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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Edmund Fitzgerald song by Gordon Lightfoot: What it got wrong

This clip from DOC 9's Gales of November: Diving the Edmund Fitzgerald details the legacy of Gordon Lightfoot's song. Man ...

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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‘The legend lives on’: Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald still resonates 50 years later

This Great Lakes shipwreck is remembered while the others are forgotten, thanks in large part to Gordon Lightfoot's haunting 1976 folk ballad that became a surprise hit.