It was "Sit Diwn Young Stranger" for me, when it first came out. I'd been hearing Peter Paul and Mary play "Early Morning Rain" for years and kept meaning to get at least one Gordon Lightfoot album. I was immediately hooked and started getting albums and songbooks so I could learn to play his music. He has always touched such a deep part of me.
Greg
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he shouts across the ocean to the shore, til he can shout no more
Hey Musky Man,it's not so backwards how you got you Gord albums. Heck,I went all over the map!
(Following list is almost exact.)
I streted with Gord's Gold,then bought the obvious LPs "Sundown",COTS,S. Dream and "Endless Wire".
Then IYCRMM-Songbook-Lightfoot-DSMM Name?-EOM-Sunday Concert-Summer Side..-Don Q.-Complete Greatest Hits-The Way I Feel-Painter-Waiting For You and Salute & very many Best of's from UA.
Then Harmony. Now that's not only backwards but a bit compulsive. :D
"Summertime Dream" so I could get the lyrics to "WrecK" and also "Gord's Gold" (the first one) to get an overview of what he'd done before, both on LP back in 1976.
My younger sister had purchased IYCRMM and Summer Side of Life. She used to get so upset with me when she'd play them on the family stereo, because I'd come in to listen too. I'd been playing guitar about a year, or so then, so I'd want to listen too. She preferred being by herself not having her big brother spoiling the mood, or whatever.
Soon though, she "discovered" James Taylor, and lost interest in Gord. (I think she just liked IYCRMM.) So... I appropriated her records. I don't believe she ever really noticed they were missing.
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In my fashion, I have been a father...Here in my off again, on again smile.Mike
If You Could Read My Mind. i enjoyed every one of the tracks on that album (including Your Love's Return).
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I was a HighwaymanAlong the coachroads I did ride A sword and pistol by my sideMany a young maid lost her marbles to my tradeMany a soldier shed his lifeblood on my bladeThe b*****ds hung me in the spring of 25But I am still alive!...
Now that's not only backwards but a bit compulsive. 
:D
