Today is Canadian folk legend Gordon Lightfoot's birthday. He's hit 70 years of age!
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, Jr., C.C., O.Ont., (born November 17, 1938) is a Canadian singer and songwriter who achieved international success in folk, country, and popular music. As a singer-songwriter, he came to prominence in the 1960s, and broke through on the international music charts in the 1970s with songs such as "If You Could Read My Mind" (1970), "Sundown" (1974) and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (1976). His songs have been recorded by some of the world's most successful recording artists, including Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Bob Dylan. Robbie Robertson of The Band declared that Lightfoot was one of his "favourite Canadian songwriters and is absolutely a national treasure."[1]
If You Could Read My Mind
If You Could Read My Mind
The rest of the Wikipedia entry can be found here
Here is the Lightfoot Internet Companion
Canadian Railroad Trilogy
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