Gordon Lightfoot discography
| Gordon Lightfoot discography | |
|---|---|
 Lightfoot performing in 2010 | |
| Studio albums | 19 |
| Live albums | 3 |
| Compilation albums | 16 |
| Singles | 46 |
| B-sides | 3 |
| Tribute albums | 1 |
The discography of Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot comprises nineteen studio albums, three live albums, sixteen greatest hits albums and forty-six singles.
Studio albums
1960s
| Title | Details | Peak positions |
|---|---|---|
| CAN | ||
| Lightfoot! |
|
— |
| The Way I Feel |
|
— |
| Did She Mention My Name? |
|
21 |
| Back Here on Earth |
|
21 |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | ||
1970s
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales threshold) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAN | US | US Country | UK | |||
| Sit Down Young Stranger [A] |
|
12 | 12 | — | — | |
| Summer Side of Life |
|
3 | 38 | — | — | |
| Don Quixote |
|
1 | 42 | — | 44 | |
| Old Dan's Records |
|
1 | 95 | — | — | |
| Sundown |
|
1 | 1 | — | 45 |
|
| Cold on the Shoulder |
|
3 | 10 | — | — | |
| Summertime Dream |
|
1 | 12 | — | — | |
| Endless Wire |
|
2 | 22 | 14 | — |
|
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | ||||||
1980s
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales threshold) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAN | CAN Country | US | US Country | |||
| Dream Street Rose |
|
9 | 1 | 60 | 58 | |
| Shadows |
|
16 | — | 87 | — | |
| Salute |
|
59 | — | 175 | — | |
| East of Midnight |
|
37 | — | 166 | — |
|
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | ||||||
1990s–2000s
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAN | US Indie | ||
| Waiting for You |
|
24 | — |
| A Painter Passing Through |
|
92 | — |
| Harmony |
|
13 | 35 |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||
Live albums
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAN | US | ||
| Two Tones at the Village Corner |
|
— | — |
| Sunday Concert |
|
21 | 143 |
| All Live |
|
16 | — |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||
Compilation albums
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales threshold) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAN | US | US Country | |||
| Early Lightfoot |
|
69 | — | — | |
| The Best of Gordon Lightfoot |
|
— | — | — | |
| Classic Lightfoot - The Best of Gordon Lightfoot, Vol. 2 |
|
41 | 178 | — | |
| A Lightfoot Collection - The Best of Gordon Lightfoot, Vol. 3 |
|
— | — | — | |
| The Very Best of Gordon Lightfoot |
|
— | 155 | — | |
| The Very Best of Gordon Lightfoot, Vol. 2 |
|
— | — | — | |
| Gord's Gold |
|
8 | 34 | 15 | |
| Early Morning Rain |
|
— | — | — | |
| Songbook |
|
— | — | — | |
| Gord's Gold, Vol. 2 |
|
— | — | — | |
| The Best of Gordon Lightfoot |
|
— | — | — | |
| If You Could Read My Mind |
|
— | — | — | |
| The Original Lightfoot |
|
58 | — | — | |
| The United Artists Collection |
|
— | — | — | |
| Songbook |
|
— | — | — | |
| Complete Greatest Hits |
|
21 | 128 | — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||
Tribute albums
| Title | Details |
|---|---|
| Beautiful: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot |
|
Singles
1960s
| Year | Title | Peak chart positions |
Album | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAN | CAN Country | |||
| 1962 | "(Remember Me) I'm the One"[B] | 3 | — | N/A |
| "It's Too Late, He Wins" / "Negotiations"[B] | 27 | — | ||
| "Adios, Adios" | — | — | ||
| 1963 | "Day Before Yesterday" (UK release) | — | — | |
| 1965 | "I'm Not Sayin'" | 12 | 2 | Lightfoot! |
| "Ribbon of Darkness" | — | — | ||
| 1966 | "Spin Spin" | 7 | — | N/A |
| "Go-Go Round" | 27 | — | The Way I Feel | |
| 1967 | "The Way I Feel" | 36 | — | |
| "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" | — | — | ||
| 1968 | "Black Day in July" | 68 | — | Did She Mention My Name? |
| "Bitter Green" | 44 | — | Back Here on Earth | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | ||||
1970s
| Year | Title | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales threshold) |
Album | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAN | CAN AC | CAN Country | US | US AC | US Country | UK | AUS | ||||
| 1970 | "Me and Bobby McGee" | 13 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | Sit Down Young Stranger | |
| "Approaching Lavender" | — | 20 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "If You Could Read My Mind" | 1 | 1 | — | 5 | 1 | — | 30 | 27 | |||
| 1971 | "This Is My Song" | 66 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Early Lightfoot | |
| "If I Could" | — | — | — | 111 | — | — | — | — | Back Here on Earth | ||
| "Talking in Your Sleep" | 19 | 2 | — | 64 | 11 | — | — | — | Summer Side of Life | ||
| "Summer Side of Life" | 21 | 4 | — | 98 | — | — | — | — | |||
| 1972 | "Beautiful" | 13 | 1 | — | 58 | 30 | — | — | — | Don Quixote | |
| "Alberta Bound" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "You Are What I Am" | 3 | 1 | 1 | 102 | 32 | — | — | 37 | Old Dan's Records | ||
| 1973 | "Can't Depend on Love" | 27 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1974 | "Sundown" | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 33 | 4 | Sundown | |
| "Carefree Highway" | 11 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 81 | — | 74 | |||
| 1975 | "Rainy Day People" | 10 | 1 | — | 26 | 1 | 47 | — | — | Cold on the Shoulder | |
| 1976 | "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 50 | 40 | 46 | Summertime Dream | |
| "Race Among the Ruins" | 30 | 11 | 14 | 65 | 13 | — | — | — | |||
| 1977 | "The Circle Is Small (I Can See It in Your Eyes)" | 6 | 1 | 9 | 33 | 3 | 92 | — | — | Endless Wire | |
| 1978 | "Daylight Katy" | 44 | 25 | — | — | 16 | — | 41 | — | ||
| "Dreamland" | — | 24 | — | — | — | 100 | — | — | |||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||||||||
1980s
| Year | Title | Peak chart positions | Album | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAN | CAN AC | CAN Country | US | US AC | US Country | |||
| 1980 | "Dream Street Rose" | — | 1 | 8 | — | 25 | 80 | Dream Street Rose |
| "If You Need Me" | — | 5 | 21 | — | — | — | ||
| 1981 | "Baby Step Back" | — | 6 | — | 50 | 17 | — | Shadows |
| 1982 | "Blackberry Wine" | — | 15 | — | — | — | — | |
| "In My Fashion" | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1983 | "Salute (A Lot More Livin' to Do)" | — | — | — | — | — | — | Salute |
| "Without You" | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1986 | "Anything for Love" | 39 | 14 | — | — | 13 | 71 | East of Midnight |
| "Stay Loose" | 86 | 10 | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1987 | "East of Midnight" | — | 11 | — | — | — | — | |
| "Ecstasy Made Easy" | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | ||||||||
1990s–2000s
| Year | Title | Peak positions | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAN AC | |||
| 1993 | "I'll Prove My Love" | — | Waiting for You |
| "Waiting for You" | — | ||
| 1998 | "A Painter Passing Through" | 47 | A Painter Passing Through |
| 2004 | "Inspiration Lady" | — | Harmony |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||
Charted B-sides
| Year | Title | Peak chart positions | Original A-side | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAN | CAN AC | CAN Country | US | |||
| 1965 | "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" | 3 | 9 | — | — | "Ribbon of Darkness" |
| 1972 | "That Same Old Obsession" | 3 | 1 | — | 101 | "You Are What I Am" |
| 1973 | "It's Worth Believin'" | — | — | 12 | — | "Can't Depend on Love" |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | ||||||
Notes
- A ^ Sit Down Young Stranger was re-released as If You Could Read My Mind in 1971.
- B ^ Credited to Gord Lightfoot. Canada did not have a national singles chart at the time of release—these chart figures are from Toronto's CHUM Chart. All other Canadian chart figures from RPM magazine.
References
- ↑ "American album certifications – Gordon Lightfoot – If You Could Read My Mind". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH
- ↑ "American album certifications – Gordon Lightfoot – Sundown". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH
- ↑ "Canadian album certifications – Gordon Lightfoot – Summertime Dream". Music Canada.
- ↑ "American album certifications – Gordon Lightfoot – Summertime Dream". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH
- ↑ "American album certifications – Gordon Lightfoot – Endless Wire". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH
- ↑ "Canadian album certifications – Gordon Lightfoot – East of Midnight". Music Canada.
- ↑ "Canadian album certifications – Gordon Lightfoot – Gord's Gold". Music Canada.
- ↑ "American album certifications – Gordon Lightfoot – Gord%27s Gold". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH
- ↑ "Canadian album certifications – Gordon Lightfoot – Gord's Gold Vol. Ii". Music Canada.
- ↑ "American album certifications – Gordon Lightfoot – Gord%27s Gold, Vol. 2". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH
- ↑ "Canadian album certifications – Gordon Lightfoot – Complete Greatest Hits". Music Canada.
- ↑ "American album certifications – Gordon Lightfoot – Complete Greatest Hits". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH
- ↑ "American single certifications – Gordon Lightfoot – Sundown". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Single, then click SEARCH
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