1. Full name: Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr.Biography: Gordon Lightfoot Biography
2. Born: November 17, 1938Official Site: Gordon Lightfoot - The Man And His Music
3. Birth place: Orillia, Ontario, CanadaBiography: Gordon Lightfoot Biography
4. Parents: Gordon Meredith and Jessie Vick Trill LightfootBiography: Gordon Lightfoot Biography
5. Resides: Toronto, Ontario, CanadaBiography: Gordon Lightfoot Biography
6. Genres: Folk, country, rock
7. Active: 1962 - presentOfficial Site: Early Lightfoot
8. Label: UnsignedMySpace: Gordon Lightfoot

• 1966: Lightfoot!
• 1967: The Way I Feel
• 1968: Did She Mention My Name
• 1968: Back Here On Earth
• 1970: If You Could Read My Mind
• 1971: Summer Side of Life
• 1972: Old Dan's Records
• 1972: Don Quixote
• 1974: Sundown
• 1975: Cold On The Shoulder
• 1976: Summertime Dream
• 1978: Endless Wire
• 1980: Dream Street Rose
• 1982: Shadows
• 1983: Salute
• 1986: East of Midnight
• 1993: Waiting For You
• 1998: A Painter Passing Through
• 1999: Songbook
• 2004: Harmony

As one half of the duo, the Two Tones, he recorded a live album in 1962 titled Two Tones at the Village Corner. The same year he recorded 11 songs that wouldn't be released until almost a decade later.Official Site: Early Lightfoot

In 1964 Ian and Sylvia recorded two songs written by Lightfoot. Ian Tyson introduced him to manager Albert Grossman, which resulted in Lightfoot's recording five albums for United Artists.Official Site: Gordon Lightfoot - The Man And His Music

In 1976 the title track of the album Sundown won him wide acclaim, selling over 1,500,000 copies in the first year, as did his 1976 recording of The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, the true story of a ship and its crew that sank in 1975 on Lake Superior.Biography: Gordon Lightfoot Biography