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  • Artist: Gordon Lightfoot
  • Rating: StarStarStarStar
  • Release Date: 1975
  • Total Time: 70:43
  • Type: Compilation (best of)
  • Genre: Folk

Review

Following the success of Sundown, Gordon Lightfoot continued his success by releasing a greatest-hits compilation. A double album (now a single CD), it contained the most popular songs from his Warner Bros. years on disc two, and he re-recorded many of his early songs for side one of record one. Although not as good, perhaps, as the originals, this did bring them up to date with his current sound style. Just about all the favorites are here (except "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," which hadn't been recorded yet when this set was put together and appears on Lightfoot's second volume of Gord's Gold), making this a good general overview of a strong talent. When Warner transferred the double LP to CD, "Affair on 8th Avenue" was dropped from the program to make the set fit on a single disc. Randy Newman arranged the orchestration on "Minstrel of the Dawn," by the way. ~ James Chrispell & Steve Leggett, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track TitleComposersPerformersTime
Medley: I'm Not Sayin'/Ribbon of Darkness Gordon Lightfoot Gordon Lightfoot (3:06)
Song for a Winter's Night (Lyrics) Gordon Lightfoot Gordon Lightfoot (3:02)
Canadian Railroad Trilogy (Lyrics) Gordon Lightfoot Gordon Lightfoot (7:05)
Softly (Lyrics) Gordon Lightfoot Gordon Lightfoot (2:39)
For Lovin' Me/Did She Mention My Name (Lyrics) Gordon Lightfoot Gordon Lightfoot (3:29)
Steel Rail Blues (Lyrics) Gordon Lightfoot Gordon Lightfoot (2:49)
Wherefor and Why (Lyrics) Gordon Lightfoot Gordon Lightfoot (2:48)
Bitter Green (Lyrics) Gordon Lightfoot Gordon Lightfoot (2:46)
Early Morning Rain (Lyrics) Gordon Lightfoot Gordon Lightfoot (3:18)
Minstrel of the Dawn (Lyrics) Gordon Lightfoot Gordon Lightfoot (3:27)
Sundown (Lyrics) Gordon Lightfoot Gordon Lightfoot (3:36)
Beautiful (Lyrics) Gordon Lightfoot Gordon Lightfoot (3:23)
Summer Side of Life (Lyrics) Gordon Lightfoot Gordon Lightfoot (4:05)
Rainy Day People (Lyrics) Gordon Lightfoot Gordon Lightfoot (2:49)
Cotton Jenny (Lyrics) Gordon Lightfoot Gordon Lightfoot (3:26)
Don Quixote (Lyrics) Gordon Lightfoot Gordon Lightfoot (3:40)
Circle of Steel (Lyrics) Gordon Lightfoot Gordon Lightfoot (2:48)
Old Dan's Records (Lyrics) Gordon Lightfoot Gordon Lightfoot (3:05)
If You Could Read My Mind (Lyrics) Gordon Lightfoot Gordon Lightfoot (3:49)
Cold on the Shoulder (Lyrics) Gordon Lightfoot Gordon Lightfoot (3:01)
Carefree Highway (Lyrics) Gordon Lightfoot Gordon Lightfoot (3:41)

Credits

John Reeves (Cover Photo), Lee Herschberg (Remastering), Kenneth A. Buttrey (Drums), Terry Clements (Guitar), Junior Husky (Bass), Red Shea (Guitar), Gordon Lightfoot (Guitar), Barry Keane (Drums), Bruce Good (Autoharp), Bob Thompson (Orchestration), Randy Newman (Orchestration), Lee Holdridge (Orchestration), Ollie Strong (Guitar (Steel)), Pee Wee Charles (Guitar (Steel)), Nick DeCaro (Piano), Richard Holding (Photography), Richard Haynes (Bass), Larry Good (Banjo), Roy M. "Junior" Husky (Bass), Charlie McCoy (Harmonica), Gordon Lightfoot (Vocals), Milt Holland (Percussion), Lee Hershberg (Engineer), Rick Haynes (Bass), Joseph Wissert (Producer), Gordon Lightfoot (Piano), Nick DeCaro (Accordion), Jim Gordon (Drums), Lee Hershberg (Mixing), Hargus "Pig" Robbins (Piano), Lenny Waronker (Producer), Nick DeCaro (Orchestration), John Stockfish (Bass), Terry Clements (Mandolin)
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Gord's Gold
Compilation album by Gordon Lightfoot
Released November 1975
Recorded Various
Genre Folk
Length 70:43
Label Reprise
Producer Elliot Mazer, Lenny Waronker, Joseph Wissert & Milt Holland
Professional reviews

Gord's Gold is a compilation album released by Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot in 1975.

It was the first Lightfoot compilation to feature music from his Warner Bros. Records. The album was originally released as a two-record album featuring re-recordings of his United Artists hits (tracks 1-10). This served to update his earlier recordings to the same style as his early 70s work and gives the album a level of consistency often lacking in similar compilations. Lightfoot's reasons for re-recording the United Artists tracks were explained in the liner notes as because "he doesn't like listening to his early work".

Despite only covering the first 10 years of his career, Gord's Gold has remained the most commercially popular Lightfoot compilation. In 1988 Lighfoot released a second volume, Gord's Gold, Vol. 2, which also featured re-recordings of earlier hits.

Track listing

  1. "I'm Not Sayin'/Ribbon of Darkness" – 3:06
  2. "Song For a Winter's Night" – 3:02
  3. "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" – 7:05
  4. "Softly" – 2:39
  5. "For Lovin' Me/Did She Mention My Name" – 3:29
  6. "Affair on Eighth Avenue" (not included in the CD release)
  7. "Steel Rail Blues" – 2:49
  8. "Wherefore and Why" – 2:48
  9. "Bitter Green" – 2:46
  10. "Early Morning Rain" – 3:18
  11. "Minstrel of the Dawn" – 3:27
  12. "Sundown" – 3:36
  13. "Beautiful" – 3:32
  14. "Summer Side of Life" – 4:05
  15. "Rainy Day People" – 2:49
  16. "Cotton Jenny" – 3:26
  17. "Don Quixote" – 3:40
  18. "Circle of Steel" – 2:48
  19. "Old Dan's Records" – 3:05
  20. "If You Could Read My Mind" – 3:49
  21. "Cold on the Shoulder" – 3:01
  22. "Carefree Highway" – 3:41

Session Personnel: Guitar: Gordon Lightfoot, Red Shea, Terry Clements. Bass: Rick Haynes, John Stockfish. Steel Guitar: Pee Wee Charles (a/k/a Ed Ringwald). Drums: Jim Gordon, Barry Keane. String arrangements by Nick DeCaro and Lee Holdridge. "Summer Side of Life" and "Cotton Jenny" recorded in Nashville using many of the top session players of the early 1970's.

All compositions by Gordon Lightfoot.

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Gordon Lightfoot
Main albums
Lightfoot! (1966) • The Way I Feel (1967) • Did She Mention My Name (1968) • Back Here on Earth (1968) • Sunday Concert (1969) • Sit Down Young Stranger (1970) • Summer Side of Life (1971) • Don Quixote (1972) • Old Dan's Records (1972) • Sundown (1974) • Cold on the Shoulder (1975) • Summertime Dream (1976) • Endless Wire (1978) • Dream Street Rose (1980) • Shadows (1982) • Salute (1983) • East of Midnight (1986) • Waiting for You (1993) • A Painter Passing Through (1998) • Harmony (2004)
Main compilations
Gord's Gold (1975) • Gord's Gold, Vol. 2 (1988) • Songbook (1999) • Complete Greatest Hits (2002)
Notable singles

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