I told my wife years ago, been married 31 years, Beautiful was her theme song. I am blessed to say that describes our relationship and how I feel about her to this day.
Brian Johnston You must not know too many Americans. Gordon Lightfoot has always been held in high regard. I always thought he and Jim Croce could have made an interesting combo.
The renaissance man likes story telling in a song , can someone suggest American pie & the Edmund Fitzgerald/ wow both great songs , unfortunately based on real tragedies.I am new here and not sure how you would get these requests to Him ( forgot his name ( sorry)
My mom had a 6 1/2 octave voice, but by the time I was alive, she was more comfortable in her lower range. She used to sing this song all the time. It would bring anyone within earshot to tears. She's been gone 4 1/2 years now. You just brought back some beautiful memories. Thank you
I had the album Superstars of the 70's by ktel. It was the first time I heard this song. Loved it immediately. I have seen Gordon Lightfoot in concert twice. memorable concerts.
@@jimfrederick3907 "Pickin' up the pieces of my sweet shattered dream I wonder how the old folks are tonight Her name was Ann and I'll be damned if I recall her face She left me not knowin' what to do Carefree highway, let me slip away on you Carefree highway, you seen better days The mornin' after blues from my head down to my shoes Carefree highway, let me slip away Slip away on you"
I love Gordon Lightfoot, but the Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald (A song retelling of a historic event) is so long. I don't know if anyone would commit to it. It'd be amazing if they did.
@@bethanyhanna9464 Dude, I've seen people react to Rush's 2112 (just the song, not even the whole album) on here, and that thing's like, a little over 20 minutes long! Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald isn't that long.. *LOL*
I remember first hearing this in a store in Montreal in about 1972. Canada is blessed to have produced both Leonard Cohen and Gordon Lightfoot, our magical poet-singers, in addition to so many other talents in Song.
Gordon was a master wordsmith...When he was at his peak, in the 70's, there were a bunch of artist in the same vein...Cat Stevens, Jim Croce, Simon and Garfunkel, Carly Simon, et al...All of them brilliant!
@@marktilley7222 On a morning from a Bogart movie In a country where they turn back time You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre Contemplating a crime She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running Like a watercolor in the rain Don't bother asking for explanations She'll just tell you that she came In the year of the cat
I love this song so much, but it brings some painful heartache to the surface. It played on the radio, in the early 80s, when I was very young, living in the tiny mountain town, Silverton, CO. This song makes me think of my Dad, I think maybe because between my parents, my Dad was the one that listened to this type of music more often than my mom. My Dad was my world, I was Daddy's Girl from the minute I was born to the minute he died, March 15, 2010. Sometimes it feels like yesterday that I lost him and sometimes it feels like he was a dream that I had. My heart will remain forever broken. He was taken too soon at the age of 53 from pancreatic cancer. He and my mom were just months from their 35 wedding anniversary. Music, man, it's amazing what it can stir up inside. Thank you for listening and thank you for playing this song...I guess I needed to tell someone that I'm missing my Dad...lucky you! lol If you haven't seen/reacted to the Toby Keith song "Cryin' For Me/Waylon's Song", would you please? That is my song to my Dad. RIP Dad (David Lee LaLonde Jr.) ~Brianne
We love and respect the hell out of Gordon here in Canada. Personally, I love the fact that he means everything he writes about, and as a writer, writing about one's experiences truthfully is a talent most just do not have! Leonard Cohen and Gordon Lightfoot were much alike in that way.
Gordon Lightfoot was a mainstay in the 70s. His music was on the radio all the time. He has an amazing voice and his songs are beautiful. Unfortunately, he's very underrated.
Gordon Lightfoot is a poet laureat of a generation. His songs are timeless. He wrote so many wonderful songs like Song For a Winter's Day, Don Quixote, Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Bitter Green and so many more.
From BING: " Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. CC OOnt is a Canadian singer-songwriter 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 is often referred to as Canada's greatest songwriter and is known internationally as a folk-rock legend. Born: Nov 17, 1938 (age 80) · Orillia, Canada"
Gordon Lightfoot is so artful. Not many could put together a song like that. Maybe Dylan, Kristofferson and a select few. He composed a gem and then matched the lyrics with an ideal voice perfectly suited for the song.
A Canadian National Treasure and a superb songwriter, and story teller. I just fall into his voice every time I hear him sing, every song he sang had to be played over and over...and over again. I was so lucky to see him in Concert.
I LOVE violins in ballads and this song is a perfect example why. When done correctly, such as in this song, they add so much emotion to the parts of the songs that need emotion.
That stuff is right in my wheel-house. Light rock from the 70's is so amazing when done well. People think too much of the schlock from that period, but this stuff is classic.
Lightfoot was the main man of Canadian light rock and folk back in the seventies. Great lyricist. Steel Rail Blues is my favorite of his.The Sundown album was played so much it's a wonder it didn't wear through the vinyl and start recording the turntable.
Gordon Lightfoot is a Canadian singer who is part Cheroke, He was very popular in the 60"s- late 70's. This is one of his trademark songs from 1970. He is a Singer/Songwriter who usually sings his own material which is very good.
Canadian classic artist and song. I remember when it first came out... one of the finest songwriters in the world. A contemporary and friend of Bob Dylan and Kris Kristofferson.
Gordon Lightfoot is a unique and very gifted songwriter singer musician. A really great song he did but seems to get ignored is the song" Beautiful". Just a gem and in my opinion one of the best love songs ever recorded.
I have a photograph I found on the internet. It was taken at a charity concert and it is James Taylor, John Denver, Harry Chapin, and Gordon Lightfoot just hanging together. Add in Cat Stevens and Neil Diamond and you have the cream of the early 70's singer-songwriters and the majority of my album collection in high school.
That was from the "four together" concert (tour?), where the four artists all performed together. A friend of mine was able to attend. Must have been amazing!
Sundown. Gordon's best song in my opinion. 80 years old and still going. Mind you he nearly wasn't. He actually had a ruptured aneurysm on stage. I grew up listening to him. One of the perks of living near the northern border and being able to listen to Canadian radio stations
Oma Pam Neil is one of my favorite artists of all time. A lot of people only know sweet Caroline but he has way more songs that show how amazing of a song writer he is.
@@kylesommerville3716 Recently introduced my 11 y/o grand daughter to Neil's music. There are a lot of songs she likes but especially Cherry, Cherry--we dance. I would have to do the short list of ND songs I don't like; there really aren't any. Truly love On The Way To The Sky, the whole of Beautiful Noise and Melody Road. I sure hope he is still creating.
Loved all the Gordon Lightfoot songs throughout the 70s, when I was little. They were on all the mix tapes (8 tracks!) my uncle made for my grandfather in that era.
Timeless! You will NEVER go wrong with a Gordon Lightfoot song. You can write each of his song titles on separate slips of paper, pull one out of a hat, and get a beautiful, well written song to listen to. Because he was the master of his art. No one could paint a picture with a song like Gordon Lightfoot. Or convey emotion as well as he could.
This song was released in 1970 and was the song that earned Gordon Lightfoot world class artist status. Before this, he was only well known on the folk circuit. He has written songs that were covered by artists such as Elvis Presley and Harry Belafonte. This is one of my all time favorite songs and one I was raised on. It reminds me of better times. Thank you for your review.
Gordon is Canadian. He had a home in the Tx Hill Country when I was a kid and my Brother and I were fortunate enough to install the A/C in the home, what a nice guy GL is.😎
I Absolutely LOVE this song. I always dreamed I could love someone like this someday, although I was six when this was on the Radio, I think I was a little older, like 8 or 9 when I first heard it. Thanks for playing these old Gems and bringing back a FLOOD of Memories!!!!!
*LIGHTFOOT is one of the best storytellers of our times with a string of his great hits.... His voice & stories could actually change or make your mood, some very spooky or eerie...... like the song, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"* ..... All the good songs come outta the Bing Box!
luv this song. I heard this on radio a few back. I was dusk, raining on a lone highway in Montana driving solo. Man , dunno why but it really came home for me.
Gordon Lightfoot is considered one of the greatest songwriters of the last 60 years. You should listen to the Canadian Railroad Trilogy. It's really my favorite [and I like almost all of his work.]
I never get tired of Gordon Lightfoot... I've been a fan of his since the late 1960's and have had to replace many records, tapes and discs of his over the years... As others have suggested, I recommend some other songs of his, "Sundown", "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (both very famous songs), "Song For a Winters Night", "Don Quixote" (my favorite song of his), "The Ballad of the Yarmouth Castle" (a hauntingly performed true account of a passenger ship that sank after catching fire and killing ~100 people), "Black Day in July" (about the Detroit riots of the late 1960's - the song was actually banned from the radio for a time), and as a counselor, you might enjoy "The House You Live in" which is some of the best life advice for a young man I've ever heard in a song... Bob Dylan once famously said that when he hears a Gordon Lightfoot song, he wishes it would never end....
I love Gordon Lightfoot. I have his GH Cd. I heard it million times as a child, but not until i was a adult that i got what he was meaning. Beautiful song
Gordon Lightfoot is a Canadian and was a child prodigy as a musician whose career began early in his youth. He used to sing to his classmates in school over the intercom and is long a notable Canadian of great repute very much beloved by his countrymen and Americans alike for his great talent as a musician and songwriter. His most remembered and admire song in the US is likely "The Sinking of the Edumund Fitzgerald" an American steel barge that sunk on Lake Superior on November 10, 1975 after a winter gale and hurricane force winds struck it sending it to the bottom of the lake and the lost of the entire crew of 29 souls. He's either 81 or 82 years old at present having been born in 1938.
This song came out in 1970 and it was Gordon's first hit; it sold a million copies, which was a lot at that time. This was always my favorite song of his.
Lightfoot is the Canadian storyteller. I remember back in high school when this was played at the skating rinks. You grabbed your sweetie and held her tight as you skated around in your white bell bottoms under the black lights... 1971
This is one of the most beautiful songs ever recorded, and the guitar work is extraordinary. He wrote this when he and his wife were heading towards divorce.
This was popular 1970-73 and was the same artist Gordon Lightfoot that you reviewed with us, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Lightfoot was a genuine folk singer that had to be forced into TV. I heard this in South California when I was fixing to marry😝 in the Los Angeles Mormon Temple🤯 The God and Praise the Lord I met Him in 1980. Love your music vids, they are one of the few amusements I enjoy, can't take TV or most movies any more. Thanks
Just read comments. Story songs I'd like to suggest, the Ballad of New Orleans, I think ( in 1814 we took a little trip, Alon with Colonel Jackson, down the mighty Missisip, we took a little bacon.....) AND Don McLean's American Pie, PLEASE?
Great track. You seem to have gotten into a string of 60s/70s AM pop. You may want to check out Three Dog Night - my personal fave is "Never Been To Spain", but other greats are "Joy To The World" "Eli's Coming" ""Easy to Be Hard" "One" "Celebrate" "Black and White" and "An Old Fashioned Love Song".
I grew up listening to this, along with a lot of other music my parents liked, and it was always one of my favorites. Though I didn't really understand it back when I was young. But all the imagry of ghosts and wishing wells and novels made me think of my friends and I playing various "pretend" games. When I was older I understood what it meant, and though it is sad, (reflecting on a relationship where the feelings have just died) I still really love it. It's like... it's trying to make sense of what happened, what went wrong, and using metephores because sometimes those are the only way to come close to describing feelings. But at the same time, he concludes passages with "but for now love, let's be real." Because they do need to face the reality of where they both are now (when the song was written) and what it means. I don't know all the history of Gordon Lightfoot, but I know I really enjoy his music. Two of my other favorites of his are "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" that's about an actual ship that went down in Lake Superior, and "Sundown". Please consider listening to them as well. :)
It is from the early 70s..Gordon was always a very talented storyteller..love this song, brings back memories of my first boyfriend in our teenage years, He had this on 8 track and we would go driving in his 74 nova and he would play the 8 track, he loved to sing the song ''your love's return'' by Gordon to me..great memories..thanks for the trip back Ty
Yeah, the song was about his failing marriage and divorce. Gordon is one of the more famous Canadian singer/songwriters and he was most popular in the early to mid 1970s.
Have you listened to the original recording of this song by "Peter, Paul and mary"? They bring it to another level. It was 20years before I learned G. lightfoot wrote this song.
I have and theirs is great. The first time I heard Early Morning Rain, though, was by Elvis Presley, whose version is also amazing. I didn't realize Gordon wrote it till many years later.
1970's I remember my mother listened to him on a transistor raido... lol. I was only 11 it brings back (way back) some fond memories. Thank you Ty. Donna
Gordon Lightfoot made a living writing songs for others for years before striking out on his own. He's a towering legacy from the 70's who's now a kindly old gentlemen who we've seen live twice in the last 10 years.
I remember Gordon Lightfoot from my preteen and teen years. In the 1970's. Loved his story telling. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald was the one that I found so haunting. Then When I found it was a true event, it made it doubly haunting. I learned a lot from that song. Like I did not know that the Great Lakes behave a lot like the ocean and deserve great respect for what goes on in those lakes.
Excellent song and singer. Usually when I listen to a song of his it reminds me of a time in camp and the kid in the bunk bed above me kept talking bad to the counselor. The counselor had enough of it and yanked him with his sleeping back off but it was tied to a corner of the bed. He ended up with a broken leg. When he wasn't arguing with someone at night he was singing Gordon songs to get us to sleep. I also found lost family and my brother who played well a standard guitar in reverse; mostly heavier rock, liked Gordon's songs too. My brother passed away before I got a chance to meet him and he was about ten years younger. My birth mother didn't tell family about me so I was kind of a surprise to them. Surprise to me too growing up as only child and then having four brothers and a sister
Mr Smith : Spring of '71 ----------In Denver, it hit # 1 on AM Top 40 --------------He's 82 y/o now & still, singing. ------------------SO HAPPY YOU DO NOT INTERRUPT THE MUSIC ! --------------PLEASE, KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK.-------------------------WolfSky9, 73 y/o
One of Canada's top songwriters. This song's about the love dying in a relationship. He still loves her but she's stopped loving him. Other good Gordo songs include "Sundown", "Early Morning Rain", "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", "Song for a Winter's Night"... well, there are a lot of them.
One of the most underrated singer songwriter of our time. If, you liked this song, please listen and react to Beautiful!
I told my wife years ago, been married 31 years, Beautiful was her theme song. I am blessed to say that describes our relationship and how I feel about her to this day.
hardly underrated my friend,,,
@Brian Johnston you are nuts.....gorden lightfoot..rush,,the guess who..neal young ..all from Canada,,,,get a grip
This song is from 1971, at the height of Gord's career. He has lots o hits and other great tunes after this.
Brian Johnston You must not know too many Americans. Gordon Lightfoot has always been held in high regard. I always thought he and Jim Croce could have made an interesting combo.
Absolutely love G. Lightfoot. Also his The Edmund Fitzgerald is amazing.
Don't forget his" Cdn Railroad Trilogy" the best telling (in my humble opinion) of how the CDn railway was built..
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is required listening, especially since it's about a true tragedy.
second this song
The renaissance man likes story telling in a song , can someone suggest American pie & the Edmund Fitzgerald/ wow both great songs , unfortunately based on real tragedies.I am new here and not sure how you would get these requests to Him ( forgot his name ( sorry)
story telling at it's finest
My mom had a 6 1/2 octave voice, but by the time I was alive, she was more comfortable in her lower range. She used to sing this song all the time. It would bring anyone within earshot to tears.
She's been gone 4 1/2 years now. You just brought back some beautiful memories. Thank you
Bethany Hanna nice.
Beautiful song. Gordon Lightfoot is a masterful singer-songwriter.
I had the album Superstars of the 70's by ktel. It was the first time I heard this song. Loved it immediately. I have seen Gordon Lightfoot in concert twice. memorable concerts.
Class-ic! The singer/songwriter was the highlight of the 70's. They still cannot be touched musically.
Factoid!
Love Gordon Lightfoot 💚 I can't remember the exact year this song came out,but in the 70s I was a teen 😁 love the lyrics hauntingly beautiful 😂
Two other great songs by him: Sundown and The wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald.
Carefree Highway!
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"Pickin' up the pieces of my sweet shattered dream
I wonder how the old folks are tonight
Her name was Ann and I'll be damned if I recall her face
She left me not knowin' what to do
Carefree highway, let me slip away on you
Carefree highway, you seen better days
The mornin' after blues from my head down to my shoes
Carefree highway, let me slip away
Slip away on you"
I love Gordon Lightfoot, but the Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald (A song retelling of a historic event) is so long. I don't know if anyone would commit to it. It'd be amazing if they did.
@@bethanyhanna9464 Dude, I've seen people react to Rush's 2112 (just the song, not even the whole album) on here, and that thing's like, a little over 20 minutes long! Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald isn't that long.. *LOL*
@@Divhreaza 😲 Well now I have to go look that up. Love the music, but haven't personally seen many "extended" editions of reaction videos.
I remember first hearing this in a store in Montreal in about 1972.
Canada is blessed to have produced both Leonard Cohen and Gordon Lightfoot, our magical poet-singers, in addition to so many other talents in Song.
Let's not forget 'bout Neil Young. He's written and sung a few decent songs in his career. ;-)
You're the only one reacting to these great old light rock songs of the 70's. I really appreciate what you do and keep up the good work!
Absolutely agreed!
Gordon was a master wordsmith...When he was at his peak, in the 70's, there were a bunch of artist in the same vein...Cat Stevens, Jim Croce, Simon and Garfunkel, Carly Simon, et al...All of them brilliant!
Harry Chapin
@@alanpeterson4939 Another good one...:)
Al Stewart
@@marktilley7222
On a morning from a Bogart movie
In a country where they turn back time
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre
Contemplating a crime
She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running
Like a watercolor in the rain
Don't bother asking for explanations
She'll just tell you that she came
In the year of the cat
Have you done Jim Croce Time in a bottle? It's a classic.
Lots of Croce masterpieces.
Bad Bad Leroy Brown ☺
Time in a bottle and Bad, Bad Leroy Brown. Croce is Amazing - YES!!
Time In A Bottle was my parent's wedding song in 1975! I love it! ❣
I’ve got a name is killer. And operator another classic.
This song is beautiful! Gordon Lightfoot's voice is like musical marijuana! It just totally relaxed me!!
Church...!
Much better for you than pot for sure.
His song Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald is about an actual wreck of a ship on Lake Superior. Great song
One of the best songs ever written. Soulful and timeless
If and If You Could Read My Mind are two of my favorite songs of ALL time!! Early 70's music singer songwriters are incomparable to today's music!!
I love this song so much, but it brings some painful heartache to the surface. It played on the radio, in the early 80s, when I was very young, living in the tiny mountain town, Silverton, CO. This song makes me think of my Dad, I think maybe because between my parents, my Dad was the one that listened to this type of music more often than my mom. My Dad was my world, I was Daddy's Girl from the minute I was born to the minute he died, March 15, 2010. Sometimes it feels like yesterday that I lost him and sometimes it feels like he was a dream that I had. My heart will remain forever broken. He was taken too soon at the age of 53 from pancreatic cancer. He and my mom were just months from their 35 wedding anniversary. Music, man, it's amazing what it can stir up inside. Thank you for listening and thank you for playing this song...I guess I needed to tell someone that I'm missing my Dad...lucky you! lol
If you haven't seen/reacted to the Toby Keith song "Cryin' For Me/Waylon's Song", would you please? That is my song to my Dad.
RIP Dad (David Lee LaLonde Jr.)
~Brianne
We love and respect the hell out of Gordon here in Canada. Personally, I love the fact that he means everything he writes about, and as a writer, writing about one's experiences truthfully is a talent most just do not have! Leonard Cohen and Gordon Lightfoot were much alike in that way.
Gordon Lightfoot was a mainstay in the 70s. His music was on the radio all the time. He has an amazing voice and his songs are beautiful. Unfortunately, he's very underrated.
Gordon Lightfoot is a poet laureat of a generation. His songs are timeless. He wrote so many wonderful songs like Song For a Winter's Day, Don Quixote, Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Bitter Green and so many more.
From BING: "
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. CC OOnt is a Canadian singer-songwriter 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 is often referred to as Canada's greatest songwriter and is known internationally as a folk-rock legend.
Born: Nov 17, 1938 (age 80) · Orillia, Canada"
This song came out in about 1970/71. Love this song and it is timeless. I saw him in concert a few weeks back and it was amazing.
Gordon Lightfoot is so artful. Not many could put together a song like that. Maybe Dylan, Kristofferson and a select few. He composed a gem and then matched the lyrics with an ideal voice perfectly suited for the song.
When Dylan wrote breakup songs he came out with songs like "Positively 4th Street" or "Idiot Wind", much more brutal.
A Canadian National Treasure and a superb songwriter, and story teller. I just fall into his voice every time I hear him sing, every song he sang had to be played over and over...and over again. I was so lucky to see him in Concert.
I LOVE violins in ballads and this song is a perfect example why. When done correctly, such as in this song, they add so much emotion to the parts of the songs that need emotion.
Dreams do come true!!! Bread one night and Gordon Lightfoot the next!!!!
April Sutterfield you can say that again.
YES!
That stuff is right in my wheel-house. Light rock from the 70's is so amazing when done well. People think too much of the schlock from that period, but this stuff is classic.
Lightfoot was the main man of Canadian light rock and folk back in the seventies. Great lyricist. Steel Rail Blues is my favorite of his.The Sundown album was played so much it's a wonder it didn't wear through the vinyl and start recording the turntable.
A Canadian son, never wore through because they made so many copies they didn't worry aboot multiplays.
Gordon Lightfoot is a Canadian singer who is part Cheroke, He was very popular in the 60"s- late 70's. This is one of his trademark songs from 1970. He is a Singer/Songwriter who usually sings his own material which is very good.
Canadian classic artist and song. I remember when it first came out... one of the finest songwriters in the world. A contemporary and friend of Bob Dylan and Kris Kristofferson.
Gordon writes from personal experience, he sings from the heart which in turn touches your soul.
Gordon Lightfoot is a unique and very gifted songwriter singer musician. A really great song he did but seems to get ignored is the song" Beautiful". Just a gem and in my opinion one of the best love songs ever recorded.
I have a photograph I found on the internet. It was taken at a charity concert and it is James Taylor, John Denver, Harry Chapin, and Gordon Lightfoot just hanging together. Add in Cat Stevens and Neil Diamond and you have the cream of the early 70's singer-songwriters and the majority of my album collection in high school.
That was from the "four together" concert (tour?), where the four artists all performed together. A friend of mine was able to attend. Must have been amazing!
And let’s not forget Jim Croce.
Wow.
Gordon Lightfoot is timeless! Loved his music in the 70s, and love it just as much today! You have to review "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"!
Julia Belisario A masterpiece.
Sundown. Gordon's best song in my opinion. 80 years old and still going. Mind you he nearly wasn't. He actually had a ruptured aneurysm on stage. I grew up listening to him. One of the perks of living near the northern border and being able to listen to Canadian radio stations
Dave Mason, Jackson Browne, Todd Rundgren or James Taylor.....70’s singer songwriters that all have timeless songs......
laura kali Dave Mason and Jackson Browne are criminally underrated imo. Hell all of them you mentioned are.
Also Harry Chapin. I wish a Patreon subscriber would recommend Chapin's "Taxi".
Neil Diamond, anyone?
Oma Pam Neil is one of my favorite artists of all time. A lot of people only know sweet Caroline but he has way more songs that show how amazing of a song writer he is.
@@kylesommerville3716 Recently introduced my 11 y/o grand daughter to Neil's music. There are a lot of songs she likes but especially Cherry, Cherry--we dance. I would have to do the short list of ND songs I don't like; there really aren't any. Truly love On The Way To The Sky, the whole of Beautiful Noise and Melody Road. I sure hope he is still creating.
Loved all the Gordon Lightfoot songs throughout the 70s, when I was little. They were on all the mix tapes (8 tracks!) my uncle made for my grandfather in that era.
Timeless!
You will NEVER go wrong with a Gordon Lightfoot song.
You can write each of his song titles on separate slips of paper, pull one out of a hat, and get a beautiful, well written song to listen to.
Because he was the master of his art.
No one could paint a picture with a song like Gordon Lightfoot.
Or convey emotion as well as he could.
One of my all time favorite songs! Do his amazing tribute to the Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald, chills!
This song was released in 1970 and was the song that earned Gordon Lightfoot world class artist status. Before this, he was only well known on the folk circuit. He has written songs that were covered by artists such as Elvis Presley and Harry Belafonte. This is one of my all time favorite songs and one I was raised on. It reminds me of better times. Thank you for your review.
Gordon is Canadian. He had a home in the Tx Hill Country when I was a kid and my Brother and I were fortunate enough to install the A/C in the home, what a nice guy GL is.😎
I Absolutely LOVE this song. I always dreamed I could love someone like this someday, although I was six when this was on the Radio, I think I was a little older, like 8 or 9 when I first heard it.
Thanks for playing these old Gems and bringing back a FLOOD of Memories!!!!!
This is probably my favorite of his many great songs. The melody, the story/lyrics and his incredible smooth dynamic voice...this song has it all!
This beautiful song cuts to the heart with its honesty. This is my favorite song (out of so many) of all Gordon Lightfoots' songs.
*LIGHTFOOT is one of the best storytellers of our times with a string of his great hits.... His voice & stories could actually change or make your mood, some very spooky or eerie...... like the song, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"* ..... All the good songs come outta the Bing Box!
To me it feels like this is a song of loss and sadness. Every time I hear this I think of the loss of my brother who was my hero.
I think this song was written when his marriage was disintegrating.
Yes, this was a massive hit for Gordon Lightfoot! 70s magic!
Sundown is another good song of his.
luv this song. I heard this on radio a few back. I was dusk, raining on a lone highway in Montana driving solo. Man , dunno why but it really came home for me.
This man is a Canadian treasure. He's never made a bad song.
Gordon Lightfoot is considered one of the greatest songwriters of the last 60 years. You should listen to the Canadian Railroad Trilogy. It's really my favorite [and I like almost all of his work.]
My favorite song of his. From 1970. Thank you.
Along with hockey, one of my favorite Canadian imports.🇨🇦
I never get tired of Gordon Lightfoot... I've been a fan of his since the late 1960's and have had to replace many records, tapes and discs of his over the years... As others have suggested, I recommend some other songs of his, "Sundown", "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (both very famous songs), "Song For a Winters Night", "Don Quixote" (my favorite song of his), "The Ballad of the Yarmouth Castle" (a hauntingly performed true account of a passenger ship that sank after catching fire and killing ~100 people), "Black Day in July" (about the Detroit riots of the late 1960's - the song was actually banned from the radio for a time), and as a counselor, you might enjoy "The House You Live in" which is some of the best life advice for a young man I've ever heard in a song...
Bob Dylan once famously said that when he hears a Gordon Lightfoot song, he wishes it would never end....
I love Gordon Lightfoot. I have his GH Cd. I heard it million times as a child, but not until i was a adult that i got what he was meaning. Beautiful song
Gordon Lightfoot is a Canadian and was a child prodigy as a musician whose career began early in his youth. He used to sing to his classmates in school over the intercom and is long a notable Canadian of great repute very much beloved by his countrymen and Americans alike for his great talent as a musician and songwriter. His most remembered and admire song in the US is likely "The Sinking of the Edumund Fitzgerald" an American steel barge that sunk on Lake Superior on November 10, 1975 after a winter gale and hurricane force winds struck it sending it to the bottom of the lake and the lost of the entire crew of 29 souls. He's either 81 or 82 years old at present having been born in 1938.
This song came out in 1970 and it was Gordon's first hit; it sold a million copies, which was a lot at that time. This was always my favorite song of his.
I come back to the reviews I love the best! Seeing him and hearing him sing all of my favorite songs was a magical almost religious thing! Thanks Ty,
This is one of my top 10 all time favorite songs. Absolutely love it! And Gordon was/is such a great lyricist.
His songbook is immense and masterful. " Talking In Your Sleep," and " Christian Island" are two of my favorites.
Lightfoot is the Canadian storyteller. I remember back in high school when this was played at the skating rinks. You grabbed your sweetie and held her tight as you skated around in your white bell bottoms under the black lights... 1971
One of the most beautiful, heartbreaking songs ever! Check out “Long, Long Time” by Linda Ronstadt.
This is one of the most beautiful songs ever recorded, and the guitar work is extraordinary. He wrote this when he and his wife were heading towards divorce.
I love this song Gordon was a great storyteller you should try the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and sundown
He still is!
Should also try his song Black day in July for a piece of American history that was banned on most us radio.
I’ve been listening to oldies this morning, and I’m noticing how amazing the lyrics are in the older songs. It’s great.
This was popular 1970-73 and was the same artist Gordon Lightfoot that you reviewed with us, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Lightfoot was a genuine folk singer that had to be forced into TV. I heard this in South California when I was fixing to marry😝 in the Los Angeles Mormon Temple🤯 The God and Praise the Lord I met Him in 1980.
Love your music vids, they are one of the few amusements I enjoy, can't take TV or most movies any more. Thanks
Just read comments. Story songs I'd like to suggest, the Ballad of New Orleans, I think ( in 1814 we took a little trip, Alon with Colonel Jackson, down the mighty Missisip, we took a little bacon.....)
AND Don McLean's American Pie, PLEASE?
Such a beautiful song. Gordon Lightfoot is a wonderful story-teller.
Gordon Lightfoot is a awesome songwriter..and singer, guitar player!!!
I love the haunting melody.
Great track. You seem to have gotten into a string of 60s/70s AM pop. You may want to check out Three Dog Night - my personal fave is "Never
Been To Spain", but other greats are "Joy To The World" "Eli's Coming" ""Easy to Be Hard" "One" "Celebrate" "Black and White" and "An Old Fashioned Love Song".
I grew up listening to this, along with a lot of other music my parents liked, and it was always one of my favorites. Though I didn't really understand it back when I was young. But all the imagry of ghosts and wishing wells and novels made me think of my friends and I playing various "pretend" games. When I was older I understood what it meant, and though it is sad, (reflecting on a relationship where the feelings have just died) I still really love it. It's like... it's trying to make sense of what happened, what went wrong, and using metephores because sometimes those are the only way to come close to describing feelings. But at the same time, he concludes passages with "but for now love, let's be real." Because they do need to face the reality of where they both are now (when the song was written) and what it means.
I don't know all the history of Gordon Lightfoot, but I know I really enjoy his music. Two of my other favorites of his are "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" that's about an actual ship that went down in Lake Superior, and "Sundown". Please consider listening to them as well. :)
This song came out in the early 70s. Gordon wrote the song during the divorce from his 1st wife.
Great lyrics, great melody, great arrangement, very good vocals. As a performer he had many similar songs. Quality story, quality art.
It is from the early 70s..Gordon was always a very talented storyteller..love this song, brings back memories of my first boyfriend in our teenage years, He had this on 8 track and we would go driving in his 74 nova and he would play the 8 track, he loved to sing the song ''your love's return'' by Gordon to me..great memories..thanks for the trip back Ty
One of the best songs with the perfect vocal arrangements of all time. A timeless classic. Thank you Gordon Lightfoot!
Yeah, the song was about his failing marriage and divorce. Gordon is one of the more famous Canadian singer/songwriters and he was most popular in the early to mid 1970s.
Great song. Reminds of being a tiny kid riding in the car with my mom
nickey66 that’s what it reminds me of too. Now it reminds my daughter of riding in the car with me 😊
Wow! We had an 8 track with this on it. Came with our 1970s Oldsmobile. Same experience here. Riding with Mom.
Whenever I hear Sundown, I feel like I'm ten years old at the lake and the teenagers are playing it over and over on the jukebox in the pavilion.
Those were good days. Downtown was alwys playing on moms record player.
such a beautiful song, by a beautiful singer/storyteller.
Early Morning Rain and Beautiful are also great Gordon Lightfoot songs. He was a folk singer in the early 70s and one of my favorite artists.
Have you listened to the original recording of this song by "Peter, Paul and mary"? They bring it to another level. It was 20years before I learned G. lightfoot wrote this song.
I have and theirs is great. The first time I heard Early Morning Rain, though, was by Elvis Presley, whose version is also amazing. I didn't realize Gordon wrote it till many years later.
I forgot about "Beautiful". I just went and listened again. Thanks for the reminder.
70’s
I was in HS and this song was all over the radio around 73 or 74
This song is from 1970. Gordon Lightfoot is a Canadian singer-songwriter. He had a long and hit filled career in folk rock. He still performs today.
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Of all the singer-songwriters back in the 70s, Gordon is my favorite. Thanks for the reaction! +1
1970's I remember my mother listened to him on a transistor raido... lol. I was only 11 it brings back (way back) some fond memories. Thank you Ty. Donna
A Classic. One of my absolute favorites. Haunting song.
Gordon Lightfoot made a living writing songs for others for years before striking out on his own. He's a towering legacy from the 70's who's now a kindly old gentlemen who we've seen live twice in the last 10 years.
I remember Gordon Lightfoot from my preteen and teen years. In the 1970's. Loved his story telling. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald was the one that I found so haunting. Then When I found it was a true event, it made it doubly haunting. I learned a lot from that song. Like I did not know that the Great Lakes behave a lot like the ocean and deserve great respect for what goes on in those lakes.
Excellent song and singer. Usually when I listen to a song of his it reminds me of a time in camp and the kid in the bunk bed above me kept talking bad to the counselor. The counselor had enough of it and yanked him with his sleeping back off but it was tied to a corner of the bed. He ended up with a broken leg. When he wasn't arguing with someone at night he was singing Gordon songs to get us to sleep. I also found lost family and my brother who played well a standard guitar in reverse; mostly heavier rock, liked Gordon's songs too. My brother passed away before I got a chance to meet him and he was about ten years younger. My birth mother didn't tell family about me so I was kind of a surprise to them. Surprise to me too growing up as only child and then having four brothers and a sister
A brilliant song by one of the All Time greatest singer songwriters.
This song is a movie set to music........each listener sees their own movie
i love gordon lightfoot... his songs are just heartfelt I feel his lyrics.. relate to them ..
GREAT MEMORIES !!! I use to play this one on the guitar. I love the words and his voice is beautiful. Another great one from my time... ❤
So glad to see a reactor react to this great poetic musician. Ty so much!
This is the 70s. It was also apart of the soundtrack for the movie 'Wonderland!' This is 1 of my favorite songs.
Super choice !!!
Gordon Lightfoot was one of my absolute favorites, loved all of his songs!!
Mr Smith : Spring of '71 ----------In Denver, it hit # 1 on AM Top 40 --------------He's 82 y/o now & still, singing. ------------------SO HAPPY YOU DO NOT INTERRUPT THE MUSIC ! --------------PLEASE, KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK.-------------------------WolfSky9, 73 y/o
This is a 70's folk music story song Great vibe! Takes me back!
This is my favorite song...has been since I heard it on my little transistor radio.
Cool. This is one of my favourite songs. You also reacted to Gordon's Sundown back in May. Yay, two tracks! Waving from The Bahamas. :)
One of Canada's top songwriters. This song's about the love dying in a relationship. He still loves her but she's stopped loving him. Other good Gordo songs include "Sundown", "Early Morning Rain", "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", "Song for a Winter's Night"... well, there are a lot of them.
Such a poetic song, these lyrics are so sad but so beautiful.