Singles (right click on song links to download)

1973 Touch Of Magic / Comin' On Home (GRT)
 

1973 Make It All Worthwhile /  Comin' To A Party (Janus)

1973 You Look Good In Denim / Lady of the Night (GRT) -  

1974 Some Kind Of Fool / Fast Eddie (GRT)

1974 Lady Ellen / Lady Comes (GRT)

1976 You Girl (Axe) Recorded with Major Hoople's Boarding House (?)
 

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Track Listing

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Rarities (right click on MP3 links to download songs)

* Special thanks to Quentin Meek for sharing these MP3s. All songs copyrighted.

** Special thanks to Gary Comeau for sharing these MP3s.

*** A big special thank you to Helen Horoky who sent me a cassette with these songs.  Her brother John Hannah is on drums and backing vocals.

From Quentin*:

I recorded a Demo of James in Montreal in the early seventies at Studio Six (I was a staff recording engineer there between 1971 and 1976 after-which I went free-lance). The songs we did were: It's all worth while, When the War is Over, Lampton County, Martin Town Diary and Anniversary Song. Harvey was there at the session and Val Tuck sang background. Not sure but I have the feeling Doug Orr played bass. I really liked JL's music at this stage and was disappointed when he went to Toronto and got (IMHO) over-produced.

From Gary Comeau of Denim*:

It wasn't Doug Orr on the demos, it was Wayne Leslie. Wayne played Bass and sang harmonies. It was the first group we put together. There's too much steel playing because we didn't have a guitar player at the time.

From Gary Comeau of Denim**:

Track 6 "Here's a little goodie from Queens University 1973, Dave singing Dr. My Eyes."

Track 7 "Charlie singing Reelin' in the Years"

Tracks 8 & 9 "Lady of the Night,was live at the Generator in Toronto about 1973, Up on the Roof was at Queens University."

From Dale Saunders of the Terry Crawford Band***

Regarding two unidentified rarities, slower ballad is called 'Family' basically a biography of James' father and uncle and some off-spring who had established homesteads around Ponoka, near Red Deer Alberta. During a western tour James had an opportunity to reconnect and spend a couple of weeks with some kin. He wrote this as a tribute. The second tune that begins with the hammond solo is called 'Oh My My'. It's just basically a happy bouncy tune. James presented the band with a bare-bones idea. We jammed on it and fleshed-out the arrangement that you hear on the recording.

The recording is taken directly from the mixing board onto a boom box cassette recorder. my recollection is that location was 'Tall Boys' (nightclub) in Cornerbrook, Newfoundland. during autumn of 1978.

In the song 'Sailor' James plays the preamble on an RMI electric piano into a Maestro phase-shifter.  Notice how his voice completely changes when he says "Loneliness is the most horrible word in the English language. It's also the most horrible feeling". It is complete sincerity as he temporarily deviates from the 'DeeJay announcer'- sounding voice. It was typical in that on occasions he would be doing some type of shtick and suddenly become completely genuine and vulnerable.