[johnfowles]

Further to my last posting the subject of the "recording" of Your Song bad as it might be puts me in rather a quandary.
I am trying had to finalise my attempt at making a definitive listing of all songs recorded by GL to help the Lightfoot Tribute Team realise their goal of vistoring all recorded songs by GL. Tom himself has told me that they aim to cover only the "official" recordings but not the various "bootlegs"
"unless there is a compelling reason" to do so.
the problem is defining an "official" recording and what might constitute a "compelling reason"
In my view any "recording" that was made with Gord's knowledge and broadcast whether by radio or television or oin a movie has to be considered official. clearly therefore Your Song has to be included.
the same source also supplies recordings of two other rarities The Seabird Song and The Doomsday Song. I have yet to hear those two from the Weshner collection. Other rarities have to be considered on their merits. For example there are four fine rarities from the aborted 1974 Massey Hall concerts project which is in fairly widespread circulation amongst GL fans. Gord may have disapproved of the actual concert recordings due to his perfectionist dismissal of those tracks affected by a broken fingernail, but there is no denying that they exist and I submit are compelling enough to be included. Another category is the considerable number of album "outtakes" as listed on Wayne's website.
regarding Podmed's "gift" that Mende cannot come up with there used to be a tiny real audio file of Gord's cover of Dylan's Ballad in Plain D available on the Italian Dylan site maggiesfarm.it from where I downloaded it yonks ago but a google just now did not find it dammit.whatever as that very recording was used "officially" in a Bob Dylan film it too has a compelling reason for inclusion in the vistory roster!!