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Lightfoot's single version hit number 1 in his native Canada (in the RPM national singles survey) on November 20, 1976, barely a year after the disaster. [12] In the United States, it reached number 1 in Cashbox and number 2 for two weeks in the Billboard Hot 100 (behind Rod Stewart's "Tonight's the Night"), making it Lightfoot's second-most successful single, behind only "Sundown".
"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" 1 1 1 2 9 50 40 46 Summertime Dream "Race Among the Ruins" 30 11 14 65 13 — — — 1977 "The Circle Is Small (I Can See It in Your Eyes)" 6 1 9 33 3 92 — — Endless Wire: 1978 "Daylight Katy" 44 25 — — 16 — 41 — "Dreamland" — 24 — — — 100 — — "—" denotes releases that did not chart
Lightfoot re-recorded the track on his 1975 compilation album, Gord's Gold, this time with full orchestration that Lee Holdridge arranged. A live version also appears on two of his live albums, first on his 1969 album Sunday Concert and again on the 2012 release All Live, which consists of songs recorded during the live concerts Lightfoot gave at Toronto's Massey Hall between 1998 and 2001.
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Gord's Gold is a compilation album released by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot in 1975. Originally a vinyl double album, it was reissued on CD in 1987 (with one track, "Affair on 8th Avenue", omitted to allow the collection to fit onto a single disc).
Lightfoot! is the debut album by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot.Although it was recorded in December 1964, [1] the album was not released until January 1966 on the United Artists label.
"Back Home in Derry" is an Irish rebel song written by Bobby Sands while imprisoned in HM Prison Maze. [1] [2]The song has been covered by multiple artists, most notably by Christy Moore in his 1984 album Ride On, who sang it to a melody inspired by Gordon Lightfoot's famous 1976 song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
"Carefree Highway" is a song written by Gordon Lightfoot and was the second single release from his 1974 album, Sundown. It peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent one week at No. 1 on the Easy Listening chart in October 1974.