Lightfoot's mournful ballad memorialized the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald on Nov. 10, 1975. What happened is still a mystery, ever since the last communications from the doomed freighter.
Lightfoot's mournful ballad memorialized the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald on Nov. 10, 1975. What happened is still a mystery, ever since the last communications from the doomed freighter.
Gordon Lightfoot, who died Monday at 84, had many hits. It's a 1976 song about a doomed freighter, though, that's drawn thousands to the Lake Superior shore.