Mobile Fidelity - MFSL - Gordon Lightfoot - SUNDOWN - Japanese Pressing - 1979

$

150

This is a NM quality original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab 1979 Japanese Pressing of Lightfoot's bestselling 1974 Sundown album (every track a hit), featuring the notorious Cathy Smith on backup vocals on "High and Dry."
Try to find another one in this condition!
This is a lucky find (or gift) for any Lightfoot fan or completist collector of out-of-print MFSL recordings.
From Discogs:

Tracklist

A1

Somewhere U.S.A.

2:50

A2

High And Dry

2:12

A3

Seven Island Suite

6:00

A4

Circle Of Steel

2:45

A5

Is There Anyone Home

3:15

B1

The Watchman's Gone

4:25

B2

Sundown

3:45

B3

Carefree Highway

3:45

B4

The List

3:00

B5

Too Late For Prayin'

4:15

Companies, etc.

·        Manufactured By – Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab

·        Distributed By – Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab

·        Phonographic Copyright (p) – Warner Bros. Records Inc.

·        Copyright (c) – Warner Bros. Records Inc.

·        Recorded At – Eastern Sound

Credits

·        Acoustic Guitar – Red Shea (tracks: A3, B4), Terry Clements (tracks: A1 to A5, B1, B3 to B5)

·        Bass – John Stockfish (tracks: A2, A3, A5 to B2, B5), Rick Haynes (tracks: A1, A4, B3, B4)

·        Chimes – Gordon Lightfoot (tracks: A4)

·        Congas – Milt Holland (tracks: B1)

·        Dobro [Slide Dobro] – Red Shea (tracks: A1)

·        Drums – Jim Gordon (tracks: A1 to A3, A5, B1, B3, B4)

·        Electric Guitar – Red Shea (tracks: A2)

·        Engineer – Lee Herschberg

·        Engineer [Assistant] – Chris Skene

·        Guitar [12 String] – Gordon Lightfoot (tracks: A3, A5 to B2, B4)

·        Guitar [6 String] – Gordon Lightfoot (tracks: A1, A4, B3, B5), Red Shea (tracks: A2)

·        Guitar [Classical] – Red Shea (tracks: A4, A5, B5)

·        Guitar [High String] – Gordon Lightfoot (tracks: A2, B3)

·        Horns – Nick DeCaro (tracks: A3)

·        Percussion – Jim Gordon (tracks: A2), Milt Holland (tracks: A1, A5, B4)

·        Photography – John Reeves

·        Piano, Accordion – Nick DeCaro (tracks: B3)

·        Producer – Lenny Waronker

·        Recorder, English Horn – Jack Zaza (tracks: A4)

·        Remastered By [Half-Speed] – Stan Ricker

·        Strings – Nick DeCaro (tracks: A3, A5, B1, B5)

·        Synthesizer [Moog] – Gene Martynec (tracks: A3, A5)

·        Vocals [Harmony] – Catherine Smith (tracks: A2)

·        Voice – Gordon Lightfoot (tracks: A3, A4, B2)

·        Written-By, Vocals – Gordon Lightfoot

Notes

Recorded At Eastern Sound Studios, Toronto
Half Speed Masters Cut By Stan Ricker, JVC
Pressed in Japan

Barcode and Other Identifiers

·        Rights Society: CAPAC

·        Matrix / Runout (Variant 1; Side A runout etched): MFSL 1 018 A3 SR/2

·        Matrix / Runout (Variant 1; Side A runout stamped): 131

·        Matrix / Runout (Variant 1; Side B runout etched): MFSL 1 018 B3 SR/2

·        Matrix / Runout (Variant 1; Side B runout stamped): 131

·        Matrix / Runout (Variant 2; etched, but "141" is stamped): MFSL 1 018 A4 SR/2 141

·        Matrix / Runout (Variant 2; etched, but "131" is stamped): MFSL 1 018 B3 SR/2 131