Gordon Lightfoot and his band recorded the "little ditty" in a Toronto studio in December 1975, just weeks after the ...

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 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, ...

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 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 ...

Record Store Day's Black Friday is, as usual, filled with exclusive and limited edition releases, mostly on vinyl, from some ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Paul Hann is known to people of a certain age in B.C. and Alberta as a children’s entertainer on the show Paul Hann and ...

The spirit of John Denver’s music — and Christmas — is evident in the Rocky Mountain High Experience: A John Denver Christmas ...

Singer-songwriter and fiddler Jessica Willis Fisher plays the Your Roots Are Showing festival, which takes place between 13 and 18 January 2026 in Belfast's Waterfront Hall and ICC Belfast. We asked ...

Today in Music History for Nov. 17: ...