learn from you...

Sincerely;
Dwayne
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
email:dwayne123@hotmail.com

[This message has been edited by dwayneo (edited October 16, 2000).]

[Chris in Virginia]

Gordon, there is so much to say, but I will make it easy...

THANKS

Happy Birthday

Chris
Roanoke, VA

[gildir]

Happy birthday and thank you.
-raven-

[Barb Crego]

Happy Birthday! Gordon
Your music has always given much pleasure to me. My teenagers would tease me about listening to "That Folksinger" so you can imagine my surprise when I walked into my sons room and he was listening to SUNDOWN. All he said was "there's something about this guys songs that keeps drawing you back to listen to them". He was right, I've been listening almost 30 yrs.
From the bottom of my heart I wish you a wonderful birthday and many, many, more.
Sincerely,
Barb Crego
Arizona

[windhorse]

Happy belated B-Day Gordon Lightfoot! So good to have you in the world. You have inspired me and my own song writing since the early seventies. I know it's all been said before, but thank you for the songs that have meant so much to so many over the years and will continue to inspire well into the future. Every time I go north here in Michigan you are with me in spirit. As I cross the great bridge I sing the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and I am thinking of you as I venture up to the Whitefish Point Shipwreck Museum. The first time I ventured out to the point there was nothing but an unmanned light, fog horn, and emerald green ice to greet the visitor. A quite desolate place, silent except for the periodic blast of the horn. This was right at the time of the tragic sinking of the Fitzgerald and after having heard your classic ballad of its demise I couldn't help but think of the freighter going down out there just beyond the point. I came home and wrote a song dedicated to the point called, appropriately, Whitefish Point. My writing has been inspired by you many times since. Thank you for touching my soul so profoundly.

[This message has been edited by windhorse (edited October 27, 2000).]

[windhorse]

So, it's not a "belated" b-day wish after all. Thought I had missed it Gordon. (See response above) It's fitting that you should be a November child - born in the eye of the storm.

[Carlos Mendes-Rosa]

Dearest Gord,
Happy birthday! I have you in my heart for 29 years now. Since then, I've been playing your songs at the piano almost every day. But on November 17th I'll save my breath to blow 62 white candles for you. Keep doing your great, fantastic songs. Let me confess I still miss the four albums which did not come out on CD. Would you please make them released? Hugs from a friend from Brazil,
Heartfully, Carlos Mendes-Rosa.

[Biz_29]

I wish you a wonderfully "Happy Birthday" Gordon Lightfoot!!
I want you to know that I am 29 and since I can remember I have been listening to your wonderful music. My mother was a huge fan and she could always be found with a drink in her hand, candles burning & a "Gordon Lightfoot" eight track playing. So needless to say I was raised on you.
Luckily, before my mother passed away in 1991, she was able to see in concert in Des Moines, IA. I know it was one of lifes highlights for her! So, at her funeral we played a trilogy of your songs. "The Last Time I saw Her", "Wherefore And Why",and "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face". We know she was smiling down on us that day.
I have seen you in concert twice in Des Moines and they were both the best ever! I just want to wish you a Happy Birthday and to say that "If You Could Read My Mind", you know I would be saying THANK YOU FOR THE MEMORIES!
Sincerely,
Elizabeth from Webster City, IA

[@HOME]

GORDON,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY 2000! A WISH FOR MANY HAPPY, HEALTHY YEARS
TO COME FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.
BRENT DUNFORD,
WINNIPEG, MANITOBA

[abigail winterberg]

happy birthday mr. lightfoot, i am so happy that you were born, following your dreams and writing beautiful songs for us all. you have inspired people like myself to do the same, i hope that you have a wonderful time on your special day... truly
abigail winterberg

[imbomu@together.net]

Your music makes me happy inside.
Happy Birthday!!!!
Suzy

[donut]

BIRTHY HAPDAY TO YOU!!!
BIRTHY HAPDAY TO YOU!!!
BIRTHY HAPDAY MR. LIGHTFOOT!!!
BIRTHY HAPDAY TO YOU!!!

LOOKING AT THE PAST REPLIES I'M SURE THIS IS LATE BUT I ONLY GET ONLINE EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE, AND COME HERE WHEN I CAN. HOPE TO SEE YA IN MARCH!!!!

[donut]

Guess I'm not late, I just read the first post. Silly me. I alway skip ahead whenever I visit a site. Anyway, another year older, another year better!!! Keep up the good work!!!

[Julia Opack]

Happy Birthday Mr. Lightfoot.
May you have a wonderful day with many more to come. You sing to people's inner soul and heart it is not surprising that so many people want to wish you well on your day. It is almost like we know you and you know us and feel a special connection to you. I look forward to seeing you when you come to Duluth, Mn. Please do not sing the Fitz song as it is painful for those left on the shore this time of year.
God Bless
Julia


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[angi sykes]

Happy Birthday Gord. I have been a fan for thirty years, and saw you every time you came to England. Please, please come back! Have a great day.

[garberb@pwchomerepairs.or]

Happy Birthday, Gordon. Many more Happy Returns. Keep on playin' and singin'
Bruce from Cincinnati

[lebaron]

Gordon - Many happy returns and many many more. You are the only artist (well, you and Cat Stevens) where I can say that I have every one of your albums. I kind of got away from you in the last decade because of some tough times that I went through, but I'm back again, in the northern Ontario wilderness that I fell in love with through your music.

[Lee_Knox@KCPT.org]

Happy Birthday and Congrats on your PBS Special!
We here at KCPT ( Kansas City Public Television ) look forward to broadcasting it during our December Membership Drive.

Lee Knox
KCPT Producer

[lhstahlsc@cs.com]

Happy Birthday, Mr. Lightfoot! May this message find you enjoying inner peace and serenity.

Your music's been a part of my life for so long now. "If You Could Read My Mind" was your first song I heard. I was about 14 at the time, and I've been a fan ever since. Your music's been there when I've been confused, sad, happy, in love. It's made me think and touched my heart, and for this I thank you.

Again, happy birthday, and enjoy what life has to bring, one day at a time.

P.S. Do you think you could do a concert in Colorado Springs?

From a Fan in Colorado Springs: Lisa Stahlschmidt

[Mary Stork]

There's a little room on my list for tonight,
Wish you were here to fill it in!

I have loved you for over 30 years! Wish you were mine! Thanks for the enlightenment, encouragement, entertainment, and education you have given me.

Your performance in Santa Rosa, CA last march was my first opportunity to
see you live--and was wonderful beyond expectation! Your laid back attitude made me feel like I really was "in this house," as you said.

God bless and care for you and your family.

[DB]

Happy birthday Gord.

[snip]

Dear DB,

If you happen to read this topic again, please drop me an email at webmaster@corfid.com.


[This message has been edited by Florian (edited October 31, 2000).]

[Roy B]

Happy Birthday Gordon, have loved your music from day one and hope you continue to make wonderful music forever.

[H_Cameron]

For all of the years of enjoyment, wonder, and inspiration, Gordon, I thank you. To have this opportunity to actually say so to you, under the guise of a Birthday Greeting, is just to wonderful to pass up. Happy Birthday Gordon!
...and many, many more.
Harold Cameron

[moira]

I have been listening to you since you I was 7 years old (1972) when my dad played all your music on an 8 track in his car. Your music helped this little girl deal with the pain of her parent's breakup. You sang of love and love lost and understood. Thank you for your gift to the world. Your music will always hold a special place in my heart and memories.

Love, Moira

[joepug1]

Gord,
I've enjoyed your music for many years and just wanted to wish you a happy birthday. I'm in the US military and travel around alot--saw you in Sante Fe in '99 and looking forward to seeing you in Alexandria in May '01. All the best...many more!!

Lt Col Joe Pugliese
Virginia

[Grace]

Gordon, Accept my wishes for a wonderful birthday. I must tell you that the highlight of my life was seeing you in Cedar Rapids and presenting you with the framed counted cross stitch of "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald". I am so blessed by your insight and music...my dream is to someday sit with you on a one to one and just talk about you and your insights and music. Thank you for bringing your dreams to life through your music. I so appreciate you and what you do....may your birthday be filled with memories to forever cherish.
Grace Orvis
orvisgrace@hotmail.com
Iowa

[isabella]

Dear Gord,

Happy Bithday.Thank you or the love and light that you and your music has brought into my life over the years of my apprenticeship in sorrow and acceptance.Those experiences, either good or bad,leave us with the choice to learn from them, pass them on or live our lives without emotion.Thank God, you chose to share yours with us.We are truly grateful.
As a Canadian now living in Ireland, your music keps me grounded, reminds me of my roots and encourages me to dig deeper into the soil that I have planted the tree which is my life.May you always be a leaf blowing on my tree and may we both always feed the need in each other that is he human condition.
The UK wants you Gord.We want you bad..so get your little cannuck butt over hear so we can show you our appreciation.
A Winters Night with You for me this year will be without snow but at least, I can live in the moment thanks to your music.
I wish you love in abundance, wisdom in adversity, and much health.

Love,

Isabella

[Cliff Redden]

Dear Gord, Every time you were in Thunder Bay I was somewhere else. Oh how I wanted to meet you. I hav every song book and tape or at least most of them. How do you thank someone who has been a lifetime of inspiration as you and your music have been to me. You are clearly unequaled Gord and it gives me such pleasure to add to this list of friends and admirers in wishing you the best birthday ever and many more. I learned to play the guitar when I was 14 and finger style so I could play your style. I bought a big old D-18 and spend many hours pickin out those highway songs and singin them as well. I became an entertainer and started out singing Lightfoot songs in coffee houses halls and bars and right up to this day your songs are the most popular. Every song has such meaning especially songs like "son for a winters night" and spanish moss to mention a couple. I still live with the hope to see you in person someday and once again I wish you the smoothest road and the bluest skies ever. sincerely a fan for life, Cliff Redden , RR#3 Thunder Bay Ontario Canada P7c 4v2

[Johnfirebird@aol.com]

Gordon:
I've enjoyed your music for many, many years. My favorite is the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. You are without doubt the most gifted lyricist ever. Your stories of life experiences are always true to the heart. The best. Here's wishing you a blessed and joyous Birthday - may you enjoy many more.
Johnfirebird

[Gerald Kandestib]

Gordon,
After hearing Spin, Spin on the radio in 1966/67, I saw you at the Ontario Pavillion at Expo 67. From that time, I've gone through 33 years of life listening to, playing and completely enjoying your music. Thank you for giving me such a precious gift. I go back to the old times in Montreal: Cafe Andre, New Penelope Coffee House, etc. and I rememeber everey time I caught your act like it was just yesterday. We'd love tou see you on Montreal the first chance you get. Until then, be well and Happy 62nd birthday.
Gerald Kandestin, Montreal

[rosamc1022]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GORDON LIGHTFOOT!!! YOU ARE MY FAVORITE SINGER AND SONGWRITER - NO ONE COMPARES WITH YOU - GOD BLESS YOU ON YOUR BIRTHDAY, AND MANY MORE HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!!!

[sunspot@cassiopeia.ucsd.e]

Many happy returns,Gordon! Health, wealth,
happiness, I hope you have it all. I'm
looking forward to seeing you at your
concerts in Massey Hall.

Clear skies!

Susan Rappoport

[Bruno]

Happy birthday from Switzerland

Herzliche Glückwünsche zu Deinem runden Geburtstag dieses Jahr! Seit vielen Jahren hast Du auch in der Schweiz viele Freunde Deiner Songs, die in die Musik- und Kanadische Geschichte eingegangen sind!

Gute Gesundheit und viele neue songs wünscht Dir Bruno St. Gallen Switzerland

[Mike Rankert]

Gordon, my wife and I just saw you this evening at the Honeywell Center. You sounded as great as you did when I saw you about 20 years ago. Thanks for a wonderful evening and a lifetime of memories.
Have a Happy Birthday !

[TomAbdowConcerts@aol.com]

Dear Gordon: Thanks for so many wonderful songs. I remember "If you could read my mind" the best. I loved it when I first heard it, I sang it in small shows and college concerts in New England and other locales over the years, always feeling the intensity of the emotion in that song. When I was getting divorced five years ago, (that is when the news first hit me), I took my kids to a playground to play, and I also brought my guitar. I played that song again, this time with a feeling that can only come from living an experience similar to what the song tells. It was such a comfort to be able to express my loss by singing your song. Over the last thity years that I've been playing guitar and writing songs, you have always been an inspiration. I first saw you at the Academy of Music in Pennsylvania, around the time of the "Sundown" LP. Great, incredible music. My girlfriend at that time, who was familiar with your music, said, "Wow, I remember when Gordon Lightfoot was only solo or with just a bass player". I was in the U.S. Coast Guard at the time, and I was desparately trying to get better on the guitar, (having played for only about two years or so then), and she took me to a little music store to by the songbook for "Sundown". I still have it. In fact I was playing "somewhere U.S.A. last night, figuring out the lead patterns, and also playing the melody to my six year old son as he was trying to fall asleep. My middle son says I should go back to singing and I'd be a much happier man, and I believe he is right! My daugher, who is the oldest, and who is into the music of her generation, also says to me she loves "Ghosts of Cape Horn", "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", "If You Could Read My Mind", and so many other songs. She's been to your concerts a couple of times. I'd like to take the boys sometime God willing. The other most unique story I have about your music is that while I was playing in a lounge in the former Holiday Inn in Springfield, MA (it used to have a restaurant at the top which rotated 360 degrees while people ate, drank and listened to music); I was singing the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, (which though it belongs to you has in the past made me pretty well known in the region), and then this salesman, who I guess traveled the country at the time and didn't listen to the radio much, came up to me and told me that the song really struck him in an emotional way because though he had never heard your song until he heard me sing it that night; he had been on the shore of the great lake where the tragedy occurred, in a camper, listening to the weather and news reports, and had contemporaneously perceived the tragedy by listening to it on the radio that night...that was really incredible to me. I wonder how long it would have been before he actually heard you sing it. Probably not too long. I've also always loved singing "Song For A Winter's Night", "Circle of Steel" "Fine as Fine Can Be", "Pussywillows-Cattails", "Affair On Eighth Avenue", "Early Mornin' Rain", "I'm Not Supposed To Care", "Carefree Highway", "Sundown", "14-Karat Gold"(you must have written that song for guys like me who need to try to sell their songs a little bit harder! http://www.corfid.com/ubb/smile.gif "Now and Then" "Canadian Railway Trilogy" "All The Lovely Ladies", etc., etc., etc. I can truly say that your songwriting style is absolutely incredible, though I enjoy many types of music and am inspired by many artists; if you were to sit and listen to me play the songs which I write, you would see echoes of your style...you have been the best music teacher, (and coach, I still get a grin on when I read the notes at the bottom of one of your songs where you instruct the novice player in how to get the effect, saying you can finger pick, and if you can't do that you can use a flat pick, and if you can't do that...get a job!" You can't believe how much your talent and blessings of your music have meant to me and my children all these years. I have not echoed you in one way though, and that is that I've never really tried to sell my songs yet, I guess I was lacking confidence or got distracted by my marriage, or by my now chosen profession (God gives us one face...and we make for ourselves another), and so they sit in the safe except when I do a local show or something for the kids. Because your music has been such an influence, I hope to record and sell my tunes, and that some day you can hear, on the radio, the influence you have had on me. It would be great to have the chance to have you hear it, not for any help, or assistance, or critique or anything self-serving, but just so you could see the quality of your inspiration. You are a man who is many times blessed, deservedly so, and God Bless you forever sir. It was quite a beautiful experience to access this website and see the many fans who have written to you for your birthday. Add me to the list Gordon. I pray and wish for you on your birthday and for every day that you will always have the best of everything, the blessings of God, the love of your family, fans, health and happiness all the days of your life. Though it's just a fan's, and a songwriter's wish, to meet you sometime, and of course to get a chance to hear you sing again many more times. You've still got it in a big way Mr. Lightfoot, and you always will. You know, I sing "Home from the forest" some times and it makes me think about my grandfather, my dad and my children and how life is so uncertain as to how we all end up. I have a hard time getting through that song these days because it is so emotional to sing it. When I was a younger man with no children of my own, I understood some of your songs, but I was unable to really feel the emotion until years later, with experiences of life to add to the singing! What I can't get over is the fact that as a songwriter you had so much depth to your music and lyrics at such a young age. It had taken my about 25 years to even come close in most respects, never mind actually understanding the feelings behind the words. Anyone can read a great poem or song lyric, and feel some of what the writer is writing. You however created such incredible lines, at such a young age that it is truly phenomenal. I don't think you need to hear anymore of such praise, as you probably hear it all the time to the point that you are tired of it. But I am thankful for this forum to express these thought to you, especially on the occasion of your updoming birthday. This is because I have not had luck in getting to say these things in person before, (since when I sent you a letter and some unsolicited tapes by mail, and also through your road manager at a local concert; I realized that you must be bombarded with this stuff by the thousands). So I just gave up trying to contact you. I still hope someday to meet you, preferrably with my three children at a concert sometime so that they can say that they too met you. Though it is still only a dream to me, I hope that you will be able to hear some of my better songs, like I said earlier, so that you can see the effect of your inspiration, your teaching of me without even trying. This would not be to solicit your comments, or critique, or your help, but just so you can see once again, how incredibly you have affected this "North American's Life". Well, I guess I've told it pretty much like it is, and I wish you the very best, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! : ) PS -By the way, your birthday and my dad's are only a couple of days apart, as is my parent's wedding aniversary. I wrote a song about them partly inspired by your style called "And their Golden Wedding Rings". They've been married about 59 years now, and I wrote it on the occasion of the 50th annivarsary. Anyway, God Bless, and remember to "Go first in the world...and pity the stranger who stands at your door." And though I've had to "trade off my (his) Martins" over the years to keep the rent paid, it's been a "carefree Highway", long and happy for the most part, thanks in part to your music. I do have one thing to ask of you though and that is, if you can, and only if you remember the thoughts I've written here today, that the next time you take the stage, or even pick-up a guitar at home or in the dressing room to sing a song for a minute, please be sure to play at least one song especially for me and my children sometime Gordon. The request is "Home From The Forest", for Tom, Caitlynn, James and Joseph. You will always be truly remembered well and dearly loved for you musical gifts to us all. If I ever make it to the "big time" (I've only been a big fish in a small pond in 'Show-Biz'), I'll be sure to tell it like it is as to your influence and inspiration, not for what it may get me, but for what it says about you. Sincerely, Tom Abdow - Just another Songwriter.

[leslie owens]

Happy Birthday Gord-here's to many more!
Saw your concert on the CBC special on Oct. 22--Thank You!

[stanleydiaz@earthlink.net]

ThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyou Mr. Gordon Lightfoot!!!!! We went to your spectacular concert in Columbia, Missouri last night (11/5) and were treated to a most perfect performance by you and your superior band! We decided that one thing that made it so wonderful is that you sang your songs just as we remember them, not jazzed up and changed around to make them 'modern'. What fun to experience your sense of humor (hey-you're a real person) ! After so many years of playing your Gord's Gold album down to the white, I finally got to see and hear you in person and you were even better than ever. I found myself crying at the end because it was over much too soon. I'm still humming.
May you have oodles of birthdays to come, filled with inspiration for more golden hits that we can love and sing along with. Thank you for all your tender love songs, your fun "toe-tappin" songs, and ballads that have lifted me up over the years.
HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY GORDON LIGHTFOOT! WE LOVE YOU!!!
~elena & stanley

[dmmphc]

Happy Birthday Gordon Lightfoot. Thank you for the timeless hours I have spent with your music. My father captained freighters on the Great Lakes; my husband's grandfather ran a railroad and we have both spent (and still spend) our best hours tilting at windmills. For more than 30 years, your music has articulated our heartsongs in a way no other artist has accomplished. Happy birthday Gord.

[Al Bevens]

Dear Gord,
My wife and I have been listening to, and loving, your music since we married in 1972. Our favorite album of that time was If You Could Read My Mind. Since then, we've bought everything you'vr done that we could get our hands on. We listen to other music as well, but you are and will always be, our favorite. You've provided the soundtrack of our lives. We saw you in Louisville at the Palace Theater, about the time of the Dream Street Rose Tour, I think. We love you. God Bless.

[Williern1701@aol.com]

Happy Birthday Gordon. I truly wonder if you are aware of the dreams and feelings you create in people who listen to your music. As humble and contemplative as I am, it brings pure exhaltation to hear your words. Have a wonderful Birthday. I am getting married in a couple of years, would give anything to have your talent there!

[avi appel]

dear gordon:
have a vary happy birthday !
and may god give you all the hart-warming
fellings that you gave us with your music
love
the appel family from ISRAEL

[henn9982]

Happy birthday. Thank you you are one of my favorite singers.
From Shaemus Robert Dirty Moccasins 10 And Pfeifer-Jones Hennigan.

[d42usa]

Happy birthday from Fairbanks, Alaska! Jerry says hi too. Hope you get up here soon! I also wanted to let you know that I ordered the D18-GL. CAN'T WAIT TO GET IT.
Again, happy birthday, and thanks for all the tunes!
Sheldon

[cmiller3]

Happy B-Day Gordon!! You music is wonderful! Hope I get the chance to meet you at Milwaulke Wisconsin next year in April. Have a great day!!

[christiemolnarlove]

Well Dearest Gordon: It has been albeit, perhaps over 35 years that your music has "Sewn seams through all my hopes, through all my dreams.." Many, many live dates and many repairs to my soul and heart on those dark and stormy nights. I think that it is wonderful, that this techno-tool, can bring a united greeting, and humble inter-continental Thank You for all that you have given. As I write this, I reflect back to The Troubador, and Rick escorting me back stage. In my life, I have had the privilage of meeting many talented contributors, from screen, stage, canvas, and audio, and none, rendered me with as much shy gratitude, as my respect for you. I recall the days with Red Shea, John Stockfish, and I realize, that your albums, the shows I have been to, create a timeline of my life.
Bless you and the guys!
Christie Molnar-Love

[kgaston]

Happy Birthday and many, many more, Gordon Light(of my Life)foot. The first time ever I saw your face... at a concert in Fort Worth, Texas, mid seventies. Cannot tell you how many LP's I bought over and over again because was sure I heard the slightest scratchy noise of imperfection, and feared I would never hear it the same way again, so perfectly exquisite as you were on stage. Never wrote a fan letter, save that one, before or since, seeing you in concert. Cried worshipful tears for two days just because you were so perfect. Just discovered the early songs on the Songbook, 'Remember Me', and 'It's Too Late.'Youth is so painfully gorgeous but so, too, is a life well seasoned. We will always remember you, Gordon.

[Sandy]

Happy Birthday, Gordon!

You are one of the 10 greatest storytellers of our time. (Of any time, actually.) But I wish I could find the album that has Knotty Pine on it! It is nowhere to be found! I want it and I can't find it!

Have a great birthday. Mine is only 3 days after yours. Thanks for making such great music.

Sandy Wyche
Grand Rapids, Michigan

P.S. When are you coming back to Grand Rapids? I'll be there.

[Mary]

Dear Mr. Lightfoot,
Happy Birthday and many more years of good health to you and yours. Your music continues to inspire and entertain me as it has for the past 30 years. Please come back to the Chicago area soon.

[GDonegan]

happy birthday, gordon!!

thank you for being the most inspiring songwriter i have ever heard...

-gina

[Pam Burton]

Dear Gordon,
I want to wish you a happy birthday. You have been so much a part of my life that I just have to celebrate yours. I can't imagine my life without your music. I have seen you in concert 5 times and hope to see you next time your near. I have looked at your web sites and I am glad to see so many others appreciate you as well. I'll be thinking of you on your birthday I hope you have a wonderful day. Pam Burton Cinti. OH
pam.Burton@clermontchamber.com

[augustson9@aol.com]

Happy birthday to you Gordon. We really enjoyed the concert in Sprigfield, Mo. Nov. 6th, you were fantastic. I was hoping you might ask someone from the audience to come up and play along with you on your nice old Martin.I've been a fan since 1970 my wife spoke with you on the roy Leonard show in chicago wgn radio about 1980 you just released Shadows I think.
i now own 2 Martin's thanks to you, you have inspired me to play and sing your songs.
God Bless and stick around a while.
Dale Augustson
Springfield, Mo.
11/7/00

[augustson9]

Happy birthday to you Gordon. We really enjoyed the concert in Sprigfield, Mo. Nov. 6th, you were fantastic. I was hoping you might ask someone from the audience to come up and play along with you on your nice old Martin.I've been a fan since 1970 my wife spoke with you on the roy Leonard show in chicago wgn radio about 1980 you just released Shadows I think.
i now own 2 Martin's thanks to you, you have inspired me to play and sing your songs.
God Bless and stick around a while.
Dale Augustson
Springfield, Mo.
11/7/00

[sundownbuff]

Dear Gordon,

Many wishes for a happy birthday. Thank you for so many great songs and great memories.
Your music continues to sooth us in our times of need.
I, as a fan, appreciate how kind you are to your fans. Have a great day with your family.
With affection,
Betty

[tjbonner]

Happy Birthday, Gordon! Thanks for many years of wonderful music! God bless...

[young stranger]

Dear Gord,
Hope you enjoy your birthday. Thanks for all the great music, can't wait to see the shows in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Please let your band members know how much they are all appreciated for the unique talents they bring to your extraordinary songs.

Best wishes to you, your family and friends,
Chris Gribbin

[mreader49@gateway.net]

Anyone who can use the word 'verdant' in a song it okay in my book! Best Wishes for a wonderful Birthday and year. I think my 18 year old son enjoys your work as much as I do!

[averkade@direct.ca]

Dear Gordon
I feel honored to be able to wish you a happy birthday. I first remember seeing and hearing you when you had a show on TV just before Wide World of Sports.
I wasn't a fan back then but became one when my best friend started playign your music and have been a fan now going on for over thirty years. I liked your recent special on CBC and hope you come to Vancouver so I can see you live.
Thanks again for thirty years plus years of musical enjoyment.

Alex Verkade

[jezjjez]

happy birthday Gord from Beth & Linda the Calvin Theater, Northampton, Ma. A big hello to Rick Haynes, too!

[Richard]

Gordon
Thanks for all the inspiration you gave me through my life.I heard you in the 60's
at the Main Point Phili and a fan ever since.I had distinct pleasue meeting with you and your band in the early 70's at Klienhans Buffalo.Because of you I picked up a guitar and been playing your music were ever people like to hear it.
Thank you and Happy Birthday to you
God Bless you

[Sabrina]

Happy Birthday, Gordon!

And thank you for many wonderful songs and good memories shared last night here in Minneapolis (or as you call us, "Minnie"). The show was superb. My mother and I enjoyed every moment of it. I especially enjoyed hearing the newer songs for the first time, although you made us all happy by playing the old favorites like "Early Mornin' Rain". You have a wonderfully engaging way with the audience. Really made me feel like we were all sitting around a campfire sharing songs, and I wanted very much to come up onto stage and sing harmony with you!

Thanks again, and kudos to your band, as well. They were great.

Have a wonderful birthday next week.

[Linda]

Happy Birthday, Gordon. In another time, you would have been considered one of those rare poets whose depth enriches the testament to the time you lived and would be read by generations to come as great literature. Your lyrics and you music are certainly that.Best wishes always, Linda Bowden

[John and Eileen]

Happy Birthday,
We hope this finds you well.
Mr Lightfoot, in my opinion your remark about the Edmond Fitzgerald (song) adding 25 yrs to your career was way off. My wife and myself have reveled and been inspired by your artistry for over 20 years.
John and Eileen Gilbertson
Sioux Falls South Dakota

[Randy Havens]

Just attended your show in Sprinfield, MO. Thanks for a great show

[bittergreen]

Happy Birthday, Gordon!! Got to see you for the fourth time in Wabash, Indiana a couple of weeks ago and finally got the chance to meet you. Thank you for the time to talk. This concert was indeed a special one, as my daughter and oldest grand-daughter were with me! The goodnight hug will not be forgotten by my grand-daughter! We are already making plans to include the youngest girl next year. She is almost three, but knows you already and comes running when she hears one of your songs playing.(Who says there's no hope for the next generation?)
May you always be blessed for the lives and hearts you have touched.

[Mike in Grand Forks]

Happy Birthday!
Thanks for a terrific performance in Minneapolis. It was my umpteenth time at one of your concerts, and they seemed to be more enjoyable each time. (Thanks especially for playing "Restless," my favorite of your '90s songs. Hope you play in Grand Forks again. Your talents have provided many enjoyable hours for me and so many others. I'll never complain that you've stopped playing "The Auctioneer," either.

[supaiblue]

!!Happy Birthday Gordon Lightfoot!!

Thanks for a lifetime of songs that take us down the carefree highway and on the high seas. Here's hoping that you rest easy, if only for the day, then press on working on that next album for us.

I do have one small request--please see what you can do about the release of the final four. The record player has long since given up the ghost, the vinyls have worn thin, my tapes squeak, and I miss Old Dan's Records! Thanks again and enjoy your day.

Supaiblue
11/12/00

[Russ Nelson]

A very best birthday wishes to you, Gordon Lightfoot. You are the only entertainer that I regularly check the concert schedule here in the Pacific Northwest for upcoming visits. Do you remember the comical glasses that Pee Wee use to wear during your performance of Old Dan's Records? He threw them to my family after a concert at the Puyallup Fair and we still keep it on display. I hope to see you perform again in the Seattle area soon. Thanks for the years of great music. Russ Nelson

[Shanna Lynn]

Happy Birthday Gordon! As my mom (aka Bittergreen) posted on here, it was great to see you in Wabash a couple weeks ago. I'm still in shock to have met you! This has been my third time to see you and the most memorable so far. You are great and I can't wait til next year when my three year old can go. Like at the show, I'm at a loss for words, so I'll just end this with a Happy Birthday and best wishes. See ya next year!

[JackieBlue22]

Dear Mr. Lightfoot,
A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!
GOD BLESS YOU, TODAY AND ALWAYS!
Thank you for so many years of beautiful, heartfelt, music!
Love and best wishes, Jackie

[Barbara Averill]

Your Minneapolis concert was great. Happy Birthday from all of us who have
enjoyed your music over the years. I've listened to your tunes dating my
husband, in the labor room waiting for my daughter to be born, at concerts,
on road trips... you name it, but I've always enjoyed hearing your wonderful
songs and creative lyrics. Our friend and fellow longtime fan from Seattle
flew to Minneapolis to join us Nov. 11 in the beautiful State Theatre. A
night to remember. Inspirational. Fun. A Pokemon world, indeed. Happy
Birthday!

Barbara Averill
River Falls, Wis.

[wordmanray]

Gordon...We share the same birthday and the same calling...you have been my lifelong inspiration...happy birthday from Denamrk

[Dr.Henry M. BODENSEHER]

We sing for you an Austrian birthday song:
HOCH SOLL ER LEBEN
HOCH SOLL ER LEBEN
DREI MAL HOCH !!

Congratulations

Henry
(Vienna, Austria)

[stevenmomm]

Mr. G.

For sharing your spirit with so many of us for so long and inspiring and inciting those like me, I thank you. Here's to faith in the magic of your lyrics and the power of your melodies. Happy birthday. God bless you.

[Laura]

Dear Gordon:

Having followed your career since the early
70's, I can honestly say I enjoy your music as much today as I did then. Thank you very much for so many years of great music. Since my birthday falls two days before yours, you always come to mind mid-November...so from one Scorpio to another, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

I had the privilege of meeting you several years back, and you were every bit as gracious and charming as I hoped you would be. Please know that the memory of this, along with your music, has enriched my life.

Your #1 Fan in Chicago, Laura

[CactusWill]

Happy Birthday Gordon!

Today is November 15, 2000. The first snowflakes of the year have just landed here in the Pocono Mountains, putting me in a reflective mood. It was on November 15,1994 (exactly six years ago this day) that my husband and I were fortunate enough to see you perform at Carnegie Hall. Actually "perform" isn't quite the right word, because you seemed so comfortable and relaxed on stage as if you were playing in your own home.

My most vivid memory of that evening, however, was after the show. As frosty winds swept through the city, you graciously stood outside with your fans and greeted each person like an old friend. Your kindness warmed all our hearts, keeping the chill at bay. Thank you.

Our birthday wish for you: May each day bring you health, happiness, and all the best in life.

Sincerely,

Ricki and Cactus Will Warner
Canadensis, Pennsylvania

[catmanron]

Happy Birthday Gordon ( and Many More !!)

Thankyou for the years of pleasure you have given me. Have a great day mate, keep up the good work, and have a great day.

Ron. Melbourne, Australia

[joveski]

Happy birthday Gord if you happen to read this. Thanks for all the great albums that you've recorded and may you have many more (birthdays & albums!)


Mende,
Melbourne, Australia too :)

[Nathan Myers]

Have a great Birthday Gordon!! I have followed your music since you released "If You Could Read My Mind"! I have enjoyed your ballads and down to earth folk music. I hope to hear you in concert here in Indiana sometime in the near future.

Best Regards, Nathan Myers

[Michelle]

quote:Originally posted by Florian:
Happy Birthday, Gordon Lightfoot!

Hello! Happy birthday to you.
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As suggested, I'd like to collect all birthday wishes under one topic, and I'll then print it out and send it to Gordon Lightfoot.

Please post your birthday greeting by clicking on the "Post Reply" button.

I'm sure he will be most happy to see how much he is appreciated all around the world.

[This message has been edited by Florian (edited September 24, 2000).]

[Michelle]

Happy Birthday to you!

[Susan]

Happy Birthday Sir!

Your music is the one constant in my life. Thank you so much for sharing your awesome talent. I wish you health and happiness, and the best birthday ever!

Susan

[wolfebay]

Happy Birthday, Gord!
Thanks for so many years of enjoyment for me and my family, seeing you in concert and having your songs as the soundtrack to our lives. Here's to many more!

[Kevan]

I owe you a lot Gord. 30 years ago I wore down 33's to get every Travis picking lick. Still enjoy playing your tunes. Have a wonderful day!

[boo and dave]

Happy Birthday! Thanks for the great songs! Keep up the great work!

[Kevan_]

Hi Gord. Just a note to say I've been playing for 30 years now thanks to you. I learned Travis picking off your records and continue to pick your tunes. Have a great day today.

[lightfootfan]

Happy Birthday Gordon!! You are the best!! We sure do enjoy all of your music!
Ray and Maryann Taylor

[steggy]

Happy Birthday to the Canadian Troubadour!

Earlier today, I was playing the "Sundown" LP while working on a project for a client. I've had this LP since 1972 or 1973 (not sure, but I was in my late twenties when I received as a gift). When you started singing "Is There Anyone Home" I had to stop what I was doing, turn up the volume and listen. I've heard this song many times but it still speaks to me, as do all of your songs. I've got other albums (all LP's) of yours, all of them still sounding like new, and all of them filled with meaningful music.

It is my sincere wish that you enjoy many more birthdays and fill that time with the creation of more fine music. God bless you and keep that guitar hummin'!

[2Much2Lose]

Happy Birthday, Gord.

I know it's not one of your songs, but the lyrics to "Killing Me Softly" describe the effect of your songs on me, except those times when "it's like a few good friends and neighbors playin' the nighttime tunes."

So glad to see you are coming back to McCarter Theatre, where 26 years ago it was "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face."

You keep playing and we'll keep listening. I know that's a one-sided bargain with us getting the best of the deal, but I hope you will agree.

May your happiness only increase.

[Tom]

Happy Birthday Gordon! You are & always will be a special person in my life. Your music is always there for me, whether I'm up or down. Your a true hero. May you have many more e-birthdays!
Love, Tom

P.S. Can you sing that "Early Morning Rain" song one more time? http://www.corfid.com/ubb/smile.gif

P.S.S. Please visit my 1st websight @ www.myplay.com (http://www.myplay.com) then click "my locker" and enter--email: ElvisAronPresley@aol.com & Password: Gord62 http://www.corfid.com/ubb/smile.gif

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[Happy birthday,Gord. Your]

Happy birthday,Gord. Your music has given me so much pleasure over many, many years and I hope you'll keep on keeping on for many years to come. Have a great day, and a wonderful year. Thanks for the great music.

[agiappraisers@aol.com]

I caught your concert last Friday evening in Minneapolis 11/11/00 with a very special friend of 23 years. It is your music that was the catalyst for him to come down from Alaska to enjoy his birthday. Thank you for all of the wonderful years that we have enjoyed each and every one of your songs. You are the best!!
Robyn and Randy

[Florian]

Many thanks to everyone who has signed this birthday card.

I will now close the card for this year, and you can read the exiting story of the delivery of this card at:

Delivery of the Birthday Card (http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000502.html)