GL Albums going out of print!
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The Mayan calender predicts that civilization will come to an end in the year 2012.
I believe this is just another sign confirming the validity of that prediction. Duplicate Vinyl, CD's, MP3's and multiple backups. I'm prepared for the inevitable. Lord, they no not what they do! |
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Just taking a quick shuffle through Amazon, I guess I'm not seeing the out-of-print status you're referring to Val. I'm sure a lot of a company's back catalog is not being reprinted-in favor of going to a less expensive and more popular digital format.
The encouraging thing is that everything appears available as a digital downloads--for those of us who choose to buy from the artists we like (and not just steal it as is the common practice now days.) |
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Perhaps a direct link to the site where the info is would be helpful?
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Theres only two words I can think of for this-----OH NO! I'm not ready to see this happen.I still have quite a few more GL albums to buy.Do you think if we raise enough of a ruckus we can get them to change their minds? Let me know what you think.Hope to hear from
you,gang.I'm off to go e-mail Warner Bros. patybear |
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that's what I saw when I checked in. IN STOCK!
lol Good news indeed! ..I'm still going to buy the whole Lightfoot catalogue again tho.. ;) |
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Well, I now had more time and If You Could Read My Mind and Summertime Dream are both coming in, as well as Endless Wire, but there are many others that still say "discontinued", including GG2, EOM, COTS, Shadows and DSR. That isn't good news, but it's better than I feared. And maybe some of those are incorrect too. TIme will tell. I think a few of them are definitely gone as they have been MIA for quite some time, and aren't at other sites either. The last two are particularly disappointing, and suggest that the other two from the Final Four will be discontinued as well - if they really are discontinued. So I guess we need to keep careful watch.
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To Vlmagg:
I was just at the Barnes and Noble website.They have Gord's Gold vol.1,Gord's Gold vol.2,Shadows,and Dream Street Rose. patybear |
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Can't find "Waiting For You" anywhere except digital downloads.....
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For those of us with the old vinyls It may be time to make more copies on CD (of course as archives for our own use) There is a free program (audiograbber ) that allows
you to input a turntable or tapedeck into the soundcard of a computer. You store the files on a hard drive and then burn to a CD Kevin |
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To bjm777:
I found 'Waiting for You' at Amazon.You need to ignore where it says'This item has been discontinued by the manufacture',and click where it says,"new and used".I hope this helps you. patybear |
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To Vlmagee:If you are looking for 'East of Midnight',try this:Google
it,then click on "Amazon.com East of Midnight:Gordon Lightfoot:Your store(second one from the top).Click where it says, 'Available from these sellers'. Please let me know if this was helpful to you. patybear |
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While it looks like at very least a temporary reprieve (and I suspect the songs will be available for digital download for pretty much ever) this does bring up a problem for a lot of artists.
Now I happen to believe the album Del Rio, Texas, 1959 by Radney Foster to be one of those I'd consider for the desert island where you are only allowed to take 10 CDs. Well, for a number of years now it's only available through iTunes. Radney himself told me that when I brought the insert of my copy to a concert to have him autograph it. |
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I repurchased ODR about a year ago because my original CD was skipping through Mother of a Miner's Child and Highway Songs. Now I'm considering buying all the rest again too. It can't hurt to have them just in case.
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"Waiting For You" ordered and is being shipped. Thanks again Patybear. I had the album on cassette once....
I have all of the Reprise individual CD's, and "Songbook", as well as some selected 1960's stuff on MP3 that I downloaded. Used to have it all on vinyl aeons ago but that all got "lost in the fire", as it were, a long time ago. |
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I have many on CD but still need (on Cd) :
Summer Side Of Life Don Quixote Shadows (which i found on cassette recently) :) Salute Gords Gold 2 I have the UA studio 4 on the UA collection and Sunday Concert seperate. |
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To Borderstone:
You can purchase all of the collections(on cd)that you are looking for at Barnes and Noble.I just checked,and they are all listed.Good luck with your purchases. patybear |
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Hi Lightheads!
Bad news! Sundown, DQ, Summertime Dream, IYCRMM, Gord's Gold I & II, ODR, Endless Wire, Harmony, Salute, Shadows, SSOL, East Of Midnight, COTS, DSR, Lightfoot/The Way I Feel, Sunday Concert, Early Morning Rain have been discontinued by manufacturer at Amazon. Esp. 'DQ' DQ's most recent review reads Buy it before it is too late In my opinion, this is Gordon Lightfoot's best CD. I had purchased the album years ago and I was lucky to find this CD since it is now out of print. If you have never heard it and you like Gordon Lightfoot by all means buy an available CD before it is too late. |
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I have these albums via my blog, pm for address...
Back Here On Earth Summertime Dream Early Morning Rain Don Quixote Did She Mention My Name Sundown Cold On The Shoulder A Painter Passing Through |
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On CD or LP? Wolfsbane
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We were discussing this at dinner before the show the other night. I was just checking Amazon as mentioned by MusicFan ! Tragic, eh? Is this due to low sales or what ?
Bill :( |
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All I can say about it is this... Don't Go 'Round Scaring Fat Ol' Ladies Like Me That Way.;)
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Only GL albums not out of print according to Amazon are
Complete Greatest Hits Gord's Gold (Re-issue) Songbook - Boxset United Artists Collection A Painter Passing Through The Very Best Of..... Vols 1 & 2 Best Of.... Classic Masters Harmony Did She Mention My Name/Back Here On Earth (Bear Family) The Way I Feel Early Lightfoot/Sunday Concert Over 60 Minutes With.... Did She Mention My Name/Back Here On Earth (BGO) Original Lightfoot (Box Set) Gord's Gold Vol. 2 (RPKG) The Best Of ..... Ultimate dissapointing! It seems to me that there is higher demand for his EMI (United Artists) CDs, than his Warner/Reprise CDs, and there isn't any there, other than his most recent 2 albums and a few greatest hits.:( Also the same goes for the catalog at CD Universe - Unfortunately. :confused:I wonder if these discontinuations are due to downloading of MP3 sites, and itunes. What are people who are new to Lightfoot's music going to think, if they want to buy one of his Warner/reprise original albums? |
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Sometimes things just get deleted so they can be re-issued but it seems possible because of the advent of iTunes and downloading that albums such as these will never be available on CD again. It's a scary thought.
For me there is no comparison in dowloading the tracks and burning your own CD compared to actually having the nice CD and box in your hand. I think iTunes is leading to the single-isation of music again like in pre-Beatles days. So somebody goes and downloads Sundown and Carferee Highway and never hears the rest of the album. And in the case of Sundown it would be crazy if that album was missing on CD. A big hit album with two two hit singles including a number one! One new interesting trend has emerged albums are being issued on vinyl and include a digital download for your money. So you get the beautiful big packaging and record to play on your turn table and to look at while you still have the digital audio to download and play on your PC/ iPod. I've seen this for both new albums and re-issues like Beach Boys '70s albums. |
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Y.S - those are issues I've brought up several times in this forum. Downloads are so sterile. The album concept rarely exists as tunes are mixed, matched and overlooked. The 'theme' album is dead. Icons instead of artwork, no liner notes of musician credits, studio credits, instruments used etc.
After many years I can tell you where I bought a particular album, who I was with and what were the circumstances. There is an excitement in finding an album in a bin, purchasing it and when home reading it front to back while you give it a spin. Hard to get excited over a series of downloaded 'ones & zeros' which you can't grasp in your hand, nor is there anything special about clicking the 'purchase' tab on an iTunes site. Some of my favourite tunes have been the ones that didn't get air time and weren't promoted. Had I only bought the hit, I would have missed out on some real gems. I guess in this 'fast food' society where " u r 2 slow" if you can't reduce paragraphs to letters, where sound bites rule and insufficient time has TV credits roll at unreadable nauseating speeds and our daily rush promotes road rage - well I guess albums and CDs were sure to follow. Perhaps songs are too long to hold our attention and should be reduced in time or limited in notes. As goes our society, so goes our music....and vice versa... |
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Except for a few best of's and a handful of albums that can be downloaded, looks like all of Gord's CD's are out of print. What's the deal with "Dream Street Rose"? Did it sell so poorly that it is now being sold for such stupid money? Aren't all his albums now available on iTunes?
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Rhino Hi-Five EP If You Could Read My Mind Gord's Gold Volume II (Half of the re-recordings have been replaced by the original versions off of the original albums) The United Artists Collection Harmony Classic Masters Summer Side Of Life Sundown (Beware: GGVII version of High And Dry is in place of original one) Cold On The Shoulder A Painter Passing Through Summertime Dream Endless Wire East Of Midnight Waiting For You Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald/The House You Live In (Digital 45) If You Could Read My Mind/Poor Little Allison (Digital 45) Some CDs iTunes No Longer Carries: Gord's Gold Old Dan's Records - Partial Album - Title Track, It's Worth Believin Dream Street Rose - Partial Album - Ghosts Of Cape Horn Complete Greatest Hits - No EMI recordings Songbook - No rarities, GGVI & II recordings are however in place of original recordings. That being said, I don't know if it is the law of supply and demand, or if the TPTB find Gord and his audience/generation to be 'dinosaurs'. But whatever the case it seems like the TPTB are looking for an opportunity to obliterate Gord's catalogue from the consumer menu. If we want any chance of TPTB changing their minds and re-issue or re-release CD versions of his albums for the future perspective purchaser, then we will have to take action. |
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What exactly do they mean by the United Artists Collection? How, aside from buying hugh numbers of GL cds, can we prevent obliteration of his catalogue?
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I just wonder if the CDs going out of print and unavailable as downloads relates to Early Morning Productions now owning rights to all the songs. I don't know if that refers to just the publishing rights or if that extends to the recorded masters? Perhaps they will be released with an Early Morning Productions copyright? Anyone know?
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Thanks Cathy. That's what I thought it meant. I have ther compilation. I agree with you 100 % its great.
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I am purchasing a few of the essentials for my 3 kids for Christmas. They have each met Gord and the band 5 or 6 times, so I feel they need to be well-stocked for the approaching 'Gord c.d. drought' !!!
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Maybe someone could ask Gordon himself?
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