[mplpost] First indie? The Two Tones

[Joanne Crabtree]

This thread is certainly an invitation to lapse into reverie.  If memory
serves, I was getting my early folk gigs at about the same time Gordon was.
 I remember him at the Village Corner, doing a guest spot from the floor in
the white shirt and black vest that may have been part of his TV-dancer
uniform.  He went on to superstardom while I played a thousand jobs at the
Village Corner.  I was well established on the English scene when I first
heard That's What You Get For Lovin' Me (was that PP&M?).  The song
horrified me at the time because it seemed so unabashedly about a
travelling performer's one-night stands.  I was very young.  For some time
now, I've thought I remembered the name of Richard Flohill from those heady
days.  Joanne



At 03:14 AM 11/2/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Ah, trust Coxworth to bring up the Two Tones, for which (and I hate to name
>drop) I ghost-wrote Gordon Lightfoot's sleeve note.  Chateau Records, which
>released The Two Tones Live at the Village Corner, was owned by the late
>Art Snider, who was the music director for the show Country Hoedown, later
>the Tommy Hunter Show, and Gordon was, at the time, a member of the Singin'
>Swingin' Eight, who did square dances on the show and occasionally sang
>backup for featured artists.
>	Chateau Records was a small label, but not an artist-owned indie;
>the label also released the first Paul Hoffert album, w-a-a-a-y before he
>founded Lighthouse and went on to become a media guru. (Come to think of
>it, I think I wrote the sleeve note for that, too, but I'd have to dig
>around to find the album to be sure).
>	Incidentally, I met Gordon on the street in my neighbourhood a few
>years back, and he asked whether I had the Two Tones record, and when I
>said I did he suggested I bring it round to the house (he lived in Rosedale
>then) because he hadn't heard it in years. However, I refused on the
>grounds he would break it over his knee, hand me a $50 bill, and be
>grateful another copy was outta circulation!  He admitted that he did have
>such a plan in mind....
>	It IS an awful record, and if you were to hear it, you'd have
>suggested that Gordon take up a career in life insurace or gas station
>management.  Thank God he didn't!
>
>Cheers,
>
>Richard
>
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