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Gordon Lightfoot’s 10 Best Songs: Critic’s Picks
Billboard ^ | 5/1 | Chuck Dauphin

Posted on 05/08/2023 12:35:47 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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Can't believe If You Could Read My Mind wasn't no. 1.
1 posted on 05/08/2023 12:35:47 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald........thank you Mr. Lightfoot for being part of my youth and also part of growing my appreciation for music. RIP


2 posted on 05/08/2023 12:39:13 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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It should be his Top 15 songs; they missed a couple.


3 posted on 05/08/2023 12:39:41 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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Being in Michigan and surrounded by Yoopers when it happened, we’d vote for the Edmund Fitzgerald song.


4 posted on 05/08/2023 12:40:42 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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“Critics” are readily criticized.


5 posted on 05/08/2023 12:41:42 PM PDT by Paladin2
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A must have for Gordon Lightfoot fans.

https://youtu.be/xZpk0A4hZes


6 posted on 05/08/2023 12:43:08 PM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
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I agree. Bad ass breakup song - amazing melody, unsurpassed poetry and beautiful too. He’s one of few 70s artists my born in 1979 wife can tolerate. The high pitched voices of Neil Young, BeeGees, Andy van Warmer et al drive her mad. Gord had a manly voice to the nines.


7 posted on 05/08/2023 12:44:42 PM PDT by KierkegaardMAN (I never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man.)
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Randy VanWarmer or Andy Gibb?


8 posted on 05/08/2023 12:46:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Sundown was just huge. And it so fit in with the times.


9 posted on 05/08/2023 12:48:57 PM PDT by Revel
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My favorite isn’t listed but it should be. You can just picture everything he is singing about. Well, at least I can. “Song for a Winter’s Night”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRIlTvYp0ok


10 posted on 05/08/2023 12:49:32 PM PDT by ClaytonForester
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The woman in that song was the same woman who injected John Belushi with his fatal dose.


11 posted on 05/08/2023 12:50:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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No Early Morning Rain? Bogus list.


12 posted on 05/08/2023 12:51:02 PM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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Gracious.... With an achin in my heart, and my pockets full of sand.. that’s the problem with trying to rate these gems. What a fantastic song. One of the first I learned to play on my old twelve string...( Not a Martin!)


13 posted on 05/08/2023 12:56:19 PM PDT by KierkegaardMAN (I never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man.)
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They missed “Carefree Highway”.


14 posted on 05/08/2023 12:58:24 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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No, they have Carefree Highway at #5.
15 posted on 05/08/2023 1:00:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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OOPS, I see Carefree Highway #5 got bumped over by an advertisement so I did not see it.


16 posted on 05/08/2023 1:02:20 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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ping


17 posted on 05/08/2023 1:02:25 PM PDT by windcliff
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Bogus list if “Beautiful” isn’t listed ...


18 posted on 05/08/2023 1:02:54 PM PDT by Fish Speaker (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Oh, and, "Let's Go Brandon!")
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LOL!


19 posted on 05/08/2023 1:30:55 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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Can’t believe Canadian Railroad Trilogy was left out.


20 posted on 05/08/2023 1:34:59 PM PDT by Bob the builder
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