The Gales Of November Came Early is a selection of lyrics from the 1976 Gordon Lightfoot song "Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald ...

Bidding is open on the 12-string acoustic guitar Gordon Lightfoot reportedly used to write the 1976 hit, as well as on a 1989 ...

We’re getting on in our look back at seminal songs from the 1970s (a tongue twister if ever there was one). We’ve been going ...

In doing so, I noticed this is the 200th edition of Weekly Wave already! Had I been better prepared, I would have gotten ...

Prominent events and figures have inspired some of music's greatest and most memorable songs. Many legendary performers have written about real-life happenings; sometimes, those songs defined ...

The sinking was immortalized in song by Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot ... host the Working Waterfronts Lecture Series, for the Edmund Fitzgerald Investigations. Maritime historian Ric Mixter ...

The incident is the most famous disaster in the history of Great Lakes shipping, and is the subject of Gordon Lightfoot's hit song, "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald." The precise cause of her ...

In an episode at the end of May inspired by the death of Gordon Lightfoot and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” Jeff and Scot offered a list of the greatest songs inspired by real events ...

from First Lady of Song: Ella at 100 This spotlight showcases objects at the Smithsonian related to Ella Fitzgerald. After Fitzgerald's death in 1996, a selection of her papers and belongings were ...

In addition to "Sundown" and "If You Could Read My Mind," his track "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" remains firm at No. 3. While his three highest-ranking songs dominate the upper echelons of ...

These included unsafe vessel design, unsafe modifications, overloading, lack of critical instrumentation, prior hull damage, a bad weather forecast, a captain who was too cavalier about sailing in ...