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Gordon Lightfoot ‎– If You Could Read My Mind / Reprise Records Audio CD / 7599-27451-2

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Gordon Lightfoot ‎– If You Could Read My Mind / Reprise Records Audio CD / 7599-27451-2

UPC 07599274512 

"If You Could Read My Mind" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot. It reached #1 in the Canadian Singles Chart on commercial release in 1970 and charted in several other countries on international release in 1971.

 

Label: Reprise Records ‎– 7599-27451-2
Format: CD, Album, Reissue
Country: Germany 
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country, Folk
 
 
 

Tracklist:

1 Minstrel Of The Dawn
Arranged By [Strings] – Randy Newman
3:26
2 Me And Bobby McGee
Written-By – Fred Foster, Kris Kristofferson
3:38
3 Approaching Lavender
Arranged By [Strings] – Randy Newman
2:56
4 Saturday Clothes
Autoharp – John B. Sebastian
3:20
5 Cobwebs & Dust
Harmonium – Van Dyke Parks, Mandolin – Ry Cooder
3:20
6 Poor Little Allison
Arranged By [Strings] – Nick DeCaro
2:30
7 Sit Down Young Stranger 3:26
8 If You Could Read My Mind
Arranged By [Strings] – Nick DeCaro
3:48
9 Baby It's Alright
Electric Guitar – John B. Sebastian
2:58
10   
Your Love's Return (Song For Stephen Foster)
Arranged By [Strings] – Nick DeCaro
3:55
11 The Pony Man
Harmonica – John B. Sebastian
3:27

 

 

  • BassRick Haynes
  • Design, Photography ByBarry Feinstein, Tom Wilkes (2)
  • GuitarGordon Lightfoot, Red Shea
  • Mastered By [Pre-Mastering]WCI Record Group
  • ProducerJoe Wissert, Lenny Waronker
  • Recorded ByGary Brandt
  • Recorded By, Mixed ByLee Hershberg
  • Written-ByGordon Lightfoot (tracks: 1, 3 to 11)

 

The song was produced by Lenny Waronker and Joe Wissert at Sunwest Recording Studios in Los Angeles, California, with the classical music arrangement of violins by Nick DeCaro.

The song is in A major and uses the subtonic chord.

This song first appeared on Lightfoot's 1970 album Sit Down Young Stranger, later renamed If You Could Read My Mind following the song's success.[citation needed]

On release, the song reached #1 in Canadian Singles Chart, and was his first recording to appear in the U.S., reaching #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in February 1971. Later in the year, it reached #27 on the Australian singles chart and #30 on the United Kingdom's singles chart. The song also reached #1 for one week on the Billboard Easy Listening chart, and was the first of four Lightfoot releases to reach #1.

In 1987, Lightfoot filed a lawsuit against Michael Masser, the composer of Whitney Houston's hit "The Greatest Love of All", alleging plagiarism of 24 bars of "If You Could Read My Mind"; the transitional section that begins "I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow" of the Masser song has the same melody as "I never thought I could act this way and I got to say that I just don't get it; I don't know where we went wrong but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back" of Lightfoot's song. Lightfoot has stated that he dropped the lawsuit when he felt it was having a negative effect on the singer Houston because the lawsuit was about the writer and not her. He also said that he didn't want people thinking that he had stolen his melody from Masser. The case was settled out of court, and Masser issued a public apology.

 

  • Barcode (text): 0 7599-27451-2
  • Barcode (string): 07599274512
  • Mastering SID Code: IFPI L902
  • Mould SID Code: IFPI 2U4J
  • Matrix / Runout: wea mfg. OLYPHANT X17947 1 6392-2 RE-1 01 M1S1 C1
  • Rights Society: ASCAP
  • Rights Society (Track 2): BMI

 

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