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Gordon Lightfoot’s ‘Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald’ Was An Unlikely Hit

Gordon Lightfoot’s 1976 folk ballad told the true story of a shipwreck on Lake Superior. One of his old friends called it “a documentarian’s song.”

Mike Ives
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Edmund Fitzgerald, Folk Music, Lake Superior, Lightfoot, Gordon, Maritime Accidents and Safety, Michigan, Music, Ontario (Canada), Pop and Rock Music, Ships and Shipping
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