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Old 10-27-2007, 11:21 PM   #4
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Default Re: Gordon Lightfoot Midnight Special 1974 SUNDOWN !

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Originally Posted by Jesse Joe View Post
Maybe this was posted before ? First time I seen it...
All very strange while I was watching it here all of a suddenly pffft it closed and youtube apologised "no longer available"
when I refreshed this page it was there again
Meanwhile I had found that it said nothing in that regard on the actual youtube page, but amongst the 3 comments is this by an obvious non-guitarist and non-spellcheck-user
"Great classic =)

Keep going three cord Gord. "

An amazing find Omer, because when I first saw this video it was a file which had varying filenames in particular sundown germany and sundown 1974
and clearly this music video was aired on German television in 1974 in a series apparently called Disco 1974
As you can see from this screenshot the opening and stage

are identical to that on the Midnight Special video.

It was much later when I found a copy of the Midnight Special DVD on Ebay.com that I realised that the two videos are in fact one and the same.The German broadcast inserted the upcoming show menu and a reference by Gord of the following week's show featurung Dr Hook in front of the part in the MS version where it says Sundown in large letters
I had wondered why there is no mention of this apparent 1974 German television appearance on Wayne's site.
but then Wayne's 1974 tour listing reveals that Gord was in some hick city called Cleveland Ohio on 26 October 1974.
He quotes February 23 as the date of the Midnight Special broadcast on NBC that evening Gord was in Annapolis, MD

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Originally Posted by podunklander View Post
Thanks for posting this Jesse Joe! Seems like only yesterday...
tada tada.. "When I heard the teacher say Patiently, one and two make three We were children, you and me"
Good observation Pam, but it was actually the "day before yesterday"

and/or did you think of the the wrong song ? "To late for Prayin" is actually the flipside of Sundown dontcha know
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