Gordon Lightfoot idézet

Gordon Meredith Lightfoot kanadai énekes és dalszerző, aki nemzetközi sikereket ért el az amerikai népzenében, a folk-rockban és a countryzenében. Az 1960-1970-es években a népi popzenével is foglalkozott. Gyakran említik Kanada legnagyobb zeneszerzőjeként, és a folk-rock legendájaként.Lightfoot leghíresebb dalai, különösen a For Lovin 'Me, az Early Morning Rain, a Steel Rail Blues, és a Darkness of Darkness címűek sokáig a legnépszerűbbek voltak az Amerikai Egyesült Államokban. Említésre méltó még a Black Day in July, , ez a dal széles körű elismerést hozott neki a '60-as években. Kanadában legnagyobb sikerét 1962-ben érte el, a Remember Me című dalával. Amerikában az If You Could Read My Mind és a Sundown voltak a legsikeresebbek. A Carefree Highway , a Rainy Day People , és a The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald című dalok, és sok másik is felkerült a Billboard Hot 100 40 legjobb helyére.Számos albuma arany vagy multi-platinum minősítést ért el. Dalait olyan művészek és zenekarok is rögzítették mint Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, The Kingston Trio, Marty Robbins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Barbra Streisand, Johnny Mathis, Herb Alpert, Harry Belafonte, Scott Walker, Sarah McLachlan, Eric Clapton, John Mellencamp, Jack Jones, Bobby Vee, Roger Whittaker, Tony Rice, Glen Campbell, The Irish Rovers, Nico, Olivia Newton-John, Paul Weller, Nine Pound Hammer, Ultra Naté, The Tragically Hip, és a The Unintended. Wikipedia  

✵ 17. november 1938
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Gordon Lightfoot: Idézetek angolul

“If I could only have you near
To breathe a sigh or two
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love
On this winters night with you”

Song For A Winter's Night, Track 10, United Artists A hauntingly beautiful version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbgfXp5M02M
The Way I Feel (1967)

“You can't jump a jet plane
Like you can a freight train
So I'll best be on my way
In the early morning rain”

Early Morning Rain, Track 7, UAS-6487 The Song That Changed Everything http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFJ5Bj_put0
Lightfoot! (1966)
Kontextus: The liquor tasted good and here the women all were fast...
You can't jump a jet plane
Like you can a freight train
So I'll best be on my way
In the early morning rain

“Oh! The song of the future has been sung
All the battles have been won
On the mountain tops we stand
All the world at our command
We have opened up the soil with our teardrops and our toil”

Canadian Railroad Trilogy, Track 11, United Artists Watch it Here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjoU1Qkeizs
The Way I Feel (1967)
Kontextus: There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run
And the wild majestic mountains stood alone against the sun
Long before the white man and long before the wheel
When the green dark forest was too silent to be real...
Oh! The song of the future has been sung
All the battles have been won
On the mountain tops we stand
All the world at our command
We have opened up the soil with our teardrops and our toil

“And the body of a dead youth
Lies stretched upon the ground
Upon the filthy pavements
No reason can be found
Black day in July”

Black Day In July, Track 3, (mono 45 edit), UNITED ARTISTS 50281, March 1968
Did She Mention My Name? (1968)

“Hail hero, hail hero, child of the sun
All covered with flowers still having your fun”

Theme song of Hail, Hero! (1969), co-written with Jerome Moross

“Hail hero, hail hero, let me see you smile
You been gone for so damn long, I wish you'd stay awhile”

Theme song of Hail Hero! (1969), co-written with Jerome Moross