gordon lightfoot 10 degrees and getting colder live in concert bbc 1972

[@MaddZzee350]

Simply the greatest folk singer/songwriter of all time. Thanks for posting this rare song.

[@alexkagman]

just keep speaking truth Patrick

[@beatatshamwari101]

Only my wife knows how much his songs meant to my mental health.

[@markwestling8127]

"98.6 and rising..." Who else but Gord could insert sensuality into a song in such a tasteful and subtle way. RIP my hero.

[@donnahilton471]

Mine, too❤

[@traviscareylutes]

This is a perfect song. Story, words, tune, delivery. Should be in songwriting textbooks as the first example

[@alsmit4153]

You're absolutely right. It's simply all perfect. His craftsmanship is unparalleled.

[@alexkagman]

August, 2020, the country has gone mad, and I'm here to say this is still and always will be a great frickn song.

[@45cjb]

Red Shea's guitar work is sorely missed. Surely one of the best ever.

[@paulbayless9710]

RIP Gordon. Thanks for all the great music.

[@JebbKnowler-oz2xz]

another knockout Lightfoot song--a piece of a story--less is more and still you want to know more. Lightfoot was a seriously macho writer-performer and my feet freeze just a bit listening to this tune for the two thousandth time..............Happy trails GL

[@mjma4797]

I just found this, and I'm so grateful I found a Gordon Lightfoot song I never heard!! Thank you!

[@cherixbiggs5819]

Gordon at his best!!! ❤️❤️❤️

[@johnlappin5881]

An awesome Canadian singer

[@toastslayer]

Great song, great video, great quality! Back to the meaning: he's a touring musician who meets a girl in Arizona and falls in love. She gives him a ride to Boulder (I think). Now he's hitchhiking from Boulder back to Milwaukee, sans guitar and girl. What happened to the girl? Did she simply convince him to go back home? This version of this song has convinced me to buy a 12 string. For reals.

[@cherixbiggs5819]

Ken Long Not totally agreeing. This is why I don’t try to analyze GL. But since you gave me something to work with, I will give it a try and if I can put my interpretation into words...I will. My version is a bit sadder. 😢Thank you for your post. Obvious you are a huge fan and musician. GL is my favorite at least 45 years! Agree...get the 12 String! 👍

[@UncleWiggy252]

Boulder Dam was the original name of Hoover Dam. Nearby is Boulder City which was developed to house the workers of the WPA.

[@harlowrioux5790]

He sold the guitar.

[@kenwinstoncaine]

The "sign that just said 'Mother'" is just a humorous touch. When this song came out, we all hitched with cardboard signs with the names of the city or town that was our next destination. It helped us get better rides. "Mother" means he's lonesome for home and has a sense of humor. Doesn't suggest that mother's terminally ill.

[@michaelraynes5793]

Yeah, seems he's trying to go home.

[@bicalho13348]

I would like to say that we love Gordon in Brazil, Latin America. I am very very glad......Thansk for this song Gordon.

[@19finbar]

I have seen him many times, i'm from Buffalo he lived just two and half hours from here. The really cool thing about him he still sound great to this day.

[@cjm3122]

He was my favorite singer and song writer. I saw him once at a college. He had a whopper of a cold, blowing his nose every song. He still sounded terriffic.

[@Lincoln5string]

Just love Gordon Lightfoot's tunes without all the studio stuff added! So glad to find this. Just two guitars and a bass - perfect setting for his songs.

[@DonnSeib]

Great song from "The Man". Best songwriter ever!

[@robbylake3382]

Gordo! The Best of all time! Go Red!

[@MrChasewalker]

This is classic Gordon Lightfoot.. love you Gord

[@jamesrae7597]

Dude just gets better with time and time has given us a treasure to keep our hearts on fire.

[@AndrewCalhounSongs]

Incredible writing - how much he leaves out of the story, and how what seems to be past tense arrives in the present with the last lines - with the call for help.

[@laurencesiegel9362]

Hi Andrew - yes, this is one of his very best. I see your son all the time at BFC. Larry

[@judywright6889]

Only one complaint...it's too short. What a purely~beautiful voice (not to mention pitch~perfect), and great writer he was.♡ Melodically, this song has the feel of a treasured old hymn.♡

[@TheCopyboy23]

Came here to say RIP Gordon.

[@GimmeanF]

A 1,000 thanks for sharing! I never tire of listening to this song and others by Gordon Lightfoot.

[@steray8one]

friggin' junkie roomate traded off my Martin D28S while I was on a campout with my boy scouts. Almost over it. Almost. Saw Gord drunk at Ravinia 35 years ago. What a show. He could still sing and play, almost. My favorite balladeer. Broke he mold.

[@joereadel]

My heart goes out to you. What year was your D-28?

[@serenaspeace22]

i have a giant list of Gordo songs, but not with video. Thanks for the upload. this is one of my favorites.

[@Cherry-kt8zo]

Talented, beautiful, sexy,Canadian man.

[@franks6608]

The best ever,I've been a lightfoot fan since 1973,hello Rick Haynes,we luv ya,buddy

[@bicalho13348]

Perfect song....beautifull, I never forget.

[@cherixbiggs5819]

Such a beautiful soul!!! Thank you, Tony! I love the live vids!!

[@cherixbiggs5819]

gordonlightfoot.com/songbookcommentsabouthissongs.shtml -- for those of you who want to know what his music is about....He posted some info on his own website. Still a mystery....however. That's G.L. Beautiful music subject to the listener's interpretation. Perhaps that is the beauty of it. Whatever....I love each composition.

[@cat-sn8pm]

この曲は、私が45年前に初めて聞いたMr.Lightfootの曲で、それ以来、彼の大ファンであり続けています。彼の曲は、常の私の心のよりどころです。何か落ち込んでいても、彼の曲を聞くことで、それを乗り越える事が出来ました。ありがとう。

[@joeysanguine3596]

We love you Gord💖✝️

[@alsmit4153]

That guy Red Shea is an amazing guitar player. It came natural to him as being an autodidact. Love it!

[@thomassyverson7561]

Nothing better than hypothermia and death.Beautiful and dark ass song.

[@wvmillermd]

I'm so glad to see this. I was unaware that there were such wonderful recordings of Lightfoot at his peak. Gordon if it was really you who uploaded this, keep them coming. Alifelong fan.

[@pageribe2399]

If not my favorite GL song, it's certainly in the top ten.

[@brotherpaul963]

Songs of the hitchhiker

[@kennymoore2951]

Seems like now since Gordon has passed. Every song I hear of his puts a lump in my throat. Simply put he was the best

[@black_squall]

a pearl indeed!

[@safeandsound100]

Tony Rice (R.I.P.) does a great job on this tune. - G.P.

[@suzannehansen7519]

Saw your comment. Had never heard of Tony Rice. So checked it out. A beautiful singer and musician. His interpretation of Lightfoot songs is great, he did them his own way and yet did justice to the songs. Love listening to the alblum he did. Loved the bluegrass sound, and yet the Lightfoot touch still there. Great singer.

[@lucripet]

Saw him in concert in the mid 70's. In the mid 80's I went to a Gordon Lightfoot concert and I was sitting there with my soon to be ex wife. and this old guy walks out on stage. I thought what the f who is...this! I had to swallow a my pride and realize that he is me..only he is famous and gifted. I always loved his ballads put to music. I hope the folks in Toronto appreciate him as much as a lot of us down here do.

[@kenwinstoncaine]

I've been listening to this song -- and even singing it -- since the album came out. Never ever have I believed that it is about getting home because his mother is dying, as Theherbsuperb suggests in a comment. I think that one's quite a stretch, HerbSuperb.

[@robtuohy1]

@DonnSeib Yes, I agree with you , this Man may be the greatest songwriter that Canada has ever known. I also admire:other great Canadian Songwriters like Leonard Cohen, Jann Arden, Jim Cuddy, Burton Cummings, Neil Young, Tom Cochrane, Gord Downie, Steven Page, Kathleen Edwards, Serena Ryder, Dallas Green, Raine Mayda, etc. etc. Just to name a few, of course, but GORD is Legendary.

[@stanronald3428]

You certainly know your Canadian artists.....well done

[@cherixbiggs5819]

There is no musician anywhere as great as Gordon! At his concerts, you can hear a pin drop. I have gone to so many, I can’t count them. The entire audience is always awestruck! ❤️❤️❤️

[@cherixbiggs5819]

Don’t forget the younger Canadian singers....thinking specifically of Francesco Yates. I think he is an “old soul” because I typically don’t like the music of today’s singers.

[@brendab3261]

Don't forget Stan Rogers!

[@boggeddanoff3495]

Save your breath--Gordon is the best songwriter Canada has ever produced

[@barryzerden808]

great guitars, even better than the recorded version !

[@kenwinstoncaine]

Boulder Dam is known, these days, as Hoover Dam. It's on the border of Arizona and Nevada and just past the edge of Boulder City, Nevada, and maybe 30 or so miles from Las Vegas. I've always thought that was the "Boulder" Lightfoot was referring to in this song.

[@cherixbiggs5819]

ken winston caine Interesting! Thank you for posting that! I love any tidbits about GL and his music!

[@PollenJesus]

@kenwinstoncaine 98.6 degrees is human body referred to as normal body temperature not the air temperature. He is talking about getting a fever, or getting hot and heavy with a lady maybe. Gordon Lightfoot used to play on words where both dam and damn have meaning depending on which word you choose.

[@stuartbrook6127]

I remember when this was broadcast on the BBC ... Living in England then. If I remember right, it was filmed at The Maltings at Snape (now Snape Maltings) near Ipswich Suffolk. Another song on that recording "Steel Rail Blues" refers to getting set upon by skinheads in Ipswich which would tend to confirm that.

[@vinadamswood586]

Interesting, but I respectfully submit, incorrect. All of the BBC series of IN CONCERT were filmed at the BBC Studios in Shepherd's Bush...others in the series included Neil Young, Cat Stevens and Gilbert O'Sullivan.

[@violetjm]

I got curious and had to look it up. This BBC concert was taped in the spring of 1971, before Summer Side of Life was released. It aired Jan. 22, 1972.

[@cherixbiggs5819]

Violet J I turned 20 that day! And I wish I could have been at that concert! But these videos are just a joy! I have been his fan since “If I Could Read Your Mind” ....and seen him in concert often over the years.

[@robdondorf9570]

98.6 and rising down by Boulder Dam that night.” That’s a cool line.

[@MrSkegman]

red and terry both are gone. i cannot believe it.

[@kenwinstoncaine]

@PollenJesus Don't think there's a lyrics site on the internet that would agree with you, Pollen Jesus. In 1971 or '72 I bought the sheet music for this. Can say for certain that Gordon Lightfoot wrote "Boulder Dam," not "Boulder damn." Humorous thought, though. But it doesn't hold up throughout the song. How would it apply to "98.6 and rising down by Boulder Dam that night?"

[@michaelraynes5793]

I think 98.6 refers to the relationship with the woman, different than the weather

[@kenwinstoncaine]

he Arizona lady is clearly near Boulder Dam (because it's "98.6 and rising down by Boulder Dam that night." And there is a reference to gambling, which I've always thought tied in with the Vegas connection.

[@PollenJesus]

@kenwinstoncaine I think that Lightfoor is singing about "Boulder" and the lyrics are "down by Boulder damn that day" It's damn..not dam.

[@knnan]

@LelouchLamperouge019 Thank you so much....I too love the back up guitarist and didn't know his name till I saw your comment. Thanks !

[@abeerandasong]

Before you worry about what the song "exactly means," listen to what it exactly says.

[@kenwinstoncaine]

exactly, uncatila.it wasn't me who suggested that this was a song about a guy hitchin' home to his mother's funeral. it was me who was saying that's a hell of a stretch.

[@Imprison45]

I’ve always thought “Mother” was a way to catch the eye and compel a driver to pick him up, nothing more

[@kenwinstoncaine]

Exactly. Back then when we hitchhiked we would hold up a sign made from the flap of a cardboard box. The sign would say our destination town or crossroads. "Mother" was a clever twist on that.

[@violetjm]

I feel the same :(

[@bobjones6572]

fuck off

[@cyaneyes79]

When he says "This album isn't out yet," I guess he means out in the UK? Summer Side of Life came out May 1971. Unless the year of the concert is wrong?

[@DoctorPepper445]

This concert was recorded in January 1971, not too long before Summer Side Of Life came out.

[@psychderek]

you great person will you upload canadian railroad trilogy from the same concert please xxx

[@kenwinstoncaine]

Toastslayer, I don't think he's hitching to Milwaukee from Boulder, Colorado, because he would have been going the wrong way for several hundred miles. It's "10 degrees or colder down by Boulder Dam that day."

[@bobjones6572]

If you want the most amazing Lightfoot cover check out Alison Krauss doing Shadows - you won't be disappointed.

[@351lrs]

Does anyone watch this and think of the guy on Live PD shouting 10 degrees?

[@johnpod]

Take the best singer/songwriter of his generation, add Red Shea and Rick Haynes....it doesn't get better than this folks.

[@thomashynes4042]

I'm torn between Lightfoot and Griffiths version...I like them both...just depends on my mood.

[@jeffyjobluegrass]

what does this song exactly mean??

[@cherixbiggs5819]

Jeff Barnett Gordon Lightfoot would have to explain. All of his music is a story, and subject to interpretation. I just let it “come at me” and all of his songs give me peace. Most things I “overthink” -- ☺️. But Gordon’s music....I just absorb it rather than pick it apart. Just my opinion.

[@jimdubya5425]

J.D. Crowe and the New South got the potential out of this song. Listen to the three-part with Rice, Skaggs and Crowe. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJ2vlWaBbL2njLM

[@davidlohndorf8790]

check out Billy Strings' version! kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4LEmZ2prqioqrM

[@AnthropoidOne]

He always tries to sound like his recordings. No slack performances

[@richardattemborg2823]

The song The Gambler sounds too similar to this one. melody and chord progression has been largely copied

[@DoctorPepper445]

The Gambler came out years after this was written, so if anything, Don Schlitz took inspiration from this song and applied it to his song.

[@MarinT0r]

This is a fake song!!!!