If You Could Read My Mind
~ Recording by Gordon Lightfoot
Appears on releases
| # | Title | Length | Track Artist | Release Title | Release Artist | Release Group Type | Country/Date | Label | Catalog# |
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| 1.8 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:51 | Gordon Lightfoot | Sit Down Young Stranger | Gordon Lightfoot | Album |
| Reprise Records | RS 6392 |
| 1.8 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:51 | Gordon Lightfoot | If You Could Read My Mind | Gordon Lightfoot | Album |
| Reprise Records | RS 6392 |
| 3.3 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:44 | Gordon Lightfoot | Superstars of the 70s | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across) | SP‐4000 |
| 2.10 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:46 | Gordon Lightfoot | Gord's Gold | Gordon Lightfoot | Album + Compilation |
| Reprise Records | 2RX 2237 |
| 1.10 | If You Could Read My Mind | ?:?? | Gordon Lightfoot | The Best of Gordon Lightfoot | Gordon Lightfoot | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across) | K56915 |
| 1.8 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:51 | Gordon Lightfoot | If You Could Read My Mind | Gordon Lightfoot | Album |
| Reprise Records | CD 6392 |
| 1.20 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:48 | Gordon Lightfoot | Gord's Gold | Gordon Lightfoot | Album + Compilation |
| Reprise Records | J5 2237 |
| 1.19 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:50 | Gordon Lightfoot | Gord's Gold | Gordon Lightfoot | Album + Compilation |
| Reprise Records | 2237-2 |
| 1.19 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:50 | Gordon Lightfoot | Gord’s Gold (club edition) | Gordon Lightfoot | Album + Compilation |
| Columbia House (direct-mailing distributor of club editions of releases), Reprise Records | 539932T, W2 2237 |
| 1.8 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:51 | Gordon Lightfoot | If You Could Read My Mind / Sit Down Young Stranger | Gordon Lightfoot | Album |
| Reprise Records | 244 091 |
| 1.8 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:50 | Gordon Lightfoot | Storytellers: Singers & Songwriters | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Special Products | CD 27615 |
| 1.2 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:45 | Gordon Lightfoot | Golden Love Songs, Volume 10: Rock Me Slow | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Arcade (record label founded in 1970s by Herman Heinsbroek; use this as its universal imprint) | 01 3190 61 |
| 1.3 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:45 | Gordon Lightfoot | One More Night, Volume 2 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Arcade (record label founded in 1970s by Herman Heinsbroek; use this as its universal imprint) | ADEHCD 795/1 |
| 1.17 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:50 | Gordon Lightfoot | Sounds of the Seventies: 1971 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Special Products, Time–Life Music | OPCD-2577, SOD-02 |
| 1.8 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:48 | Gordon Lightfoot | The Singer & The Song | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Stylus Music | SMR 975 |
| 1.8 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:48 | Gordon Lightfoot | The Singer & The Song | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Stylus Music | SMD 975 |
| 1.3 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:49 | Gordon Lightfoot | The Greatest Popsongs of the Century, Volume 1 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| CBS (CBS Records’ international imprint from 1962–1990; renamed since 1991 as Columbia), Magnum (Dutch Joint Venture from 1990-1997) | 4674862 |
| 1.14 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:52 | Gordon Lightfoot | Always | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Special Products | OPCD-4526 |
| 1.8 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:51 | Gordon Lightfoot | If You Could Read My Mind | Gordon Lightfoot | Album |
| Reprise Records | 6392-2 |
| 1.8 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:51 | Gordon Lightfoot | If You Could Read My Mind | Gordon Lightfoot | Album |
| Reprise Records | 7599-27451-2 |
| 2.13 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:51 | Gordon Lightfoot | Singers & Songwriters | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Special Products, Time–Life Music | OPCD-4528, R103-33 |
| 2.15 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:45 | Gordon Lightfoot | Woman in Love: The Ultimate Love Collection | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Arcade (record label founded in 1970s by Herman Heinsbroek; use this as its universal imprint) | 01 7500.62 |
| 2.4 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:48 | Gordon Lightfoot | Cabrio Classics II | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
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| 1.16 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:48 | Gordon Lightfoot | Country Collection (disc 1) | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Arcade (record label founded in 1970s by Herman Heinsbroek; use this as its universal imprint) | 01 8060 61 |
| 1.11 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:50 | Gordon Lightfoot | The 70’s: 1971 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Time–Life Music | TL 597/02 |
| 2.15 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:50 | Gordon Lightfoot | Songbook: The Best of the Singer/Songwriters | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Magnum (Dutch Joint Venture from 1990-1997) | 480 720-2 |
| 4.8 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:49 | Gordon Lightfoot | Oh What a Feeling | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Juno Records | JUNO-25-1, JUNO-25-2, JUNO-25-3, JUNO-25-4 |
| 2.16 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:47 | Gordon Lightfoot | De J@ren '70 - Deel 2 - 1971 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| EVA (for use with NL/BE/FR releases only. see annotation) | 74321 419892 |
| 2.4 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:47 | Gordon Lightfoot | The Emotion Collection: A Place in Time | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Time‐Life Books B.V. | TL 571/17 |
| 1.4 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:49 | Gordon Lightfoot | 40 Single Hits, Volume 2 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Sony Music Special Marketing (from ca. 1990s–2003, renamed Sony Music Special Markets ca. 2003) | |
| 2.2 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:49 | Gordon Lightfoot | Songbook | Gordon Lightfoot | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | R2 75802 |
| 2.6 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:50 | Gordon Lightfoot | The Ultimate Singer/Songwriter Collection | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
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| 2.6 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:50 | Gordon Lightfoot | The Ultimate Singer/Songwriter Collection | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| wea (has logo with just “wea” on it) | WTVD 38998 |
| 1.7 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:49 | Gordon Lightfoot | Gordon Lightfoot | Gordon Lightfoot | Album + Compilation |
| Falcon Neue Medien | 3930 |
| 1.17 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:50 | Gordon Lightfoot | Singers and Songwriters: Classics | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Special Products, Time–Life Music | OPCD 2803, R144-31 |
| 1.7 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:50 | Gordon Lightfoot | Complete Greatest Hits | Gordon Lightfoot | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label), Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across) | WTVD 78287 |
| 1.7 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:50 | Gordon Lightfoot | Complete Greatest Hits | Gordon Lightfoot | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | R2 78287 |
| 1.16 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:50 | Gordon Lightfoot | Casey Kasem Presents America's Top 10 1970s: The Singer/Songwriters | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Top Sail Productions | TSP-71894 |
| 1.7 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:50 | Gordon Lightfoot | Complete Greatest Hits | Gordon Lightfoot | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label), Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across) | 8122-78287-2 |
| 1.15 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:49 | Gordon Lightfoot | Wonderland | Various Artists | Album + Soundtrack |
| Epic Soundtrax | EK 90661 |
| 1.17 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:50 | Gordon Lightfoot | Ultimate Seventies: 1971 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Special Products, Time–Life Music | 19469‐2, OPCD‐2577A, R634‐02 |
| 1.14 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:49 | Gordon Lightfoot | Wonderland | Various Artists | Album + Soundtrack |
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| 3.9 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:50 | Gordon Lightfoot | Best of Love Songs | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Music Group Germany | 5050467-5613-2-8 |
| 1.14 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:49 | Gordon Lightfoot | 100% Singer & Songwriter: The Songs of a Decade | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| TCD (100% compilations) | TCD 2642 |
| 1.2 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:48 | Gordon Lightfoot | Rhino Hi-Five: Gordon Lightfoot | Gordon Lightfoot | EP + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | |
| 1.62 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:49 | Gordon Lightfoot | Revolutions in Sound: Warner Bros. Records - The First Fifty Years | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across) | 8-431548 |
| 2.17 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:50 | Gordon Lightfoot | Revolutions in Sound: Warner Bros. Records: The First Fifty Years | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across) | 431612-2 |
| 1.8 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:49 | Gordon Lightfoot | If You Could Read My Mind | Gordon Lightfoot | Album |
| 143 Records (Atlantic subsidiary), Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across) | |
| 1.8 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:48 | Gordon Lightfoot | Sit Down Young Stranger | Gordon Lightfoot | Album |
| Wounded Bird Records | WOU 6392 |
| 1.31 | If You Could Read My Mind (2012 remaster) | 3:48 | Gordon Lightfoot | Oh What a Night: 70s Classics | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Music UK (formerly Warner Records Ltd., a branch of WEA International) | |
| 2.13 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:48 | Gordon Lightfoot | 70s: The Collection | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | 5310547125 |
| 2.3 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:49 | Gordon Lightfoot | The Greatest Singer‐Songwriter Classics 2 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Sony Music (global brand, excluding JP, owned by Sony Music Entertainment) | 88875141752 |
| 1.18 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:50 | Gordon Lightfoot | The Seventies Album | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Music TV | 0825646946266 |
| 1.23 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:49 | Gordon Lightfoot | 70 Hits of the 70s | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | |
| 1.13 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:48 | Gordon Lightfoot | The Best of Folk Songs | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Music Hong Kong | |
| 2.13 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:48 | Gordon Lightfoot | The Best of Folk Songs | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Music Hong Kong | |
| 1.60 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:49 | Gordon Lightfoot | 70s: The Collection | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | |
| 1.23 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:49 | Gordon Lightfoot | 70 Hits of the... 70s | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | 0190295972035 |
| 7.5 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:50 | Gordon Lightfoot | Easy Listening Classics | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Time–Life Music | 31562-D |
| 3.7 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:48 | Gordon Lightfoot | Acoustic 70s | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Music TV | 0190295723996 |
| 1.14 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:50 | Gordon Lightfoot | The Collection: 70s | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino Custom Products (retail, mail order and premium use compilations for WMG catalog) | R2-563675 |
| 1.1 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:49 | Gordon Lightfoot | An introduction to Gordon Lightfoot | Gordon Lightfoot | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | R2 572984 |
| 2.10 | If You Could Read My Mind (remastered version) | 3:47 | Gordon Lightfoot | Just Acoustic: 80 Classic Acoustic Songs | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | JK231487 |
| 1.23 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:49 | Gordon Lightfoot | Mellow Classic Rock | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| X5 Music Group | |
| 1.39 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:48 | Gordon Lightfoot | Hits of the 70s | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | |
| 1.23 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:48 | Gordon Lightfoot | Born and Raised in the 70s | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | |
| 1.20 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:48 | Gordon Lightfoot | Chilled Guitar | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| X5 Music Group | |
| 1.20 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:49 | Gordon Lightfoot | Pop: The Guitar & the Song | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| X5 Music Group | |
| 1.20 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:49 | Gordon Lightfoot | Chilled Guitar | Various Artists | Album + Compilation | X5 Music Group | ||
| 1.99 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:49 | Gordon Lightfoot | 100 Greatest Winter Songs | Various Artists | Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | |
| 1.3 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:49 | Gordon Lightfoot | The Complete Singles 1970-1980 | Gordon Lightfoot | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across) | |
| 1.64 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:49 | Gordon Lightfoot | The 70s | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| X5 Music Group | |
| 1.7 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:49 | Gordon Lightfoot | 1970s Pop | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| X5 Music Group | |
| 1.54 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:49 | Gordon Lightfoot | Brass in Pocket: The 70s All Over | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| X5 Music Group | |
| 3.17 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:49 | Gordon Lightfoot | NOW 100 Hits: 70s | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Sony Music (global brand, excluding JP, owned by Sony Music Entertainment), Universal Music on Demand | CDNNOW95 |
| 1.17 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:51 | Gordon Lightfoot | Licorice Pizza: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Various Artists | Album + Soundtrack |
| Republic Records (a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.) | |
| 1.17 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:51 | Gordon Lightfoot | Licorice Pizza [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] | Various Artists | Album + Soundtrack |
| Republic Records (a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.) | B0034776-02 |
| 1.40 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:49 | Gordon Lightfoot | Sounds of the 70’s | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Music (global imprint of Warner Music Group, ‘W’ logo either with “Warner Music” or no text), X5 Music Group | |
| 1.1 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:51 | Gordon Lightfoot | Feelings 1 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| SR International | 77 611 2 |
| 1.6 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:51 | Gordon Lightfoot | Legends of Folk | Various Artists | Album | Rhino (reissue label) | 26623 OPCD-8639 | |
| 1.8 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:48 | Gordon Lightfoot | Mastermix Classic Cuts 97: M.O.R. | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Music Factory (UK promotional remix service started in 1985) | CC097 |
| (unknown) | |||||||||
| 1.8 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:50 | Gordon Lightfoot | Storytellers: Singers & Songwriters | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Special Products | 9-27615-2 |
| 1.8 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:48 | Gordon Lightfoot | The Complete Albums 1970-1998 | Gordon Lightfoot | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across) | |
| 4.8 | If You Could Read My Mind | 3:49 | Gordon Lightfoot | Oh What a Feeling (Tracks 6, 8 and 11 on Disc 2 are different from official release.) | Various Artists | Album + Compilation | |||
Relationships
| recording engineer: | Gary Brandt Lee Herschberg |
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| producer: | Lenny Waronker Joe Wissert |
| mixer: | Lee Herschberg |
| vocals: | Gordon Lightfoot |
| strings arranger: | Nick de Caro |
| phonographic copyright (℗) by: | Warner Bros. Records Inc. (not for release label use, company behind the “WB Records” imprint) (in 1970) |
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| part of: | Huffington Post: 100 Best Canadian Songs Ever (number: 8) (order: 8) |
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| recording of: | If You Could Read My Mind |
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Related works
If You Could Read My Mind
| lyricist and composer: | Gordon Lightfoot |
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| publisher: | ATV Kirshner (publisher) (ended) Early Morning Music (ended) Laetrec Music (ended) WB Music Corp. (1929–2019) (until 2019-05-28) WC Music Corp. (from 2019-05-28 to present) |
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| later translated parody versions: | Flasch (es singt Cora von Ablaß-Krause) |
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| later translated versions: | Als je in m'n hart kon kijken Jos lukisit kuin kirjaa Si tu peux lire en moi Wär’ ich ein Buch |