Time: 8 p.m.
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Gordon Lightfoot has recorded 20 albums and has five Grammy nominations.
His songs have been aired regularly for 50 years, earning him Radio
Singles Chart Positions in North America achieved by few others.
Lightfoot's radio hits in the USA have earned Five #1s, Five Top 10s and
Thirteen Top 40 hits. In Canada he has earned Sixteen #1s, Eighteen
Top 10s and Twenty One Top 40 hits.
Aside from his
success in writing, singing and performing his own songs, Lightfoot has
found fortune in having his songs recorded and performed by other great
artists including: Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Hank
Williams, Jr., Marty Robbins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Judy Collins, Johnny
Mathis, Anne Murray, Olivia Newton-John, Sarah McLachlan, Barbra
Streisand, Peter Paul & Mary, Harry Belafonte, Jane’s Addiction,
Richie Havens, Glen Campbell, Toby Keith, George Hamilton IV and Eric
Clapton.
In June of 2012 Lightfoot's legacy was further
enhanced when he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall Of Fame.
Lightfoot was honored for his role in defining the folk-pop sound of the
1960s and '70s. There are fewer than 400 inductees who make up the
impressive roster enshrined in the Songwriters Hall of Fame including
Barry Mann, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Hal David and Burt Bacharach,
John Fogerty, Bob Dylan, Isaac Hayes, Carole King, Paul Simon, Billy
Joel, Sir Elton John, Bernie Taupin, Brian Wilson, James Taylor, James
Brown, Bruce Springsteen, Jim Croce, Phil Collins, Loretta Lynn, Jimmy
Webb, Van Morrison, Kris Kristofferson, Dolly Parton, Diane Warren,
Garth Brooks, Leon Russell and Leonard Cohen.
In his native
Canada, Lightfoot has been decorated with the highest honors bestowed to
a civilian including the Governor's General Award and the Companion to
the Order of Canada honor of merit. He has also won 17 Juno Awards -
Canada's equivalent to the Grammy Awards. Gordon is a member of
Canada's Walk of Fame and The Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. In
2007, Canada Post honored him by issuing an official Gordon Lightfoot
postage stamp. Lightfoot is also in the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and
the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame. Gordon Lightfoot is an
indelible part of the Canadian national spirit and regarded as perhaps
the most prolific and greatest Canadian singer-songwriter of all time.
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