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Gordon Lightfoot - "What a tale your thoughts could tell"
Gordon
Lightfoot, vocals, guitar
Gordon
Lightfoot's
most popular CDs and DVDs: United
Artists Collection, If You Could Read My Mind, Don Quixote, Summertime
Dream
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Set list:
Restless
4:49
If You Could Read My Mind 3:52
Let it Ride 4:02
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Gordon Lightfoot at Live 8
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, C.C. , O.Ont. , LL.D.
(born November 17, 1938) is a Canadian folk singer, composer and lyricist.
Gordon Lightfoot was born November 17, 1938 to Gordon Meredith Lightfoot
Sr. and Jessica Lightfoot in 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 by the 1960s and performed in
coffee houses on the Toronto folk scene.
In 1966 Lightfoot! was released as his debut album. In the mid-1960s he
was more known as a songwriter than for his own work, as his songs were
recorded by artists such as Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley.
He is one of the first Canadian popular singers who achieved real stardom
in his own country instead of moving to the United States. In June of
1974, his single, "Sundown", went to No.1 on the American charts.
In the fall of 2002, Lightfoot suffered a near-fatal abdominal hemorrhage,
which caused him to go into a comatose state for a short period of time.
He later returned to the music business with the album Harmony and an
appearance on Canadian Idol.
Lightfoot has received 15 Juno Awards and been nominated for 5 Grammy
Awards. He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1986,
the Canadian Country Music Hall Of Fame in 2001, and in May 2003 was made
a Companion of the Order of Canada, the country's highest honour.
Lightfoot is also a member of the Order of Ontario, the highest honour
in the province of Ontario.
In 1968, Canadian rockers "The Guess Who" wrote a tune about
Lightfoot entitled "Lightfoot", which includes references to
Lightfoot's songs.
Netherlands-based singer Viola Wills released 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") in 2000.
This article about Gordon Lightfoot is posted under the GNU Free Documentation
License. It uses material from this Wikipedia
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