Gordon Lightfoot – Summertime Dream

Summertime Dream is the eleventh studio album from Gordon Lightfoot, Canada's male recording artist of the 1970s, and arguably the best non-compilation album of his career, although it received mixed reviews from the critics:

• AllMusic gave it 4.5 stars out of 5
• Rolling Stone Album Guide gave it 3 stars out of 5

Summertime Dream spawned two hit singles, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (#1 Canada, #2 US, #40 UK) and "Race Among the Ruins" (#30 Canada, #65 US).

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Track Listing

1. "Race Among the Ruins" (Gordon Lightfoot) – 3:17
2. "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (Gordon Lightfoot) – 6:27
3. "I'm Not Supposed to Care" (Gordon Lightfoot) – 3:28
4. "I'd Do It Again" (Gordon Lightfoot) – 3:11
5. "Never Too Close" (Gordon Lightfoot) – 3:02
6. "Protocol" (Gordon Lightfoot) – 3:59
7. "The House You Live In" (Gordon Lightfoot) – 2:51
8. "Summertime Dream" (Gordon Lightfoot) – 2:27
9. "Spanish Moss" (Gordon Lightfoot) – 3:49
10. "Too Many Clues in This Room" (Gordon Lightfoot) – 4:52

Personnel

• Gordon Lightfoot - vocals, six and twelve-string guitar, piano
• Terry Clements - lead guitar
• Rick Haynes - bass
• Barry Keane - drums, percussion
• Pee Wee Charles - pedal steel guitar
• Gene Martynec - Moog synthesizer
• Jim Gordon - drums (on 7)

• Gordon Lightfoot – Sit Down Young Stranger (album)
• Gordon Lightfoot – Sundown (album)
• Gordon Lightfoot – Lightfoot! (album)
• Gordon Lightfoot – The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (song)
• Gordon Lightfoot – Sundown (song)
• Gordon Lightfoot – Canadian Railroad Trilogy (song)
• Gordon Lightfoot – If You Could Read My Mind (song)