What I find amazing is that there aren't more people in Canada that follow his music like we do on this site. If they did, the radio would play it. But, if the radio does not play it, how will anybody know who does not surf the internet?
The stations that I hear play his music play the older songs like Sundown etc. Never have I heard anything since 1986 on the radio. I was just making an observation about how little he is promoted in his own country. Obviously, Canadians either don't want to hear his newer material or they don't know that it is out there. My guess is that the age group that listens to adult contemporary, enjoy GL and would welcome the chance to know what is new, but they probably have no idea. I had no idea that GL was thinking about making "Painter" much less that it was out on CD until I saw him in concert and he was promoting it. At that time, I was not on the internet so I had no clue about sites such as this one. The same thing happened with "Waiting For You". I had no idea until I saw him in concert. Radio stations get promotional CD's and cassettes when he is about to release anything new. I have one from "Waiting For You". Yet they don't play them and if they do they sure don't play it near enough to do any promoting. I don't expect them to do that here in the US, but in Canada I always thought that he had the popularity of Elvis and no matter what was trendy on the radio, his latest music would be made available to the listeners. Still, I find that suprising that it hasn't happened.
Here in the US you hear his classics on adult contemporary radio. Never, not even once did I see that he had taken ill in Sept. Nor have I seen that he is home. We get very little info. on him and if it wasn't for the internet, I bet that I still would have no idea what had happened. Of course I did have tickets for Oct. so the cancellation call would have clued me in.
[This message has been edited by TheWatchman (edited December 23, 2002).]
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