Lightfoot signed to Warner Bros./Reprise in 1970 and scored a major hit in the United States with "If You Could Read My Mind," which sold over one million copies by early 1971 and was awarded a gold disc. The song had originally appeared on the poorly-selling 1970 album "Sit Down Young Stranger." After the song's success, the album was reissued under the new title "If You Could Read My Mind;" it reached No. 5 nationally and represented a major turning point in Lightfoot's career. The album also featured a second recorded version of "Me and Bobby McGee", as well as "The Pony Man," "Your Love's Return (Song for Stephen Foster)," and "Minstrel of the Dawn."