Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot (born November 17, 1938) is a folk singer, composer and lyricist.
He is one of the first Canadian popular singers who achieved real stardom in his own country instead of moving to the USA.
Lightfoot was born in Orillia, Ontario, Canada.
He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1986 and in May 2003 was made a Companion of the Order of Canada, the country's highest honour.
Best-selling songs:
- The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
- Canadian Railroad Trilogy
- If you could read my mind
- The first time ever I saw your face
- Me and Bobby McGee
- Rainy Day People
- Sundown
- Alberta Bound
- Bitter Green
- Cotton Jenny
- Did she mention my name
- I'm not supposed to care
- Ghost of Cape Horn
- Does your mother know
- The Pony Man
- In my fashion
- Shadows
- Protocol
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