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.

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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.' ...

Lloyd Robertson’s exclusive interview with Gordon Lightfoot in 2017 on his life and creating one of his biggest hit songs, ‘The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald’.

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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, ...

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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"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 ...

This is an independently submitted op-ed and does not reflect the views of The Tower. It’s officially sweater weather. We’ve bid farewell to the sweltering heat of summer and instead embraced the ...