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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 is Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot's eleventh studio album, released on the Reprise Records label in 1976. It peaked at #1 on the Canadian RPM national album chart, and #12 on the US Billboard 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 the Edmund Fitzgerald", which told the story of the final hours of SS Edmund Fitzgerald which had sunk on Lake Superior in November 1975. The song remains popular to this day and has been credited with making the sinking of Edmund Fitzgerald the most famous maritime incident in the history of the Great Lakes.
"The Wreck of the Edmund 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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- ^ Person, James (January 1, 1998). "Gordon Lightfoot". In Knopper, Steve (ed.). MusicHound Lounge: The Essential Album Guide. Detroit: Visible Ink Press. p. 294.
- ^ "Gordon Lightfoot - Summertime Dream".
- ^ "Gordon Lightfoot - the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald".
- ^ "Gordon Lightfoot - Race Among the Ruins".
- ^ List of Canadian number-one albums of 1976
- ^ List of RPM number-one singles of 1976