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Happy birthday Gord! Best wishes for many, many more....

SM

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Happy 70th birthday to: Gordon Lightfoot !!! :)

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Welcome back to you stationmaster, it's been a while ! :whistle: :)

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Happy Birthday to the one and only!

http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/L/...302271-ca.html

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Happy Birthday to our favorite minstrel!

Birthday horoscope:

IF TODAY IS YOUR BIRTHDAY: A pleasing outcome to your current struggle will begin to take shape. There will be many more ups and downs on your next circuit round the roller coaster of life, but somehow you'll feel more secure about the ride and where it's going. Happy birthday to Gordon Lightfoot, 70.

The Toronto Star http://www.thestar.com/Horoscopes/article/537980 (nice pic, too)

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Happy Birthday, Gordon. And may you have MANY more!!

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And I'd like to add my birthday wishes to my favourite Music Man! :)

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it's still not too late to post wishes at CANOE.ca
http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/L/...302271-ca.html

David has added more fan wishes and 'star' wishes .

National Post horoscope - If Your Birthday is today - Gordon Lightfoot shares your birthday. You're an excellent mediator or go-between with others, especially warring factors. You know how to see both sides, and you have the ethics and responsibility to respond accordingly. You like to help others. You have good money savvy and practical kno-how. You can take care of yourself. Partnerships have been a primary focus this year; next year an important choice awaits you.

Toronto Sun horoscope - Birthday Baby--you are sensitive and a serious friend. You are full of good ideas and are an open-minded crusader.
Live in The Moment - There will be plenty happening this year with regard to your earning and financial power. You must avoid conflict but don't give in or get involved in things you don't agree with. Look at Look at the possibilities and do not fear the outcome. Instead, work diligently, live in the moment and do your best and the result will surprise even you.

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Cheers to you Mr. Lightfoot!! Have a great day with family and friends. To many more such wonderful days.!
NM

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Please visit the site and peruse the birthday wishes. It's amazing....my favorite so far is :

"Gordon Lightfoot has created some of the most beautiful and lasting music of our time. He is Bob Dylan's favorite singer/songwriter - high praise from the best of us, applauded by the rest of us."

-- Kris Kristofferson

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happy birthday!... the card's in the mail

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Happy Birthday Gordon!
Best wishes for a wonderful day...
May the year ahead be truely blessed!

Happy Birthday Gord
 

Happy, happy birthday Gordon and many, many more! Love you! meo

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my sweet Jory has posted this at David's site:
http://blog.canoe.ca/canoedossier/20...d_s_still_gold
and Tom Cochrane @ CANOE:
http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/L/...442496-ca.html

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Happy Birthday and many more Gordie!
Bill Hall

Happy Birth(70)day !!!
 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! GORDONMEREDITH LIGHTFOOT ,JR ( 70)

STILL LOVE your songs & followed your career since 1977 (when I was a child.. grew up with GL music ) thanks to my Dutch father , but unfortunately never been able to attend one of your concerts.

Canada that brought us a World’s MasterCrown Troubadour –“ the work of a mature and gifted songwriter “

Thanks for timeless warm and catchy poets/ ballads and riffs you offered the mankind ears throughout decades, blessed with your beloved musicians Red Shea (lead guitar)- may rest in peace - and Rick Haynes (bass) on your side.

Yes…Blessed I am with the fact that I´m named after one of the top 100 most beautiful songs "a Precious One"ever written on the planet Earth, 2nd track on the album “Summer Side of Life” … how fortuitous !, being born 1971 ( October 13th ), the year this Masterpiece was released.

Great RESPECT for the man ! The highest civilian honour of Troubadour - icon CANADA can be proud of !!!


Have a pleasant celebration with your family and all the people you love… Keep writing and singing your songs in the years may come ! { that more people may inspired by your music }


A Javanese (origin) Dutch devoted Gordon Lightfoot fan

Sugiarto MIGUEL Dijkstra
Leeuwarden - Fryslân, The Netherlands




One -planned- live performance of this Legend in the Netherlands in near future is a Dream come True !

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ok - that's almost impossible to read! the black on blue is hard on these old eyes..
;)
I'll add it to a thread that's already started..

you can send your wishes to:
http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/L/...302271-ca.html
scroll to bottom of page to where it says ypu can post your messages HERE..

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Greatest and happiest wishes on Gordon's 70th Birthday!! :biggrin:

I know it's already getting into the latter part of the evening where he is,so his birthday's nearly done for the day but I knew I had to be here for this monumentous occaision! :)

Hard to believe he was still 64 when i signed up here and at the latter end of 62 when i bought "Songbook" and became a fan. With all that in mind :

Here's to many,many,many,many,more!! :cool:

As for Miguel's message.I simply highligted it. No sweat. ;)

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Happy 70th to the Minstrel of the Dawn!

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Happy Birthday and thanks for the music.

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Happy Birthday Gord.....and thanks for a lifetime of Joy!!!

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An unexpected day off from work today (snow :biggrin:) so I spent the day driving around, exploring the area. Stopped into a Goodwill store and IYCRMM was playing on the radio. A few of us in the store, including yours truly :biggrin: were singing along :). When the song ended...the dj mentioned Gordon's 70th birthday!!!

A Goodwill happy 70th birthday to Gordon Lightfoot :)

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Speaking of IYCRMM. In honor of his 70th I've just posted a cover of this song on YouTube and added it to the thread with my other videos.

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Happy 70th birthday Gordon and thanks for the many timeless musical treasures you've given us over the years!!

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Again, Happy 70th Birthday Gord! We're having a "Gord night", just finished watching Gord's Live In Reno and thought we'd post our birthday wishes. We're on our second glass of wine and on to Songbook...

BTW, Billw, thanks again - your thoughtfulness made my night!

fl
jbt

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A Happy Birthday Gordon, and I hope you enjoy the quilt that I sent.

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Happy Birthday Gordon.
May the next year be full of love and grace for you. I wish you the best.

Anne

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Happy Birthday Gordon, thanks for all the great music and great memories. Hope you have many more years of health and success.

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Happy Birthday! You have two years on me, but don't stop now. I'll be playing your songs tonight at a weekly guitar circle in Frisco, Texas

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Here it is Char in a different color. Or you can scroll down to the left side bottom of the page, and switch it to Default Size instead of Corfid. And that would give you a have a white page, instead of blue ! :)




HAPPY BIRTHDAY! GORDONMEREDITH LIGHTFOOT ,JR ( 70)

STILL LOVE your songs & followed your career since 1977 (when I was a child.. grew up with GL music ) thanks to my Dutch father , but unfortunately never been able to attend one of your concerts.

Canada that brought us a World’s MasterCrown Troubadour –“ the work of a mature and gifted songwriter “

Thanks for timeless warm and catchy poets/ ballads and riffs you offered the mankind ears throughout decades, blessed with your beloved musicians Red Shea (lead guitar)- may rest in peace - and Rick Haynes (bass) on your side.

Yes…Blessed I am with the fact that I´m named after one of the top 100 most beautiful songs "a Precious One"ever written on the planet Earth, 2nd track on the album “Summer Side of Life” … how fortuitous !, being born 1971 ( October 13th ), the year this Masterpiece was released.

Great RESPECT for the man ! The highest civilian honour of Troubadour - icon CANADA can be proud of !!!


Have a pleasant celebration with your family and all the people you love… Keep writing and singing your songs in the years may come ! { that more people may inspired by your music }


A Javanese (origin) Dutch devoted Gordon Lightfoot fan

Sugiarto MIGUEL Dijkstra
Leeuwarden - Fryslân, The Netherlands




One -planned- live performance of this Legend in the Netherlands in near future is a Dream come True !

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http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/L/...442496-ca.html

Nice piece ... I think by now our Gord must have a pretty good idea of how treasured he and his music are.

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Here it is in a different size & color. Or you can scroll down to the left side bottom of the page, and switch it to Default Size instead of Corfid. And that would give you a have a white page, instead of blue !:)

Quote:

Originally Posted by MiguelD71 (Post 145834) HAPPY BIRTHDAY! GORDONMEREDITH LIGHTFOOT ,JR ( 70)

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glad I could help !

Bill :)

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Happy 70th birthday gordon!:headbang::clap:

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Well, you've been part of our family back around the time when I began my school days...I'm somehow never on time in wishing my family members birthday wishes so I am treating you just like one of the family in saying, Happy Belated Birthday, Gordon Lightfoot...see you in '09, good health til then and beyond
regards, Jim

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this is a birthday notation in a Geman newspaper!
http://www.welt.de/welt_print/articl...htfoot-70.html
Glückwunsch
Gordon Lightfoot, 70
Von Michael Pilz 17. November 2008, 02:32 Uhr Gordon Lightfoot feiert heute seinen 70. Geburtstag. Wem das nicht allzu viel sagt: Der Mann, der "Early Morning Rain", "If You Could Read My Mind" und "Don Quixote" geschrieben hat, wird 70 Jahre alt. Lightfoot hat die Gassenhauer auch gesungen. Aber für gewöhnlich werden sie den unzähligen Interpreten zugeschrieben. Peter, Paul & Mary und den Grateful Dead. Bob Dylan und den Dandy Warhols. Tori Amos, Elvis Presley oder Barbara Streisand. Unvergessene Bands wie Fotheringay ("The Way I Feel") wurden durch einen Gordon-Lightfoot-Song bekannt. Und mancher nahm mit einer Lightfoot-Hymne auch Abschied von der Welt, wie Johnny Cash ("If You Could Read My Mind").

Aber zum Jubilar, zu Gordon Lightfoot selbst: Er wuchs in Kanada auf, eine Autostunde nördlich von Toronto, sang im Kirchenchor Sopran und stand bereits als Zwölfjähriger auf der Bühne in der Massey Hall. Als sich die Stimme senkte, wandte Lightfoot sich im Bariton dem Folksong zu. Die nötigen Instrumente brachte er sich selber bei. Mit 20 nahm er ein Musikstudium in Kalifornien auf, sang allerdings auch gern vor Demonstranten. Nach der Abschlussprüfung kehrte er nach Kanada zurück, als Lohnsongschreiber.

1965 nahm ihn der Agent Bob Dylans, Albert Grossman, unter seine Fittiche und schickte ihn nach Newport, nach Europa, sogar in die Hitparaden. Der verkannte Folksänger verfügte nicht nur über eine angenehme Stimme. Gordon Lightfoots luftige Arrangements verrieten auch Geschmack und seine Themen nebenbei einen wachen Geist. "Alberta Bound" handelte von einem obdachlosen Mädchen, das dem Künstler während einer Busreise begegnet war. "The Wreck Of The 'Edmund Fitzgerald'" widmete sich einer Katastrophe auf den Großen Seen Nordamerikas, auch Theodor Fontane hätte die Ballade gut gefallen.

Oft hat Gordon Lightfoot sich dann selber über Plagiate ärgern müssen. "The Greatest Love Of All", gesungen von George Benson und von Whitney Houston später, war in 24 Takten mit "If You Could Read My Mind" identisch. Zuletzt plagten den Jahrhundert-Liedermacher allerdings eher körperliche Leiden. Vor sechs Jahren lag er sechs Wochen im Koma mit einer verschlossenen Arterie. Seit vier Jahren singt er wieder Platten ein, beim Live-8-Benefiz trat Gordon Lightfoot auch leibhaftig auf. Mit Songs, die jeder besser kennt als ihn.

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Would you mind translating that in English or French Charlene ??? :biggrin:

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It's not very good, but this is how Google's translator reads it :


Congratulations
Gordon Lightfoot, 70
By Michael Pilz 17th November 2008, 02:32 clock Gordon Lightfoot today celebrates his 70th Birthday. Should that not too much says: The man, the "Early Morning Rain," "If You Could Read My Mind" and "Don Quixote" has written, is 70 years old. Lightfoot has also sung Gassenhauer. But usually they are attributed to the countless performers. Peter, Paul & Mary and the Grateful Dead. Bob Dylan and the Dandy Warhols. Tori Amos, Elvis Presley and Barbara Streisand. Unforgettable bands as Fotheringay ( "The Way I Feel") have been through a Gordon Lightfoot song known. And some took a Lightfoot anthem also farewell to the world, such as Johnny Cash ( "If You Could Read My Mind").

But the Jubilar to Gordon Lightfoot himself: He grew up in Canada to an hour's drive north of Toronto, sang soprano in the church choir and was already Twelve-year-old on stage in the Massey Hall. As the voice lowered, Lightfoot turned in the Folksongs to baritone. The tools he brought with himself. At 20 he took a music degree in California to sing, however, also like before the demonstrators. After the audit he returned to Canada, when wage songwriter.

1965 took him to Bob Dylan's agent, Albert Grossman, under his wing and sent him to Newport to Europe, even in the charts. The unrecognized Folksänger had not only a pleasant voice. Gordon Lightfoot airy arrangements also revealed his taste and subjects besides an alert mind. "Alberta Bound" acted from a homeless girl, the artist during a trip had met. "The Wreck Of The 'Edmund Fitzgerald'" devoted to a disaster on the Great Lakes of North America, including Theodor Fontane would have liked the ballad.

Often, Gordon Lightfoot then himself on plagiarism annoy them. "The Greatest Love Of All," sung by George Benson and Whitney Houston later, was in 24 bars with "If You Could Read My Mind" identical. Last plagued the century-songwriter, however, more physical suffering. Six years ago he was six weeks in a coma with a closed artery. For four years he sings back plates a live-8-Charity joined Gordon Lightfoot also lives in bodily form on. With songs that everyone knows better than him.

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nice work Detective Ron !
;)

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Very good indeed Ron, thanks man ! :)