Early Worner Bros single

[johnfowles]

I just noticed a
new ebay auction item from yesterday at:- http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...034334980&rd=1
This features "warner bros single WB 5621"

I'm Not Sayin' / For Lovin' Me
The seller says:-
'It looks Exactly like the US version but in the fine print around the bottom of the label it says manufactured and distributed in CANADA by the COMPO Company"
Now all my original United Artists albums had pukka UA labels but were similarly from Compo who were based in Lachine Quebec:-actually just down the road from where I then worked (Rolls-Royce Canada in Dorval)
I googled for "compo-lachine-warner" and found this:-
"In the 1950s, Compo pressed more and more records for American companies -- more than 25 in the
1960s, including Warner Brothers"
So was this single actually issued in the US on Warner some years before Gord's celebrated
new 1970 contract with Warner/Reprise?
Anybody know... Valerie perhaps??


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My Gordon Lightfoot webring
starts at
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot](edited to add one of the square [img]brackets that I stupidly onmitted originally




[This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited September 01, 2004).]

[johnfowles]

I just noticed a
new ebay auction item from yesterday at:- http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...034334980&rd=1
This features "warner bros single WB 5621"

I'm Not Sayin' / For Lovin' Me
The seller says:-
'It looks Exactly like the US version but in the fine print around the bottom of the label it says manufactured and distributed in CANADA by the COMPO Company"
Now all my original United Artists albums had pukka UA labels but were similarly from Compo who were based in Lachine Quebec:-actually just down the road from where I then worked (Rolls-Royce Canada in Dorval)
I googled for "compo-lachine-warner" and found this:-
"In the 1950s, Compo pressed more and more records for American companies -- more than 25 in the
1960s, including Warner Brothers"
So was this single actually issued in the US on Warner some years before Gord's celebrated
new 1970 contract with Warner/Reprise?
Anybody know... Valerie perhaps??


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My Gordon Lightfoot webring
starts at
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot](edited to add one of the square [img]brackets that I stupidly onmitted originally




[This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited September 01, 2004).]

[vlmagee]

quote:Originally posted by johnfowles:
So was this single actually issued in the US on Warner some years before Gord's celebrated
new 1970 contract with Warner/Reprise?
Anybody know... Valerie perhaps??


Yes, it was release in both the US and Canada. There's a mention of it in Nicholas Jennings' bio in the Songbook booklet:

"In early '65 Lightfoot was briefly signed to Warner Bros., which released one single, "I'm Not Sayin'"--about a man's evasiveness toward commitment--backed with his own version of "For Lovin' Me." Although the A-side became a minor hit in Canada, it bombed south of the border."



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Valerie Magee

Visit my business site at mageenet.biz, Hamilton Camp's Offical Web Site at hamiltoncamp.com , and Cathy Cowette's web site at cathycowette.com. Also visit Dr. Jack's Lightfoot page.

[Borderstone]

Me want...me want!!! Oh well,I'll just Keep On Yearnin'.

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"A knight of the road,going back to a place where he might get warm." - Borderstone

considering he had a bit of a rough time at UA, why didn't he stay with WB?

considering he had a bit of a rough time at UA, why didn't he stay with WB?