1968-SHOW OF THE WEEK - videos!!!

[lighthead2toe]

The late night TV news April 20/2012 CBC showed a short segment of Gord singing "Song For a Winter's Night" from the 1968 Documentary show which was the same show he also sang "Face of a Thousand People," one of my favorite Gord tunes.

It was the show in which I was fortunate enough to be invited as a participating audience member.

Wendy Mesley, the CBC host was talking about Gord and his current interviews etc. when the short segment was presented.

It would be interesting to know if anyone else saw this as I missed the first part until "Marian from the Mountains" called to tell me Gord was on TV.

It would have to be somewhere in the CBC archives but I was unable to find any more information.

RJ.

[charlene]

I have it on my PVR and have watched that clip of him singing about 6 times. omyfreaking goodness he had that audience (and you) mesmerized. The voice just flowed out of him..oh lordy he was gorgeous...made me tear up..

[lighthead2toe]

I would love to see that Char if there's some way you could share it.

I remember during the taping of the show he forgot the second verse (The smoke is rising in the shadows overhead).

I was soooo tempted to shout out the words to him, but focused on more familiar words such as "lead us not into temptation" being the good Catholic boy I was brought up to be.

That evening would have to have been "thee" most memorable experience for me as a Lightfoot fan.

Time now for a little "zen" maybe.

RJ.

[charlene]

If anyone has the answer to 'how to get it to my computer from the PVR?? ' i will do so. I sang out 'over me' last night at Rama when he pauses between Ribbon of Darkness and Sundown..lol

[niffer]

Is "PVR" Canadian for DVR? ;)

[charlene]

pretty much !
lol
- Private Video Recorder..

[Lisa J]

Count me in on wanting/ needing a copy of that recording! Please......

[charlene]

43 seconds of 1968 bliss: Lightfoot March 1968 SFAWN - YouTube

[jj]

this takes the cake for "new" footage of the year award, 2012...thus far

i think i know who has the whole show...i will have to hint a little louder about obtaining it! lol

so i think Ron Jones was in the crowd there, no? i looked for a mighty afro:cool:

what, no afro icon to choose from????


thanks for posting...we are standing and CHeering out here:kiss:

[charlene]

well JJ you know very well there's always folks who don't like to share..

So enjoy these 43 seconds that I am pleased to share, at your leisure for as long as youtube allows....lol
;)

[MaryO]

Aweeessommmme!

[Cathy]

Great video, Char!

[lighthead2toe]

Yes, that was the most impressionable concert performance by Gordon Lightfoot I'd ever experienced.

After that show I became "lighthead2toe."

A newcomer to Toronto and in that year 26 years old, my girlfriend and I were seated, as I recall, directly facing Gord but this vid does not show us. The afro had not yet arrived JJ. It came later, maybe late seventies, early eighties. All us guys got them, even Gord bought into it. I guess you could say it was an era sort of thing.

Thanks for sharing this Char. I knew the CBC would have it stashed away somewhere in their Lightfoot treasure trove. We just need them to unravel the rest.

RJ.

[curiousmoonbeam]

Wonderful!! Thank you, Char!

[BILLW]

Nice Char very nice. Thanks for posting.

Ron - I lived back then too and while I had a lot of hair I never styled an afro. Not that there's anything wrong with that, mind you! I'd try one now - if I could, lol.

Bill :)

[charlene]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYkMBxbgrew thanks to Sir John!

[Affair on Touhy Ave.]

I think this was mentioned a long time ago here and now we can watch it.

[paskatefan]

What a voice! Thanks!

Gail

[charlene]

https://i.imgur.com/OTehGOz.jpg

[jj]

my fave part of the whole show is his SFAWN performance and his 6 string picking version of DSMMN... the link to the entire show comes and goes...thx Sir J

[johnfowles]

well JJ you know very well there's always folks who don't like to share..

So enjoy these 43 seconds that I am pleased to share, at your leisure for as long as youtube allows....lol
;)

OK Char I had saved the complete show when it was viewable on Vimeo and here is rather more than your tantalising 43 seconds!!
WAW 12 GL Song For A+Winter's Night - YouTube

[charlene]

Sir John has been busy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCT9uYbGG74

[charlene]

Sir John has been busy..

[Affair on Touhy Ave.]

https://i.imgur.com/OTehGOz.jpg


What does those number 4 6 11 mean?

Been years since I've looked at a TV schedule.

[charlene]

it was broadcast on channels 4, 6 and 11 locally in Toronto area.

[Affair on Touhy Ave.]

I see.


You usually would see a show on more than 1 channel in the US.

[johnfowles]

it was broadcast on channels 4, 6 and 11 locally in Toronto area.
Are you sure Char? Because that is my scan of a cutting that I personally cut from the edition of the TV Guide bought by me in Montreal and to the best of my ability to dredge up memories of the past CBC Television programs were broadcast on just one channel in Montreal and neither Channel 4. 6 or 11 ring any bells whatsoever and in any case I have no idea why that edition of the guide showed channel numbers from Toronto unless they distributed just the one edition for both Montreal and Toronto?
I was very pleased to se that Doug has now uploaded the complete video himself to YouTube and has then displayed it on one of the far too many Lightfoot pages on Facebook I wonder how long it will last there??
TIP If anybody wants to save a copy for themselves I suggest they ask Mr. Google how to do so he has just produced for me a mere 184 million results (although many are probably duplicates or program listing web pages. I have recently had consistently good results using a French online free service (where you simply copy the video URL from the address bar and get a link to download an mp4 format video file easy peasy. but do it soon while the video is still on YouTube to be grabbed

[David]

These videos are wonderful. Thanks to all!

[jj]

great, Sir J .... there are only one or two more live ones by Gord, as I recall...do you have Did She Mention My Name to upload? I want to how someone that he originally played that on 6 string, picking style instead of 12 string strum...yo the man!

[johnfowles]

great, Sir J .... there are only one or two more live ones by Gord, as I recall...do you have Did She Mention My Name to upload? I want to how someone that he originally played that on 6 string, picking style instead of 12 string strum...yo the man!
I hear you James it is now so long ago I forget what freeware program I used I did clip Face of a 1000 people and SFAWN but there are the other two DSMMN and Mountains and Marian just as soon as I tame a freeware program again I will upload them to YouTube too good not to have both of tem up there. Yes both Gord and Red were busy picking their 6-strings on SFAWN. Oops I meant DSMMN of course!!

[charlene]

channel 4 in Toronto back then was from Buffalo. 6 was CBC and 11 was Hamilton..

Are you sure Char? Because that is my scan of a cutting that I personally cut from the edition of the TV Guide bought by me in Montreal and to the best of my ability to dredge up memories of the past CBC Television programs were broadcast on just one channel in Montreal and neither Channel 4. 6 or 11 ring any bells whatsoever and in any case I have no idea why that edition of the guide showed channel numbers from Toronto unless they distributed just the one edition for both Montreal and Toronto?
I was very pleased to se that Doug has now uploaded the complete video himself to YouTube and has then displayed it on one of the far too many Lightfoot pages on Facebook I wonder how long it will last there??
TIP If anybody wants to save a copy for themselves I suggest they ask Mr. Google how to do so he has just produced for me a mere 184 million results (although many are probably duplicates or program listing web pages. I have recently had consistently good results using a French online free service (where you simply copy the video URL from the address bar and get a link to download an mp4 format video file easy peasy. but do it soon while the video is still on YouTube to be grabbed

[johnfowles]

Yer They be
other than the priceless final 15 minute concert session it is IMHO in retrospect a pretty unremarkable "special"
I do not remember how I made the previous two clips but after trying about a dozen freeware programs and a pair of online websites I finally succeeded in taming SPG Video Splitter to produce two more clips
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2AQGyzqpts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfPZUKHYEh8

[johnfowles]

These videos are wonderful. Thanks to all!

Not the famous DJ IN MJ ex Sweden??

[charlene]

Doug put the whole show up
www.youtube.com/watch?v=50XK15NybjU&t=1006s

[lighthead2toe]

Totally mesmerizing as we see here with this audience and I was there up close in the front row.
I recall reading in the Toronto Star that the CBC was looking for audience members to be in attendance to fill the studio room.
Of course I was onto that one in no time and lucked out.
That experience became an indelible mark on me and it's never left. I look at this and it takes me back there, just like it was that night. I would have no idea how to assemble the words to describe just how wonderful a feeling it really is.
It sure comes at a great time as next week we're heading to Orillia for the Lightfoot Tribute festivities. It just keeps getting better.

[Suzi]

Thank you Doug.
Appreciate it.