How ‘The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald’ Defied Top 40 Logic Gordon Lightfoot’s 1976 folk ballad told the true story of a shipwreck on Lake Superior.

What you should know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, the Milwaukee-linked ship that sank and inspired a classic Gordon Lightfoot song.

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald was among Gordon Lightfoot 's greatest hits, an unlikely Top 40 smash about the deaths of 29 men aboard an ore carrier that plunged to the floor of Lake Superior ...

Both are members of the local Moose club, where "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is a favorite selection by patrons. At her Ogdensburg home, Ms. McSorley has several items of memorabilia to ...

DULUTH — The guitar Gordon Lightfoot used to write "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," according to his longtime bassist, is being sold at auction along with several other items related to the ...

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 ...

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 exported ...

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 ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Sunday marked the 49th anniversary of the day 29 mariners on the Edmund Fitzgerald freighter lost their lives in a storm on Lake Superior. Toledo has a special connection of the ...

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.

The song is "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," Canadian folksinger Gordon Lightfoot's tribute to the giant freighter that went down in Lake Superior last November with all 29 hands lost.