Released January 1978 Label Warner Bros. Release date January 1978 | Length 35:36 | |
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Recorded Eastern Sound Studios, Toronto; August, November 1977 Nominations Juno Award for Album of the Year Similar East of Midnight, Dream Street Rose, Cold on the Shoulder, Old Dan's Records, A Painter Passing Through | ||
Endless Wire is the Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot's thirteenth original album, released in 1978 on Warner Bros. Records (#3149). Although the album continued in the musical and writing style of Summertime Dream (1976), it marked the beginning of the end of Lightfoot's commercial success as a recording artist, although he remained both a prolific songwriter and popular as a live act.
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The closing track, The Circle is Small, was a re-recording of a song from Lightfoot's fourth album, Back Here on Earth (1968).
In the USA, Endless Wire peaked at #22 on the Billboard pop chart and #14 on the country chart. The Circle is Small peaked at #3 on the adult contemporary chart, #33 on the pop chart and #92 on the country chart. "Dreamland" peaked at #100 on the country chart. "Daylight Katy" reached #16 on the adult contemporary chart and also charted in the UK at #41.
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Track listing
All songs written and composed by Gordon Lightfoot.
- "Daylight Katy" – 4:18
- "Sweet Guinevere" – 3:16
- "Hangdog Hotel Room" – 2:35
- "If There's a Reason" – 4:52
- "Endless Wire" – 4:07
- "Dreamland" – 2:53
- "Songs the Minstrel Sang" – 2:49
- "Sometimes I Don't Mind" – 2:53
- "If Children Had Wings" – 3:50
- "The Circle Is Small" – 4:03
Personnel
Songs
1Daylight Katy4:20
2Sweet Guinevere3:19
3Hangdog Hotel Room2:39