Further to my comments about sugarmegs I wasted much time pouring over the website then googling in vain to find an uploading facility (a fairly basic requirement I would have thought for a file sharing website) All I could find was a well hidden suggestion that one could email a request to upload a file which to my way of thinking is just plain dumb.
anyway it looks like somebody heeded your request Loverman regarding the super Charlottetown broadcast because I found a new rapidshare link:-
http://rapidshare.com/files/382449426/GLCF69.zip
This proved to be a 73.2 MB zipfile
that unzipped to 16 mp3s totalling 74.8MB
This a wonderful and rare recording of a 1969 radio broadcast.
and whoever made the zipfile included the necessary CD jewel case artwork files
something usually omitted and these include a rare "liner notes" image
Just in case any of you find the text hard to read I have transcribed it for you:-
Although the sound quality of this recording is not that high it is, in the absence of any indication of the existance of better one in the CBC archives,
an important fragment from the 60's.As the announcer says in his introduction this records Gordon's appearance at the Summer 1969 Charlottetown Festival as broadcast on the new CBC FM radio service the following October.
The lack of quality was due as the person who recorded it recounts to the combined use of a portable monaural FM transistor radio connected to portable reel to reel tape recorder, both items being small
basic models and battery powered.In particular the tape machine had a very high wow and flutter value.Nevertheless the result is a very enjoyable recording featuring a number of rare live versions of early
Lightfoot songs. One problem was that at the time the recorder had insufficient blank tape which is why two tracks are incomplete (when the tape simply ran out!!)
Of particular historic interest are two of Gordon's song introductions:-
Track 4
Introducing a new song "Me And Bobby Magee" he spoke at length about the then unknown Kris Kristofferson and disparagingly about the first recording by Roger Miller and his intention to record it himself
"the way it should be done" which he of course did in the following months as a track for his first Warner Brothers album (originally called "Sit Down Young Stranger") and presumably before Kristofferson's
friend Janis Joplin, about whom legend has it he wrote the song, recorded her (posthumous) hit version.
Track 15
Introducing the song "Bitter Green" (penned the previous year in London England) he shed some light on a possible story behind this song, when he said:-
"this song is about the heroine of Pigs Eye Minnesota".
It is fact that a French Canadian fur trapper called "Pigs Eye" Parrant had established a settlement known as Pigs Eye Landing, which when adopted as the location for the capital of the
new state was rechristened with the more dignified and suitable name of one of its prominent churches, St Pauls.
However despite extensive internet research quite who the heroine Gord had in mind remains a mystery.