Life
Lightfoot was innate November 17, 1938 to Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Sr. & Jessica Lightfoot inside Orillia, Ontario, Canada. He moved to Los Angeles, California during the 1950s where he studied at Hollywood's Westlake College of Music. He returned to Canada per 1960s and performed in coffee houses on the Toronto folk scene. Around 1966, his debut album Lightfoot! was released. In the mid-1960s he wwhen thomas more called the songster than for his have operate, as his songs were recorded by creative person like Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley.

Withinside 1971, in a bus attached for Calgary, Gordin met the lonely teen girl known as Grace on her way front yard from either Toronto, & in 1972, the song "Alberta Bound" incurred its debut on the Don Quixote album.

He is one of a foremost American popular singers world health organization achieved very stardom around his have united states instead of moving to the United States. Around June of 1974, his classic single, "Sundown", went to No.1 on the American charts. About ii years late, Lightfoot got an unexpected hit by having a song by owning the unlikeliest of subject matter. Within late November, 1975, Lightfoot scroll through just about a sinking of a Great Streams, lakes, and wells throughout ore host known as a SS Edmund Fitzgerald when you took the severe storm around the magazine article. Tragically, completely of her Xxix crewman were flushed. His song, "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", most of whose lyrics were taken from the article, reached #2 on the U.S. Hoarding stock and index charts. Each songs prove my point to receive heavily airplay in numerous classic rock stations.

In the fall of 2002, Lightfoot suffered a touching-deadly abdominal hemorrhage, which caused him to last into the comatose state for a short period. He late returned to a music business by using the album Harmony & an appearance in Canadian Idol.

Lightfoot has received Fifteen Juno Awards and been nominated for Fivesome Grammy Awards. He was inducted into a Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1986, the Canadian Country Music Hall Of Fame in 2001, and inside Might 2003 was made the Companion of the Order of Canada, the united states's greatest honour. Lightfoot is likewise the member of the Order of Ontario, the greatest honour in the province of Ontario.

Best-selling songs

"Alberta Bound" "Bitter Green" "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" "Carefree Highway" "Cotton Jenny" "Did She Mention My Name" "Does Your Mother Know" "Early Morning Rain" "Ghost of Cape Horn" "If You Could Read My Mind" "I'm Not Supposed To Care" "In My Fashion" "Me and Bobby McGee" (first recorded version of Kris Kristofferson song) "Protocol" "Rainy Day People" "Shadows" "Sundown" "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" "The Pony Man"

Tribute and covers
Around 1968, Canadian rockers "The Guess Who" wrote a tune just about Lightfoot entitled "Lightfoot", which includes information to Lightfoot's songs.

Bob Dylan covered "Early Morning Rain" on his 1970 album Self Portrait.

Netherlands-depending singer Violthe Wills freed a disco version of "If You Could Read My Mind" in 1980, an attempt that was repeated by Amber (with techno-dance group "Stars on 54") inside 2000.

Within 2003, the benefit album Beautiful was freed featuring cover of Lightfoot songs by various creative person include The Tragically Hip, Cowboy Junkies, Ron Sexsmith and Jesse Winchester.

Discography
1966 Lightfoot! 1967 The Way I Feel 1968 Did She Mention My Name 1968 Back Here on Earth 1969 Sunday Concert (survive) 1970 Sit Down Young Stranger (renamed If You Could Page through Our Mind) 1971 Summer Side of Life 1972 ''Old Dan's Records 1972 Don Quixote 1974 Sundown 1975 Two Originals of Gordon Lightfoot 1975 Cold on the Shoulder 1976 Summertime Dream 1978 Endless Wire 197? Gordon Lightfoot Hudba a Slova 1980 Dream Street Rose 1982 Shadows 1983 Salute 1986 East of Midnight 1987 If You Could Read My Mind (re-release) 1993 Waiting for You 1994 Sunday Concert [Bear Family] (survive) 1998 A Painter Passing Through 2003 Sunday Concert [Capitol 2003] (survive) 2004 Harmony

Compilations
1968 Early Lightfoot 1970 A Best 1971 Classic Lightfoot: A Right of Gordon... 1974 A Super Right of Gordon Lightfoot 1975 Gord's Gold 1976 Early Morning Rain 1985 Songbook 1988 Gord's Gold, Vol. 2 1989 A Right of Gordon Lightfoot 1992 Original Lightfoot 1993 A United Creative person Collection 1994 Lightfoot!/The Way I personally Feel''