Gordon Lightfoot The Way I Feel - Sunday Concert, Plus - Did She Mention My Name - Back Here On Earth (3-CD)
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Gordon Lightfoot: The Way I Feel - Sunday Concert, Plus - Did She Mention My Name - Back Here On Earth (3-CD)
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No voice that resounded through the radio waves in the 1970s sounded as gloriously and unadulteratedly Canadian as that of Gordon Lightfoot. His angular phrasing and full, resonant timbre literally screamed of a northern origin, and his brilliant songwriting reflected his native environment while telling universal truths.
Lightfoot, who died on 1 May 2023 aged 84, was a true folk troubadour whose material effortlessly crossed idiomatic boundaries. Born on 17 November 1938 in Orrilia, Ontario, Lightfoot sang in his church choir as a child and soon performed on the radio. By the age of 12, he was singing at Toronto's prestigious Massey Hall. In high school he learned to play guitar and in 1958 travelled to Hollywood to study at Westlake College of Music. "I left the small town where I lived in central Ontario because of an ad in 'Downbeat' magazine," Lightfoot says. Back in Toronto, he sang with The Swinging Eight on the CBC-TV programme 'Country Hoedown' in 1960.
Lightfoot teamed up with fellow folk singer Terry Whelan as The Two Tones, and the duo recorded the album At the Village Corner in 1962. But the singer's first two solo singles, produced by Louis Innis and Art Snider in Nashville for the Canadian Chateau label and recorded in the US by ABC-Paramount, were much more pop-heavy. Daisy-Doo and Negotiations were closer to rock'n'roll, while the ballad (Remember Me) I'm The One was a hit in Toronto (the 45 was released under the slightly shortened name Gord Lightfoot).
After spending much of 1963 in Europe and England (where he hosted the BBC-TV event "Country and Western Show"), Lightfoot returned to Canada, where his compositional skills grew by leaps and bounds. In 1965, Canadian folk duo Ian & Sylvia recorded his Early Mornin' Rain as the title track for their fourth album for Vanguard. The seeds for its creation were planted during Lightfoot's stay in L.A..
"When a car was available to drive to the airport, the start at LAX was pretty exciting. I remember one particularly rainy morning - which you can have in January in L.A. - and watching it and remembering the vision maybe 10 years later while I was taking care of my first child while my wife was shopping, back to the runway at LAX and a feeling of homesickness that I had at the time," he said. "Because I was homesick when I went out there."
Ian & Sylvia recorded another Lightfoot classic, For Lovin' Me, on the same album, and Marty Robbins landed a C&W chart-topper that year with Ribbon Of Darkness. "I got in touch with Ian & Sylvia with some songs I'd written and they picked a couple of the songs they thought were really nice, added them to their repertoire and recorded them. From there they went to Peter, Paul & Mary, which got me into American management," he said. "So I was able to find a manager in the States. That was big news here in Canada."
And this wasn't just any manager: Albert Grossman also managed Bob Dylan as well as Peter, Paul & Mary. His business partner John Court produced the singer's United Artists debut album "Lightfoot!" in 1966, which included the three songs that had served Ian & Sylvia and Robbins so well (Peter, Paul & Mary had hits that year with Early Mornin' Rain and For Lovin' Me; Waylon Jennings stormed the C&W Top Ten with the latter in 1966). Court produced Lightfoot's UA encore set 'The Way I Feel' the following year, before giving way to John Simon for Lightfoot's '68 album 'Did She Mention My Name?" and Elliot Mazer for 'Back Here On Earth'. "I was doing one album a year back then," he noted.
Lightfoot's prolific songwriting came in handy. "I was also in a kinetic energy to write more and more," Lightfoot said. "I had a young family to take care of at the time, and that played a part too. I just wrote and wrote and wrote. I just kept writing."
After the '69 live set 'Sunday Concert', recorded at Massey Hall, Lightfoot left UA and signed to Warner Bros's Reprise label, where he enjoyed huge success. If You Could Read My Mind, produced by Lenny Waronker and Joe Wissert, was released in late 1970 and was Lightfoot's first US pop hit. He topped the pop charts and went gold in 1974 with his smouldering, bluesy Sundown. Was he surprised by the huge success? "I was indeed, although at the time we thought it might be something," Lightfoot said. "It moved me further up the pecking order".
Carefree Highway was another big hit for Lightfoot that year.
The rousing, real-life sea saga The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald was Lightfoot's last blockbuster in 1976. "When I say something, I try to keep it accurate, or in chronological order," he said. "This was in chronological order. There is some conjecture. About halfway through the book there's a point that you can only speculate about, which is whether the old cook really stuck his head out on the deck, whether a hatch cover failed or not, whether they grounded it beforehand or not. There are all sorts of reports from the coastguard about the whole incident. It's a song that we take great pleasure in playing on stage because it's that kind of song.
Article properties: Gordon Lightfoot: The Way I Feel - Sunday Concert, Plus - Did She Mention My Name - Back Here On Earth (3-CD)
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Interpret: Gordon Lightfoot
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Album titlle: The Way I Feel - Sunday Concert, Plus - Did She Mention My Name - Back Here On Earth (3-CD)
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Genre Country
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Label Bear Family Records
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EAN: 4000127821645
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| Lightfoot, Gordon - The Way I Feel - Sunday Concert, Plus - Did She Mention My Name - Back Here On Earth (3-CD) CD 1 | ||||
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| 01 | Rich Man's Spiritual | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 02 | Long River | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 03 | The Way I Feel | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 04 | For Lovin' Me | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 05 | The First Time | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 06 | Changes | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 07 | Early Morning Rain | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 08 | Steel Rail Blues | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 09 | Sixteen Miles (To Seven Lakes) | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 10 | I'm Not Sayin' | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 11 | Pride Of Man | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 12 | Ribbon Of Darkness | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 13 | Oh, Linda | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 14 | Peaceful Waters | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 15 | Walls | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 16 | If You Got It | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 17 | Softly | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 18 | Crossroads | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 19 | A Minor Ballad | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 20 | Go Go Around | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 21 | Rosanna | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 22 | Home From The Forest | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 23 | I'll Be Alright | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 24 | Song For A Winter's Night | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 25 | Canadian Railroad Trilogy | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 26 | The Way I Feel | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| Lightfoot, Gordon - The Way I Feel - Sunday Concert, Plus - Did She Mention My Name - Back Here On Earth (3-CD) CD 2 | ||||
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| 01 | In A Windowpane | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 02 | The Lost Children | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 03 | Leaves Of Grass | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 04 | I'm Not Sayin' Ribbon Of Darkness | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 05 | Apology | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 06 | Bitter Green | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 07 | Ballad Of Yarmouth Castle | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 08 | Softly | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 09 | Boss Man | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 10 | Pussy Willows, Cat-Tails | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 11 | Canadian Railroad Trilogy | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 12 | Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 13 | Movin' (Version 1) | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 14 | I'll Be Alright | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 15 | Spin, Spin (Nashville Version) | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 16 | Movin' (Version 2) | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| Lightfoot, Gordon - The Way I Feel - Sunday Concert, Plus - Did She Mention My Name - Back Here On Earth (3-CD) CD 3 | ||||
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| 01 | Did She Mention My Name | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 02 | Wherefore And Why | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 03 | The Last Time I Saw Her | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 04 | Black Day In July | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 05 | May I | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 06 | Magnificent Outpouring | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 07 | Does Your Mother Know | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 08 | The Mountains And Maryann | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 09 | Pussywillows, Cat-Tails | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 10 | I Want To Hear It From You | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 11 | Something Very Special | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 12 | Boss Man | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 13 | Long Way Back Home | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 14 | Unsettled Ways | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 15 | Long Thin Dawn | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 16 | Bitter Green | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 17 | The Circle Is Small | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 18 | Marie Christine | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 19 | Cold Hands From New York | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 20 | Affair On 8th Avenue | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 21 | Don't Beat Me Down | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 22 | The Gypsy | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 23 | If I Could | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| 24 | Spin, Spin (New York Remake Version) | Gordon Lightfoot |
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Gordon Lightfoot

NACHRUF AUF GORDON LIGHTFOOT
Keine Stimme, die in den 1970er Jahren durch die Radiowellen schallte, klang so herrlich und unverfälscht kanadisch wie die von Gordon Lightfoot. Seine kantige Phrasierung und sein volles, resonantes Timbre schrieen förmlich nach einer Herkunft aus dem Norden, und sein brillantes Songwriting spiegelte seine heimatliche Umgebung wider, während es gleichzeitig universelle Wahrheiten erzählte.
Lightfoot, der am 1. Mai 2023 im Alter von 84 Jahren verstarb, war ein echter Folk-Troubadour, dessen Material mühelos idiomatische Grenzen überschritt. Geboren am 17. November 1938 in Orrilia, Ontario, sang Lightfoot als Kind in seinem Kirchenchor und trat bald darauf im Radio auf. Mit 12 Jahren sang er in der renommierten Massey Hall in Toronto. In der High School lernte er Gitarre spielen und reiste 1958 nach Hollywood, um am Westlake College of Music zu studieren. "Ich verließ die kleine Stadt, in der ich in Zentral-Ontario lebte, und ging wegen einer Anzeige in der Zeitschrift 'Downbeat'", so Lightfoot. Zurück in Toronto sang er 1960 mit The Swinging Eight in der CBC-TV-Sendung 'Country Hoedown'.
Lightfoot schloss sich mit seinem Folk-Kollegen Terry Whelan als The Two Tones zusammen, und das Duo nahm 1962 das Album At the Village Corner" auf. Aber die ersten beiden Solo-Singles des Sängers, die von Louis Innis und Art Snider in Nashville für das kanadische Chateau-Label produziert und in den USA von ABC-Paramount aufgenommen wurden, waren wesentlich poplastiger. Daisy-Doo und Negotiations waren näher am Rock'n'Roll, während die Ballade (Remember Me) I'm The One ein Hit in Toronto war (die 45er wurden unter dem leicht verkürzten Namen Gord Lightfoot veröffentlicht).
Nachdem er einen Großteil des Jahres 1963 in Europa und England verbracht hatte (wo er die BBC-TV-Veranstaltung "Country and Western Show" moderierte), kehrte Lightfoot nach Kanada zurück, wo seine kompositorischen Fähigkeiten sprunghaft zunahmen. 1965 nahm das kanadische Folk-Duo Ian & Sylvia sein Early Mornin' Rain als Titelsong für ihr viertes Album für Vanguard auf. Die Saat für seine Entstehung wurde während Lightfoot's Aufenthalt in L.A. gepflanzt.
"Als ein Auto zur Verfügung stand, um zum Flughafen zu fahren, war der Start am LAX ziemlich aufregend. Ich erinnere mich an einen besonders verregneten Morgen - den man im Januar in L.A. haben kann - und wie ich sie beobachtete und mir die Vision vielleicht 10 Jahre später wieder einfiel, während ich mich um mein erstes Kind kümmerte, während meine Frau einkaufen war, zurück zur Landebahn am LAX und einem Gefühl von Heimweh, das ich damals hatte", sagte er. "Denn ich hatte Heimweh, als ich da rausging."
Ian & Sylvia nahmen auf demselben Album einen weiteren Lightfoot-Klassiker, For Lovin' Me, auf, und Marty Robbins landete in jenem Jahr mit Ribbon Of Darkness einen C&W-Chart-Topper. "Ich nahm mit Ian & Sylvia Kontakt auf mit einigen Songs, die ich geschrieben hatte, und sie wählten ein paar der Songs aus, die sie für sehr schön hielten, nahmen sie in ihr Repertoire auf und nahmen sie auf. Von dort aus gingen sie zu Peter, Paul & Mary, was mich in ein amerikanisches Management brachte", sagte er. "Ich konnte also einen Manager in den Staaten finden. Das war eine große Neuigkeit hier in Kanada."
Und das war nicht nur irgendein Manager: Albert Grossman betreute auch Bob Dylan sowie Peter, Paul & Mary. Sein Geschäftspartner John Court produzierte 1966 das United Artists-Debütalbum "Lightfoot!" des Sängers, das die drei Songs enthielt, die Ian & Sylvia und Robbins so gut gedient hatten (Peter, Paul & Mary hatten im selben Jahr Hits mit Early Mornin' Rain und For Lovin' Me; Waylon Jennings stürmte mit letzterem 1966 die C&W Top Ten). Court produzierte Lightfoot's UA Zugabenset 'The Way I Feel' im folgenden Jahr, bevor er John Simon für Lightfoot's '68er Album 'Did She Mention My Name?' und Elliot Mazer für 'Back Here On Earth' den Vortritt ließ. "Ich habe damals ein Album pro Jahr gemacht", bemerkte er.
Lightfoot's produktives Songwriting war ihm sehr nützlich. "Ich war auch in einer kinetischen Energie, mehr und mehr zu schreiben", sagte Lightfoot. "Ich hatte zu dieser Zeit eine junge Familie zu versorgen, und das spielte auch eine Rolle. Ich habe einfach geschrieben und geschrieben und geschrieben. Ich schrieb einfach immer weiter."
Nach dem 69er Live-Set 'Sunday Concert', das in der Massey Hall aufgenommen wurde, verließ Lightfoot UA und unterschrieb bei Warner Bros.'s Reprise Label, wo er einen großen Erfolg hatte. If You Could Read My Mind, produziert von Lenny Waronker und Joe Wissert, kam Ende 1970 heraus und war Lightfoot's erster US-Pop-Hit. Er führte die Pop-Hitparade an und erhielt 1974 Gold mit seinem schwelenden, bluesigen Sundown. War er von dem großen Erfolg überrascht? "Das war ich in der Tat, obwohl wir damals dachten, es könnte etwas werden", sagte Lightfoot. "Es hat mich in der Hackordnung weiter nach oben gebracht".
Carefree Highway war ein weiterer großer Hit für Lightfoot im selben Jahr.
Die mitreißende, aus dem wahren Leben stammende Seemannssaga The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald war Lightfoot's letzter Blockbuster im Jahr 1976. "Wenn ich etwas sage, versuche ich, es akkurat zu halten, oder in chronologischer Reihenfolge", sagte er. "Das war in chronologischer Reihenfolge. Es gibt einige Mutmaßungen. Etwa in der Mitte des Buches gibt es einen Punkt, über den man nur spekulieren kann, nämlich ob der alte Koch wirklich seinen Kopf auf das Deck gestreckt hat, ob ein Lukendeckel versagt hat oder nicht, ob man ihn vorher geerdet hat oder nicht. Es gibt alle möglichen Berichte der Küstenwache über den ganzen Vorfall. Es ist ein Lied, das wir auf der Bühne mit großem Vergnügen spielen, weil es diese Art von Lied ist.
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