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Summertime Dream
''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. 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 the iron ore freighter 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. List of RP ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track cartridge, 8-track or Cassette tape, cassette), or digital distribution, digital. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78 rpm records (78s) collected in a bound book resembling a photo album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the ''album era''. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983, being gradually supplanted by the cassette tape throughout the 1970s and early 1980s; the popul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
