Dear Bill,
I do have updated information on this subject:
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All Movie Guide notwithstanding, there is a Lightfoot recording in the movie. It was probably uncredited - which perhaps explains why AMG didn't mention it - but the voice is unmistakeable. The entire recording is only some 1:30-something long, but it is worth hearing.
The song is Dylan's Ballad In Plain D, about the breakup of a long-term relationship (a subject with which Lightfoot can certainly relate). Many Dylan fans marvel that the "mystery singer" in R&C sounds so much better than Dylan does on the studio recording on his album Another Side. Lightfoot only sings a couple of verses, for which he doesn't quite know the words, but he sure makes it sound nice.
The recording was made by Dylan into a handheld tape recorder in an upstairs bedroom at Lightfoot's home the evening of 12/1/75. Lightfoot performed with Rolling Thunder that night in Toronto (the next night too), and invited everyone back to his home for one of his infamous parties of that era. And, as it was a party during his drinking years, I would guess that neither he nor anyone else there was exactly sober.
So you were right; there is a bit of Lightfoot in that movie.
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