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 "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is No. 1 on a Billboard chart for the first time following the shipwreck's 50th anniversary.

This week's Trending Up looks at the unlikely revival of the five-decade-old story song, as well as a curious new dance smash ...

The loss was commemorated in folk-rocker Gordon Lightfoot ’s “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” which hit No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 a little more than a year later, on the chart dated Nov. 20, ...

"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.

Fifty years ago, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, killing 29 crew members. Gordon Lightfoot's haunting ballad immortalized the tragedy forever.