Word: lightfooting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Underground Figure. In the U.S., he hopes to be known-period. Lightfoot is Canada's top-selling male singer, with an annual income of about $250,000 and a 17-room house in a stockbroker-and-executive neighborhood of Toronto. But south of the 49th parallel, where his songs are performed by such singers as Harry Belafonte and Peter, Paul and Mary, he has remained chiefly a popular figure in the folk underground. Until recently, at least. Now he is getting numerous engagements in the club circuit; during the past few months he has performed at Manhattan...
Canada's Gordon Lightfoot, 29, is one up-to-date folk singer who maintains the old tradition. He comes onstage in a battered buckskin jacket, as if he didn't plan to stay long enough to peel down to shirtsleeves. His mellow bari tone has a countrified accent that, no matter where he is, seems to come from somewhere else. And most of his 130 songs are plaints of a latter-day drifter. "Movin' is my stock in trade," he sings in For Lovin' Me. In Early Morning Rain, broke and marooned in an airport...
...Much of Lightfoot's wandering, musically speaking, is done amid the vast geography and pioneer history of his native country. "I believe there are times when you should return to the soil, at least in your own mind, and when you should live in the past," he says. Canadian Railroad Trilogy evokes a time
...Lightfoot's assured, straightforward delivery shows him to be that rarity in the folk field, a well-schooled singer. He got his early training as a high school student in the central Ontario town of Orillia. "Man, I did the whole bit -oratorio work, Kiwanis contests, operettas, barbershop quartets." He also played drums and sang in a dance band, and taught himself folk guitar. After a year of study at California's Westlake College of Music, he launched his career by working as a studio singer on Canadian and British television. "Musically, I'm the product...
...Died. Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, 84, Negro evangelist, whose messages of hope lifted the spirits of untold thousands during the Depression; of a stroke; in Washington, D.C. "Let me hear them screams, pilgrims!" shouted Michaux in his nationwide radio sermons from Washington. So many people responded with screams and cash that Michaux was able to feed some 250,000 of the city's poor at his soup kitchen...