"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" was released in 1976, less than a year after the ship sank in Lake Superior. Gordon Lightfoot’s song peaked at number two on the Billboard chart that same year.

The game show's Second Chance Tournament featured a clue about the famous Gordon Lightfoot song on the Great Lakes shipwreck.

NASHOTAH, Wis. (AP) — Without Gordon Lightfoot's song, the Edmund Fitzgerald could have faded from memory along with the names of the roughly 6,500 other ships that went down in the Great Lakes before ...

It happened every year on November 10: if you were listening to the radio anywhere in Michigan, you’d inevitably hear the wail of a guitar that seemed to speak in a human voice, a mournful invitation.

The Mariners' Church in Detroit will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck. Gordon Lightfoot's 1976 ballad is inextricably linked to the maritime tragedy that killed 29 ...

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GRAND 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 ...