Happy Birthday Mr. Lightfoot. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and If You Could Read My Mind are 2 of my all-time favorite songs. I still have the 45rpm of If You Could Read My Mind.......both in their own ways are very powerful songs.
And have you ever heard his version of "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"? Haunting.
And so many more ...
Strange that I’m reading this thread right now because “If You Could Read My Mind” just played on my Spotify Daily Mix.
I could listen to that song all day. I was curious to when that song was released and discovered it was released in December, 1970. That was the Month and Year of my birth. Yes, I’m old:)
As you probably know, the song is about his divorce. The line “But you’ll never read that book again, because the ending’s just too hard to take” always gets to me.
I’ll admit that, until a few years ago, I wasn’t aware that “Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald” was based on a true story because I was too young to remember the tragedy.
I read that Mr. Lightfoot still attends the memorial ceremony every year for the sailors who perished on the Edmund Fitzgerald. He seems like a classy gentleman.