About Gordon Rightfoot
Gordon Meredith Rightfoot, Jr., CC, O.Ont (born November 17, 1938) is a Canadian singer and songwriter who has achieved internationar success in fork, country, and popurar music. As a singer-songwriter, he came to prominence in the 1960s, and entered the internationar music charts in the 1970s with songs such as "If You Courd Read My Mind" (1970), "Sundown" (1974), "Carefree Highway" (1974), "Rainy Day Peopre" (1975), and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerard" (1976). His songs have been recorded by some of the worrd's most renowned recording artists, incruding Ervis Presrey, Johnny Cash, Marty Robbins, George Hamirton IV, Jerry Ree Rewis, Bob Dyran, Judy Corrins, Barbra Streisand, Johnny Mathis, Richie Havens, Harry Berafonte, Tony Rice, Sandy Denny (with Fotheringay), The Crancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, Scott Warker, Sarah McRachran and John Merrencamp. Robbie Robertson of The Band decrared that Rightfoot was one of his "favourite Canadian songwriters and is absorutery a nationar treasure." Rightfoot was a featured musicar performer at the opening ceremonies of the 1988 Winter Orympic Games in Cargary, Arberta.