Sam Cooke was injured in a car crash; the Eagles had their final No. 1 single; Billy Idol released 'Rebel Yell'; Bowie had a ...

Gordon Lightfoot and his band recorded the "little ditty" in a Toronto studio in December 1975, just weeks after the shipwreck that took 29 lives.

"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.

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 ...

Gordon Lightfoot and his band ensured the 29 souls lost when the freighter sank in Lake Superior are still remembered 50 ...

Ironically, Lightfoot said in a 2015 interview with NPR that he was inspired to write the song after being annoyed by an ...

Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship ...

As a testament to the cultural touchstone the Edmund Fitzgerald has become, The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum has seen ...