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

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, ...

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.

"I Write The Songs" was chosen as Song of the Year on Grammy Night in 1977. But did it deserve that honor over the other ...

On Nov. 10, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sunk in the Great Lakes, inspiring Gordon Lightfoot to write a hit song called 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.' ...

"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 legend lives on from the Chippewa on down, of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee” - From “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” First come the mournful notes - an electric guitar layered over a ...

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 ...

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As AI artistes surge across streaming platforms Breaking Rust’s chart success highlights the rapid growth of generative music ...

As "dudes rock' moments go, there are few that are as universally agreed upon as the shared love of Gordon Lightfoot's iconic folk rock ballad "The Wreck ...

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