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Old 02-19-2017, 05:58 PM   #1
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Default Anyone ever heard Gordon's more obscure stuff in public?

One heard Circle Of Steel at a gas station years ago.
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Old 02-20-2017, 04:57 AM   #2
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On the radio, I've only heard IYCRMM (many many times), "Sundown" (many times), TWOTEF (once) and "Anything For Love" (once). Plus "Stay Loose" once, but that was as a result of my request to an accessible, night-time programme.
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Old 02-20-2017, 06:30 AM   #3
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Over here I have heard, at various times, IYCRMM, Sundown, Dream Street Rose, Someone To Believe In, EMR, Daylight Katy & TWOTEF. Some time ago Paul Gambaccini had Sundown as his classic album and played, among others, Seven Island Suite.
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Old 02-20-2017, 05:31 PM   #4
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Do you even understand what I mean by obscure stuff.

I'm not talking about Sundown or If You Could etc. or the other hit singles.
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Old 02-20-2017, 10:32 PM   #5
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I understand the obscure part...
can u clarify if u mean hearing Gordon's version and/or a cover of an obscure Lightfoot tune..??
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Old 02-20-2017, 10:52 PM   #6
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His own.
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Old 02-21-2017, 06:41 AM   #7
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Sorry!

Well said, Dave from Melbourne. Over here in the UK Gordon Lightfoot can almost be described as obscure. Whenever I tell people I am a Gordon Lightfoot fan, the response is: Who?

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Old 02-21-2017, 11:57 AM   #8
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Affair on Touhy Avenue,

I also understood what you meant by obscure, but I was making the point that here in Australia, it's rare enough hearing Gord's best-known songs on the radio. (Joveski has only had the pleasure a couple of times in the 20 years since he discovered Lightfoot's music.)
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Old 02-22-2017, 10:49 PM   #9
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30 years, thank you Dave down in Melbourne , we only have 1 or (possibly) 2 staions that will plaay the two big songs. Magic 1278 is gone next week to become a lifestyle talk program broadcast from Sydney. sad but true
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Old 02-27-2017, 05:54 AM   #10
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For fans I don't consider this an obscure song, but one that I would only hear on one local radio station that would play lots of Gordon's album track songs from the mid 1970's through the early 1980's. In fact, I credit this local radio station for getting me interested in Gordon's music - WMGK FM 102.9 in Philadelphia, PA (aka "Magic" - it's now a "classic rock" station). Anyway, the song is "Fine As Fine Can Be" - one day, probably back in the mid-1990's I was watching a professional ladies' figure skating competition on one of the major US networks, and this was the song used to open the broadcast! Totally unexpected, I must have done a happy dance when I heard it!

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Old 02-27-2017, 05:42 PM   #11
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Listening to it now.

First song of his I ever heard piano in.
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Old 02-28-2017, 10:52 AM   #12
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I credit this local radio station for getting me interested in Gordon's music - WMGK FM 102.9 in Philadelphia, PA (aka "Magic" - it's now a "classic rock" station)
I remember WMGK magic 102.9! Loved that station.

I heard "Did She Mention My Name" on sirius radio the bridge. Don't know if that counts.
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