"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is a 1976 folk rock ballad written, composed, and performed by the Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot to memorialize the sinking of the bulk carrier SS Ed
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SS Edmund Fitzgerald (1971)
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Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. was a Canadian singer-songwriter who achieved worldwide success and helped define the singer-songwriter era of the 1970s. Widely considered one of Canada's greatest songw
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
…The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is a 1976 folk rock ballad written, composed, and performed by the Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot to memorialize the sinking of the bulk carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior on November 10, 1975. Appearing originally on his 1976 album…
Lightfoot performing in Interlochen, Michigan, in 2009
Lightfoot, right, at a music industry function in Toronto in 1965
Lightfoot, 1965
Gordon Lightfoot in concert in San Diego in 1974