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

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

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.

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 ...

Less than a year after the American cargo carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in the Great Lakes in November 1975, the late Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot released a folk-rock ballad titled ...

"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.

An article about the Edmund Fitzgerald in Newsweek magazine and a wire service story are believed to have inspired Gordon Lightfoot to write his song. The song was released in August 1976 and had ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975, and all 29 sailors were lost, including several from Northeast ...

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.' ...

NASHOTAH, Wis. — 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.

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 ...