Gord's Gold
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| Compilation album by Gordon Lightfoot | ||
| Released | 1975 | |
| Recorded | Various | |
| Genre | Folk | |
| Length | 70:43 | |
| Label | Reprise Records | |
| Producer(s) | Elliot Mazer, Lenny Waronker, Joseph Wissert & Milt Holland | |
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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 Brothers 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 his early work". [1]
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.
[edit] Track listing
- "I'm Not Sayin'/Ribbon of Darkness" – 3:06
- "Song For a Winter's Night" – 3:02
- "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" – 7:05
- "Softly" – 2:39
- "For Lovin' Me/Did She Mention My Name" – 3:29
- "Affair on Eighth Avenue" (not included in the CD release)
- "Steel Rail Blues" – 2:49
- "Wherefore and Why" – 2:48
- "Bitter Green" – 2:46
- "Early Morning Rain" – 3:18
- "Minstrel of the Dawn" – 3:27
- "Sundown" – 3:36
- "Beautiful" – 3:32
- "Summer Side of Life" – 4:05
- "Rainy Day People" – 2:49
- "Cotton Jenny" – 3:26
- "Don Quixote" – 3:40
- "Circle of Steel" – 2:48
- "Old Dan's Records" – 3:05
- "If You Could Read My Mind" – 3:49
- "Cold on the Shoulder" – 3:01
- "Carefree Highway" – 3:41
All compositions by Lightfoot.
| Gordon Lightfoot discography |
| 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) |
