We come to praise... GORDON LIGHTFOOT.

Kathie Lee is a fan too.

Turned into a dance/disco number for the movie 54.

I'm a Canadian and while I have his hit singles I'm not really a big fan of his. He's a very talented songwriter - his first big hit, "If You Could Read My Mind" was very insightful and has been covered by many other artists - but he was an alcoholic for many years and I think it stopped him from becoming a better person and a better musician. Apparently he could be a really mean drunk at times.

I think Rick Moranis was responsible for the vocals on this bit. SCTV is still the funniest show I have ever watched, and holds up after all these years.

Pop Culture Name-Dropping Troll is on a manic bender tonight.

Or maybe there’s a legit reason his post isn’t associated with any, other thread or post.

He paid $18 to come to Datalounge for Gordon Lightfoot identification.

Only 12 verses? Seems like about 50.

Gordon Lightfoot, one of Canada's greatest musicians. He'll be 80 this November 17th.

Lightfoot today. I think the years of booze and health problems took their toll on him.

r8, ....Um, I'm pretty sure that's Joni Mitchell.

This song was written about Cathy Smith who went to prison for injecting Belushi with a fatal heroin dose. Puts an interesting twist on the lyrics.

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One of my lesser known favorites of his:

r4, that was a great vocal impression.

"Sundown" is one of the great pop songs of the 1970s. I was three when it came out, so it was on the radio a great deal while I was growing up. One of the things I loved was that it was such a quintessentially dark song, a fact that most adults seemed to fundamentally miss -- they just liked the chorus; they didn't actually read the lyrics.

Now that I'm an eldergay, I just imagine myself throwing back a line of Scotch at a hotel bar whenever I hear the song. It makes me sad and happy and self-destructive in a jigged-up, four-minute maelstrom.

The last time I remember seeing Gordon and Joni Mitchell was when they did Northern Lights For Africa.

Time is a mean old bitch.

“In a room where you do what you don’t confess”

"Early Morning Rain" is certainly not one of his "lesser known" songs!

A short list of a few who have recorded this song: Peter, Paul and Mary, Ian & Sylvia, Judy Collins, Chad & Jeremy, Oliver, Bob Dylan, Jerry Reed, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Eva Cassidy, Paul Weller, Billy Bragg and Joe Henry.

IIRC, this was a huge hit for a Elvis.

He's got some good road trip songs

Another

Doesn’t get much prettier than this.

Yes, road trips, stories of roads and trails and rivers and ships and how towns and people and populations changed as a result of technology. So it was inevitable:

I love lots of Gord's early and maybe a bit more obscure tracks: Canadian Railroad Trilogy, Approaching Lavender, Baby it's Alright, Go My Way, Cold on the Shoulder, Summer Side of Life.

His lyrics are romantic and real, and while there are better voices out there, he uses his perfectly in these songs.

Always loved the Canadian Railroad Trilogy.

It was commissioned by the CBC in 1967, Canada's centennial year.

Hbos The Tale featured a brief snippet of his song If You Could Read my Mind.

The guitar hook on "Sundown" is stolen from guitarist Carol Hunter's hook used in a live version of Neil Diamond's "Holly Holy."

R8 I can't recognize any of his original features and don't see the progression.

I don't get it r21, are they supposed to be dead?

He went from looking like a more rugged Chris Pratt to Kane from Poltergeist 2.

[quote]The last time I remember seeing Gordon and Joni Mitchell was when they did Northern Lights For Africa.

I'm still waiting for my share of the money.

I saw him once,

I saw him too. Early 70's. At my college student center. Him, a guitar and a microphone. Thanks, OP this took me way back. I just spent an hour on You Tube listening to him again. Damn. He was good.

It's still weird to think he was a guest star on... Aaron Spelling's Hotel.

He sang this song on the show. It's a polished pop song, produced by David Foster, who also produced fellow Canadian Anne Murray's Now and Forever (You and Me) the same year.

He was exquisite on this gorgeous song:

Thanks, OP!

He was better than Glen Campbell!