“Paperback Writer” topped the Billboard Hot 100, while “Rain” reached No. 23 on the chart. The song later was included on The Beatles’ 1970 compilation Hey Jude, and on the 1988 comp Past Masters, ...
Today in Music History for Nov. 17: In 1938, singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, who became Canada's most famous, and arguably most important, pop musician in the late 1960s, was born in Orillia, Ont.