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Summertime Dream by Gordon Lightfoot
Summertime Dream is an album by Gordon Lightfoot, released in 1976. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 9 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”, on 9 lists with a best position of #105.
Summertime Dream, Gordon Lightfoot's 11th studio album, came out on Reprise in 1976 with Lenny Waronker producing, and it caught the Canadian songwriter at the very top of his run. The hot streak had started with "If You Could Read My Mind" in 1970, and this is where it peaked: number one at home and number 12 in the States, a height he never reached again.
The reason is "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", a haunting ballad about the last hours of an iron ore carrier that sank in Lake Superior in November 1975. Lightfoot's steady voice and that rolling, tidal guitar figure turn a news story into a folk epic, and the song is credited with making the sinking the best-known shipwreck in Great Lakes history. It went to number one in Canada and number two in the US, and "Race Among the Ruins" made the American chart as well.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Summertime Dream on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald | 9 | #105 | – | 2018–2026 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.