Orillia - People from Orillia, Transportation in Orillia, Gordon Lightfoot, Simcoe North, Ontario Provincial Police, Leslie Frost (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: People from Orillia, Transportation in Orillia, Gordon Lightfoot, Simcoe North, Ontario Provincial Police, Leslie Frost, James Bartleman, Orillia Park Street Collegiate, Jake Gaudaur, Robert W. Mackenzie, Orillia Rama Kings, Luke Wiles, Rick Ley, Rob Blasdell, CICX-FM, John Sissons, Orillia Terriers, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, William E. Bell, James Brockett Tudhope, Orillia Transit, Franklin Carmichael, A. Charles Baillie, H. J. Rose, Ting-Xing Ye, Twin Lakes Secondary School, Albert Edward Munn, Elizabeth Wyn Wood, Amanda Laine, Bill Watters, Lucille Oille, Philip Bernard Rynard, D'Arcy Plunkett, John Kean, Geoff Sarjeant, Bruce Stanton, Marnie Woodrow, Eric Harvie, Mariposa Folk Festival, Brett Parnham, Walter Knox, Dwayne Benjamin, Orillia/Lake St John Water Aerodrome, Nobby Clark, Orillia Airport, John Lawless, Orillia/Matchedash Lake Water Aerodrome. Excerpt: Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, Jr. CC O.Ont (born November 17, 1938) is a Canadian singer-songwriter who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music and has been credited for helping define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 70s. He has been referred to as Canada's greatest songwriter and, internationally, as a folk-rock legend. His compositions, including "For Lovin' Me," "Early Morning Rain," "Steel Rail Blues" and "Ribbon of Darkness" (which hit Number 1 in the US with Marty Robbins's cover in 1965), brought him international recognition in the 1960s. He also experienced chart success in Canada with his own recordings, beginning in 1962 with the Number 3 hit "(Remember Me) I'm the One." His recordings then made their own impact on the international music charts in the 1970s, with original songs such as "If You Could Read My Mind" (1970) (Number 5 in the US), "Sundown" (1974), "Carefree Highway" (1974), "Rainy Day People" ...