Gord's Gold

Gord's Gold
Greatest hits album by Gordon Lightfoot
Released November 1975
Recorded Various
Genre Folk, Folk rock, Country folk
Length 70:43
Label Reprise
Producer 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 Bros. 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 listening to his early work".

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.

Track listing

All compositions by Lightfoot:
(† Re-recording)
  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

Notes

  1. ^ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r96598
Gordon Lightfoot
Band musicians
  • Rick Haynes
  • Terry Clements
  • Red Shea
  • Pee Wee Charles
  • Barry Keane
  • Mike Heffernan
Albums
Compilations
  • Early Lightfoot (1969)
  • The Best of Gordon Lightfoot (1970)
  • Classic Lightfoot (1971)
  • The Very Best of Gordon Lightfoot (1974)
  • The Very Best of Gordon Lightfoot, Vol. 2 (1975)
  • Gord's Gold (1975)
  • Early Morning Rain (1976)
  • Songbook (1985)
  • Gord's Gold Volume 2 (1988)
  • The Best of Gordon Lightfoot (1989)
  • The Original Lightfoot (1992)
  • The United Artists Collection (1993)
  • Songbook (1999)
  • Complete Greatest Hits (2002)
Singles
  • "(Remember Me) I'm the One" (1962)
  • "It's Too Late, He Wins/Negotiations" (1962)
  • "Adios, Adios" (1962)
  • "Day Before Yesterday" (1963)
  • "I'm Not Sayin'" (1965)
  • "Ribbon of Darkness" (1965)
  • "Spin Spin" (1966)
  • "Go Go Round" (1966)
  • "The Way I Feel" (1967)
  • "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" (1967)
  • "Black Day in July" (1968)
  • "Bitter Green" (1968)
  • "Me and Bobby McGee" (1970)
  • "If You Could Read My Mind" (1970)
  • "If I Could" (1971)
  • "Talking in Your Sleep" (1971)
  • "Summer Side of Life" (1971)
  • "Beautiful" (1972)
  • "Alberta Bound" (1972)
  • "You Are What I Am" (1972)
  • "The Same Old Obsession" (1972)
  • "Can't Depend on Love" (1973)
  • "It's Worth Believin'" (1973)
  • "Sundown" (1974)
  • "Carefree Highway" (1974)
  • "Rainy Day People" (1975)
  • "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (1976)
  • "Race Among the Ruins" (1976)
  • "The Circle Is Small (I Can See It in Your Eyes)" (1977)
  • "Daylight Katy" (1978)
  • "Dreamland" (1978)
  • "Dream Street Rose" (1980)
  • "If You Need Me" (1980)
  • "Baby Step Back" (1981)
  • "Blackberry Wine" (1982)
  • "In My Fashion" (1982)
  • "Salute (A Lot More Livin' to Do)" (1983)
  • "Without You" (1983)
  • "Anything for Love" (1986)
  • "Stay Loose" (1986)
  • "East of Midnight" (1987)
  • "Ecstasy Made Easy" (1987)
  • "I'll Prove My Love" (1993)
  • "Waiting for You" (1993)
  • "A Painter Passing Through" (1998)
  • "Inspiration Lady" (2004)