[johnfowles]

Originally Posted by Borderstone

Aside from being a fan,do any of you guys have a story to go with your "Songbook"?

OK I'll bite
Yes I do have a story about getting the fabulous Songbook boxset.
Having discovered the old Chat room and the wonderful fans therein sometime in May 1999 we were soon spending a lot of time chatting about the upcoming box set and against the perceived wisdom of the assembled motley crew of American ladies ( I was still living in Dorset England) I decided to risk ordering my copy on line from a CD dealer in Florida. I remember being able to use the completely new to me UPS tracking system that one takes so much for granted nowadays and was quite thrilled to be able to see that my package had been sent out on the Monday (the day before the official release date I seem to remember then it traveled initially to the UPS hub in Memphis thence to their UK hub at the Midlands Airport at Castle Donnington then remarkably quickly the final 200 miles South to me at my office address arriving on the Wednesday morning in a Brown delivery van .
I was so impressed that I posted on the Newsgroup (this being BC Before Corfid) of course in a new thread catchily entitled:-
"A Box Set arrives in England"
which you can read at:-
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.m...91840792550503
one by one many of my fellow chatters acquired their own Songbook copy; including of course a certain young lady from New Jersey and Susan, yes it was she, soon had us all counting down to press in unison the play buttons on our computer CD players so that we could all be listening to the same track on the same CD at the same time. Read her great posting in another new thread on June 15 2000 almost exactly a year later and a week before our wedding in England during which we had three Gordsongs played "Whisper My Name" "Pussywillows Cattails" and "Same Old Loverman" to which of course we danced
http://groups.google.comIgroup/alt.m...b5211542c70802
In 1999 the following November I made the pilgrimage to the House Of Gord and met up with Susan and the other synchro players
most of whom are in this Orillian picture

and on the first night Remembrance day November 11 I was very lucky to get backstage as Jenney's guest. In my coat pocket I had a fine tip white marker pen and both my own and Susan's Songbook booklet,which are now both nicely autographed by the entire Orchestra

[SIZE=2] I was extremely fortunate to be selected to be Jenney's guest, that night my friends pushed me forwards as they thought that this might very well be the only chance I would get of meeting my hero of so many years (since 1967 in fact)