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Originally Posted by Tim
JJ wrote:
Okay, fair enough. However, have you given credit to those songs which appear ONLY on a compilation CD such as "If It Should Please You" from GG2, or the numerous songs that appear only on the "Songbook" CD.
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good one, yes, need to include IISPY from GG2 for sure
yeah, included were those 18 off of Songbook
so to recap:
# recordings on the twenty standard albums = 217
# songs recorded multiple times on the above = (9)
# songs authored by others (4)
# Songbook rarities = 18
subtotal = 222
previously unreleased song from GG2 = 1
total = 223
as SirJohn has stated in other threads, there are a whack of others that could be added such as those which were played live only or appear on bootlegs and/or from the pre-"Lightfoot!" era
if all lyrics were pasted into a spreadsheet (sound like geosteve and Sir John may have one) then a simple function exists that would count # text characters but i don't know of one that will count # words or better yet, filter out the thousands of repeated words in the lyrics
we would need to have all cordiddlers gather together and count using their fingers and toes, stubbed and all
