They are all the same recording, from the live concert in March, 1969. The original album is Sunday Concert. Classic Lightfoot was just a repackaging of several of his UA recordings. Sunday Concert Plus is the Bear Family CD which contains the original Sunday Concert (11 tracks) plus five bonus tracks. The bigger question is which CD to buy today, if you are looking for Yarmouth Castle.
There are several different CDs which have the Sunday Concert recordings. In the US, there is a CD called "Live", from EMI/Capital, which contains just this one album. In Canada, there is a 3 CD set with everything (5 albums) from the UA period. I think that CD collection is called Original Lightfoot. There is a UK CD (BGO) with two albums: Early Lightfoot (his first UA album titled Lightfoot! in the US)/Sunday Concert, and there is the (German) Bear Family CD mentioned above. This release is a different mix from the others; most people like it better. But the five bonus tracks should be the tie-breaker. Two of the songs are definitely worth having: Spin, Spin and Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues (a Dylan song). They were released only as singles. This album, because it is an import, is relatively expensive, often listed in the $20s. If you shop around, you may find it in the high teens. It's worth it.
Or, when you get drawn in, you will find that you have to have all of them ...
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Valerie Magee
[This message has been edited by vlmagee (edited February 20, 2000).]
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