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.^[5]

ReleasedJune 1976

RecordedDecember 1975 – January 1976

StudioEastern Sound Studios, Toronto

GenreProgressive folk^[1]

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Summertime Dream
Studio album by Gordon Lightfoot
Released	June 1976
Recorded	December 1975 – January 1976
Studio	Eastern Sound Studios, Toronto
Genre	Progressive folk[1]
Length	37:26
Label	Reprise
Producer	Lenny Waronker, Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Lightfoot chronology
Cold on the Shoulder (1975) Summertime Dream (1976) Endless Wire (1978)
Singles from Summertime Dream
"Summertime Dream[2]" Released: July 1976 "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald[3]" Released: August 1976 "Race Among the Ruins[4]" Released: February 1977

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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.^[6] 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.

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