"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.

The game show's Second Chance Tournament featured a clue about the famous Gordon Lightfoot song on the Great Lakes shipwreck.

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 ...

No one was more surprised than Gordon Lightfoot when his ballad "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" became one of the biggest hits of 1976, less than a year after the disaster it commemorates. The ...

Gordon Lightfoot’s band had never played his new song before. They hadn’t even heard it. But in December 1975, with unused studio time left on the clock while recording his 1976 album Summertime Dream ...

A story, a cautionary tale, a legend: Thousands of ships have gone down in the Great Lakes, but none were as infamous as the Edmund Fitzgerald. Today, we’re breaking down what led to this tragedy, and ...

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 ...