But around the Great Lakes, none of his songs have surpassed the popularity of his haunting six-minute ballad "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." The song, which in 1976 spent 21 weeks on the U ...

RELATED: Edmund Fitzgerald’s final hours: 8 things to know Her demise was shared around the world in Gordon Lightfoot’s song “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” while the harrowing ...

Descendants of the Edmund Fitzgerald’s namesake return to Port Huron to honor their roots and help complete the freighter’s ...

Released the next summer, "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" made it to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and was a staple of Lightfoot's live performances for decades after. "It is a very good ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior on November 10, 1975 — 48 years ago. A 1995 dive to recover the ship's bell captured footage of the wreck 535 feet below Superior's surface.

“The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” his 1976 folk ballad, was unusual partly because, at more than six minutes long, it was about twice as long as most pop hits. It also retold a real-life ...

All 29 crewmen aboard were lost. Image showing the path taken by the Edmund Fitzgerald (U.S. Department of Transportation) You might remember the song “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” by ...

DULUTH — When news broke of Gordon Lightfoot's death Monday at age 84, Minnesotans reading his obituaries may have been surprised to discover that "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (1976 ...

It was definitely worth the two-hour drive we had here." Next year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. And Toledo will most definitely remember.

The 1958 launching of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald The Fitzgerald was a freighter ... There's one important element of the wreck though, that can't be looked over. He said, "There's still that ethical ...

(WXYZ) — Legendary Canadian folk singer Gordon Lightfoot died Monday at the age of 84, and we're looking back at one of his most popular hits, "The Wreck of the ...