Released the next summer, "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" made it to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and was a staple of Lightfoot's live performances for decades after.

Gordon Lightfoot, the Canadian folk singer who died on Monday at 84, had one hit in particular that famously defied Top 40 logic. “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” his 1976 folk ballad ...

DETROIT - It's an evocative song that defies description: haunting yet comforting, wistful yet powerful, mythic yet real. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald was among Gordon Lightfoot's greatest ...

Gordon Lightfoot, Canada’s legendary folk singer-songwriter whose hits including “Early Morning Rain” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” told a tale of Canadian identity that was ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald was first launched on June 7, 1958 and was the largest carrier on the Great Lakes until 1971. The ship weighed 13,632 tons and measured 729 feet long by 75 feet wide.

Michiganders remembered Gordon Lightfoot, a Canadian folk singer who died Monday at 84 and who told stories through song, one of the best known being "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," an ...