May 8th 2023, they laid Gordon Lightfoot to rest today in his hometown Orillia Ontario. The private service was held at St. Paul's Church. The Church was where Gordon got his start as a Choir boy. Sadly Gordon died Monday May 1 2023 at 7:30 p.m. in Sunnybrook hospital in Toronto. Thank you for being our beloved Troubadour of Canada. ❤🇨🇦🎶🕊🙏🏻
Katherine, He was a Troubadour of the world! He was much too special to be so held by boundries and borders. He fought for life for many years and so glad we had him in our midst for so long. How amazing he was and beloved by the world ! RIP artist, poet, singer and minstrel for the world. You will be missed and remembered for all time by your works !
@@jamesparker4727 Yes he certainly was a Troubadour to the World too. But Gordon Lightfoot will always be Our Canadian Troubadour first. He was Extremely proud to be a Canadian and write and sing about our History and Great Land! Bless his artistic Heart and Soul! Looking forward to making a pilgrimage to Orillia and pay my respect to his different statues and his place of rest, next to his folk's. His music and lyrics really touched my Heart and Soul. May he be leading the choir. If there us such a thing as a Choir in heaven? 🕊💞🇨🇦🎶🙏🏻
Thank you for this. The other day I went by his house in the Rosedale area of Toronto. I heard that he dreamed of having a house there once he became successful. He entertained countless famous musicians at that home. He was truly one of a kind.
I enjoyed Gordon LIghtfoot's songs when they first came out, but I find I like them more now than I did then. Took me fifty years to catch up with him. Thank you Gordon for the beauty you brought to the world.
This is such a well written song. Mr. Lightfoot will never be forgotten. I remember when my lovely girlfriend flew away, never to be seen again. This song really hits home to many, besides me.
A massive loss... We were taught Mr. Lightfoots songs in elementary school in grades 3 to 6.....R.I.P GORD.. u were like an old friend thru your music.....
Gordon was the first concert I ever went to. I don't remember the year, 73 or 74 I think. Been a fan ever since. Peace at last Gordon. You ARE missed, but what a legacy!
Dam'n right he's not dead.Still going strong just beacause as he says "We like to work". Still sounds great.He is an international treasure for all.They don't make them like this any more.Very few pure folk singers. They are out there,but fewer. Why post hurtful things about folks like this that have helped so many through trying times.
Always remember this and Denver's Leaving on a jet plane as a couple of the best road songs of the mid 60s. Right before acid changed the current face of music
When I was 16, I was picked up by Red Shae when hitchhiking with my mandolin from Hamilton to Toronto. It was 1971 and he was driving a big boat of a car. He introduced himself and talked about the instruments he played & touring with Gordon Lightfoot and having perfect pitch and other musical topics. We got into a game where I’d play some riff on the mandolin and he’d name the notes immediately. I laughed because I had to take his word for it because it would take me a couple of minutes to figure out what notes had I played. He was a lovely person and it was my most memorable drive.
What a fantastic story! I had the pleasure of doing some cover versions of Gordon's songs recently for a friend who need backing tracks and "Early Morning Rain" was one of them. I kept hearing this amazing second guitarist on all the tracks which led me to find Red's name. You really were in the presence of greatness in that car that day my friend. Cheers from Australia!
@@feoffor Amen. I was bless to see in 2019 before the damned lockdown. I think it was 2019...I should sue Faucci for my brain fatigued mental abilitilies nowadays. That man is selfish, and evil to the core. Forgive me God, for calling Faucci a man...his is a worm, of wormwood.
@@wambathewisefool2893 I am Canadian, love Gord, but even as a '70s rocker, I really like some of Waylon! Many Texans also loved another Canadian group, Triumph! What can I say, you have great taste in music. - Cheers
Peter Paul and Mary did this song to, as they borrowed it from Gordon Meridith Lightfoot with his permission to do so. Gordon Meridith just so happens to be THE very BEST singer/songwriter from the country of Canada. Sleep well Gordon, although your hands are still now, your voice now quiet, you've left a great many beautiful songs of deep hope and inspiration to us all and we just can't Thank You enough for those gifts you've given us all to remember you with, and also, to NEVER be forgotten either. Yiur memory and your gift of music will always live onward forevermore.
I came to Toronto in 1971 as a young boy and I would memorize the lyrics for life of Early Morning Rain the first time I heard it. Until this day that song like the greatest songs of all signifies so much to me personally that it is magic...the loneliness, isolation, longing that change brings to so many in this world, detachment from family and no way home. As an immigrant Early Morning Rain opened up a Canada through the voice and words of Gordon Lightfoot who could touch my soul - it was a warm embrace. If anything, for me Gordon Lightfoot's songs were about light, they invoked light, shed light and the light overtook any darkness. Sending love and prayers to his family, may you rest in the peace and light you've created for so many of us.
So too, my mother, dad, uncles and aunts, cousins and friends: those last years were terrible to witness. I have to keep my head up, one foot after the other just keep moving forward and try to only think of the good times, but its not easy, getting harder with each passing day.
@@persevere4 I had to watch my best buddy die slowly of cancer. The treatments made his flesh reduce to the point where I could actually see his bones bulging through his skin. But thankfully his suffering was relatively short.
My favorite all time Gordon Lightfoot song is "If you could read my mind", but "Early morning rain" is a very close second. Thank you Canada for giving us Gordon Lightfoot!!!
he was one of my favorites......I loved his ballads.... especially early morning rain--a song that was many years ahead of its time, as homelessness because a world issue in the 90s and since. As my son grew up in the 80s and 90s and me being a musician of the 60s, I taught him lots of these songs. He and I loved the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Several years ago, he came to Little Rock for a concert, and we got to see him perform. Naturally, after having critical health problems, he was not the singer he once was, but it was still great, and I have never heard such beautiful sounds come from three instruments. The beautiful thing about music is that, once in a while, amidst all the hard rock metal sounds and the twangy country singers, a real talent emerges with real and meaningful stories. That is what Gordon gave us and his songs will never perish!
@@lincolnmaceachern2410 And "Four Strong Winds" by Ian and Sylvia who kick-started Gordon's career by being the first to record "Early Morning Rain" and featuring it on their album appropriately titled "Early Morning Rain".
I walk everyday for exercise and sing to myself, "if you could read my mind, love, what a tale my thoughts could tell" I heard that first on the radio 50 years ago, still listening all these years later. Thank you Gordon for your masterful song writing.🙏
What a thrill to hear Red Shea and his incredibly light and complex picking...and very nice to hear Rick Haynes on bass. In the BBC 1972 concert I cannot hear Rick at all on bass. It's a shame, because he really has a nice touch.
I saw Lightfoot live just last night. Rick Haynes was such a pro. The whole band in fact played with such flawless ease. Nobody played anything especially flashy, but single note was articulated with perfect nuance.
I love this song, I never went anywhere, but I had dreams of traveling, it took me until my 60s, I now live in France, I send peace and love enjoy the music
Canada and the world lost one of the best story tellers, the Maritime's Sailors Cathedral in Michigan rang the Bell 29 times, plus one more for Gordon this year.
At a time when most artists performing on TV lip-synched to their record, you can see Gord and the boys are actually playing and singing. And how much sound they get from just three men!!!
Our boy Gord has a habit of tweaking his lyrics spontaneously (e.g. changing "Where the cold wind blows" to "With a pain that ever grows") so lip-synching, at least in Gord's case, might be a bit...uh...problematic.
The lyrics, the 12 string, the outift and of course the man himself. Absolutely iconic. Rest easy Gordon ❤
❤ So 😎
And of course the incomparable guitar playing of the late Red Shea.
The one and only Gordon Lightfoot. Miss ya Gordy. 😢
One of the best songwriters to have ever lived…RIP in musicians heaven 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
May 8th 2023, they laid Gordon Lightfoot to rest today in his hometown Orillia Ontario.
The private service was held at St. Paul's Church. The Church was where Gordon got his start as a Choir boy.
Sadly Gordon died Monday May 1 2023 at 7:30 p.m. in Sunnybrook hospital in Toronto.
Thank you for being our beloved Troubadour of Canada.
❤🇨🇦🎶🕊🙏🏻
RIP to Gordon a life lived very well.
@@steveelder5306 Yes it was!🕊💞🇨🇦🎶
Katherine, He was a Troubadour of the world! He was much too special to be so held by boundries and borders. He fought for life for many years and so glad we had him in our midst for so long. How amazing he was and beloved by the world ! RIP artist, poet, singer and minstrel for the world. You will be missed and remembered for all time by your works !
@@jamesparker4727 Yes he certainly was a Troubadour to the World too.
But Gordon Lightfoot will always be Our Canadian Troubadour first.
He was Extremely proud to be a Canadian and write and sing about our History and Great Land!
Bless his artistic Heart and Soul!
Looking forward to making a pilgrimage to Orillia and pay my respect to his different statues and his place of rest, next to his folk's.
His music and lyrics really touched my Heart and Soul.
May he be leading the choir.
If there us such a thing as a Choir in heaven?
🕊💞🇨🇦🎶🙏🏻
Thank you for this. The other day I went by his house in the Rosedale area of Toronto. I heard that he dreamed of having a house there once he became successful. He entertained countless famous musicians at that home. He was truly one of a kind.
I discovered Gordon Lightfoot by accident as a kid listening to Tony Rice do his interpretations of Gordon's songs. An absolute treasure.
And Tony did the justice, too!
I enjoyed Gordon LIghtfoot's songs when they first came out, but I find I like them more now than I did then. Took me fifty years to catch up with him. Thank you Gordon for the beauty you brought to the world.
This is such a well written song. Mr. Lightfoot will never be forgotten. I remember when my lovely girlfriend flew away, never to be seen again. This song really hits home to many, besides me.
One of my favorites of my favorite Gordon Lightfoot favorites.RIP Mr.Lightfoot.Thanks for many memories and great songs.
He's where the mornin' rain don't fall. And the sun always shines...
Rest easy, Gord.
gordonLightfoot- great, great songwriter, performer, musician, and man. You are now home...
So fine and beautiful, the music I grew up with, the spirit of my country. Thank you Gordon Lightfoot! Never forgotten. ❤
Now that all these old concerts and TV appearances are on TH-cam I know new generations will find it and we all know that it will always be out there.
My all time favorite! Also a beautiful cover done by Tony Rice who did many of Gordon's songs!
A magnificent talent. I had the honor of meeting Gordon after shows in Portland, Oregon and Layton, Utah. A spectacular troubadour.
one of the greatest songs of all time. he is definatley one of the greatest artists of all time
Such a unique and beautiful voice.great songwriter.love him
Saw Gordon in concert in kamloops, b.c. 2012. One of the best concerts!
His vocal style really harks back to the earnest folk style of the early 60's, yet he made it work all through the 70's with legendary results.
RIP Red
Gordon that great 12 string
And now RIP Gord
I first heard Gordon Lightfoot sing Early Morning Rain back in 1966. I still remember the album cover image. He was one of Canada's greats.
But this video should be edited to remove Rolf Harris who was a convicted sex offender.
A massive loss... We were taught Mr. Lightfoots songs in elementary school in grades 3 to 6.....R.I.P GORD.. u were like an old friend thru your music.....
Gord came to our public school with I believe it was Terry Whalen and sang for us before he became famous and I am 77 from Orillia .
Perfection ... Gordon and his two band members live in 69 RIP You are missed and revered.
Super canadian artist, i saw gord in concert at hamilton place back in the 70s
Gordon was the first concert I ever went to. I don't remember the year, 73 or 74 I think. Been a fan ever since. Peace at last Gordon. You ARE missed, but what a legacy!
Awesome song!
Gosh, an amazing vocalist and song writer.
Awesome ... raining here too , welcome the rain it washes the soul and refreshes the hearts !
this is so good
Thank you for the music, sir
Bob Dylan was 200+ right on. Can you all imagine a run on Gordon Lightfoot sing???
Pure bliss!🥰
In 1969, a lot of us were in the military far away from BBC reception
The break in his voice breaks my heart.
See you on the other side brother. What a treasure Heaven received May 1st, 2023.
Wonderful clip!!
Dylan covers this tune on Self Portrait, one of Gordon's best line, "you can't hop a jet plane like you can a freight train"
Sadly missed, the troubadour, the legend lives on ❤️
He was a Canadian national treasure.
What a great song. Wish I had written it!
Gordon is not dead. He's still touring.
Dam'n right he's not dead.Still going strong just beacause as he says "We like to work". Still sounds great.He is an international treasure for all.They don't make them like this any more.Very few pure folk singers. They are out there,but fewer. Why post hurtful things about folks like this that have helped so many through trying times.
John Glover
...and He will never die.
In those wholesome times when Rolf Harris and Jimmy Saville reigned as compares
R.I.P.
Great tune
RIP, Gordon Lightfoot😥
Very stylish announcer
R.I.P
I had a serious crush on him...
Thats so great!!!
Great hearing this but Paul Weller is my fav version..
This is the first time i heard him...oh,it's AMAZING,what a great artist!
YEAH GORDON RIP
AWESOME VIDEO!
2:17 that bend... mastery.
Always remember this and Denver's Leaving on a jet plane as a couple of the best road songs of the mid 60s. Right before acid changed the current face of music
Been a fan since 1969 although he was on a dreadful BBC show and was billed as Gordie Lightfoot.
Introduced by Rolf Harris.. so I wonder if it was filmed in Vancouver, BC, Canada
Colin Sanders Thought that's who it was.
Rolf Harris show BBC UK
Err, that's 'WAS going strong'. RIP.
Rest in peace Mr. Lightfoot. You will be missed. 😪
Not only Gordon Lightfoot will be missed, all of his music and an entire genre of great music. We're keeping it alive but how about when we're gone?
@@timjohnson1199 that's a good question but the good news is is Gordon is waiting for us so we can have a good time there
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"Considered one of Canada's greatest songwriters"? He was one of the world's greatest songwriters.. RIP Gordon. Your music will live forever.
Well Canada has had some great songwriters. Joni Mitchell, Ian Tyson, Neil Young, Robbie Robertson to name a few. So pretty good company
That, it will
Absolutely
@@Charon58 I agree with both you and CaptainRon1913, is that allowed??
Neil, joni, leonard
Rest in Peace Gordon. Your music will live forever.
When I was 16, I was picked up by Red Shae when hitchhiking with my mandolin from Hamilton to Toronto. It was 1971 and he was driving a big boat of a car. He introduced himself and talked about the instruments he played & touring with Gordon Lightfoot and having perfect pitch and other musical topics. We got into a game where I’d play some riff on the mandolin and he’d name the notes immediately. I laughed because I had to take his word for it because it would take me a couple of minutes to figure out what notes had I played. He was a lovely person and it was my most memorable drive.
What a fantastic story! I had the pleasure of doing some cover versions of Gordon's songs recently for a friend who need backing tracks and "Early Morning Rain" was one of them. I kept hearing this amazing second guitarist on all the tracks which led me to find Red's name. You really were in the presence of greatness in that car that day my friend. Cheers from Australia!
What a memory ❤❤
That’s an awesome memory for you….. cherish it!
A brilliant songwriter and an unmistakable voice.
The world lost a giant.
And not the kind of giant that built megalithic structures with copper chisels.
The singing kind.
@InThisTogether You hit the nail on the head in your written statement, and quite agree with it wholeheartedly to.
That, they did.
😢R.I.P. Gordon Lightfoot - you've enriched the lives of all who've heard your songs.
Bob Dylan once said that when we hears a Gordon Lightfoot song, he wishes it could go on forever. Right on, Bob!
That is so neat !!
+GreenManalishiUSA He cited Gordon as one of the greatest songwriters of all time
+GreenManalishiUSA You are right!
+GreenManalishiUSA "When Gordon starts singing, you never want it to stop"
I would agree...love the bell-bottom slacks.
His passing is a great loss, especially for those who grew up with his music. Rest In Peace, Gordon.
Gordon Lightfoot wrote songs that were both the poetry of his time and timeless. Thank you...I hope your spirit is flying free.
Thanks Mom for playing Gordon Lightfoot records when I was a kid what a wonderful gift of a lifetime of beautiful music
A love for music is one of the greatest gifts a parent can give. Thank you, daddy
Gordon Lightfoot is one of the greatest Canadians of all time, from Orillia Ontario, a native Canadian who is a hero to all Canadians!
He is a Canadian Icon, per se. I am Texan by nationality, but I love Gordon Lightfoot, probably more than I love Waylon Jennings.
Canada was great before the wokeness
A hero to a lot of Americans too.
@@feoffor Amen. I was bless to see in 2019 before the damned lockdown. I think it was 2019...I should sue Faucci for my brain fatigued mental abilitilies nowadays. That man is selfish, and evil to the core. Forgive me God, for calling Faucci a man...his is a worm, of wormwood.
@@wambathewisefool2893 I am Canadian, love Gord, but even as a '70s rocker, I really like some of Waylon! Many Texans also loved another Canadian group, Triumph! What can I say, you have great taste in music. - Cheers
Gordon died today and a light in the world went out.
I had never heard him sing this song, but knew he wrote it. Got goosebumps, a few tears too. What a GREAT SONG!!! What a GREAT MAN ‼️🌟‼️
Peter Paul and Mary did this song to, as they borrowed it from Gordon Meridith Lightfoot with his permission to do so. Gordon Meridith just so happens to be THE very BEST singer/songwriter from the country of Canada. Sleep well Gordon, although your hands are still now, your voice now quiet, you've left a great many beautiful songs of deep hope and inspiration to us all and we just can't Thank You enough for those gifts you've given us all to remember you with, and also, to NEVER be forgotten either. Yiur memory and your gift of music will always live onward forevermore.
I was blessed to grow up in the 60s and 70s. Artists like Lightfoot are national treasures. Rest in peace Gordon
Young, vigorous in the first flush of artistic outpouring. An utterly beguiling voice and performance ... perfection in 3 minutes.
He's now 78, I saw him a few years back and he still had the voice. I've been listening since 1967. A world treasure he is.
I first saw him in 68..........have listened to him since then.......LOVE HIM
Listening to Gordon Lightfoot sing always centers me. I started listening to him at 14 years of age in 1971 and have never stopped.
I came to Toronto in 1971 as a young boy and I would memorize the lyrics for life of Early Morning Rain the first time I heard it. Until this day that song like the greatest songs of all signifies so much to me personally that it is magic...the loneliness, isolation, longing that change brings to so many in this world, detachment from family and no way home. As an immigrant Early Morning Rain opened up a Canada through the voice and words of Gordon Lightfoot who could touch my soul - it was a warm embrace.
If anything, for me Gordon Lightfoot's songs were about light, they invoked light, shed light and the light overtook any darkness.
Sending love and prayers to his family, may you rest in the peace and light you've created for so many of us.
When I hear Early morning rain I am transported back to 1965 and SE Asia, missing my loved ones also
one of his most covered songs. Rest in peace Gordon, the last few years of your life were quite rough.
So too, my mother, dad, uncles and aunts, cousins and friends: those last years were terrible to witness. I have to keep my head up, one foot after the other just keep moving forward and try to only think of the good times, but its not easy, getting harder with each passing day.
@@persevere4 I had to watch my best buddy die slowly of cancer. The treatments made his flesh reduce to the point where I could actually see his bones bulging through his skin. But thankfully his suffering was relatively short.
My favorite all time Gordon Lightfoot song is "If you could read my mind", but
"Early morning rain" is a very
close second. Thank you Canada for giving us Gordon Lightfoot!!!
Hear hear from Australia!
"If You Could Read My Mind" is my favourite song of his too.
Thank you Canada for hockey and Gordo .
‘Beautiful’ is his best song hands down
For me, it’s “Sundown”
he was one of my favorites......I loved his ballads.... especially early morning rain--a song that was many years ahead of its time, as homelessness because a world issue in the 90s and since. As my son grew up in the 80s and 90s and me being a musician of the 60s, I taught him lots of these songs. He and I loved the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Several years ago, he came to Little Rock for a concert, and we got to see him perform. Naturally, after having critical health problems, he was not the singer he once was, but it was still great, and I have never heard such beautiful sounds come from three instruments. The beautiful thing about music is that, once in a while, amidst all the hard rock metal sounds and the twangy country singers, a real talent emerges with real and meaningful stories. That is what Gordon gave us and his songs will never perish!
Gordon Lightfoot : The pride of Canada. He even wrote the unoffical national anthem, the phenominal "Canadian Railroad Trilogy ".
Maybe the co-unofficial national anthem, along with Stan Rogers' "Northwest Passage."
@@lincolnmaceachern2410 And "Four Strong Winds" by Ian and Sylvia who kick-started Gordon's career by being the first to record "Early Morning Rain" and featuring it on their album appropriately titled "Early Morning Rain".
I thought that the unofficial anthem was the Molson "I am Canadian" song...
I walk everyday for exercise and sing to myself, "if you could read my mind, love, what a tale my thoughts could tell" I heard that first on the radio 50 years ago, still listening all these years later. Thank you Gordon for your masterful song writing.🙏
Gordon Lightfoot is turning 80 today. I’m here grooving and remembering.
Wow! How the time flies ...from hearing this in 1966..in bedsit Dublin.
...with an aching in my heart
and my pockets full of sand.
Of all the perfect songs he wrote and sang, this is my favourite.
Same
This is just so good, one of the greatest songs ever written. RIP Gord.
I agree. The lyricks tells the story of life.❤
Golden man, golden voice, golden talent.💞🍁✨😪
"At 72, he's still going strong." Sadly, this is no longer true. RIP.
Great performance. Red Shea is the best acoustic guitar back up picker I have ever seen.
And Maury Muehleisen who backed up Jim Croce
You can't jump a jet plane,
Like you can a freight train!
Great lyrics, great song from a great Canadian. Thanks Gord!
What a thrill to hear Red Shea and his incredibly light and complex picking...and very nice to hear Rick Haynes on bass. In the BBC 1972 concert I cannot hear Rick at all on bass. It's a shame, because he really has a nice touch.
Agree about the 1972 soundstage. Poorly mixed. Try headphones for a little more bass.
Me too. And how cool that his loyalty has carried Rick forward til today.
Agree. The 3-piece arrangements are terrific. And you are correct about the 1972 Soundstage - bass is too faint.
I saw Lightfoot live just last night. Rick Haynes was such a pro. The whole band in fact played with such flawless ease. Nobody played anything especially flashy, but single note was articulated with perfect nuance.
I remember after Red Shea there was another very good lead guitar player. I think he had an Italian name. Nick something.
I love this song, I never went anywhere, but I had dreams of traveling, it took me until my 60s, I now live in France, I send peace and love enjoy the music
In his prime this guy could really sing....
Red Shea also a phenomenal guitarist
best there ever was in my opinion!
He was amazing. His fingerpicking on steel rail blues (live version) is so beautiful
@@josephchambers5606 Yessir!
yes
I am glad to see these early performances saved. Such a great song and talent should be treasured forever.
It's the Early Morning Rain, and I miss my loved ones so ... Thank you and God Bless, Mr Lightfoot.
RIP Gordon Lightfoot! You will be deeply missed! Loved your voice and your songs.
Gordy has gone to the big show today, he will be forever strumming in our hearts and minds. God bless you my fellow Canadian. 😢
Toured to the very last. A musician's musician. Thank you, Gordon. Godspeed
Canada and the world lost one of the best story tellers, the Maritime's Sailors Cathedral in Michigan rang the Bell 29 times, plus one more for Gordon this year.
Loved Gordon from late 60s on. Used to sing many of his songs. Love and sympathies to all of Canada from a sorrowful England 💕🇬🇧🇬🇧
At a time when most artists performing on TV lip-synched to their record, you can see Gord and the boys are actually playing and singing. And how much sound they get from just three men!!!
Our boy Gord has a habit of tweaking his lyrics spontaneously (e.g. changing "Where the cold wind blows" to "With a pain that ever grows") so lip-synching, at least in Gord's case, might be a bit...uh...problematic.
Gordon had great backup players!
Red Shea is an absolute wizard. Amazing.