Gordon Lightfoot / A Lesson In Love ~ HOTEL~ 1988 !
 

"Gordon Lightfoot took an acting role for an episode in this series, playing an itinerant country singer with a drinking problem, on the comeback trail."~1988~... (lightfoot.ca)

Re: Gordon Lightfoot / A Lesson In Love ~ HOTEL~ 1988 !
 

wow! been curious about this for years, love to see the whole show. good find!

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Well.........I too was curious about the "Hotel" appearance. Was never a fan of the show so I missed this one. It was Gord being Gord, I think (What was that Buck Owens song about acting naturally?). Great song of course and I certainly like watching Gord perform.

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WOW GREAT find jjoe!!! I hated that show (and all others like them) but would force myself to watch an episode if there was a guest star I liked. This one with Gordon may had been the 1st time I had ever watched Hotel.

Mostly I hated that show because it took over the time slot where St. Elsewhere had been :(.

I didn't like seeing my childhood idol portraying an alcoholic, but just the rare chance to see him on TV was a great thrill. His acting was fine!

Re: Gordon Lightfoot / A Lesson In Love ~ HOTEL~ 1988 !
 

Thanks for posting this! I hadn't seen it either. The actor who plays "Gord's" son also played Albert on Little House on the Prarie.

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Bet Gord weren't happy about all the lines of his song being misplaced in the edit! His acting seems really good though! I thought he did a good job in "Harry Tracy".

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Wow. I was always curious too.
Now I am even more curious. Why is a country singer, complete with fringe, singing adult contemporary with a saxophone back up??

It is fun to Gord " On the TV".

Re: Gordon Lightfoot / A Lesson In Love ~ HOTEL~ 1988 !
 

That must have been "Thicke Of The Night" that I never got to see an episode. Down here it was only on Cable TV, and Cap-Pele where I was living @ that time had no Cable yet. But I did read about that show. Alan Thicke going on (ABC i think ??) against Johnny Carson, it didn't last long. It was Dick Shawn(comedian) that once said Alan going against 'The Tonight Show'... that's why his name is "thicke"... lol...got some laugh.

The 'Kirkland Lake' Ontario, born had a succesful day time talk show in Canada on CTV,( maybe this is the one your reffering to Misty ?) which he left for his late night try out. :)

Re: Gordon Lightfoot / A Lesson In Love ~ HOTEL~ 1988 !
 

ok, digital dropout when converting but not the worst quality out there

... ’not bad’ as Gord says

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Really great stuff why is it in B&W ? You know I never got to see one episode of TOTN. Thank you very much jj.

If your taking request let me know... because what I see @ Wayne's Site about his TV appearances there is a lot that I never saw, seems unreal...

However he does not have the interview that I posted this afternoon with Alan Thicke & Helen Shaver.

Re: Gordon Lightfoot / A Lesson In Love ~ HOTEL~ 1988 !
 

Isn't it funny the things you don't notice when you're younger?

I had no idea back then that people lip-syched on TV shows. ( Despite the show cslled "Puttin' On the Hits" where contestents lip-sybched songs. )

In the case of this episode,I didn't see it until years later. Nice to see GL on a TV show.

The dialouge has unfortuanatly not aged well,not to mention the style of acting. (


( No thats not a comment on Gordon. ) ;)

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thanks jjo, i never saw those earlier clips before...i've actually never seen any Hotel episode....i think GL seemed more natural here than in the Harry flick

enjoyed everything but the climatic tune...the GL voice and sax don't mix, imo

cheers

Re: Gordon Lightfoot / A Lesson In Love ~ HOTEL~ 1988 !
 

Thanks for putting these up! i think gord was pretty good here, tho it was a pretty poor show!

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Sorry--I'm a huge fan, but this was just an embarassment. The show was awful, the plot and dénouement hokey and contrived, the songs totally inappropriate and as an actor, well...Gord is a great singer/songwriter. I don't know if this was his last shot at acting, but if it was, then he made the right decision not to pursue it. I find it interesting that he has such a good singing voice, but not much expressive range in his voice when he's acting. I think it was Dorothy Parker talking about Katherine Hepburn when she said that her acting ran the gamut of emotions from A to B...
DQ

Re: Gordon Lightfoot / A Lesson In Love ~ HOTEL~ 1988 !
 

Gordon Lightfoot has said many times that he didn't like what he saw on Harry Tracy & Hotel. And told the late great Peter Gzowski, that he was going to do what the Lord had meant for him to do; which is to sing & play guitar ! :)

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Really happy you got to see them for a first time jj. ;)