Summertime Dream is a 1976 Reprise Records album (MSK-2246) by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, produced by Lightfoot and Lenny Waronker. The album features Rick Haynes on bass, Terry Clements on guitar, Barry Keane and Jim Gordon on drums, and pedal steel guitarist Pee Wee Charles. Its lead single, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" — a meticulous narrative account of the November 1975 Great Lakes freighter disaster — reached number two on the US Billboard chart and became Lightfoot's signature recording. The album peaked at number one in Canada and number twelve in the United States, marking his commercial apex. Lightfoot's storytelling precision and acoustic sensibility gave the record an enduring place in the folk-country tradition.
Tracklist
- 1 Race Among the Ruins 3:18
- 2 The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald alt version 6:29
- 3 I'm Not Supposed to Care 3:28
- 4 I'd Do It Again 3:12
- 5 Never Too Close 3:02
- 6 Protocol 4:00
- 7 The House You Live In 2:52
- 8 Summertime Dream 2:28
- 9 Spanish Moss 3:49
- 10 Too Many Clues in This Room 4:49
