Gordon Lightfoot’s The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald was released less than a year after the ship sank and became an instant ...

G RAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Monday marks 50 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald was lost to Lake Superior during a devastating storm. That means Gordon Lightfoot’s chart-topper, “The Wreck of the ...

Gordon Lightfoot and his band recorded the "little ditty" in a Toronto studio in December 1975, just weeks after the shipwreck that took 29 lives.

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.

Gordon Lightfoot wrote one of the most iconic songs about a historical event, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." ...

Less than a year after the American cargo carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in the Great Lakes in November 1975, the late ...

Without Gordon Lightfoot's song, the Edmund Fitzgerald could have faded from memory along with the names of the roughly 6,500 ...

First come the mournful notes - an electric guitar layered over a 12-string acoustic. Then come the haunting lyrics.

Cleveland-owned and crewed by Great Lakes men, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a November storm in 1975, but its lessons ...

Mitch Teich Fifty years after the Edmund Fitzgerald: How the legend was recorded (and lives on) Fifty years ago this month, an early season storm led to probably ...

Jerry Popiel remembers clearly the news of the Edmund Fitzgerald sinking in stormy weather on Lake Superior 50 years ago today – Nov. 10, 1975. But the tragedy – which claimed the lives of all 29 crew ...

A half century after the Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, the ship has become more than a wreck. It’s a grave and a legend ...