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

This week's Trending Up looks at the unlikely revival of the five-decade-old story song, as well as a curious new dance smash ...

Gordon Lightfoot and his band recorded the "little ditty" in a Toronto studio in December 1975, just weeks after the ...

Gordon Lightfoot’s The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald was released less than a year after the ship sank and became an instant ...

Less than a year after the American cargo carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in the Great Lakes in November 1975, the late ...

“The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down, of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee” - From “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” First come the mournful notes - an electric guitar layered over a ...

On Nov. 10, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sunk in the Great Lakes, inspiring Gordon Lightfoot to write a hit song called 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.' ...

The Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot and the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald are inextricably linked in a way few ...

The ship, commanded by renowned Great Lakes Captain Ernest McSorley, left from Superior, Wisconsin on November 9 carrying a load of iron ore to the steel mill on Zug Island, Michigan. But the next day ...

And for that, we can thank Gordon Lightfoot. Recorded in December 1975 — mere weeks after the ship had sunk — and released ...

A guitar Gordon Lightfoot used to write "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" sold for $350,000, while other items related to that song went for four- and five-figure prices. A model of the Edmund ...