Summertime Dream

Summertime Dream is Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot's twelfth original 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.[4]

Summertime Dream
Studio album by
Gordon Lightfoot
ReleasedJune 1976
RecordedEastern Sound Studios, Toronto, December 1975 - January 1976
GenreFolk
Length37:26
LabelReprise
ProducerLenny Waronker, Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Lightfoot chronology
Cold on the Shoulder
(1975)		 Summertime Dream
(1976)		 Endless Wire
(1978)
Singles from Summertime Dream
  1. "Summertime Dream[1]"
    Released: July 1976
  2. "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald[2]"
    Released: August 1976
  3. "Race Among the Ruins[3]"
    Released: February 1977

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 never again achieve 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 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.[5] 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.

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic link
Rolling Stone(not rated) link

Track listing

All songs composed by Gordon Lightfoot.

Side 1
  1. "Race Among the Ruins" – 3:21
  2. "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" – 6:32
  3. "I'm Not Supposed to Care" – 3:31
  4. "I'd Do It Again" – 3:14
  5. "Never Too Close" – 3:04
  6. "Betty Called Me In" – 2:39 (1999 release bonus)

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

Chart performance
Chart (1976) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[6] 63
Canadian RPM Top Albums 1
U.S. Billboard 200 12

Personnel

Additional personnel

References
  1. http://www.45cat.com/record/rep14442
  2. http://www.45cat.com/record/rep1369
  3. http://www.45cat.com/record/rps1380
  4. List of Canadian number-one albums of 1976
  5. List of RPM number-one singles of 1976
  6. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 177. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
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