Don Quixote (album)
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Don Quixote is Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot's 8th original album, released in 1972 on the Reprise Records Label. The album reached #42 on the Billboard album chart.
The album contains little innovation on Lightfoot's trademark folk sound although it is notable as it contains Lightfoot's third seafaring song (his first two being "Marie Christine" from Back Here on Earth and "Ballad of Yarmouth Castle" from Sunday Concert), a genre that Lightfoot would continually revisit over the next 10 years. It also contains a rare Lightfoot foray into the protest song genre, in the form of the longest track on the album, "The Patriot's Dream," a ballad describing the enthusiasm of soldiers on a troop train "riding off to glory in the spring of their years," followed by the pathos of a woman receiving news that her husband's aircraft had been shot down in combat.
"Beautiful" was released as a single and peaked at #58 on the Billboard singles chart.
On February 13, 1988, Lightfoot performed "Alberta Bound" in McMahon Stadium during the Opening Ceremonies for the 1988 Winter Olympics held in Calgary, Alberta.
Track listing
- "Don Quixote" – 3:41
- "Christian Island (Georgian Bay)" – 4:02
- "Alberta Bound" – 3:07
- "Looking at the Rain" – 3:40
- "Ordinary Man" – 3:19
- "Brave Mountaineers" – 3:36
- "Ode to Big Blue" – 4:48
- "Second Cup of Coffee" – 3:03
- "Beautiful" – 3:23
- "On Susan's Floor" (Shel Silverstein, Vince Matthews) – 2:58
- "The Patriot's Dream" – 6:04
All compositions by Lightfoot except as indicated.
Personnel
Chart positions
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Position |
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| 1972 |
Canadian RPM 100 |
1 |
| US Billboard 200 |
42 |
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| UK |
44 |
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References
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| | Band musicians |
- Rick Haynes
- Barry Keane
- Mike Heffernan
- Carter Lancaster
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| | Former members |
- Red Shea
- John Stockfish
- Terry Clements
- Pee Wee Charles
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| | Albums | |
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| | Compilations |
- Early Lightfoot (1969)
- The Best of Gordon Lightfoot (1970)
- Classic Lightfoot (1971)
- The Very Best of Gordon Lightfoot (1974)
- The Very Best of Gordon Lightfoot, Vol. 2 (1975)
- Gord's Gold (1975)
- Early Morning Rain (1976)
- Songbook (1985)
- Gord's Gold Volume 2 (1988)
- The Best of Gordon Lightfoot (1989)
- The Original Lightfoot (1992)
- The United Artists Collection (1993)
- Songbook (1999)
- Complete Greatest Hits (2002)
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| | Singles |
- "(Remember Me) I'm the One" (1962)
- "It's Too Late, He Wins/Negotiations" (1962)
- "Adios, Adios" (1962)
- "Day Before Yesterday" (1963)
- "I'm Not Sayin'" (1965)
- "Ribbon of Darkness" (1965)
- "Spin Spin" (1966)
- "Go Go Round" (1966)
- "The Way I Feel" (1967)
- "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" (1967)
- "Black Day in July" (1968)
- "Bitter Green" (1968)
- "Me and Bobby McGee" (1970)
- "If You Could Read My Mind" (1970)
- "If I Could" (1971)
- "Talking in Your Sleep" (1971)
- "Summer Side of Life" (1971)
- "Beautiful" (1972)
- "Alberta Bound" (1972)
- "You Are What I Am" (1972)
- "The Same Old Obsession" (1972)
- "Can't Depend on Love" (1973)
- "It's Worth Believin'" (1973)
- "Sundown" (1974)
- "Carefree Highway" (1974)
- "Rainy Day People" (1975)
- "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (1976)
- "Race Among the Ruins" (1976)
- "The Circle Is Small (I Can See It in Your Eyes)" (1977)
- "Daylight Katy" (1978)
- "Dreamland" (1978)
- "Dream Street Rose" (1980)
- "If You Need Me" (1980)
- "Baby Step Back" (1981)
- "Blackberry Wine" (1982)
- "In My Fashion" (1982)
- "Salute (A Lot More Livin' to Do)" (1983)
- "Without You" (1983)
- "Anything for Love" (1986)
- "Stay Loose" (1986)
- "East of Midnight" (1987)
- "Ecstasy Made Easy" (1987)
- "I'll Prove My Love" (1993)
- "Waiting for You" (1993)
- "A Painter Passing Through" (1998)
- "Inspiration Lady" (2004)
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