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.

Dave Strandberg, the first DJ to play Gordon Lightfoot's song in the city — and, likely, one of the first in the country — said "the phones basically lit up" when he dropped the needle. A detail view ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Gordon Lightfoot, internationally known for songs such as "If You Could Read My Mind," "Sundown" and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," and acclaimed as Canada's greatest songwriter, was born in ...

May 1 (Reuters) - Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, best known for folk-pop hits such as "If You Could Read My Mind" and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," has died at the age of 84, CBC ...