Gordon Lightfoot
Also Known As: Gord Lightfoot, Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. CC OOnt, Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr.
Biography: Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. CC OOnt (November 17, 1938 – May 1, 2023) was a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music. He is credited with helping to define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 1970s. He has been referred to as Canada's greatest songwriter and his songs have been recorded by some of the world's most renowned musical artists. Lightfoot's biographer Nicholas Jennings said, "His name is synonymous with timeless songs about trains and shipwrecks, rivers and highways, lovers and loneliness." Description above from the Wikipedia article Gordon Lightfoot, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Orillia, Ontario, Canada
Birthday: November 17, 1938
Deathday: May 01, 2023
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Gender: Male
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Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
Overview: Part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream, this film captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975 and the joyous music that Dylan performed during the fall of that year.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-11
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Gordon Lightfoot - Live From Soundstage '79
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Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-08
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Harry Tracy, Desperado
Overview: By the turn of the 20th century, Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, Billy the Kid and virtually all of the West's legendary outlaws are either dead or in jail pending execution. Well, all, except train robber and escape artist extraordinaire, Harry Tracy. As the last survivor of the Wild Bunch, Tracy pulls off a series of profitable robberies before making his way west to Portland, Oregon, in search of Catherine Tuttle -- a judge's daughter who has captured his heart. But on the way, Tracy is betrayed, arrested, and imprisoned. However, no jail can hold him for long and after making his escape, Tracy becomes the target of the largest manhunt in the history of North America.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-21
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Lightheaded
Overview: Following the outstandingly devoted fans of the Canadian Folk legend Gordon Lightfoot.
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Original Language: en
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Anne Murray: Full Circle
Overview: A look a the career of singer Anne Murray, a small-town girl from a Nova Scotia coal mining town who became an international superstar.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-02
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Animal Charm: Golden Digest
Overview: Animal Charm makes videos from other people's videos. By compositing TV and reducing it to a kind of tic-ridden babble, they force television to not make sense. While this disruption is playful, it also reveals an overall 'essence' of mass culture that would not be apprehended otherwise. Videos such as Stuffing, Ashley, and Lightfoot Fever upset the hypnotic spectacle of TV viewing, revealing how advertising creates anxiety, how culture constructs "nature" and how conventional morality is dictated through seemingly neutral images. By forcing television to convulse like a raving lunatic, we might finally hear what it is actually saying.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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The Midnight Special Legendary Performances 1974
Overview: The Midnight Special is an American late-night musical variety series that aired on NBC during the 1970s and early 1980s, created and produced by Burt Sugarman. It premiered as a special on August 19, 1972, then began its run as a regular series on February 2, 1973; its last episode was on May 1, 1981. The ninety-minute program followed the Friday night edition of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. The show typically featured guest hosts, except for a period from July 1975 through March 1976 when singer Helen Reddy served as the regular host. Wolfman Jack served as the announcer and frequent guest host. The program's theme song, a traditional folk song called "Midnight Special", was performed by Johnny Rivers.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-22
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Tears Are Not Enough
Overview: On 10 February 1985, fifty-three of Canada's top performers gathered together to record the song Tears Are Not Enough in an effort to generate aid to famine victims in Africa. This is a behind-the-scenes look at that historic session, filled with moments of excitement, pathos, humor and magic.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-04
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Gordon Lightfoot: BBC Four In Concert
Overview: A classic concert by Gordon Lightfoot from 1972, accompanied by Red Shea and Richard Haynes. They perform songs including Summer Side of Life, Saturday Clothes, That's What You Get For Loving Me, Affair on 8th Avenue, If I Could Read Your Mind, Steel Rail Blues, Ten Degrees and Getting Colder, Early Morning Rain, Me and Bobby McGee, Minstrel of the Dawn and Canadian Pacific Trilogy.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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This Beat Goes On: Canadian Pop Music in the 1970s
Overview: Tells the story of Canadian music in the 1970s, a ground-breaking era of great sounds, from glam and progressive rock to punk and reggae.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-27
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Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind
Overview: From the song he refuses to perform to his admiration for Drake, a songwriting legend reflects on his lyrics and longevity with candour and humour. At 80 years young (and currently recording another album), Gordon Lightfoot continues to entertain and enlighten. Personal archive materials and studio sessions paint an intimate picture of an artist in his element, candidly revisiting his idealistic years in Yorkville's coffeehouses, up through stadium tours and the hedonistic '70s.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-27
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Gordon Lightfoot: Live in Reno
Overview: Recorded in 2000, in his first television special in 20 years, Gordon Lightfoot and his band perform the songs that brought him international fame including Sundown, Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, If You Could Read My Mind, Don Quixote, Carefree Highway and Early Morning Rain.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-29
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