Are You Related or Connected to Lightfoot-1332?

Question

Hello WikiTreers!

Ambassadors project - Social Media will be showcasing different profiles from the different Hall of Fame categories for Musicians and Actors/Actresses, every Friday.

This week, from the Songwriters Hall of Fame, Gordon Lightfoot.  

Tell us how you connect and what was your favorite song of his.

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Answer 1

21 degrees and I have three favorites:

1) If You Could Read My Mind
2) Carefree Highway
3) The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Answer 2

22 degrees (but no known relationship).

My favorite is The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Answer 3

Only connected thru marriage on paternal side .I was quite a fan  in my youth. The wreck of the edmund fitzgerald is an interesting song considering there actually was a ship of that name that sank in the great lakes.

I think my connection is 24 degrees.

Answer 4

Not related, but I always loved "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" and "Beautiful"

Answer 5

22 degrees on my mother's side.

• Sundown
• Carefree Highway

Answer 6

26 degrees to me.

Answer 7

23 degrees through my grandmother Tremblay.  While my father's Bourg line is very short and direct, it's my grandmother who gives me the most interesting connections.

In college I listed to a LOT of Gordon Lightfoot. and love all of his music  Went to a concert of his a few years ago and was sad to realize he had lost much of his wonderful voice.  If You Could Read My Mind has to be a favorite for me.

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My late husband and I also went to his concert in Portland, Oregon about 2014 and we too realized he didn't have the same wonderful tone to his voice. It was sad.

Answer 8

Not related but loved his music. I grew up on the Canadian side of the St. Claire River and would boat alongside the Edmund Fitzgerald when it came up and down the river from delivering iron ore from Superior to ports in Michigan and Ohio.  I always could tell when the Fitzgerald was passing because of the low mournful sound of it's horn.

Answer 9

I'd be honored to be, but unfortunately I'm not! Favorite song(s) The Wreck of the Edmund FitzGerald & If You Could Read My Mind, & Carefree Highway. Jack

Answer 10

24 degrees from Gordon Lightfoot.

Answer 11

24 degrees. I like If You Could Read My Mind.

Answer 12

25 Degrees and Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Answer 13

19 degrees and Rainy Day People
:) az

Answer 14

22 degree on my mothers side

Answer 15

21 degrees

Answer 16

22 Degrees