FILE - Gordon Lightfoot performs during the half-time show at the CFL Grey Cup championship football game between the Toronto Argonauts and the Calgary Stampeders on Nov. 25, 2012, in Toronto. (Sean ...

In the wake of the death of musician Gordon Lightfoot and his famous folk song, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," FreightWaves Classics is taking a look back at the wreck itself and the historical ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Monday marks 50 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald was lost to Lake Superior during a devastating storm. That means Gordon Lightfoot’s chart-topper, “The Wreck of the ...

"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 song is long and moody, an unlikely hit in the highly competitive world of popular music. But in Detroit and other Great Lakes cities, it's now one of the top records on AM radio. The song is "The ...

(WXYZ) — Legendary Canadian folk singer Gordon Lightfoot died Monday at the age of 84, and we're looking back at one of his most popular hits, "The Wreck of the ...

It has been a half-century since the ship sank on Lake Superior, and a pop single memorialized its fate. Now museums are commemorating those events. By John Hanc Reporting from Toledo, Ohio This ...