So just how many songs has Gordon Written and/or Recorded???
Whilst I believe this question has been raised before here I do not recall ever seeing a satisfactoy and dfrinitive answer anywhere
Searching the internet only revealed an answer from several years ago that God had recorded over 250 songs and I think at the time i found it I thought well since then there have been three complete albums plus the rarities on Songbook
Such a search did however find me a site that informed me that another Canadian a Mr Anka HAD recorded about 900 songs on 147 albums,. but no definitite current total for Gord
The subject came up again in my mind when I noted yesterday that Tom's vistory team had reached a major milestone by uploading their 100th video see:-
http://www.youtube.com/profile_video...masj157&page=1
and :-
Youtube - Knotty Pine - Gordon Lightfoot - V100
and:-
Youtube - Brave Muntaineers - Gordon Lightfoot-V99
Thereby proving again how badly Jesse Joe has been fallen down on his job
I also couldn't help noticing also that several times Tom has stated a goal of covering by September next year Gordon's entire recorded repertoire and gave this as 233 songs; indeed his IYCRMM vistory contained 233 images (each displayed for one second),apparently following the list on Wayne's site at:-
http://www.lightfoot.ca/lyrics.htm which hust so happens to be about 233 songs long
But Tom may have been possibly and suspiciously influenced by the fact that the album version of IYCRMM runs 2 minutes 53 seconds (233 seconds)!!
In fact Wayne's list is far from complete as it omits the 30 odd extra recordings on the Warner Brothers demo album and a host of other recorded material on other demos plus lots of official television, radio and film recordings let alone a few significent rarities on bootleg recordings some of which viz the 1965 La Cave bootleg appeared on the unofficial but retailed two Koala LPs (Yellow Bird and Get Together)
Another "lyrics" site by "spike" at:-
http://spikesmusic.spike-jamie.com/f...lightfoot.html
actually lists a total of 287 songs including
All the WB Demos
Rock My World To Sleep
Two Crazy Kids
Farewell to Nova Scotia
and the four rare songs recorded at Massey Hall in 1974
but his list also includes a pair of mistitled duplicates and another four that do not think have anything to do with Gord so that is a net total of at least 281
I have been beavering away to concoct the first ever complete listing of GL songs both written by Gord and recorded by him which I hope to upload to my website on Monday but so far I have what I think is an accurate provisional total of exactly 300
unless anybody knows any better???
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Last edited by johnfowles; 09-05-2008 at 09:32 AM.
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