#gordonlightfoot
Now that Gordon Lightfoot has passed away, I wonder if the remembrance of the Edmund Fitzgerald will fade away with him.
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This one claimed lineage to the Wright brothers, which I find slightly cooler than the other one.
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That sent me down a Wikipedia rabbit hole to learn more about shipwrecks on the Great Lakes.
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My favorite performance of my favorite Gordon Lightfoot song, "Summer Side Of Life", from BBC concert, 1972.
This is also my favorite Gordon song to play bass on. When I get to play it I tend to go a little wilder than here. 🙂
I never formally announced my plans for weekly posting, because I’ve got a habit of doing that and then not following through very well.
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COLUMN: 'Rest easy, Mr. Lightfoot. We will never forget you'
Beaverton: Breaking: Your grieving mother definitely slept with Gordon Lightfoot https://www.thebeaverton.com/2023/05/breaking-your-grieving-mother-definitely-slept-with-gordon-lightfoot/ #satire #canada #commentary #GordonLightfoot #Entertainment #Canada #music #sex
Dave Freas got a good look at it when I finished it, and my editor did a great job, but I’ve changed things since either one of them looked at it.
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@apaulagetics I have an audio "bootleg" copy of the concert.
Yes, it was amazing, he even upgraded my seating. Great final concert for his North American Tour, and the two covers he did in honor of #GordonLightfoot were amazing!
Watched more tributes to Gordon Lightfoot. If Bowie was alive that would have been a good one because they were both folkies mid-60s. #gordonlightfoot
I think Bryan makes a good point about honoring all the people who have died on the Great Lakes.
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@WLDNSTAR I know right. I took my #Vinyl to #B52S in Vegas in 2916 for a poolside party at MGM. They didn't sign. Also #Kraftwerk and #GordonLightfoot and same. However, I one brought all my #IrishRovers LP's (22 of them and they signed everyone).
@BrianJopek
RIP #gordonlightfoot I love gol folk music because of him...
Lovely local history story from Orillia about Gordon Lightfoot
"The Teen Timers was formed in September of 1954 with Bill Hughes singing bass, Gord Lightfoot baritone, Terry Whelan lead and Bob Branch tenor."
It should not have taken me a week to hear about this. #RIP #GordonLightfoot (November 17, 1938 – May 1, 2023) one of the best #SingerSongwriters of all time. #IfYouCouldReadMyMind is on repeat tonight. 😔
The Punch Brothers - The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
I cried my eyes out when I heard this version of Gordon's song.
See #BillyJoel Pay Tribute to #GordonLightfoot With '#Sundown' Cover at #MSG - Rolling Stone https://apple.news/AVZgtJDW9QEKfzdbMsul_QA
Listening to a playlist of 'viral songs' this week in Canada. 9 of the 50 are Gordon Lightfoot.
What a great storyteller.
Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind is an exploration of the career, music, and influence of legendary Canadian musical icon Gordon Lightfoot.
https://gem.cbc.ca/gordon-lightfoot-if-you-could-read-my-mind
@kevinrns
I have been intrigued by that haunting song since they first played it on my hometown radio station. #GordonLightfoot #EdmundFitzgerald #music
“Lighthouse shines beacon for Gordon Lightfoot”
https://boingboing.net/2023/05/06/lighthouse-shines-beacon-for-gordon-lightfoot.html
🇨🇦 🇺🇸
#Music
#Toronto
#Canada
#GordonLightfoot
For those unaware, Foster Hewitt was a Canadian sportscaster who died in 1985.
#GordonLightfoot
#EdmundFitzgerald
#OfficeKitty is relaxing while we are watching a video about the music of #GordonLightfoot - RIP
#CatsOfMastodon #Caturday
🎧 There was a #GordonLightfoot tribute concert at Madison Square Garden Friday night. YouTube served a clip of #BillyJoel at the piano singing "Sundown" but it's a fanphone clip with shitsound.
When will the "Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot: Live at Madison Square Garden" concert #film drop? Because you know it will. Proceeds to charity, of course.
Ain't that America!
📷 #MichaelOchs Archive (1962) #GettyImages
Yep, I listened to this tender track a few hours ago...
https://t.l3r.me/users/raffi_rc/statuses/1654662645797076992
#gordonlightfoot
Digging deep into the building blocks of this epic song. So great!
#GordonLightfoot #IfYouCouldReadMyMind #MastersOfMusic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X33YyowZZxQ
YouTube’s algorithm got one right today. Since I’ve been viewing #gordonlightfoot videos almost exclusively for days, they served me an ad for non-stop flights from #MSP to #Saskatoon. I know Gordon was from ON, not SK, and Saskatoon isn’t at the top of my Canadian travel wishlist, but maybe it should be now?
My friend Sam wrote this blurb ages ago. We were talking about it for obvious reasons. It struck a chord, so I dug out my very old, very scratchy copy of Lightfoot to get me through an afternoon of working from home. Even through the static and fuzz from the ancient vinyl, it still resonates.
#gordonlightfoot
Heard this song on the radio today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwt6LyvE6a0
Great article
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/02/arts/music/gordon-lightfoot-songs.html
Definitely Canada's greatest "Song Creator."
I say it like that cause he wrote the lyrics, created the music/melodies, played the guitar, was a must c live. Only once did I c him at a festival decades ago.
That great light Orb-Thingy has appeared several times this morning.🌞
Don't forget da Full Flower Moon and Aquariid meteor shower next few dayz.🌝🌌
North Shore Photographer Thomas J Spence captured last night's lighting of the Split Rock Lighthouse on #LakeSuperior in memory of #GordonLightfoot. #Minnesota #MN
In #GordonLightfoot 's songbook, #art is for everyone — How the songwriter’s utilitarian approach to #inspiration proved #beauty belongs to all of us
https://www.cbc.ca/music/in-gordon-lightfoot-s-songbook-art-is-for-everyone-1.6827145
Remembering Gordon Lightfoot
Theo Moudakis: Sundown | The Star
#GordonLightfoot
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorial_cartoon/2023/05/03/theo-moudakis-sundown.html
Great tribute to Gordon Lightfoot from the YouTube show Polyphonic. https://youtu.be/E0nQCaUmrto
Mariners’ Church honored Gordon Lightfoot with ringing of bells.
I just watched this fitting tribute to #GordonLightfoot. I had a 45 of "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" when I was about nine-years-old, and I would play it on my one speaker little record player, over and over for hours, day after day. It still really and actually brings tears to my eyes when I hear it now, in my 50s. And it just made me well up again watching this. https://www.youtube.com/live/4Iw7Jei8XOo?feature=share
I covered Gordon Lightfoot 12 years ago for the music blog Herohill, who organized a tribute album to the legendary songwriter. Sadly, the compilation doesn't seem to be online anywhere.
I recorded "Changes", one of my favourite songs from Lightfoot's first album. At the time I didn't know it was actually written by Phil Ochs.
To me Gordon's version will always be the essential one. #music #GordonLightfoot
Note: these quotes are from the official #gordonlightfoot website: https://www.lightfoot.ca/influcby.htm
I did not have enough character space to add the source in the original post.
Tribute to our Canadian troubadour, Gordon Lightfoot
National Newspaper Award-winning Editorial Cartoonist, Theo Moudakis, of the Toronto Star.
🇨🇦, eh.
Yet another #Gordonlightfoot comment. The song "If You Could Read My Mind" always makes me thnk of the Abbott & Costello movie "The Time of Their Lives" -- about a ghost in a wishing well
"Ten-hut! Draft dodger, eh? Well, see if those trees you're always hugging save you when Gordon Lightfoot's creeping round your back stair."
Musical Interlude: Gordon Lightfoot passed away yesterday. There's not much for me to do but pay homage with this video of his first big hit, a live performance filmed back when he was young and hot. (OK, I have a bit of a crush...)
"If You Could Read My Mind," performed by Gordon Lightfoot.
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Gordon Lightfoot died ...
REMEMBER HIM
May he rest in peace.
WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZERALD
#WatchOnYoutube
https://youtu.be/FuzTkGyxkYI
“It’s (The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald) a documentarian’s song, when you think about it,” said Eric Greenberg, a longtime friend of the singer who interviewed Mr. Lightfoot as a student journalist in the late 1970s and later co-wrote a song with him.
#gordonlightfoot #Canada #Music #FolkMusic #Poet #Storyteller #History
Watching the "If You Could Read My Mind" documentary on Gordon Lightfoot via CBC Gem.
"Lightfoot became a mentor for a long time. I think he probably still is to this day." - Bob Dylan
“I can't think of any Gordon Lightfoot song I don't like. Everytime I hear a song of his, it's like I wish it would last forever. " - Bob Dylan
"Gordon Lightfoot has created some of the most beautiful and lasting music of our time. He is Bob Dylan's favorite singer/songwriter - high praise from the best of us, applauded by the rest of us." - Kris Kristofferson
I've been a Gordon Lightfoot fan for a long time. A few years ago I made a collection of my favorite songs by him. If you're missing him today you could do worse than to look these up on YouTube or wherever else you can find them. He was one of a kind. His fan base is international. Some of these songs have been performed by dozens of other artists. I'm sorry if I left off your favorite, but do tell me what it is.
A Tree Too Weak to Stand
Baby It's Allright
Baby Step Back
Carefree Highway
Cold on the Shoulder
Early Morning Rain
Endless Wire
Fine As Fine Can Be
For Lovin' Me
If You Could Read My Mind
Never Too Close
Now And Then
Pussywillows, Cat-Tails
Rainbow Trout
Rainy Day People
Seven Island Suite
Slide on Over
Sundown
The Circle Is Small
The Way I Feel
Another surprise (if not necessarily all that unexpected -- hoaxes have been preparing us for a decade or so) memorial #StupidAccordionTricks tribute, this time to #GordonLightfoot with my take on his #IfYouCouldReadMyMind, his first charting hit -- via https://youtu.be/ccvCJpxlPB8
Gordon Lightfoot died 1 05 2023...
It breaks my heart
May he rest in peace.
REMEMBER HIM
#GordonLightfoot
IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND
https://youtu.be/fT_J-LNqVvw
On CBC GEM, Gord Lightfoot documentary: If You Could Read My Mind
Gord worked hard, played hard.
https://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/specials/gordon-lightfoot-if-you-could-read-my-mind-1.5102331
Before I close, please let us have a moment to acknowledge the passing of #GordonLightfoot, the Canadian music legend, who has just died at 84. He will be missed:
https://www.joeydevilla.com/2023/05/01/r-i-p-gordon-lightfoot/
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Confession time: While I always respected the late #Canadian troubador #GordonLightfoot, I never dove into his discography. What songs (with links if possible) will make me weep, with joy or sorrow? Thanks. #music
Listening to Gordon Lightfoot essentials today. #gordonlightfoot
RIP Gordon. #gordonlightfoot #cbc #canada
Canadian folk music icon Gordon Lightfoot dead at 84
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/gordon-lightfoot-dead-1.6828991
Sad news, one of my favorite singers. I have several of his albums.
Singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot dies aged 84.
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/singer-songwriter-gordon-lightfoot-dies-aged-84/ar-AA1aCTwF
🎧 #GordonLightfoot "Return Into Dust" (2020).
🎶 "Every time I hear a song of his, I wish it would last forever." — #BobDylan
#RIP legend singer/songwriter #GordonLightfoot.
📽️ "Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind" (2020), the documentary about Lightfoot's life and career is streaming everywhere.
#music #folk #rock #Canada #Canadian #storyteller #gifted #poetry
“I can't think of any Gordon Lightfoot song I don't like. Everytime I hear a song of his, it's like I wish it would last forever." - Bob Dylan
Nothing gold can stay.
Memories of hanging out with Stewart and Diane outside the art class at high school, Stew on guitar, belting out Early Morning Rain.
Early Morning Rain: https://youtu.be/KP_MDIYhPH0
The Way I Feel ... a tender ballad on young love lost...
@mikewise I grew up in Orillia, but moved away long ago. One of my unexpected pleasures in the past several years has been to head back there in the summer for the #MariposaFolkFestival in Tudhope Park on the shores of #LakeCouchiching.
#GordonLightfoot would invariably make an effort to stop by (unannounced) and play a couple songs in the late afternoon on Saturday just as the main stage was starting to attract a bigger crowd.
He will be missed.
In my teens there were certain musical legends that you just freaking respected. It's strange maybe but there'd be just as many of us freaks in the crowd as boomers singing and dancing if they played Ottawa.
Marley was one, but gone before we came of age. Bacharach was another.
Stompin' Tom was solid punk - there'd be mosh pits at his shows.
Belafonte was one, and now we lost him and Lightfoot in one week.
Rock on Gordon, never rest.
https://open.spotify.com/track/57ct8jKi6trntXiRV0NnXi?si=0e1c680bdb7b4675
Canadian musical icon Gordon Lightfoot has died. The folk singer, who was described by Rush's Geddy Lee as "our poet laureate," was 84.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/gordon-lightfoot-dead-1.6828991
Canadian folk legend #GordonLightfoot has died at age 84 (confirmed by his publicist).
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/gordon-lightfoot-dead-1.6828991
Gordon Lightfoot has died at the age of 84.
Calling him a Canadian icon or legend is an understatement.
He was one of our greatest singer-songwriters.
Born in Orillia, Ontario on Nov. 17, 1938, he had several #1 albums & songs.
He won 16 Junos.
RIP to a legend.
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🙂 @teachermike72 - Mike Messner
a #teacher living in California with my wife and son. I am a #podcaster whose show focuses on #gordonlightfoot and I also produce an #audiodrama based on a WWII series written by a friend of mine. I'm a fan of the #49ers, #Stanford, the #SJSharks and #folkmusic.
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