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 is often referred to as Canada's greatest songwriter and is known internationally as a folk-rock legendLightfoot's songs, including "For Lovin' Me", "Early Morning Rain", "Steel Rail Blues", "Ribbon of Darkness"—a number one hit on the US country chart with Marty Robbins's cover in 1965—and "Black Day in July," about the 1967 Detroit riot, brought him wide recognition in the 1960s Canadian chart success with his own recordings began in 1962 with the No 3 hit "(Remember Me) I'm the One", followed by recognition and charting abroad in the 1970s He topped the US Hot 100 or AC chart with the hits "If You Could Read My Mind" (1970), "Sundown" (1974); "Carefree Highway" (1974), "Rainy Day People" (1975), and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (1976), and had many other hits that appeared in the top 40
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