Lightfoot tapes first U.S. TV special

Single Sign-On: You can use Facebook account to log in to LasVegasSun.com. (We will use your first and last name from your profile.)
Trusted Commenting: Facebook connected users automatically become trusted commenters.

Friday, April 21, 2000 | 10:02 a.m.

Lightfoot's 90-minute concert at the Pioneer Center here Wednesday night was taped for broadcast on PBS stations nationwide in December.

About 1,500 people cheered as he sang more than two dozen of his hits, including "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," "Sundown" and "If You Could Read My Mind."

Lightfoot, 61, of Toronto, has been performing with the same four-member backup band for several decades.

"This (show) will represent what we were as a band," he told the Reno Gazette-Journal. "It's a good thing to do and the time is right.

"We want to do it before we get too old to do it - while I'm still strong and feeling fit."

The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. also will air the show late this year before it runs in 38 other countries worldwide. Lightfoot starred in an earlier CBC special.