Here, we honor the late Gordon Lightfoot with a look back at his sole No. 1, the simultaneously violent and breezy “Sundown.” As far as signature songs go, “Sundown” might not be the first ...

Reprise "Sundown" album came in. The title song and "Carefree Highway" from the album were being played everywhere, AM and FM, middle-of-the-road and rock. Lightfoot had to grin because that's the ...

In the early 1970s, Gordon Lightfoot met a woman named Cathy Smith. They began a relationship, and the song “Sundown” documented their up-and-down love affair. At the time, Smith was a well ...

best known in the States for his mournful hits “If You Could Read My Mind,” “Sundown” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.” The lattermost song, which reached No. 2 on the ...

Inspired by his divorce, the song hit No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 ... middling U.S. chart before roaring back with the 1974 LP Sundown. The album spent two weeks at No. 1 here, and its title ...

Lightfoot topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1974 with “Sundown” and also had top 5 songs with “If You Could Read My Mind” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.” All three songs ...