''Summertime Dream'' is

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singer

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's twelfth original album, released on the

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label in 1976. It peaked at #1 on the Canadian ''

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'' national album chart, and #12 on the US ''

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'' pop chart. The album marked Lightfoot's commercial zenith in a remarkable period of popularity which had begun with the 1970 hit, "

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". He has not since achieved the same level of commercial success. 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

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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

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. "The Wreck of the ''Edmund Fitzgerald''" reached #1 in Canada on November 20, 1976. List of RPM number-one singles of 1976 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.

Track listing

All songs composed by

Side 1

#"Race Among the Ruins" – 3:21 #" The Wreck of the ''Edmund Fitzgerald''" – 6:30 #"I'm Not Supposed to Care" – 3:31 #"I'd Do It Again" – 3:14 #"Never Too Close" – 3:04 #"Betty Called Me In" – 2:39 (1999 release bonus)

Side 2

#"Protocol" – 4:02 #"The House You Live In" – 2:55 #"Summertime Dream" – 2:30 #"Spanish Moss" – 3:51 #"Too Many Clues in This Room" – 4:49

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Personnel

*Gordon Lightfoot -

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

, 6- and 12-string

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

s *Terry Clements - lead acoustic and electric guitars *Pee Wee Charles -

pedal steel guitar The pedal steel guitar is a Console steel guitar, console-type of steel guitar with pedals and knee levers that change the pitch of certain strings to enable playing more varied and complex music than any previous steel guitar design. Like all s ...

*Rick Haynes -

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

*Barry Keane -

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

;Additional personnel *

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* Jim Gordon - drums on "The House You Live In"

References

External links

Album lyrics and chords
{{Authority control Gordon Lightfoot albums 1976 albums Albums produced by Lenny Waronker Reprise Records albums