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 ...

In 1975, the great Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot read a Newsweek magazine article about a little-known shipwreck in the Great Lakes. The ship was the Edmund Fitzgerald, which lost 29 ...

Fifty years ago, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, killing 29 crew members. Gordon Lightfoot's haunting ballad immortalized the tragedy forever.

DETROIT — “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” by Gordon Lightfoot is a popular song and a cultural touchstone known to draw tears around the Great Lakes. But it hits differently for Darren Muljo. He ...

On paper, it should never have been a hit record. But despite the odds stacked against it — the 6-minute length, the somber subject matter, the last-minute recording session — “The Wreck of the Edmund ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Monday marks 50 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald was lost to Lake Superior during a devastating storm. That means Gordon Lightfoot’s chart-topper, “The Wreck of the ...

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 ...