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Gordon Lightfoot


Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. CC OOnt (November 17, 1938 – May 1, 2023) 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 is often referred to as Canada's greatest songwriter and is known internationally as a folk-rock legend. 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. He topped the US Hot 100 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 in the top 40. Several of Lightfoot's albums achieved gold and multi-platinum status internationally. His songs have been recorded by renowned artists such as Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams Jr., The Kingston Trio, Jerry Lee Lewis, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Barbra Streisand, Johnny Mathis, Herb Alpert, Harry Belafonte, Sarah McLachlan, Eric Clapton, John Mellencamp, Peter, Paul and Mary, Glen Campbell, The Grat...

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