| Summertime Dream | ||||
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| Released | June 1976 | |||
| Recorded | December 1975 – January 1976 | |||
| Studio | Eastern Sound Studios,Toronto | |||
| Genre | Progressive folk[1] | |||
| Length | 37:26 | |||
| Label | Reprise | |||
| Producer | Lenny Waronker, Gordon Lightfoot | |||
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Summertime Dream isCanadian singerGordon Lightfoot's eleventh studio album, released on theReprise Records label in 1976. It peaked at #1 on the CanadianRPM national album chart, and #12 on the USBillboard pop chart.[5]
The album marked Lightfoot's commercial zenith in a remarkable period of popularity which had begun with the 1970 hit, "If You Could Read My Mind". He would not achieve the same level of commercial success through to his death in 2023.
The album shot to popularity on the back of the haunting ballad, "The Wreck of theEdmund Fitzgerald", which told the story of the final hours of the iron ore freighterSSEdmund Fitzgerald which had sunk onLake Superior in November 1975. The song remains popular to this day and has been credited with making the sinking ofEdmund Fitzgerald the most famous maritime incident in the history of theGreat Lakes.
"The Wreck of theEdmund Fitzgerald" reached #1 in Canada on November 20, 1976.[6] In the US, it peaked at #2 on the pop chart and #50 on the country chart while "Race Among the Ruins" peaked at #65 on the pop chart.
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| Allmusic |   link |
| Rolling Stone | (not rated)link |
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