Sit Down Young Stranger

For the Country Gentlemen album, see Sit Down, Young Stranger.
Sit Down Young Stranger
Studio album by
Gordon Lightfoot
ReleasedApril 1970[1]
RecordedEarly 1970[1]
GenreFolk
Length36:44
LabelReprise
ProducerLenny Waronker, Joseph Wissert
Gordon Lightfoot chronology
Sunday Concert
(1969) 		Sit Down Young Stranger
(1970) 		Summer Side of Life
(1971)
Singles from Sit Down Young Stranger
  1. "Me And Bobby McGee"
    Released: June 1970
  2. "Approaching Lavender"
    Released: 1970
  3. "If You Could Read My Mind"
    Released: December 1970

Sit Down Young Stranger is Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot's sixth original album and his best-selling original album.[2] Shortly after its 1970 release on the Reprise Records label, it was renamed If You Could Read My Mind when the song of that title reached #1 on the RPM Top Singles chart in Canada and #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US. The album itself reached #12 on the Billboard 200 chart. In Canada, the album was on the charts from April 18, 1970, to November 27, 1971. It peaked at #8 on March 13, 1971[3] after an earlier peak at #12 on June 20, 1970.[4] Its last 24 weeks were spent in the 90s, except for two appearances at #88 and one at #100.

  1. ^ a b Anon. If You Could Read My Mind (Liner notes). Gordon Lightfoot. Reprise. 7599-27451-2.
  2. ^ "Release "Sit Down Young Stranger" by Gordon Lightfoot". MusicBrainz. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
  3. ^ "RPM Top 100 Albums - March 13, 1971" (PDF).
  4. ^ "RPM Top 100 Albums - June 20, 1970" (PDF).