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By Gary Trust Gordon Lightfoot scored success ... cut on the Hot 100 – and also hit the top 10 with Cold on the Shoulder (No. 10, 1975). Lightfoot also scored four No. 1s, among six top 10s ...
Where many of the original songs on Gordon Lightfoot’s debut album Lightfoot ... on a jet plane as he remains “on the ground as cold and drunk as I can be.” As evocative as Lightfoot's ...
Gordon Lightfoot captured our country ... “High and Dry.” Lightfoot’s 1975 LP Cold on the Shoulder made the U.S. Top 10, and its single “Rainy Day People” reached the Top 30.
The Canadian folk-pop icon Gordon Lightfoot, whose songwriting won the affections ... Life (1971), Don Quixote (1972), Old Dan’s Records (1972), Sundown (1974), Cold On The Shoulder (1975). The songs ...
By Rob Tannenbaum Bob Dylan once named Gordon Lightfoot one of ... On Dylan’s 1970 album “Self Portrait,” he even recorded Lightfoot’s “Early Morning Rain,” and the respect was mutual ...
Gordon Lightfoot ... emerge from Toronto’s Yorkville folk club scene in the 1960s, Lightfoot went on to record 20 studio albums and pen hundreds of songs," many of which were covered by some ...
So many brilliant songwriters came out of Canada in the Sixties — legends like Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, and Robbie Robertson — that the talents of Gordon Lightfoot are ...
Gordon Lightfoot ... Robbins began recording Lightfoot’s material. In 1966, Lightfoot signed a recording contract with United Artists Records, and his first solo album — Lightfoot!
A live album by prolific Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, who died on May 1 at age 84, will be released July 14. At Royal Albert Hall is being billed as his final album, and was ...
A Gordon Lightfoot album was packed with intrigue: songs about trains, shipwrecks, forests, lakes and rivers, with a throughline of melancholy that was mysterious and irresistible to an ...
Gordon Lightfoot captured our ... roaring back with the 1974 LP Sundown. The album spent two weeks at No. 1 here, and its title track became Lightfoot’s lone Hot 100 chart-topper and went ...