Released June 1976 Label Reprise Artist Gordon Lightfoot Genre Folk music | Length 37:26 Summertime Dream
(1976) Endless Wire
(1978) Release date June 1976 | |
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Recorded Eastern Sound Studios, Toronto, December 1975 - January 1976 Producers Lenny Waronker, Gordon Lightfoot Nominations Juno Award for Album of the Year Similar Gordon Lightfoot albums, Folk music albums | ||
Summertime Dream is Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot's twelfth original album, released on the Reprise Records label in 1976. It peaked at #1 on the Canadian RPM national album chart, and #12 on the US Billboard pop chart.
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The album marked Lightfoot's commercial zenith in a remarkable period of popularity which began with the 1970 hit, "If You Could Read My Mind". He would never again achieve the same level of commercial success.
The album shot to popularity on the back of the haunting ballad, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", which told the story of the final hours of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald which had sunk on Lake Superior in November 1975. The song remains popular to this day and has been credited with making the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald the most famous maritime incident in the history of the Great Lakes.
"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" reached #1 in Canada on November 20, 1976. In the US, it peaked at #2 on the pop chart and #50 on the country chart while "Race Among the Ruins" peaked at #65 on the pop chart.
Summertime dream
Track listing
All songs composed by Gordon Lightfoot.
- "Race Among the Ruins" – 3:21
- "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" – 6:32
- "I'm Not Supposed to Care" – 3:31
- "I'd Do It Again" – 3:14
- "Never Too Close" – 3:04
- "Protocol" – 4:02
- "The House You Live In" – 2:55
- "Summertime Dream" – 2:30
- "Spanish Moss" – 3:51
- "Too Many Clues in This Room" – 4:49
Personnel
Songs
1Race Among the Ruins3:21
2The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald5:30
3I'm Not Supposed to Care3:28