Without Gordon Lightfoot’s ballad, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald might have faded into history alongside thousands of other Great Lakes wrecks. He was inspired to write the song after reading the first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On paper, it should never have been a hit record. But despite the odds stacked against it — the 6-minute length, the somber ...

"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.

STURGEON BAY (WLUK) -- It's been 50 years since the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald in the Canadian waters of Lake Superior, taking its crew of 29 with her. The cargo ship's home port was ...

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 ...

For those that live or have lived around the American Great Lakes region, the story of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald is likely familiar. It was, to date, the largest ship to ever sink in those waters, ...

MARQUETTE, Mich. (AP) — Spend enough time along the shores of Lake Superior and it won’t be long before there’s some reminder of what happened “when the gales of November came early.” This year marks ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Released in August 1976, less than a year after the tragedy, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” appeared on Lightfoot’s ...

NASHOTAH, Wis. — 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.

NASHOTAH, Wis. — 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.