Vinyl Album - Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind - Reprise

Vinyl Album

Artist:	Gordon Lightfoot
Title:	If You Could Read My Mind
Label:	Reprise
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	RSLP 6392
Date:	Jul 1970
Format:	LP
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	3 Own, 1 Wants
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Gordon Lightfoot	Minstrel Of The Dawn	Gordon Lightfoot	8.0 Rate
A2	Gordon Lightfoot	Me And Bobby McGee	Kris Kristofferson, Fred Foster	7.0 Rate
A3	Gordon Lightfoot	Approaching Lavender	Gordon Lightfoot	9.0 Rate
A4	Gordon Lightfoot	Saturday Clothes	Gordon Lightfoot	8.0 Rate
A5	Gordon Lightfoot	Cobwebs And Dust	Gordon Lightfoot	7.0 Rate
A6	Gordon Lightfoot	Poor Little Allison	Gordon Lightfoot	6.0 Rate
B1	Gordon Lightfoot	Sit Down Young Stranger	Gordon Lightfoot	9.0 Rate
B2	Gordon Lightfoot	If You Could Read My Mind	Gordon Lightfoot	7.0 Rate
B3	Gordon Lightfoot	Baby, It's Allright	Gordon Lightfoot	10.0 Rate
B4	Gordon Lightfoot	Your Love's Return (Song For Stephen Foster)	Gordon Lightfoot	7.0 Rate
B5	Gordon Lightfoot	The Pony Man	Gordon Lightfoot	8.0 Rate

Notes

Produced by Joe Wissert & Lenny Waronker.

Engineers: Gary Brandt (Recording), Lee Hershberg (Recording & Mixing).

Musicians:

Gordon Lightfoot - Red Shea - Rick Haynes - Ry Cooder - John B. Sebastian - Van Dyke Parks

Arrangements by Randy Newman & Nick De Caro.

Previously released under the title: Sit Down Young Stranger.

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Comments and Reviews


Magic Marmalade 4th May 2020		Sat in the garden today after I'd slung the mower around a bit, and listened to this album again... absolutely marvellous! :)



Fokeman 16th Apr 2018		RCC might have been a club issue "Record Collectors Club"? If it was RRC rather than RCC it might relate to a South African issue?



Bill Fick 6th Apr 2015		I'm not sure, Magic. The only "title-less" copy I've come across was a US pressing. Maybe some of our overseas catters can shed some light...



Magic Marmalade 4th Apr 2015		Well II've listened to this end to end twice today already, and the songs instantly lodge in your brain. I think I'm buying a ticket for Gordon Lightfoot's work on the strength of it Neil, so really look forward to getting into more of his stuff! Was it only in the US Bill, that the "Title-less" version was available? I've poked my nose around ebay today to look at different versions, and as your comment suggests, none without title.... but one odd one listed with a cat number that even discogs doesn't have: RCC RSLP 6392. What's the "RCC" all about?. And as regards the missing 20 seconds of Poor Little Alison on this issue... the song just fades out instrumentally, but doesn't sound like anything dramatic was about to happen musically, so maybe the later issue has a proper "Finish" to the song?



Bill Fick 4th Apr 2015		The earliest US pressings of this have no title on the front cover at all. Don't think there's too many of them floating around, I've only ever seen one...



Neil Forbes 4th Apr 2015		Aah Gordon Lightfoot! MM, you'd be surprised as to who had recorded his compositions *BEFORE* we got to know him via this song in 1971, about a year after the release of this LP. Peter, Paul & Mary(For Lovin' Me), Marty Robbins(Ribbon Of Darkness), Glen Campbell(Wherefore & Why), and how many others had also done their own versions of those songs, and how many other artists/groups have drawn from Gordon Lightfoot's pool of compositions? Yep! You have indeed found a *treasure*!



Magic Marmalade 4th Apr 2015



Magic Marmalade 4th Apr 2015		This is the kind of album you always hope you'll find when out digging for vinyl... An absolute classic previously unknown to you, which feels like finding a real hidden treasure. OK... so not unknown to most, and those already familiar with it will be smiling as they read this, but to me, and I'm sure others, Gordon Lightfoot was a name that was always buzzing around in the background scenery of my consciousness, but without any association with any music I could name. Of course, I've heard If You Could Read My Mind in the various cover versions over the years, but hearing it on this album totally changes it. But the whole album is incredible... Some albums you buy in order to investigate either let you down entirely, or start strongly, and drift away, or just don't quite do it for you; Sounding bland and so so. But not this. It reminded me of hearing Nick Drake, John Martyn, or Stephen Stills solo work for the first time, in that you think: "How on earth did this get past me?!". Imagine Bob Dylan could actually sing, and this is how good this album is... blues, country tinged folk done with a light touch, but incredibly strong song writing, brilliantly executed. A keeper for my collection that's going to get a lot of play! TREASURE!!!!

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