Gordon Lightfoot and his band recorded the "little ditty" in a Toronto studio in December 1975, just weeks after the ...
The ship, commanded by renowned Great Lakes Captain Ernest McSorley, left from Superior, Wisconsin on November 9 carrying a load of iron ore to the steel mill on Zug Island, Michigan. But the next day ...
LAKE SUPERIOR, MI - It was 50 years ago today that the Edmund Fitzgerald was being loaded with 26,000 tons of iron ore, prepped for what would become her tragic final voyage.
The crew of the ill-fated Edmund Fitzgerald included seven men from Northeast Ohio who went down with the ship in a wicked ...
The legend of the Edmund Fitzgerald ship continues to live on in the minds of the Great Lakes shipping community fifty years ...
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Fifty years after Edmund Fitzgerald claimed 29 lives, Gordon Lightfoot's musical memorial endures
Fifty years ago, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, killing 29 crew members. Gordon Lightfoot's haunting ballad ...
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Gordon Lightfoot’s Haunting Tribute: How ‘The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald’ Became His Finest Work
Gordon Lightfoot turned a brief news item about a Great Lakes tragedy into one of the most haunting songs ever written — an elegy that still echoes 50 years later.
Ironically, Lightfoot said in a 2015 interview with NPR that he was inspired to write the song after being annoyed by an ...
It's been 50 years since the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald in the Canadian waters of Lake Superior, taking its crew of ...
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