Gordon Lightfoot immortalized the Edmund Fitzgerald. This is what the song got wrong.

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

First come the mournful notes - an electric guitar layered over a 12-string acoustic. Then come the haunting lyrics.

Without the song, 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' may have been largely forgotten

Without Gordon Lightfoot’s song, the Edmund Fitzgerald could have faded from memory along with the names of the roughly 6,500 ...
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For whom the bell tolls: November marks 50 years since the Edmond Fitzgerald tragedy

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down Of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee The lake, it is said, never gives up ...