Gord's Gold

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Gord's Gold
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

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 Holdredge. "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 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)

Notable Singles: "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" (1967) | "If You Could Read My Mind" (1970) | "Sundown" (1974) | "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (1976)