FILIPINA REACTS TO GORDON LIGHTFOOT FOR THE FIRST TIME - IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND

[@martinmcdonald4207]

This song is a gift. Tears will flow from both the lyric and melody. It`s special and a gift to be enjoyed. Thank You Gordon Lightfoot. Legend. R.I.P.

[@themanftheworld8439]

Such a beautiful,heartbreaking love song from 1971.

[@ImaDogTrainer]

You went through all the emotions that were intended as he painted the story he wanted to tell. A perfect example of someone really listening to it with their heart.

[@calvintownley9089]

It's a beautiful song isn't it he's a good artist I think

[@NotDeadYETTTT]

Well said

[@vchip57]

This beautiful song just punches you right in the heart. One of my forever favorites.

[@hongfang2508]

I think of this as a perfect song, perfect lyrics, music, production, and sung perfectly.

[@beachcomber4141]

I think the exact same thing. This is one of the few perfect songs in every way. He was a master songwriter and one of the greatest story teller singers I have ever heard.

[@barker316]

Good job Lhen!

[@johnmolony5613]

oh don't cry no more beautiful

[@ArlynMeylan-jo7hq]

True story i remember im from Michigan 😊

[@lastblast48]

Gordon Lightfoot expressed the very soul of Canada.

[@astroteech]

It's one of the most beautiful and sad songs about the ending of relationships ever written. RIP Gordon Lightfoot.

[@WildWing-wl7nj]

Welcome to Gordon Lightfoot, if you hadn't heard him before. Superstar since the 70s.

[@binxbolling]

RIP Gordon 1938-2023.

[@rabb338]

There isn't a Gordon Lightfoot song that's bad. He was truly a Tunesmith with amazing abilities. Explore more of his work.

[@hungfao]

Great song. It's so good because Gordon was writing this during a time when he was having relationship issues. Very close to him bearing his soul. It worked.

[@monicacall7532]

This is my favorite song of all time and Gordon Lightfoot is my favorite singer. No other singer is as emotionally invested in their music as he is. Throw in his gorgeous voice and the poetic words and you have a masterpiece.

[@soundchaser56]

This is the song that always makes me stop what I am doing to listen to the end.

[@Goodwin1961]

Gordon Lightfoot-Canada’s Treasure ❤️🇨🇦

[@robinreiley1828]

You explained yourself beautifully! You also have a good singing voice when you trust yourself. Your face told your reaction even if you had said nothing!

[@VikingJeff]

"Rainy Day People" by Mr. Lightfoot is very enjoyable.

[@robrobertson4619]

Yes, this Canadian folk singer had many hits back in the 1970’s, including this one😉👍

[@johnburns9634]

It's okay if you feel emotions listening to Gordon Lightfoot. It is not a weakness, it is simply being human.

[@uncatila]

Gordon likes your voice. Yes you do have a voice.

[@melchorruis1784]

Narinig ko ang kantang to sa radyo sa programa ni Eddie elarde

[@martyniner8893]

You sing very nice

[@magneto7930]

Beautiful reaction. I'm an emotional wreck every time I hear this song, but it's still one of my favorites!

[@martinsaldana9362]

Beautiful is another good one

[@True-crime-junkie]

Fist off you have a beautiful voice. Watching your emotional reaction to this song i can only think you take the similar journey I do every time I hear it. He paints a beautiful picture with his voice, words and phrasing.

[@jonahprophet4483]

I spent years living in the Philippines and I know that for Filipinos "love songs" is literally a genre of music. This is the exact opposite, it is a tragedy. It is the story of a love that began with such promise but now it has died and the feelings are gone. He wrote it while he was going through a divorce and it was when I was going through mine that I realized he had penned the most perfect enunciation of the loneliest, saddest feeling in the whole world. A feeling like grief from a death but the person is still alive and it is the love between you that has passed away...

[@bobbygreene6111]

Love the song one of my favorites.

[@xylemphoenix]

If this song doesn't bring a tear to you eye, then you have never loved.

[@jamespearce3603]

You did good.😊

[@chrisbricky7331]

Great reaction and thanks for sharing. His voice conveys emotion so well. Chris

[@DonnaBrooks]

If Gordon Lightfoot did nothing else on Earth besides write & record this song, his life would have touched millions of people. I know most people think of this as it was written,- a song to a lost love. But for me, it's a song to myself of not understanding how my life fell apart & why I can't put it back together, esp. the line, "But heroes often fail. And you won't read that book again because the ending's just too hard to take."

[@jimmalachowsky4052]

You really can't go bad with any Gordon Lightfoot song. Three more I think you'll love are "Beautiful", "Softly", and "Shadows". You'll be doing yourself a favor if you listen to them.

[@dougyacker243]

Your reaction was beautifully done LehnJehn.

[@Axeman517]

Gordon Lightfoot has SO many brilliant songs! I urge you to listen to some (ok, all) of his albums ;) Also, you have a very nice voice.

[@akshelby33]

Yeah. When you said it was performed lively, I knew you were in for a treat. The song is a tearjerker.

[@festival5920]

This song is about his first marriage falling apart

[@chivalryalive]

Some say Gordon is "Canada's greatest poet." :-O He sings very beautiful 'stories". I was lucky enough to have seen him in concert about 20 years ago. The audience begged and begged for it until he played "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" as an encore.... We all left the showhall with tears on our faces afterward! :-O

[@pawsindublin]

Gordon Lightfoot passed away yesterday in Toronto. He was 84 years old. 😪

[@dwgale01]

As PikaPresSMC1 has suggested, you should react to "Sundown" and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot. Do "Sundown" first. I wouldn't call it upbeat, but it's definitely not a downer. "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" though is the sad and true story of the sinking of the cargo ship "Edmund Fitzgerald" on Lake Superior in the winter of 1975. Just so you know, Lake Superior is a huge inland freshwater sea of about 82,000 square kilometers on the border between Canada and the United States. It is the largest of the five Great Lakes of North America.

[@DanielFrost21]

Other songs by Gordon Lightfoot worth a listen: "Sundown"....."Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (based on an actual incident)

[@jilinil]

Don Quixote.

[@brianmcmillan7426]

@@jilinil anything Gordon wrote was gold!

[@jilinil]

@@brianmcmillan7426 Weeellllllll...... Christian Island yes... Beautiful not so much.

[@brianmcmillan7426]

@@jilinil Beautiful was beautiful

[@jilinil]

@@brianmcmillan7426 not a great song though. Bitter Green, Cotton Jenny, Canadian RR Trilogy... Did She Mention My Name, just saying... MANY great songs... but not everything he wrote/sang was great.

[@tom.mihail9366]

when Gordon was composing this song he said ''I didn't think it was a great song'' but it became his signature tune..Great melody by a master wordsmith..

[@Mr.Sidenote]

I can tell you have a sweet voice. Maybe you were a little nervous, but I know you love to sing because you said that you know this song from karaoke.

[@michaelboyce9028]

He wrote Early Morning Rain And The Last Thing On My Mind his final record on United Artists before this.

[@ravinthered]

This song always kills me.

[@albertoperez7119]

I got some sad news for these people watching this video golden life passed away he was 84 years old on May 1st he will be missed but his music will live on forever 😀😁

[@dennis345]

Try his song"Pony Man," which is a beautiful fairy tale he wrote for and sang to his children when they were little.

[@realcoolbreeze]

Was and is a great emotional and descriptive song. It was very unique and special and continues unchanged throughout the decades as time marches on. A classic for sure.

[@yingyeunglaw4604]

One of the best sad song in the world.

[@calvintownley9089]

Gordon has always been one of my favs he's one of a kind too lol

[@AFmedic]

Gordon Lightfoot is the epitome of a Balladeer and this song is a perfect example of a Ballad 1) A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. 2) A slow sentimental or romantic song.

[@gj8683]

"Early Morning Rain" is another of his very emotional and heartfelt songs. He really makes you feel it. But I should also mention that Peter, Paul and Mary did a splendid cover of it as well.

[@jamescronan7220]

"Bitter Green" from his Back Here On Earth album

[@brucekirkpatrick3653]

YES, a truly poetic set of images

[@mitchellmarcus4843]

I decide this beautiful song to my of 35 years. We two have definitely lived all the bad times and mostly beautiful good times.

[@tonyford5326]

Truly beautiful

[@krisfox3537]

You did excellently!

[@er5650]

Hello filipina ppl.. I used to listen to this song years ago.. I still like it....blessed

[@luciusmalou4906]

Hi, Mahal! Enjoyed your reaction. Mr. Lightfoot is one of the best. I heard he was Bob Dylan's favorites. Come off it, you have a sweet voice.

[@michaelloew169]

You have a wonderful voice my dear

[@mckessa17]

Awesome song youngster.

[@dawncarpenter1358]

You are a beautiful singer!

[@Zebred2001]

I've got a 45 record of the Stars On 54 version. I would have never guessed back in the day that a good disco song could be made from a Lightfoot classic. Shows the genius of all involved!

[@michaelwiggan7437]

This is the original..I remember the other (Club/ Dance Music) version from Studio 54 Movie Soundtrack ..Great Reaction!!!

[@goatslunch6991]

lovely voice thank you.

[@michaelboyce9028]

His debut on Reprise,His earlier stuff was on United Artists Records from 1964 to 1968.

[@wayneduke3474]

Thank you

[@theelder91]

i'm in love...

[@hongfang2508]

I enjoyed hearing you sing. You carried the tune and not everyone can do that.

[@glen6945]

ooohhhhyes

[@minnidrake8516]

1st time on channel enjoyed the reaction beautiful sad song

[@glen6945]

OOOHHHHHHYES

[@donaldcausey7407]

Rest in peace Gordon, play for God now

[@Acridfusion]

I love that you did this. ❤️ 🥺😪

[@shawnf760]

Saw him yrs ago great performance

[@saymynameice-zen-berg511]

I liked how the song moved you so that you sang it trying to capture the emotion.

[@keymack2477]

Bonus! Getting to hear you sing was a pleasant surprise to this reaction! You should try reacting to some Queen and Pink Floyd!

[@ryanbuckley5529]

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@maruad7577]

I think Gordon's best is Canadian Railway Trilogy. I would also recommend Early Morning Rain. Edited to add that if you are looking to listen to Canadian music icons you should listen to Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen as well.

[@brucekirkpatrick3653]

Double truth!!! I used the trilogy to teach a cultural anthro class in 69

[@stephintheatre6335]

The singer is from my country Canada

[@danilleblanc7487]

This is the original song! Your voice is pretty good!

[@danielleblanc1146]

Your voice is actually pretty good! You sang in key and not everybody is able to do that! Try the song The Last Time I Saw Her Face or Pussywillows, Cattails by Gordon Lightfoot. He has so many great songs! Liked your reaction and subscribed!

[@squeakystool]

Try "Early Morning Rain" best known song for us in Canada

[@michaelboyce9028]

From the Lp first titled Sit Down Stranger later retitled the hit a year later.

[@Sp33gan]

Hello, dear Aarlehn. Kamusta, kaibigan? What a lovely song to react to! Gordon Lightfoot is considered to be the greatest living Canadian songwriter. He has a wonderful ability to craft exactly words to bring you right into the song. It's almost impossible to not become a part of the story he tells. The emotion you feel is because of his writing and for his perfect delivery and phrasing. If you like this one, he has dozens more that are just as good. I love your singing, too. You remind me very much of my time in Bacolod when a Filipina would just start singing, anytime, anywhere, and without music. It never mattered if they had a good voice or not. It was their hearts singing. It was wonderful! ♥ Ingatan at manatiling ligtas, aking kaibigan. Magkita tayo sa susunod. ☺☺

[@LhenJhenTV]

Hahhaha... Filipinos singing in Karaoke machine is just for fun and we don't care if we always out of tune as long you are enjoying 😂

[@Sp33gan]

@@LhenJhenTV I can honestly say that I enjoyed hearing them all. But there were no karaoke machines when I heard them. They were all just walking on the street or in a jeepney or working in a mall store. I'm a professional singer and I've heard many beautiful voices. But, for these Pinay, it was just wonderful to hear the songs coming from their hearts ♥

[@LhenJhenTV]

Wow you are a professional singer. Forgive me my voice 🙏😂

[@Sp33gan]

@@LhenJhenTV Your voice is just fine, my friend. You sing from your heart because you feel the music. That's all that matters. I'm always happy to hear you. ☺♥

[@jackkomorowski2722]

Please listen to Gordon's "Rainey Day People."

[@duanewebber1514]

sad Day in canada a Icon died today R.I.IP Gordon Lightfoot , Check out "Sundown" or "The Wreck Of the Edmund Fitzgerald"

[@SIR-DanielHunter]

You are so adorable. You fill the emotions in the lyrics. I am going write you a song my dear. Its people like you that inspires song writer's too write masterpieces 😍💖

[@paulagiancana854]

Enjoy, Yum Yum

[@BuzzWreck61]

Good story telling, but I’ll always contend that most of the emotion that this song brings to the surface, (our reactor included) is from the melody. Watch when people listen. It’s the music that drives the deep reactions, more so than the words.

[@rdhudon7469]

Gordon lightfoot the great Canadian troubadour . He has a way of bringing the most harden soul to tears . He was gentlemen enough to drop a law suit against the writer of Greatest Love Of All who stole 24 bars of this song to spare Whitney Houston's career a blow because she didn't write her songs. The greed people have today would make this type of gesture impossible . The transitional section from the song " Greatest Love Of All " that begins "I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow" is stolen goods .

[@camerondempster4147]

Gordon Lightfoot has so many amazing songs. I suggest you take a listen to a later version of Canadian folkie: Stan Roger's Northwest Passage, Mary Ellen Carter, Barrett's Privateers, Lies, Bluenose, Fogarty's Cove, Forty-five years. All absolutely first class. He died, tragically, too young.

[@petercsigo3314]

Great reaction but you should make more videos because you're awesome.☺️

[@phantombrakeman4983]

The song is about Gordo Lightfoot's feeling of going through the divorce with his wife

[@marconovelli3269]

He is great maybe should listen to some bob Dylan also. This is one of my favorites. digging deep listen to buffalo Springfield ( I am a child)

[@TallBlondeSassy]

Try Gordon's song "BEAUTIFUL".

[@tedjensen1755]

Your voice is nice!

[@Bill-eg4uf]

This is the original song .

[@randallknapp7528]

I saw Gordon sing this live in a small venue about 7 years ago and I was fortunate to be seated front row center.

[@SIR-DanielHunter]

Everybody can relate and had this heartbreak before. I hate to see you cry. Angels are not supposed to cry😇