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Gordon Lightfoot Songs - Statistics
General Stats
- This quiz has been taken 93 times
- The average score is 7 of 15
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| 1976- About a 1975 event that occurred on the big lake they call Gitche Gumee , #2 on US Billboard Hot 100 | The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald | 93%
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| 1974- A Hard Loving Woman had Gord feeling mean, Only of Gord's singles to reach #1 on U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | Sundown | 81%
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| 1970- Inspired by divorce, #5 on Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the U.S. in 1971, first of Gord's singles to appear on U.S. charts | If You Could Read My Mind | 68%
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| 1967- Describes the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway, re-recorded for 1975 "Gord's Gold", Has been covered by John Mellencamp among others | Canadian Railroad Trilogy | 67%
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| 1974- The song's name comes from the name of Arizona State Route 74 north of Phoenix, #10 on US Billboard Hot 100 | Carefree Highway | 49%
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| 1968- The song for which Gord's third album was named, "It's so nice to meet an old friend and pass the time of day And talk about the home town a million miles away" | Did She Mention My Name? | 49%
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| 1975- Last of Gord's singles to reach #1 on Billboard Easy Listening chart, They always seem to know when it's time to call | Rainy Day People | 48%
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| Written by Gord in 1964- Appeared on Gord's debut album "Lightfoot" in 1966, re-recorded for 1975 "Gord's Gold", Artists including Ian and Sylvia, Peter, Paul, and Mary, The Grateful Dead, Elvis Presley, and Neil Young have also released recordings of this song | Early Morning Rain | 42%
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| First released in 1968 on "Back Here on Earth" album, a ballad about a woman who roams the hillsides above the town for years waiting for her lover to come home | Bitter Green | 41%
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| Title song of Gord's 1975 album, "And you know that we get a little older every day" | Cold on the Shoulder | 38%
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| Named after an island on the Georgian Bay of Lake Huron, "She's a good old ship and she'll make the trip From the lee of _____________" | Christian Island | 33%
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| Written by Gord, Marty Robbins version was #1 on US Country singles charts in 1965, "____________ over me Since my true love walked out the door Tears I never had before ____________ over me" | Ribbon of Darkness | 32%
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| 1980- Ships of the line, ships of the morn Some who wish they'd never been born They are the ___________ | Ghosts of Cape Horn | 29%
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| 1978- So pass the jar and that old guitar in this ______________ | Hangdog Hotel Room | 19%
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| Written by Gord and recorded by Gord in 1971, more famously released by Anne Murray in 1972 | Cotton Jenny | 16%
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