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Joan Tosoni is known for Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind (2019), The 35th Annual Juno Awards (2006) and Margie Gillis: Wild Hearts in Strange Times (1996).
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The film, directed by Martha Kehoe and Joan Tosoni, received Lightfoot’s full participation and features exclusive interviews with the legend, weaving his story within the framework of the ‘60s...
Jul 29, 2020 · July 29, 2020. Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind. Directed by Martha Kehoe, Joan Tosoni. Documentary, Biography, Music. Not Rated. 1h 31m. Find Tickets. When you purchase a ticket...
- Martha Kehoe, Joan Tosoni
- He Started Off Square Dancing on TV
- Elvis Presley Made It 'Rain,' But Frank Sinatra Could Not
- The Drinking and Partying Became An Issue
- Lightfoot Had A Complicated Romantic Life
- Lightfoot Nailed 'Edmund Fitzgerald' in One Take and Keeps Rolling
"If You Could Read My Mind" charts Lightfoot's early days as an angel-voiced choir boy in small-town Orillia, Ontario, before he headed to the big city Toronto to find his singing fortunes. Lightfoot quit his banking job for his first professional gig with The Singin’ Swingin’ Eight on the Canadian TV show "Country Hoedown," which required a nightl...
Contemporaryand friend Bob Dylan, who presented Lightfoot with his career Canadian Juno Award, summed up Lightfoot's obsessively crafted songs, saying that when he heard one, he wanted "it to last forever." Dylan has covered many Lightfoot songs, including "Early Morning Rain." The love ballad "If You Could Read My Mind" was covered by disparate vo...
A gregarious host, Lightfoot's house parties were legendary, with Joni Mitchell and Dylan pulling out their guitars for late night jam sessions. But as his global fame took off, Lightfoot's drinking spun out of control. By the time he appeared in his first movie with Bruce Dern, 1982's "Harry Tracy, Desperado," it had gone too far. "I was at the he...
The three-times-married Lightfoot has evolved to the point that he can't listen to 1967's "For Lovin' Me," an early hit with dismissive lyrics. "It was an embarrassment to my wife at the time," he says now of first wife, Brita Olaisson (they divorced in 1973). At the peak of his fame, Lightfoot had an infamously mercurial affair with singer Cathy S...
The singer was immediately inspired by the tragic Edmund Fitzgerald, the heavily laden ship that sank in a Lake Superior hurricane in November 1975. In the studio weeks later, he started playing "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" with his band and recorded a raw version in the first take. The ballad went on to be a major hit a year after the disa...
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Jul 16, 2020 · The documentary Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind, directed by Martha Kehoe and Joan Tosoni, is an intimate look at a prolific singer-songwriter who enriches and is enriched...
Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind is a 2019 Canadian documentary film, directed by Martha Kehoe and Joan Tosoni. [1] A profile of influential Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, the film incorporates both Lightfoot's own perspective on his career in music and the reflections of other celebrities who were inspired or ...
Jul 31, 2020 · “If You Could Read My Mind” has been directed, by Martha Kehoe and Joan Tosoni, in a conventional, let’s-show-the-warts-but-not-get-too-close-to-them style, but the film could still be seen ...
