Endless Wire (Gordon Lightfoot album)

Endless Wire is the Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot's thirteenth original album, released in 1978 on Warner Bros. Records (#3149). Although the album continued in the musical and writing style of Summertime Dream (1976), it marked the beginning of the end of Lightfoot's commercial success as a recording artist, although he remained both a prolific songwriter and popular as a live act.

Endless Wire
Studio album by
Gordon Lightfoot
ReleasedJanuary 1978
RecordedEastern Sound Studios, Toronto; August, November 1977
GenreFolk
Length35:36
LabelWarner Bros.
ProducerLenny Waronker, Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Lightfoot chronology
Summertime Dream
(1976)		 Endless Wire
(1978)		 Dream Street Rose
(1980)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]
Rolling Stone(not rated) [2]

The closing track, The Circle is Small, was a re-recording of a song from Lightfoot's fourth album, Back Here on Earth (1968).

In the USA, Endless Wire peaked at #22 on the Billboard pop chart and #14 on the country chart. "The Circle is Small" peaked at #3 on the adult contemporary chart, #33 on the pop chart and #92 on the country chart. It reached #1 on the Canadian Adult Contemporary chart.[3] "Dreamland" peaked at #100 on the country chart. "Daylight Katy" reached #16 on the adult contemporary chart and also charted in the UK at #41.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Gordon Lightfoot.

  1. "Daylight Katy" – 4:18
  2. "Sweet Guinevere" – 3:16
  3. "Hangdog Hotel Room" – 2:35
  4. "If There's a Reason" – 4:52
  5. "Endless Wire" – 4:07
  6. "Dreamland" – 2:53
  7. "Songs the Minstrel Sang" – 2:49
  8. "Sometimes I Don't Mind" – 2:53
  9. "If Children Had Wings" – 3:50
  10. "The Circle Is Small (I Can See It in Your Eyes)" – 4:03

Chart performance
Chart (1978) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[4] 56
Canadian RPM Top Albums 2
U.S. Billboard 200 22

Personnel

References
  1. Endless Wire at AllMusic
  2. "Gordon Lightfoot: Endless Wire : Music Reviews". Rolling Stone. March 9, 1978. Archived from the original on January 18, 2008. Retrieved March 28, 2012.
  3. "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 1978-04-15. Retrieved 2019-02-07.
  4. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 177. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
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