Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot songs?

Subject: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Nov 08 - 07:40 PM

It's hard to pick just one, but I think that "If You Could Read My Mind" may be his finest one, all things considered.

Mind you, there are about 10 or 20 others right alongside it...

Enjoy the subject, and name your favourite Lightfoot song.

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 20 Nov 08 - 08:24 PM

Canadiaqn Railroad Trilogy

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 20 Nov 08 - 08:25 PM

"Canadian" :-)

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: Beer
Date: 20 Nov 08 - 08:26 PM

All of these from "The Way I Feel "album.

Walls
If You Got It
Softly
Crossroads
A Minor Ballad
Go-Go Round
Rosanna
Home From the Forest
I'll Be Alright
Song For A Winter's Night
Canadian Railroad Trilogy
The Way I Feel

Plus: Ballad of the Yarmouth Castle

But there are so many more.

beer(adrien)

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 20 Nov 08 - 08:29 PM

Early Morning rain

but I also like Wreck of the Edmund Fiztgerald.... theres a lot really when start thinking. we could do with someone like that now writing stuff like that.

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: olddude
Date: 20 Nov 08 - 08:36 PM

Shadows
gives me chills no kidding

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: pdq
Date: 20 Nov 08 - 08:43 PM

..what Beer said plus:

Poor Man's Sorrow
Redwood Hill
Susan's Floor (OK, it's Silverstein, but he may be a better songwriter than Lightfoot)

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: John Hardly
Date: 20 Nov 08 - 08:58 PM

Probably Song For A Winter's Night.

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: Beer
Date: 20 Nov 08 - 09:07 PM

I also love the way Gordon Lightfoot does Bobby McGee by Kris Kristofferson.
Adrien

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: Nick E
Date: 20 Nov 08 - 09:22 PM

Now when you say Gordon Lightfoot song, is it one he played/sang or one he wrote?
Song for a winter's night is up there, Canadian Railroad 3 for sure.
and heck I like them all, the one about airplanes, Dylan coverd is good too.
Im no help! but you asked what I like.

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: cptsnapper
Date: 20 Nov 08 - 09:37 PM

Song For A Winter's Night although my favourite version is by Harry Belafonte who I think possibly called it The Hands I Love

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: Cluin
Date: 20 Nov 08 - 09:51 PM

To listen to: "Miguel" or "Summer Side of Life" (for the great Red Shea guitar work)

To sing: "Early Morning Rain"

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: Cap't Bob
Date: 21 Nov 08 - 12:31 AM

Christian Island

wonderful sailing song

Cap't Bob

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: John O'L
Date: 21 Nov 08 - 02:05 AM

As you say there are a good 10 or 20, but since you insist ... Minstrel of the Dawn, 10 Degrees & Getting Colder, Don Quixote, Old Dan's Records, Cobwebs & Dust, The Patriot's Dream, etc etc ...

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: topical tom
Date: 21 Nov 08 - 08:10 AM

"Canadian Railroad Trilogy" but, oh so many more.

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: Peter T.
Date: 21 Nov 08 - 08:21 AM

Apart from CRT, I like the dopy ones -- Bitter Green for instance -- or totally cheesy ones like The Last Time I Saw Her Face.

yours,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: breezy
Date: 21 Nov 08 - 10:45 AM

I wont tell you mine

Oh, O K, I will

'Sit Down Young Stranger'

but I learned most of the others except CRT and Ed Fitz

I sometimes go into 'Did she mention my name' after a chat in the street with someone I hadnt seen for a while

'Bitter Green' was a great 4 piece group busking song

Very fond opf 'Don Q'

and I haven't all of him as I dropped out shortly after then returned years later so Ive much to catch up on

So many songs , old and new, so little time,

Pumphouse Watford tonight as an option, Moses and the ref main attraction

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: Cool Beans
Date: 21 Nov 08 - 11:40 AM

"Did She Mention My Name?"

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: Modern Bard
Date: 21 Nov 08 - 11:50 AM

For me it has to be "Ghosts of Cape Horn", though I've always had a fondness for the Edmund Fitzgerald.

As for needing someone like that now, I know he released an album recently and I had heard rumors of a 2008 tour. Sounds to me like Mr. Lightfoot isn't done yet.

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: C. Ham
Date: 21 Nov 08 - 12:32 PM

Steel Rail Blues
Canadian Railroad Trilogy

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 21 Nov 08 - 12:44 PM

Good choices all around.

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: Camper-Ted
Date: 21 Nov 08 - 02:30 PM

Old Dan's Records is my #1 favorite. I was disappointed when he did not sing this when he recently played in Cambridge, Ma.

My second favorite is Did She Mention My Name.

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: gnu
Date: 21 Nov 08 - 02:38 PM

Sorry... can't do it... too many.

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 21 Nov 08 - 03:53 PM

That's exactly what happened when I tried to get Shane to decide which specific female in the general Blind River area he would most like to...you know....if he could...only he can't...because they're all onto his game already.

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: Becca72
Date: 21 Nov 08 - 03:58 PM

Wreck of the Edmund Fiztgerald

Subject: Lyr Add: SONG FOR A WINTER'S NIGHT (G Lightfoot)
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 21 Nov 08 - 04:44 PM

Who could want for anything more in life.........


Song For A Winter's Night

"The lamp is burnin' low upon my table top
The snow is softly falling
The air is still within the silence of my room
I hear your voice softly calling
If I could only have you near
To breathe a sigh or two
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love
Upon this winter night with you

The smoke is rising in the shadows overhead
My glass is almost empty
I read again between the lines upon each page
The words of love you sent me

If I could know within my heart
That you were lonely too
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love
Upon this winter night with you

The fire is dying now, my lamp is growing dim
The shades of night are liftin'
The morning light steals across my windowpane
Where webs of snow are driftin'

If I could only have you near
To breathe a sigh or two
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love
Upon this winter night with you
And to be once again with with you"

"If I could know within my heart
That you were lonely too
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love
Upon this winter night with you"

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: Peter T.
Date: 21 Nov 08 - 05:17 PM

(That song could have done without the jingle bells.......)

yours,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 Nov 08 - 05:29 PM

I've always liked "Rainy Day People" because of its upbeat perspective. I know other people have listed it, my all-time favorite is "Edmund Fitzgerald," because it's about MY Great Lakes, where I grew up. I don't know if I saw the ship before its infamous demise, but I imagine I must have seen it among the ships that winter at Jones Island in Milwaukee. I used to spend hours there, looking at the ships.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: bankley
Date: 21 Nov 08 - 09:23 PM

"Cold on the Shoulder"

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: Cluin
Date: 21 Nov 08 - 09:26 PM

I've always wondered why Tony Rice has never covered Lightfoot's "Redwood Hill". He's done so many other Lightfoot songs and "Redwood Hill" is very bluegrass.

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: kendall
Date: 21 Nov 08 - 10:20 PM

I'm an old salt, spent many years at sea, so Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald speaks to me.

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 01:17 AM

"Susan's floor"

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 01:32 AM

Affair on 8th Avenue has always had a place in my heart.

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: van lingle
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 05:16 AM

"If You Could Read My Mind" is one his recordings I never tire of hearing.

Winter's Night, Shadows, Home From the Forest, Walls.
Especially when they're done by Tony Rice.

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: burntstump
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 10:27 AM

I could list dozens, but Early Morning Rain was the song that got me hooked many years ago

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: Ron Davies
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 10:50 AM

So many, especially the very early ones.

Top favorite is probably "10 Degrees and Getting Colder". A perfect finely etched picture with just a few strokes.   You can see the guy by the side of the road and feel it getting colder by Boulder Dam as the sun goes down.

Other great Lightfoot songs, most of which have been already mentioned:

Early Morning Rain
Did She Mention My Name?
Ribbon of Darkness
Long Way Back Home
Edmund Fitzgerald
For Lovin' Me
I'm Not Sayin'
Canadian Railroad Trilogy
The Way I Feel
If You Could Read My Mind--even the soupy strings work--somehow.
Sundown

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: Cluin
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 06:52 PM

Lightfoot didn't write "On Susan's Floor". Shel Silverstein and vince Matthews did. It, along with "Me & Bobbie McGee" was one of the rare cover songs he recorded.

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: Beer
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 07:45 PM

Where did you get your information that Shel wrote Bobby McGee?

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: Zany Mouse
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 08:33 PM

If you could read my mind love
In the early morning rain

Blessings
Rhiannon

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 08:46 PM

Beer, I think Cluin said Silverstein wrote "On Susan's Floor," Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster wrote "Bobby McGee."


I wasn't familiar with "On Susan's Floor" - what a powerful song!

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: Bert
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 09:33 PM

Song For A Winter's Night
Ribbon of Darkness
Did she mention my name

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: Cluin
Date: 23 Nov 08 - 04:52 AM

Right you are, Joe. Sorry my post wasn't clear.
I just figured I didn't have to say here that "Me and Bobbie (Bobby) McGee" was Kris's.

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: Beer
Date: 23 Nov 08 - 03:56 PM

I never doubted you either Cluin but the way it was written I figured that just maybe you knew something that I didn't. I'm a big fan of Kris as well as Lightfoot.
Adrien

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
Date: 24 Nov 08 - 05:30 PM

"Steel Rail Blues"
"Don Quixote"
"Pony Man"
"Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"
"Canadian Railroad Trilogy"
"Song for a Winter's Night"
"Did She Mention My Name?"


There, that's one for each day of the week. Truthfully, it depends on the mood I'm in and also on the location. There are too many for me to single any one out.

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: olddude
Date: 24 Nov 08 - 09:55 PM

suprised noone picked pussywillows cattails
I also really like a very old one called "does your mother know"

absolutely beautiful

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: Beer
Date: 24 Nov 08 - 10:00 PM

Your right olddude, "Pussywillows etc" is a great song. The melody in it is very moving.
Adrien

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 10:42 AM

I left one out that may not be as well known and, perhaps, not a favorite of many. He did a sort of "trucker's anthem" called "Long Thin Dawn" years ago. For some reason, it resonated with me.

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: bubblyrat
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 01:48 PM

Yup ! !'ll go along with Cap'n Bob on this one ----it's gotta be "Christian Island " ---no doubt !!

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: Dave Illingworth
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 02:03 PM

A personal favourite of mine is I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO CARE.
Dylan also performed the song in concert at least once.

Subject: RE: Your favourite Gordon Lightfoot song?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 11:23 PM

That one got played by Jack at our Tuesday night song circle tonight, as did several others. I played covers of "Carefree Highway", "Cotton Jenny", and "Christian Island". Didn't quite get around to "Pussy Willows, Cattails" this time, but have been doing it lately. Lightfoot seems to be really popular around here the last while.