DECEMBER 1970 (44 YEARS AGO) Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind b/w Poor Little Allison (Reprise 0974) 45 single is released in the US. If You Could Read My Mind is a song by Gordon Lightfoot. It reached #1 on Canadian music charts and was his first recording to appear on the American music charts, reaching #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in January 1971. Later in the year, it reached #30 in the UK. Lightfoot has cited his divorce for inspiring the lyrics, saying they came to him as he was sitting in a vacant Toronto house one summer. This song first appeared on Lightfoots 1970 album Sit Down Young Stranger. The success of the single led Lightfoots label, Reprise Records, to retitle the album after the song. The song also reached #1 for one week on the Billboard Easy Listening chart, and was the first of four Lightfoot releases to reach #1. Gordon Lightfoot
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