Showing posts with label Edmund Fitzgerald. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Edmund Fitzgerald. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Muscial Gems - The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

The Edmund Fitzgerald was a an iron ore freighter operating between Duluth, Minnesota and various iron works further downstream on the Great Lakes.  She sank in the midst of a winter storm at the eastern end of Lake Superior shortly after 7:10 p.m. on November 10, 1975 with the loss of all hands on board.

Gordon Lightfoot, a Canadian singer and songwriter, recorded a song called "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" a month later in December 1975.  The song was released in Agust of 1976.