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Gordon Lightfoot

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Canadian singer-songwriter. Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. CC OOnt is 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.
Lightfoot was born in Orillia, Ontario, to Jessie Vick Trill Lightfoot and Gordon Lightfoot, Sr., who owned a local dry cleaning business. He had an older sister, Beverley (1935-2017). His mother recognized Lightfoot's musical talent early on and schooled him into a successful child performer. His first public performance was "Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ral" (an Irish lullaby) in grade four, which was broadcast over his school's public address system on a parents' day event. As a youth, he sang, under the direction of choirmaster Ray Williams, in the choir of Orillia's St. Paul's United Church. According to Lightfoot, Williams taught him how to sing with emotion and how to have confidence in his voice. Lightfoot was a boy soprano; he appeared periodically on local Orillia radio, performed in local operettas and oratorios, and gained exposure through various Kiwanis music festivals. At the age of twelve, after winning a competition for boys whose voices had not yet changed, he made his first appearance at Massey Hall in Toronto. As a teenager, Lightfoot learned piano and taught himself to play drums and percussion. He held concerts in Muskoka, a resort area north of Orillia, singing "for a couple of beers."
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  • The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

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  • Sundown

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  • Early Mornin' Rain

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  • If You Could Read My Mind

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  • Carefree Highway

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  • If You Could Read My Mind

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  • Rainy Day People

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  • Canadian Railroad Trilogy

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  • Carefree Highway

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  • Early Morning Rain

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  • Beautiful

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  • For Lovin' Me

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  • Song for a Winter's Night

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  • Canadian Railroad Trilogy

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  • The Way I Feel (Acoustic Version)

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  • Don Quixote

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  • For Lovin' Me / Did She Mention My Name

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  • Cotton Jenny

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  • Minstrel of the Dawn

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  • Summer Side of Life

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  • I'm Not Sayin' / Ribbon of Darkness

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  • Steel Rail Blues

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  • Softly

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  • Circle of Steel

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  • Old Dan's Records

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  • Affair on 8th Avenue

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  • Cold On the Shoulder

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  • Bitter Green

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  • Wherefore and Why

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  • The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

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  • Leaves of Grass (Live)

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  • Bitter Green

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  • I'm Not Sayin'

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  • Ribbon of Darkness

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  • The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (1988 Version)

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