Lloyd Green: Canadian Sunset

Butch Foster · Post by **Butch Foster** » 8 May 2003 2:51 pm

Years ago I heard a great version by Lloyd of "Canadian Sunset". This was on a '45. Is this song on one of his LP's?

Mike Sweeney · Post by **Mike Sweeney** » 8 May 2003 3:29 pm

Butch,

Yes it is on the C.B.S. album "Steel Rides". It is a great album. A word of note, Lloyd told me one time that the producer Chip Young had him cut direct on this album and it was when direct boxes were a new thing and they kept blowing the boxes up.
Lloyd still got a great sound though even if he didn't use an amp.
Mike Sweeney

Paul Warnik · Post by **Paul Warnik** » 8 May 2003 6:00 pm

A great version by a great player from a great album!

Ron Page · Post by **Ron Page** » 8 May 2003 6:30 pm

I just burned a CD of my old Steel Rides vinyl. I wasn't much of an instrumental fan back then, but I had to have that album. I'm glad I didn't play it much. It really came out nice on CD and I enjoy the steel albums a lot nowadays especially with headphones at work.

Hey! Who's the beautiful blonde on the cover?

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HagFan

Mike Sweeney · Post by **Mike Sweeney** » 8 May 2003 6:47 pm

Ron,

That beautifull blonde is Lloyd's wife Dot. She's also on the cover of Lloyd's "Feelings" album.

Mike[This message was edited by Mike Sweeney on 08 May 2003 at 07:48 PM.]

Bill Cutright · Post by **Bill Cutright** » 8 May 2003 7:42 pm

I've always loved LG's rendition of this tune. Sounds to me like it's double tracked in some places.

Ron Page · Post by **Ron Page** » 9 May 2003 12:49 pm

Thanks, Mike. I thought that might be the case but I never assumed it was.

Reminds me of when I was a consultant and my client had a picture of a beautiful woman on his desk, which I correctly took to be his wife. I asked him, "Is that your wife or was that picture in the frame when you bought it?"

Anyway, my CD has only a printed label but I'm keeping that LP AND THE COVER.

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Roger Snively · Post by **Roger Snively** » 10 May 2003 8:04 am

I have a tape (somewhere) of Emmons doing Canadian Sunset. Really Good. Uses Big Band back-up. I haven't heard LG's version but would like to. Maybe Scotty has it.
R.S. Washington C.H. Ohio

Roger Shackelton · Post by **Roger Shackelton** » 10 May 2003 6:44 pm

Hi Mike

Is "Coconut Grove" also on the"Steel Rides" album?

I heard "Coconut Grove" played by Lloyd on
WCCO Radio in Minneapolis in the 1970s. I was surprised because WCCO was a MOR station. (middle of the road station).

Roger

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Mike Sweeney · Post by **Mike Sweeney** » 10 May 2003 10:29 pm

Yes Coconut Grove is on the same album. It also has the cut of San Antonio Rose that d.j.'s used as breaktunes back then. And one of the best versions of Crying Time you've ever heard. But I think my favorite cut on the album is a tune Lloyd wrote called "Lutitia". It just kills me everytime I hear it.

Mike

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 11 May 2003 3:00 am

I remember visiting Lloyd one weekend and he didn't have a copy of his current album so we went to a super market, walked in and he bought one and gave it to me. Those were surely my glory days but I didn't know it then !! I was too busy living like the cats in the cradle.

Regards, Paul