Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lightfoot felt that he was getting close on his sea shanty melody, which seemed to fit his subject's somber and mysterious mood, ...

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.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Edmund Fitzgerald was so impressive, crowds would gather to watch it go through the Soo Locks. DETROIT — Here in the Mariners' ...

Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” became one of the biggest songs of 1976, reaching No. 2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. What makes the song’s success unusual is how it was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" became one of the biggest songs of 1976, reaching No. 2 on the U.S.