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      • Gordon Lightfoot "Early Morning Rain," sometimes styled as "Early Mornin' Rain," is a song written, composed, and recorded by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot.
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  2. May 16, 2023 · Although Lightfoot originally wrote the song and released it in 1965, it was covered that same year by Marty Robbins — and gave Robbins a No.1 hit on the U.S. Country Singles chart.

  3. May 1, 2023 · Gordon Lightfoot originally did Fast Freight, Early Mornin' Rain, If You Could Read My Mind, Sundown and other songs. Gordon Lightfoot wrote Song for a Winter's Night, Early Mornin' Rain and For Lovin' Me.

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  4. Lightfoot's songs, including "For Lovin' Me", "Early Morning Rain", "Steel Rail Blues", "Ribbon of Darkness"—a number one hit on the U.S. country chart [6] with Marty Robbins 's cover in 1965—and "Black Day in July", about the 1967 Detroit riot, brought him wide recognition in the 1960s.

  5. May 2, 2023 · Early Morning Rain” (1966) Lightfoot grew up in bucolic Central Ontario, which could hardly be farther from Memphis, but he sounds nearly Southern on this simple, brisk folk song, which...

  6. Apr 23, 2024 · One of the most memorable and enduring songs of the 1970s was “Sundown” by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot. Released in 1974, the song became a massive hit, peaking at #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and becoming a classic of the folk-rock genre.

  7. May 1, 2023 · But when the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation asked Lightfoot to write the historical song to celebrate Canada’s centennial year in 1967, he poured his heart into the task and emerged with a...

  8. Aug 2, 2021 · Lightfoot wrote the song about the USS Edmund Fitzgerald, a freighter that sank in a fierce Lake Superior storm in November of 1975, taking 29 men and a 26,000-ton payload of iron ore to...