50th anniversary of Edmond Fitzgerald sinking brings Gordon Lightfoot classic back to charts

Gordon Lightfoot’s 1976 tune “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” is back on the Billboard charts.The renewed interest in the ...

Gordon Lightfoot’s ‘Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald’ Sees Massive Streams & Sales Gains on 50th Anniversary of Titular Disaster

This week's Trending Up looks at the unlikely revival of Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" on the 50th anniversary of the disaster.

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.

'It was meant to be filler': Story of Gordon Lightfoot's 'Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald'

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.