"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.

NASHOTAH, Wis. (AP) — 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 happened every year on November 10: if you were listening to the radio anywhere in Michigan, you’d inevitably hear the wail of a guitar that seemed to speak in a human voice, a mournful invitation.

No one was more surprised than Gordon Lightfoot when his ballad "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" became one of the biggest hits of 1976, less than a year after the disaster it commemorates. The ...

STURGEON BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - 50 years ago, on November 10 th, the largest freighter on the Great Lakes sank in over 500 feet of icy cold Lake Superior water. The Edmund Fitzgerald lives on in song and ...