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Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr is a Canadian folk singer, composer, lyricist and poet.
Life
Lightfoot was born November 17, 1938 in Ontario, Canada. As a youth, he sang in the choir of St. Paul's United Church. During this time as a boy soprano Lightfoot made several appearances on local radio and local operetta and oratorios as well as Kiwanis music festivals.

Lightfoot moved to California, where he studied jazz composition and orchestration at Hollywood's Westlake College of Music in 1957-58. He returned to Canada and through 1958 to '61 he was performing on CBC TV's Country Hoedown as well as performing with the Gino Silvi Singers. He sang with Terry Whelan and they recorded a live album that was released in 1962 called Two Tones at the Village Corner. Lightfoot traveled to Europe and became for one year the host of BBC TV's Country and Western Show In 1963. He appeared at the Mariposa Folk Festival in 1964.

Lightfoot was gaining some recognition by this time as a songwriter. For Lovin' Me was covered a year later in 1965 by Peter, Paul and Mary. That song was again covered by Chad and Jeremy as well as the Johnny Mann Singers. During this time, other artists were racking up hits with Lightfoot's songs. his debut album Lightfoot! was released in 1966, and it brought him recognition as a singer as well as a songwriter. It featured many now-famous songs.

Lightfoot became one of the first Canadian singers to achieve real recognition in his own country without moving to the United States. It was followed by numerous other albums through the late 1960s. But he remained better known as a songwriter than as a singer, Through the 1990s, Lightfoot released two albums and played about fifty tour dates a year. In the fall of 2002, he was in Orillia when he suffered a near-fatal abdominal hemorrhage that left him in a coma for nearly two months. He recovered and later returned to the music business with the album Harmony and an appearance on Canadian Idol. In 2005, he made a low-key tour.

A large part of the Lightfoot sound was gifted with the help and expertise of guitarist Red Shea and the bassists John Stockfish and Rick Haynes. These steadfast accompanists were utilized by Lightfoot on many occasions. The discography of Shea indicates that he was on hand for most of Lightfoot's released studio work. Additionally Shea was on board for many of the hits and tours with Lightfoot.

Trivia:
Beautiful, found on Lightfoot's 1972 album Don Quixote, is featured in the Vincent Gallo's motion picture The Brown Bunny. Lightfoot's song Sundown was written about his one time girlfriend Cathy Smith .In Elvis Presley's cover of Lightfoot's Early Morning Rain, Elvis changed the lyrics in the 4th verse from ...as cold and drunk as I can be... to ...as cold and drunk as I might be.... Gordon has remarked, while performing live, that he is amused at this change, and he now sings the song this way.

Lightfoot filed a lawsuit against composer Michael Masser in April 1987, claiming that Masser's melody for the song The Greatest Love of All stole twenty-four bars from Lightfoot's 1969 hit If You Could Read My Mind. The case was settled out of court, with a public apology from Michael Masser.

Lightfoot is referenced in many episodes of the animated TV series Mission Hill . In the Strong Bad E-Mail army on Homestar Runner, Homestar tells Strong Bad, We'll see if those trees you're always hugging save you when Gordon Lightfoot's creeping 'round your back stair. This is a reference to the song Sundown, which has the line, Sundown, you'd better take care, when I find you've been creepin' 'round my back stair. If You Could Read My Mind is featured in Trigger Happy TV.