[johnfowles]

Originally Posted by lighthead2toe

Iand it was that night he sang "Face of a Thousand People" which I'd never heard before but was immediately hooked on that song.

Reading the lyrics it's not to difficult to see that this man was ahead of his time.

Cheers, RJ.

No., no Ron he was "out to lunch"!!
Lucky you Ron I could only see it on my black and white television in Montreal
My only real memories of notable new purchases are
1 In early 1967 having heard Spin Spin and The First Time Ever I Lay With You on Montreal's CJFM, I popped into our local Record store and found the great Lightfoot! album, in those days I often bought an LP on spec because it had one good track, but this album was exceptional because every track was great.
2 in 1988 whilst on a short trip back to Montreal from the UK, I ventured over to Ottawa and in the Legend Record store at Lincoln Heights I spent C$2.99 plus 0.21 tax on the yellow label Underground Records reissue of "Spin Spin" b/w "Just Like TomThumbs Blues"
3 IN 1998 I was busy installing a flue in a building next to London Airport, and having been warned by reading the Newsgroup that a new Lightfoot album had been released I phoned the London flagship HMV store and wonderfully they had just one copy of “A Painter Passing Through” I asked them to put it aside for me then as soon as I had finished the flue I fled (flew geddit?) the 15 or so miles in to central London. Imagine my chagrin(no actual grin of course) when at the store they denied having a copy but after some gentle prodding the CD was found in the storeroom with my name on it. I then drove fairly rapidly home the 130 miles to Sherborne in a mood of high expectancy, but as usual with a new album I was singularly unimpressed after that first listen.
Just as with the recently revealed Ted Wesley albums (thanks Yuri.. more comments to follow) .I always found that full appreciation and enjoyment of each new GL album required several run throughs to get familiar