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Originally Posted by johnfowles
Jimbo you really should by now have found and read Wayne's comprehensive page on this subject at:-
http://www.lightfoot.ca/songbook.htm
for yours and Ron's education and interest Wayne says:-
SUNDAY CONCERT
- No book was issued.
- See "Sit Down Young Stranger"
SIT DOWN YOUNG STRANGER
- Apology, In A Windowpane and Leaves Of Grass from Sunday Concert are included in this book. Unfortunately, Ballad Of The Yarmouth Castle and The Lost Children are not |
The ongoing uncertainty of the validity of the "Sunday Concert" songbook keeps my mind constantly in the "probing mode" and I have to admit that I am unable to come up with anything to this point to confirm that there was in fact one published.
What troubles me though is that apart from the vivid image of it there in my collection, I also remember learning the chords to "Ballad of the Yarmouth Castle," "The Lost Children" as well as "In a Windowpane," and "Leaves of Grass," as I used to get requests for those tunes at parties etc. in those days.
I would never be able to figure out "Gord's chords" without the help of his songbooks as my ear is far from keen when it comes to sorting out individual notes, chords etc. and I never did learn how to read music.
The Sunday Concert album was recorded in March, 1969 and I remember it well as I was there in Massey Hall that afternoon up real close to the front.
There was no E Bay in those days and Wayne Francis was just a kid.
My songbooks were shared with other aspiring Gordon Lightfoot fans and there were occasions when I needed to refer to one and upon discovering that it wasn't in the collection I simply went out and bought a second copy, and I still have several duplicates of some.
"A & A Records and Books" was next door to "Sam the Record Man" on Yonge Street in Toronto and that's where I would buy all my songbooks.
The "Sunday Concert Songbook" issue might haunt me to the grave. I need help!
Stay loose.
The Elder Jones.