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Originally posted by johnfowles:
I am bringing this topic back into circulation for the benefit of the newcomeres around here who never saw it before
John Fowles
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And once again for the very same reason due to the recent new topic
"Your first GL Album "
athttp://www.corfid.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=004651
which is itself a reappraisal of an earlier one:-
"The first GL album you've ever owned?" at:-
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/ultimatebb...=003628#000004
and to add further notes and pictures of my first GL album
I have told this story before so if you know it please go and read something else!
Living in Montreal in 1966 I had become used to the then novelty of high quality broadcasting using the then new VHF FM technology.
one of the local top 40 stations was CJAD
and I now see that back in 1962 they had started FM transmissions see:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJFM-FM
where I have just read
"the station was owned by Montreal's AM station CJAD (800) and originally intended to sign as CJAD-FM, it signed on with the CJFM call and separate programming - an innovation at the time."
Anyway at that time I if I heard an interesting recording I would track down the album it came from to evaliuate thev artist, resulting in a heap of LPs thayt I onkly ever played the one track. during 1966 I heard these two wonderful records by some Lightfoot fellow "Spin Spin" and his beautiful cover of Ewan's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"(I really am not sure now which one I heard first) I found the Canadian original issue of Lightfoot!
in our local Morgans store (now the Bay) in Dorval and like others have said the next is very much my personal history. I loved that album but made the mistake of lending it to a girl in my apartment block whose record player was evidently fitted with a ginormous knitting needle which comprehendsively ruined it.
Later after returning to the UK I found that it was in time issued there under the same title as had been used for Gord's first album (the AME collection of early Nashville recorded singles
"Early Lightfoot"
I was then able to chuck the original unplayable LP and by cleverly opening the new sleeve out and pasting on the two halves of the original sleeve created a unique gatefold sleeve that of course contains both sets of liner notes that I reproduced above.
To complete this story I then bought every one of the ensuing 19 albums as soon after release as possible starting with The Way I Feel in 1967
(soon after my first of to date 45 concerts
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/LIGHTFO...1_concerts.htm
which was now just over
40 years ago on May 21st 1967 at Montreal's New Penelope coffee bar)
