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My copy arrived yesterday. Another great job by the Real Gone team. Great to hear these songs sound so good, especially the hard-to-find single versions.

Does anybody know if "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" (a #3 hit in Canada in December 1965 on United Artists) has ever appeared on CD?

The liner notes mention Lightfoot's 1965 single on Warner Brothers, "I'm Not Sayin'" (a #12 hit in Canada in June 1965). I only have this song on a compilation of United Artists material. Does anybody know if this is a re-recording?

Lightfoot's first thirteen Reprise singles were all Top 40 hits in Canada; one of them, "That Same Old Obsession" / "You Are What I Am", charted as a two-sided hit. The Gordon Lightfoot discography on Wikipedia incorrectly claims that "Approaching Lavender", from the
Sit Down Young Stranger album, reached #20 on the Canadian adult contemporary chart in 1970. The song was not released as a single in Canada (or anywhere else) and did not chart. (A list of 'Canadian Content' songs in a 1970 issue of RPM magazine is incorrectly identified in the online database as the Adult Contemporary chart.)
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The 45 edit of "Rainy Day People" plus the 45 length of "The Circle Is Small" are just two reasons to get this release. I did not have "If You Could Read My Mind" without the harmony vocal so happy it's on this release and in stereo.
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Been listening to it all morning!
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According to the liner notes on Lightfoot's "Complete Singles", "Just
like Tom Thumb Blues" was a non-LP cover of Dylan's original.

As for "I'm Not Sayin", I recently discovered that the original 45 had
added strings, giving it a different feel than the usual version turning
up on albums.
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I have a question on one of the tracks on this collection.
The 45 of "Daylight Katy" has a listed time of 3:20 however
the song runs a full minute longer on this CD release. Does
this mean the actual running time on the 1978 Warner Bros.
45 was 4:20?
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Originally posted by Santi Paradoa Santi Paradoa wrote:

I have a question on one of the tracks on this collection.
The 45 of "Daylight Katy" has a listed time of 3:20 however
the song runs a full minute longer on this CD release. Does
this mean the actual running time on the 1978 Warner Bros.
45 was 4:20?


Santi, here's what I posted on the "Below The Top 40" thread 11 years ago:

GORDON LIGHTFOOT - "DAYLIGHT KATY" (Warner Bros. 8579, BB #16 AC; did not chart pop.)

DJ 45: both sides are listed as (3:20)
        stereo side actual time is (4:19)
        mono side actual time is (3:54)
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Great info. Many thanks.
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Originally posted by Paul C Paul C wrote:


The liner notes mention Lightfoot's 1965 single on Warner Brothers, "I'm Not Sayin'" (a
#12 hit in Canada in June 1965). I only have this song on a compilation of United Artists
material. Does anybody know if this is a re-recording?


I think the one-off WB single is the same version that appears on the UA "Lightfoot!"
album. I have never heard mention of them being different recordings.
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Originally posted by LunarLaugh LunarLaugh wrote:

Originally posted by Paul C Paul C wrote:


The liner notes mention Lightfoot's 1965 single on Warner
Brothers, "I'm Not Sayin'" (a
#12 hit in Canada in June 1965). I only have this song on
a compilation of United Artists
material. Does anybody know if this is a re-recording?


I think the one-off WB single is the same version that
appears on the UA "Lightfoot!"
album. I have never heard mention of them being different
recordings.

I managed to answer my own question about "I'm Not
Sayin'". See my post on the Hoffman board:

https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/every-rpm-
canadian-content-1-single-discussion-thread-1964-
2000.987585/page-12#post-24862962
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Originally posted by Yah Shure Yah Shure wrote:

Originally posted by Santi Paradoa Santi Paradoa wrote:

I have a
question on one of the tracks on this collection.
The 45 of "Daylight Katy" has a listed time of 3:20
however
the song runs a full minute longer on this CD release.
Does
this mean the actual running time on the 1978 Warner
Bros.
45 was 4:20?


Santi, here's what I posted on the "Below The Top 40"
thread 11 years ago:

GORDON LIGHTFOOT - "DAYLIGHT KATY" (Warner Bros. 8579, BB
#16 AC; did not chart pop.)

DJ 45: both sides are listed as (3:20)
        stereo side actual time is (4:19)
        mono side actual time is (3:54)

For some reason, for the Canadian commercial 45, they
used the mono side of the US promo. So this 1978 single
was mono in Canada. It is an early fade of the LP (and US
commercial 45) length. (It reached #44 on the RPM
chart.)
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