[QUOTE]Originally posted by Borderstone:
I was glad when on "Lightfoot in Reno" he could still do "Song From A Winter's Night". It almost sounded the same as the recording.
The Gord's Gold version of this beautiful song is my favorite. This IS the mature Lightfoot voice with that lovely deep baritone resonance that accents with those emotive tremolos. This voice differs from the 60's and early 70's where the voice has a little more of the youthful exuberance and accents more of the higher register. This voice also exhibited a greater magnitude of strength. The mature Lightfoot voice heard in Gord's Gold should still be with us today and only God knows all the reasons that it melted away. Contrasting the Lightfoot voice of the 60's to that of the middle 70's reminds me of the contrast in a singer named Al Jolson. To those that know who he was, his voice in youth was incredibly strong but was more in the higher register. When he was near the end of his life (and after losing a portion of his lung) his register dropped a couple of keys, but it was strong and resonant and came deep from within his diaphragm. That voice when he was in his 60's was the voice I preferred to the younger voice. The Lightfoot voice of the seventies till 1983 is the voice that I listened to live and on recordings and will always epitomize his greatness!
[ June 26, 2005, 20:15: Message edited by: Rich Man Spiritual ]