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Gordon Lightfoot
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1939
- Works
- 9
Top works
- Summer side of life
- The pony man
- Walter Beauchamp
- Best of Gordon Lightfoot - Strum and Sing Guitar
- Best of Gordon Lightfoot
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Film & TV
Acting · Orillia, Ontario, Canada
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. CC OOnt (November 17, 1938 – May 1, 2023) was 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. He has been referred to as Canada's greatest songwriter and his songs have been recorded by some of the world's most renowned…
Known for
- Anne Murray: Full Circle — Self2021
- Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese — Self2019
- Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind — Self2019
- This Beat Goes On: Canadian Pop Music in the 1970s — Self2009
- Gordon Lightfoot: Live in Reno — Self2002
- Animal Charm: Golden Digest — Himself (archival footage)1996
- Tears Are Not Enough — Self1985
- Harry Tracy, Desperado — U.S. Marshal Morrie Nathan1982
- Gordon Lightfoot - Live From Soundstage '79 — Self - Musician1979
- Saturday Night Live — Self - Musical Guest1975
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Canada
- Active from
- 1938
- Active to
- 2023
Discography
Member of
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 670,232
- Total plays
- 10,122,735
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Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. (November 17, 1938 – May 1, 2023) was a Canadian singer-songwriter who achieved international success and played a significant role in defining the singer-songwriter era of the 1970s. Considered one of Canada's most influential songwriters, he released numerous gold and platinum albums, and his songs have been covered by many prominent musical artists. Lightfoot's biographer Nicholas Jennings described him as being known for "timeless songs about trains and shipwrec
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- <tt>edgeR</tt>
: a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data
· 2009 · cited 39,062x
- limma powers differential expression analyses for RNA-sequencing and microarray studies
· 2015 · cited 35,981x
- Electrophoretic transfer of proteins from polyacrylamide gels to nitrocellulose sheets: procedure and some applications.
· 1979 · cited 34,219x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,753x
- User Acceptance of Information Technology: Toward A Unified View1
· 2003 · cited 29,789x
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Quotes
- “Hail hero, hail hero, child of the sun All covered with flowers still having your fun”
- “Hail hero, hail hero, child of your fate Come into the kitchen don't stand by the gate And show us your wisdom before it's too late”
- “Hail hero, hail hero, let me see you smile You been gone for so damn long, I wish you'd stay awhile”
- “The liquor tasted good and here the women all were fast...You can't jump a jet planeLike you can a freight trainSo I'll best be on my wayIn the early morning rain”
- “There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not runAnd the wild majestic mountains stood alone against the sunLong before the white man and long before the wheelWhen the green dark forest was too silent to be real...Oh! The song of the future has been sungAll the battles have been wonOn the mountain tops we stand All the world at our commandWe have opened up the soil with our teardrops and our toil”
- “And the body of a dead youthLies stretched upon the groundUpon the filthy pavementsNo reason can be foundBlack day in July”
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Key facts
- Born
- Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. , ( 1938-11-17 ) November 17, 1938, Orillia, Ontario , Canada
- Died
- May 1, 2023 (2023-05-01) (aged 84), Toronto, Ontario , Canada
- Genres
- Folk soft rock country
- Occupations
- Singer-songwriter guitarist
- Instruments
- Vocals guitar piano percussion
- Years active
- 1958–2022
- Labels
- United Artists Reprise Warner Bros. Linus True North
- Formerly of
- The Two-Tones
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.lightfoot.ca
- Image
- GordonLightfoot Interlochen.jpg
- Number of children
- 6
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- Gordon Lightfoot
- date of birth
- 1938-11-17
- birth name
- Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, Jr.
- start of work period
- 1958-00-00
- social media followers
- 249000
- date of death
- 2023-05-01
- end of work period
- 2023-00-00
- short name
- Gordon Lightfoot
- name in native language
- Gordon Lightfoot
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Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. (November 17, 1938 – May 1, 2023) was a Canadian singer-songwriter who achieved worldwide success and helped define the singer-songwriter era of the 1970s. Widely considered one of Canada's greatest songwriters, he had numerous gold and platinum albums, and his songs have been covered by many of the world's most renowned musical artists. Lightfoot's biographer Nicholas Jennings wrote, "His name is synonymous with timeless songs about trains and shipwrecks, rivers and highways, lovers and loneliness."
Covers of Lightfoot's songs by other acts, including "For Lovin' Me", "Early Morning Rain", "Steel Rail Blues", "Home From The Forest", and "Ribbon of Darkness", a number one hit on the U.S. country chart for Marty Robbins, brought him recognition from the mid-1960s. Chart success with his own recordings began in Canada in 1962 with the No. 3 hit "(Remember Me) I'm the One" and led to a series of major hits at home and abroad throughout the 1970s. He topped the US Hot 100 or Adult Contemporary (AC) chart with "If You Could Read My Mind" (1970), "Sundown" (1974); "Carefree Highway" (1974), "Rainy Day People" (1975), and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (1976).