Gordon Lightfoot – “If You Could Read My Mind”, “Sundown” and “The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald”

Three Seventies songs from Canadian folk singer Gordon Lightfoot stick in my mind – “If You Could Read My Mind”, “Sundown” and “The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald”.

“If You Could Read My Mind”, written after his divorce, reached No. 1 in Canada and the 5th spot in the USA. Here is the original:

And here is “If You Could Read My Mind” sung live in Chicago in 1979:

“Sundown”, sung here live in 1974, went to Number 1 on both the Canadian and U.S. singles charts in that year:

Finally, “The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald”, written after an incident on the Great Lakes on November 10, 1975, reached the top spot in Canada and peaked at No. 2 in America in 1976. This video commemorates every single one of the 29 crew members lost on the ship:

Here Gordon Lightfoot sings the ballad live in 1979:

There is something timeless about the music of Gordon Lightfoot.

Take your time to enjoy it…

Paul

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