"Never Trust Me" - What Year?
 

Just listening tonight to "Never Trust Me" from Gordon's Songbook. I really like the song. Songbook came out in 1999...does anyone know what year Gordon recorded "Never Trust Me" and why it was not on any other albums/cds (as far as I know)?

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I think it was from the Salute era, I think Gord mentioned that either in Songbook or somewhere else. It wasn't on an LP because back then you could only put so many tracks on a LP and that song probably ended up on the cutting room floor.

Unlike a CD today where you can cram as many as 22 tracks on one disc :)

Re: "Never Trust Me" - What Year?
 

http://gordonlightfoot.com/songbooktracklisting.shtml

Recorded in 1982.

Re: "Never Trust Me" - What Year?
 

And on Wayne's site he has a page of album notes at
http://www.lightfoot.ca/albrecno.htm
on which he shows "Never Say Trust Me" as an "out-take" from Salute which was released in July 1983

Re: "Never Trust Me" - What Year?
 

Somewhere I remember that Gordon had written a bunch of songs in the 1982-83 period and had offered them to Kenny Rogers to record. Kenny was cranking out the hits at that time including Bob Seger's "We've Got Tonight" and Lionel Ritchie's "Lady."

I think one of the songs Kenny Rogers turned down was "Never Say Trust Me." Other songbook selections, "Why Should I Feel Blue?" and "Always on the Bright Side" may be a couple of the others.

"Shadows" and "Salute" are outstanding albums and vastly underrated. I consider "Shadows" Lightfoot's masterpiece. (Don't change a thing.)

I don't believe that any of the songs on Songbook above would have strengthened "Salute" or have been a hit. They are decent songs, album-worthy, but not drop dead gorgeous. I actually think "Forgive Me Lord" was the best unreleased song on Songbook, but perhaps I'm a bit biased because I heard it in concert several times during the 1980's.

The one mysterious thing from the "Salute" era is why the song, "My Love for You" from the "Harry Tracy" film was never released. Beautiful song that had the potential for a hit. Must have been a legal or contractual reason.

Re: "Never Trust Me" - What Year?
 

It's a nice song, but trust, you know how that goes. :(

A few months ago, in a dream, I was singing, "If trust was just a simple thing, then trusting I would be."

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"Never Say Trust Me" is a great song, and I agree with others that the song was from around 1983, thereabouts.
In an interview Gord did on Q that was linked form Corfid, he said that he felt that his stuff wasn't promoted as well as it could have been. Too bad because "Salute" was a good record and a bit of a stylistic departure.