Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. was a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist who achieved international success in folk,folk-rock,and country music. He is credited with helping to define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 1970s. He has been referred to as Canada's greatest songwriter and his songs have been recorded by some of the world's most renowned musical artists. Lightfoot's biographer Nicholas Jennings said,"His name is synonymous with timeless songs about trains and shipwrecks,rivers and highways,lovers and loneliness."
Sit Down Young Stranger is Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot's fifth studio album and his best-selling original album. Shortly after its 1970 release on the Reprise Records label,it was renamed If You Could Read My Mind when the song of that title reached #1 on the RPM Top Singles chart in Canada and #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US. The album itself reached #12 on the Billboard 200 chart. In Canada,the album was on the charts from April 18,1970,to November 27,1971. It peaked at #8 on March 13,1971 after an earlier peak at #12 on June 20,1970. Its last 24 weeks were spent in the 90s,except for appearances at #88 and #100.
Summer Side of Life is Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot's sixth studio album. It was released in 1971 on the Reprise Records Label. The album marked a departure from the sound Lightfoot had established on Sit Down Young Stranger in its use of drums and electric instrumentation,to which he would later return in the second half of the decade. “Redwood Hill”contains elements of bluegrass music.
Old Dan's Records is Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot's eighth studio album,released in 1972 on the Reprise Records label. The album reached #1 in Canada on the RPM national album chart on November 5,1972,and remained there for three weeks. In the U.S.,it peaked at #95 on the pop chart.
Shadows is Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot's fourteenth studio album,released in 1982 on the Warner Brothers Records label. It peaked at #87 on the Billboard charts.
Still Crazy After All These Years is the fourth solo studio album by Paul Simon. Recorded and released in 1975,the album produced four U.S. Top 40 hits:"50 Ways to Leave Your Lover","Gone at Last","My Little Town",and the title track. It won two Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance in 1976.
Endless Wire is the Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot's twelfth studio album,released in 1978 on Warner Bros. Records (#3149).
No Secrets is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Carly Simon,released by Elektra Records,on November 28,1972.
Summertime Dream is Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot's eleventh studio album,released on the Reprise Records label in 1976. It peaked at #1 on the Canadian RPM national album chart,and #12 on the US Billboard pop chart.
10cc is the debut album by the British rock band 10cc,first released in 1973. It was recorded at Strawberry Studios in Stockport,which was part-owned by guitarist and engineer Eric Stewart,and released on Jonathan King's UK Records label. The album reached number 36 in the UK Albums Chart.
So Far is the fourth album by Crosby,Stills &Nash,their third as Crosby,Stills,Nash &Young,and the first compilation album released by the group. Shipping as a gold record and peaking at No. 1 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart,it was the band's third chart-topping album in a row. It has been certified six times platinum by the RIAA,and is the second best-selling album by any configuration of the quartet in tandem after their 1970 studio album,DéjàVu.
"Sundown" is a song by Canadian folk artist Gordon Lightfoot,from the titular album,released as a single in March 1974.
Don't Cry Now is the fourth solo studio album by Linda Ronstadt and the first of her studio releases for Asylum Records,following six albums recorded for and released on Capitol Records including three she recorded as a member of the Stone Poneys.
Wild Tales is the second solo studio album by British singer-songwriter Graham Nash,released on Atlantic Records in 1974. In the United States,it peaked at number 34 on Billboard's albums chart. Nash blamed its failure to chart higher there on a lack of support and promotion from Atlantic Records. Following the protracted break-up of Crosby,Stills,Nash &Young in late 1974 and early 1975,Nash left the label and signed a contract with ABC Records as a duo with his CSNY partner David Crosby.
Simple Dreams is the eighth studio album by the American singer Linda Ronstadt,released in 1977 by Asylum Records. It includes several of her best-known songs,including her cover of the Rolling Stones song "Tumbling Dice" and her version of the Roy Orbison song "Blue Bayou",which earned her a Grammy nomination for Record of the Year. The album also contains covers of the Buddy Holly song "It's So Easy!" and the Warren Zevon songs "Poor Poor Pitiful Me" and "Carmelita". The album was the best-selling studio album of her career,and at the time was the second best-selling album by a female artist. It was her first album since Don't Cry Now without long-time musical collaborator Andrew Gold,though it features several of the other Laurel Canyon-based session musicians who appeared on her prior albums,including guitarists Dan Dugmore and Waddy Wachtel,bassist Kenny Edwards,and producer and multi-instrumentalist Peter Asher.
Back Home Again is the eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter John Denver,released in June 1974.
Sedaka's Back is a compilation album by American singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka. The record,composed of selections from his previous three albums,which had been released only in the UK,was released on Elton John's label,The Rocket Record Company,in 1974. Three singles were released from this album:"Laughter in the Rain","The Immigrant" and "That's When the Music Takes Me." The latter two songs were both Top 40 hits. Also included were songs that were turned into hits by other artists:"Solitaire" and "Love Will Keep Us Together". The album reached No. 23 on the US Billboard album charts and was certified Gold for shipping half a million sales.
The discography of Canadian folk and country music singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot consists of 20 studio albums,three live albums,16 greatest hits albums and 46 singles. Lightfoot's songs,including "For Lovin' Me","Early Morning Rain","Steel Rail Blues","Ribbon of Darkness"—a number one hit on the U.S. country chart with Marty Robbins's cover in 1965—and "Black Day in July" about the 1967 Detroit riot,brought him wide recognition in the 1960s. Canadian chart success with his own recordings began in 1962 with the No. 3 hit "(Remember Me) I'm the One",followed by recognition and charting abroad in the 1970s. His topped the US Hot 100 and/or AC chart with the hits "If You Could Read My Mind" (1970),"Sundown" (1974);"Carefree Highway" (1974),"Rainy Day People" (1975),and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (1976),and had many other hits that appeared within the top 40. Several of his albums achieved gold and multi-platinum status internationally.
"Carefree Highway" is a song written by Gordon Lightfoot and was the second single release from his 1974 album,Sundown. It peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent one week at No. 1 on the Easy Listening chart in October 1974.
Sundown Heaven Town is the thirteenth studio album by American country music artist Tim McGraw. It was released via Big Machine Records on September 16,2014.
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