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Cathy Smith and Gordon Lightfoot
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Cathy Evelyn Smith and Gordon Lightfoot had a relationship from 1970 to 1973.
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Canadian Singer Cathy Evelyn Smith was born Catherine Evelyn Smith on 25th April, 1947 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and passed away on 18th Aug 2020 Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada aged 73. She is most remembered for having served 15 months in the California state prison system for injecting original Saturday Night Live cast member John Belushi with a fatal dose of heroin and cocaine in 1982. Her zodiac sign is Taurus.
Canadian Musician Gordon Lightfoot was born Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, Jr. on 17th November, 1938 in Orillia, Ontario, Canada and passed away on 1st May 2023 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada aged 84. He is most remembered for his discography consisting of albums like Lightfoot!, Did She Mention My Name?, The Way I Feel, Back Here on Earth, Endless Wire, Sit Down Young Stranger (a.k.a. If You Could Read My Mind), Old Dan’s Records, East of Midnight, Summer Side of Life, Summertime Dream, Don Quixote, Sundown, Salute, Cold on the Shoulder, Dream Street Rose, Shadows, A Painter Passing Through, Waiting for You, Harmony, Solo, and Gord’s Gold, and a string of songs, including Early Morning Rain, Canadian Railroad Trilogy, Sundown, If You Could Read My Mind, Carefree Highway, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Beautiful, Ribbon of Darkness, Rainy Day People, That's What You Get for Lovin' Me, Did She Mention My Name, I'm Not Sayin' That I Love You, Race Among the Ruins, Softly, Song for a Winter's Night, and Summer Side of Life. His zodiac sign is Scorpio.
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Relationship Statistics
| Status | Duration | Length |
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1970 -
1973
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3 years
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She later had an affair with Gordon Lightfoot. After the affair ended, Smith returned to Levon Helm and the circle who comprised The Band.
Smith became an employee and then mistress of Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot in the early- to mid-1970s.
The Smith-Lightfoot affair was volatile and illustrated in the lyrics of "Sundown", Lightfoot's Number One hit and most financially lucrative song. It reflects the dark feelings Lightfoot was experiencing at the time. Drinking too much and married to another woman, he on one occasion broke Smith's cheekbone in a fight. Lightfoot has stated of his three-year relationship with Smith, "I was sometimes crazy with jealousy".
Bluegrass musicians Bruce and Brian Good, The Good Brothers, who were one of Lightfoot's opening acts during that time, got fired by Lightfoot for "flirting" with Smith. Smith was cited in divorce papers, and shortly after his affair with Smith ended, Lightfoot was a party to the most expensive divorce settlement in Canadian history to that date.
In a 1975 interview, Lightfoot expanded upon Sundown and hinted at the worry he experienced in his relationship with Smith:
"All it is, is a thought about a situation where someone is wondering what his loved one is doing at the moment. He doesn't quite know where she is. He's not ready to give up on her, either, and that's about all I got to say about that."
Lightfoot gave another insight into his relationship with Smith in a 2000 interview when he remarked upon "Sundown" being:
"a back-alley kind of tune. It's based on infidelity -- I've seen both sides of that."
In 2008, Lightfoot gave an interview confirming that "Sundown" was written with his then-girlfriend in mind:
"I think my girlfriend was out with her friends one night at a bar while I was at home writing songs. I thought, 'I wonder what she’s doing with her friends at that bar!' It’s that kind of a feeling. 'Where is my true love tonight? What is my true love doing?'"
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