Gordon Lightfoot discography

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Gordon Lightfoot discography
GordonLightfoot Interlochen.jpg
Lightfoot performing at Interlochen, Michigan, in 2009
Studio albums19
Live albums3
Compilation albums19
Video albums5
Singles47
B-sides3
Tribute albums3

Gordon Lightfoot (born November 17, 1938) 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.[1] He is often referred to as Canada's greatest songwriter[2] and is known internationally as a folk-rock legend.[3][4]

Lightfoot's discography comprises 19 studio albums, three live albums, 16 greatest hits albums and 46 singles. Lightfoot's songs, including "For Lovin' Me", "Early Morning Rain", "Steel Rail Blues", "Ribbon of Darkness"—a number one hit on the U.S. country chart[5] with Marty Robbins's cover in 1965—and "Black Day in July" about the 1967 Detroit riot, brought him wide recognition in the 1960s. Canadian chart success with his own recordings began in 1962 with the No. 3 hit "(Remember Me) I'm the One", followed by recognition and charting abroad in the 1970s. His topped the US Hot 100 and/or AC chart with the hits "If You Could Read My Mind" (1970), "Sundown" (1974); "Carefree Highway" (1974), "Rainy Day People (1975), and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (1976), and had many other hits that appeared within the top 40.[6] Several of his albums achieved gold and multi-platinum status internationally.

Studio albums[]

1960s[]

Title Details Peak positions
CAN
Lightfoot! —
The Way I Feel
  • Release date: April 1967
  • Label: United Artists Records
 —
Did She Mention My Name?
  • Release date: January 1968
  • Label: United Artists Records
 21
Back Here on Earth
  • Release date: November 1968
  • Label: United Artists Records
 21
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1970s[]

Title Details Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales threshold)
CAN AUS[7] US US Country UK
Sit Down Young Stranger [A] 12 20 12 — —
Summer Side of Life
  • Release date: May 1971
  • Label: Reprise Records
 3 40 38 — —
Don Quixote
  • Release date: February 1972
  • Label: Reprise Records
 1 — 42 — 44
Old Dan's Records
  • Release date: November 1972
  • Label: Reprise Records
 1 — 95 — —
Sundown
  • Release date: January 1974
  • Label: Reprise Records
 1 13 1 — 45
Cold on the Shoulder
  • Release date: February 1975
  • Label: Reprise Records
 3 44 10 — —
Summertime Dream
  • Release date: June 1976
  • Label: Reprise Records
 1 63 12 — —
Endless Wire
  • Release date: January 1978
  • Label: Warner Bros. Records
 2 56 22 14 —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1980s[]

Title Details Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales threshold)
CAN CAN Country AUS[7] US US Country
Dream Street Rose
  • Release date: 1980
  • Label: Warner Bros. Records
 9 1 76 60 58
Shadows
  • Release date: January 1982
  • Label: Warner Bros. Records
 16 — — 87 —
Salute
  • Release date: July 1983
  • Label: Warner Bros. Records
 59 — — 175 —
East of Midnight
  • Release date: July 1986
  • Label: Warner Bros. Records
 37 — — 166 —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1990s–2020s[]

Title Details Peak chart
positions
CAN US Indie
Waiting for You
  • Release date: April 13, 1993
  • Label: Warner Bros. Records
 24 —
A Painter Passing Through
  • Release date: May 1, 1998
  • Label: Warner Bros. Records
 92 —
Harmony 13 35
Solo — —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Live albums[]

Title Details Peak chart
positions
CAN US
Two Tones at the Village Corner
  • Release date: 1962
  • Label: LMG Records
 — —
Sunday Concert
  • Release date: 1969
  • Label: United Artists Records
 21 143
All Live 16 —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Compilation albums[]

Title Details Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales threshold)
CAN US US Country
Early Lightfoot
  • Release date: 1969
  • Label: AME Records
 69 — —
The Best of Gordon Lightfoot
  • Release date: 1970
  • Label: United Artists Records
 — — —
Classic Lightfoot: The Best of Gordon Lightfoot, Vol. 2
  • Release date: 1971
  • Label: United Artists Records
 41 178 —
A Lightfoot Collection: The Best of Gordon Lightfoot, Vol. 3
  • Release date: 1972
  • Label: United Artists Records
 — — —
The Very Best of Gordon Lightfoot
  • Release date: 1974
  • Label: United Artists Records
 — 155 —
The Very Best of Gordon Lightfoot, Vol. 2
  • Release date: 1975
  • Label: United Artists Records
 — — —
Gord's Gold
  • Release date: November 1975
  • Label: Reprise Records
 8 34 15
Early Morning Rain
  • Release date: 1976
  • Label: EMI
 — — —
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
  • Release date: 1979
  • Label: Pickwick International, Ltd.
 — — —
Songbook
  • Release date: 1985
  • Label: Pair Records
 — — —
Gord's Gold, Vol. 2
  • Release date: 1988
  • Label: Reprise Records
 — — —
The Best of Gordon Lightfoot — — —
If You Could Read My Mind
  • Release date: 1990
  • Label: Reprise Records
 — — —
The Original Lightfoot
  • Release date: 1992
  • Label: United Artists Records
 58 — —
The United Artists Collection
  • Release date: 1993
  • Label: United Artists Records
 — — —
Songbook
  • Release date: June 15, 1999
  • Label: Rhino Entertainment
 — — —
Complete Greatest Hits
  • Release date: 2002
  • Label: Rhino Entertainment
 21 128 —
An Introduction to: Gordon Lightfoot
  • Release date: 2018
  • Label: Rhino Entertainment
 — — —
The Complete Singles 1970–1980 (2 CD)
  • Release date: 2019
  • Label: Rhino Entertainment
 — — —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Tribute albums[]

Title Artist Details
Tony Rice Sings Gordon Lightfoot Tony Rice
  • Release date: 1996 *
  • Label: Rounder
Beautiful: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot[22] Various Artists
The Long River: A Personal Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot[23] J.P. Cormier
  • Release date: 2005
  • Label: (no label)
Ladies Sing Lightfoot Various artists **
  • Release date: 1 October 2021
  • Label: Have Harmony Will Travel

* Tony Rice Sings Gordon Lightfoot is a compilation of Lightfoot songs recorded by Tony Rice on a number of albums.

** Ladies Sing Lightfoot features 14 newly recorded performances by Darling West, the Kennedys, Natalie Noone, Shawn Barton Vach, Arwen Lewis, the Textones, Susan Coswill, Ilsey Juber, Katy Moffatt, Sarah Kramer, Kristi Callan, Shayna Adler and Carla Olson.

Singles[]

1960s[]

Year Title Peak chart
positions 		Album
CAN CAN Country
1962 "(Remember Me) I'm the One"[B] 3 — N/A
"It's Too Late, He Wins" / "Negotiations"[B] 27 —
"Adios, Adios" — —
1963 "Day Before Yesterday" (UK release) — —
1965 "I'm Not Sayin'" 12 2 Lightfoot!
"Ribbon of Darkness" — —
1966 "Spin Spin" 7 — N/A
"Go-Go Round" 27 — The Way I Feel
1967 "The Way I Feel" 36 —
"Canadian Railroad Trilogy" — —
1968 "Black Day in July" 68 — Did She Mention My Name?
"Bitter Green" 44 — Back Here on Earth
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1970s[]

Year Title Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales threshold) 		Album
CAN CAN AC CAN Country US US AC US Country UK AUS[7]
1970 "Me and Bobby McGee" 13 — 1 — — — — — Sit Down Young Stranger
"Approaching Lavender" — 20 — — — — — —
"If You Could Read My Mind" 1 1 — 5 1 — 30 27
1971 "This Is My Song" 66 — — — — — — — Early Lightfoot
"If I Could" — — — 111 — — — — Back Here on Earth
"Talking in Your Sleep" 19 2 — 64 11 — — — Summer Side of Life
"Summer Side of Life" 21 4 — 98 — — — —
1972 "Beautiful" 13 1 — 58 30 — — — Don Quixote
"Alberta Bound" — — — — — — — —
"You Are What I Am" 3 1 1 102 32 — — 37 Old Dan's Records
1973 "Can't Depend on Love" 27 — — — — — — —
1974 "Sundown" 1 2 4 1 1 13 33 4 Sundown
"Carefree Highway" 11 1 1 10 1 81 — 74
1975 "Rainy Day People" 10 1 — 26 1 47 — — Cold on the Shoulder
1976 "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

1980s[]

Year Title Peak chart positions Album
CAN CAN AC CAN Country US US AC US Country
1980 "Dream Street Rose" — 1 8 — 25 80 Dream Street Rose
"If You Need Me" — 5 21 — — —
1982 "Baby Step Back" — 6 — 50 17 — Shadows
"Blackberry Wine" — 15 — — — —
"In My Fashion" — — — — — —
1983 "Salute (A Lot More Livin' to Do)" — — — — — — Salute
"Without You" — — — — — —
1986 "Anything for Love" 39 14 — — 13 71 East of Midnight
"Stay Loose" 86 10 — — — —
1987 "East of Midnight" — 11 — — — —
"Ecstasy Made Easy" — — — — — —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1990s–2010s[]

Year Title Peak positions Album
CAN AC
1993 "I'll Prove My Love" — Waiting for You
"Waiting for You" —
1998 "A Painter Passing Through" 47 A Painter Passing Through
2004 "Inspiration Lady" — Harmony
2016 "Plans Of My Own" — Download Only
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Charted B-sides[]

Year Title Peak chart positions Original A-side
CAN CAN AC CAN Country US
1965 "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" 3 9 — — "Ribbon of Darkness"
1972 "That Same Old Obsession" 3 1 — 101 "You Are What I Am"
1973 "It's Worth Believin'" — — 12 — "Can't Depend on Love"
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Music videos[]

Year Video
2012 "Inspiration Lady"

Video albums and documentaries[]

  • Tears Are Not Enough (w/ Northern Lights) (1985)
  • Live in Reno (2000)
  • Greatest Hits Live (2003)
  • If You Could Read My Mind (2019)
  • Lightheaded (in production)

[25]

Notes[]

  • A ^ Sit Down Young Stranger was re-released as If You Could Read My Mind in 1971.
  • B ^ Credited to Gord Lightfoot. Canada did not have a national singles chart at the time of release—these chart figures are from Toronto's CHUM Chart. All other Canadian chart figures from RPM magazine.

References[]

  1. ^ "Gordon Lightfoot to join U.S. Songwriters Hall of Fame". CBC News.
  2. ^ Mayes, Alison (December 1, 2011). "If you could read his mind". Winnipeg Free Press.com. Retrieved December 26, 2011.
  3. ^ Shaw, Punch (August 23, 2010). "Concert review: Folk-rock legend Gordon Lightfoot". The Dallas Morning News. Retrieved November 9, 2011.
  4. ^ "Songwriters Hall of Fame Announces 2012 Inductees". SongHall. Retrieved April 19, 2014.
  5. ^ "Gordon Lightfoot | Music Biography, Credits and Discography". AllMusic. November 17, 1938. Retrieved April 19, 2014.
  6. ^ Adam White & Fred Bronson (1988). The Billboard Book of Hits. Billboard Books. ISBN 0-8230-8285-7.
  7. ^ a b c Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 177. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  8. ^ "American album certifications – Gordon Lightfoot – If You Could Read My Mind". Recording Industry Association of America.
  9. ^ a b "Cash Box Magazine" (PDF). Cash Box. November 21, 1974. p. 52. Retrieved November 15, 2021 – via World Radio History.
  10. ^ "American album certifications – Gordon Lightfoot – Sundown". Recording Industry Association of America.
  11. ^ "Canadian album certifications – Gordon Lightfoot – Summertime Dream". Music Canada.
  12. ^ "American album certifications – Gordon Lightfoot – Summertime Dream". Recording Industry Association of America.
  13. ^ "American album certifications – Gordon Lightfoot – Endless Wire". Recording Industry Association of America.
  14. ^ "Canadian album certifications – Gordon Lightfoot – East of Midnight". Music Canada.
  15. ^ "Canadian album certifications – Gordon Lightfoot – Gord's Gold". Music Canada.
  16. ^ "British album certifications – Gordon Lightfoot – Gordon's Gold". British Phonographic Industry.Select albums in the Format field. Type Gordon's Gold in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
  17. ^ "American album certifications – Gordon Lightfoot – Gord%27s Gold". Recording Industry Association of America.
  18. ^ "Canadian album certifications – Gordon Lightfoot – Gord's Gold Vol. Ii". Music Canada.
  19. ^ "American album certifications – Gordon Lightfoot – Gord%27s Gold, Vol. 2". Recording Industry Association of America.
  20. ^ "Canadian album certifications – Gordon Lightfoot – Complete Greatest Hits". Music Canada.
  21. ^ "American album certifications – Gordon Lightfoot – Complete Greatest Hits". Recording Industry Association of America.
  22. ^ "Release group "Beautiful: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot" by Various Artists". MusicBrainz. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
  23. ^ "Release group "The Long River: A Personal Tribute to Gordon Lightfooot" by J.P. Cormier". MusicBrainz. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
  24. ^ "American single certifications – Gordon Lightfoot – Sundown". Recording Industry Association of America.
  25. ^ "Gordon Lightfoot". IMDb.com. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
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