Gordon Lightfoot, the Canadian society vocalist whose rich, sad baritone and gift for melodic songwriting made him one of the most famous recording specialists of the 1970s, kicked the bucket on Monday night in Toronto. He was 84.
His passing, at Sunnybrook Clinic, was affirmed by his marketing expert, Victoria Master. No reason was given.
Mr. Lightfoot, a quick rising star in Canada in the mid 1960s, got through to worldwide achievement when his companions and individual Canadians Ian and Sylvia Tyson recorded two of his tunes, "Early Morning Precipitation" and "For Lovin' Me."
At the point when Peter, Paul and Mary emerged with their own variants, and Marty Robbins arrived at the highest point of the nation diagrams with Mr. Lightfoot's "Lace of Haziness," Mr. Lightfoot's standing took off. Short-term, he joined the positions of musicians like Weave Dylan, Phil Ochs and Tom Paxton, every one of whom affected his style.
He played piano, drums and guitar as a teen, and keeping in mind that still in secondary school composed his most memorable melody, an effective number about the Hula Loop frenzy with a snappy last line: "I suppose I'm simply a lazy pig and I will lose my employment, because I'm Hula-Hoopin' constantly."
Subsequent to concentrating on structure and arrangement at the Westlake School of Music in Los Angeles, he got back to Canada. For a period he was an individual from the Singing Swinging Eight, a singing and moving company on the TV program "Nation Shindig," however he before long turned out to be important for the Toronto society scene, performing at a similar cafés and clubs as Ian and Sylvia, Joni Mitchell, Neil Youthful and Leonard Cohen.
He shaped a society pair, the Two Tones, with an individual "Shindig" entertainer, Terry Whelan. The pair kept a live collection in 1962, "Two Tones at the Town Corner." The following year, while going in Europe, he filled in as the host of "The Nation and Western Show" on BBC TV.
As a musician, Mr. Lightfoot had progressed past the Hula Circle, yet not by an incredible arrangement. His work "had no sort of character," he told the creators of "The Reference book of Society, Nation and Western Music," distributed in 1969. At the point when the Greenwich Town society blast brought Mr. Dylan and other unique lyricists to the front, he said, "I began to get a perspective, and that is the point at which I began to get to the next level."
In 1965, he showed up at the Newport Society Celebration and made his presentation in the US at Municipal center in New York. "Mr. Lightfoot has a rich, warm voice and a skillful guitar method," Robert Shelton wrote in The New York Times. "With somewhat more regard for stage character, he ought to turn out to be very well known."
After a year, subsequent to marking with Albert Grossman, the chief of Mr. Dylan and Peter, Paul and Mary, Mr. Lightfoot recorded his most memorable independent collection, "Lightfoot!" With exhibitions of "Early Morning Precipitation," "For Lovin' Me," "Lace of Haziness" and "I'm Not Sayin'," a hit record in Canada in 1963, the collection was heartily gotten by the pundits.
Genuine business achievement came when he changed to Warner Siblings, at first recording for the organization's Repeat mark. "When I changed over to Warner Siblings, circuitous 1970, I was rethinking myself," he told the Georgia paper Savannah Associate in 2010. "Suppose I was presumably progressing away from the society period, and attempting to discover some heading by which I could have a music that individuals would need to pay attention to."
Mr. Lightfoot, going with himself on an acoustic 12-string guitar, in a voice that frequently shuddered with feeling, gave extra, direct records of his material. He sang of depression, upset connections, the tingle to wander and the magnificence of the Canadian scene. He was, as the Canadian author Jack Secure put it, "columnist, artist, history specialist, comedian, brief tale teller and folksy recollector of past days."
His prominence as a recording craftsman wound down during the 1980s, however he kept an in the middle of visiting plan. In 1999 Rhino Records delivered "Songbook," a four-plate review of his vocation.
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Gordon Lightfoot, the Canadian society vocalist whose rich, sad baritone and gift for melodic songwriting made him one of the most famous recording specialists of the 1970s, kicked the bucket on Monday night in Toronto. He was 84.
His passing, at Sunnybrook Clinic, was affirmed by his marketing expert, Victoria Master. No reason was given.
Mr. Lightfoot, a quick rising star in Canada in the mid 1960s, got through to worldwide achievement when his companions and individual Canadians Ian and Sylvia Tyson recorded two of his tunes, "Early Morning Precipitation" and "For Lovin' Me."
At the point when Peter, Paul and Mary emerged with their own variants, and Marty Robbins arrived at the highest point of the nation diagrams with Mr. Lightfoot's "Lace of Haziness," Mr. Lightfoot's standing took off. Short-term, he joined the positions of musicians like Weave Dylan, Phil Ochs and Tom Paxton, every one of whom affected his style.
He played piano, drums and guitar as a teen, and keeping in mind that still in secondary school composed his most memorable melody, an effective number about the Hula Loop frenzy with a snappy last line: "I suppose I'm simply a lazy pig and I will lose my employment, because I'm Hula-Hoopin' constantly."
Subsequent to concentrating on structure and arrangement at the Westlake School of Music in Los Angeles, he got back to Canada. For a period he was an individual from the Singing Swinging Eight, a singing and moving company on the TV program "Nation Shindig," however he before long turned out to be important for the Toronto society scene, performing at a similar cafés and clubs as Ian and Sylvia, Joni Mitchell, Neil Youthful and Leonard Cohen.
He shaped a society pair, the Two Tones, with an individual "Shindig" entertainer, Terry Whelan. The pair kept a live collection in 1962, "Two Tones at the Town Corner." The following year, while going in Europe, he filled in as the host of "The Nation and Western Show" on BBC TV.
As a musician, Mr. Lightfoot had progressed past the Hula Circle, yet not by an incredible arrangement. His work "had no sort of character," he told the creators of "The Reference book of Society, Nation and Western Music," distributed in 1969. At the point when the Greenwich Town society blast brought Mr. Dylan and other unique lyricists to the front, he said, "I began to get a perspective, and that is the point at which I began to get to the next level."
In 1965, he showed up at the Newport Society Celebration and made his presentation in the US at Municipal center in New York. "Mr. Lightfoot has a rich, warm voice and a skillful guitar method," Robert Shelton wrote in The New York Times. "With somewhat more regard for stage character, he ought to turn out to be very well known."
After a year, subsequent to marking with Albert Grossman, the chief of Mr. Dylan and Peter, Paul and Mary, Mr. Lightfoot recorded his most memorable independent collection, "Lightfoot!" With exhibitions of "Early Morning Precipitation," "For Lovin' Me," "Lace of Haziness" and "I'm Not Sayin'," a hit record in Canada in 1963, the collection was heartily gotten by the pundits.
Genuine business achievement came when he changed to Warner Siblings, at first recording for the organization's Repeat mark. "When I changed over to Warner Siblings, circuitous 1970, I was rethinking myself," he told the Georgia paper Savannah Associate in 2010. "Suppose I was presumably progressing away from the society period, and attempting to discover some heading by which I could have a music that individuals would need to pay attention to."
Mr. Lightfoot, going with himself on an acoustic 12-string guitar, in a voice that frequently shuddered with feeling, gave extra, direct records of his material. He sang of depression, upset connections, the tingle to wander and the magnificence of the Canadian scene. He was, as the Canadian author Jack Secure put it, "columnist, artist, history specialist, comedian, brief tale teller and folksy recollector of past days."
His prominence as a recording craftsman wound down during the 1980s, however he kept an in the middle of visiting plan. In 1999 Rhino Records delivered "Songbook," a four-plate review of his vocation.
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