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If You Could Read My Mind / Sit Down Young Stranger by Gordon Lightfoot
If You Could Read My Mind / Sit Down Young Stranger is an album by Gordon Lightfoot, released in 1970. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 3 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “If You Could Read My Mind”, on 3 lists with a best position of #785.
Gordon Lightfoot's fifth original album came out on Reprise in 1970 as Sit Down Young Stranger, and it didn't keep that name for long. When the song "If You Could Read My Mind" went to number one in Canada and number five on the Billboard Hot 100, the record was retitled after it, and it became the Canadian songwriter's best-selling original album, reaching number 12 on the Billboard 200.
Lenny Waronker and Joe Wissert produced it, and it's folk music the way Lightfoot did it best: spare, melodic and unhurried, from a writer with an eye for love and loneliness that would carry him through the decade. At home it just kept selling, in and out of the Canadian charts from April 1970 until November 1971.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from If You Could Read My Mind / Sit Down Young Stranger on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3 | #785 | – | 2004–2026 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.