Gordon Lightfoot and 'Edmund Fitzgerald' song loved by Michiganders
The song faithfully recounts the freighter's tragic, final voyage and got caught in a storm as it headed to Detroit.
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The song faithfully recounts the freighter's tragic, final voyage and got caught in a storm as it headed to Detroit.
A list of the late Gordon Lightfoot's finest musical moments, including 'Sundown,' 'Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' and 'If You Could Read My Mind.'
Gordon Lightfoot, who died Monday at 84, had many hits. It's a 1976 song about a doomed freighter, though, that's drawn thousands to the Lake Superior shore.
Lightfoot's mournful ballad memorialized the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald on Nov. 10, 1975. What happened is still a mystery, ever since the last communications from the doomed freighter.
Lightfoot's mournful ballad memorialized the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald on Nov. 10, 1975. What happened is still a mystery, ever since the last communications from the doomed freighter.