50 Years Ago today: The Edmund Fitzgerald sinks on Lake Superior during the Gales of November

[Chasstev365]

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[Teak411]

1. Gave Me Shivers Listening and Reading

Gave Me Shivers Listening and Reading - Thanks for posting!

[KS Toronado]

4. Welcome to DU!

[JMCKUSICK]

13. It's always nice to come upon a story that inspires a response.

That you chose this one Teak411 shows your heart.
God bless and welcome to your voices new home as often as you care to use it.

[byronius]

2. I know the song but never knew the story. Thanks!

[Collimator]

3. "Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?"

You could live your life in the middle of a desert and understand that line. Anyone who has suffered any sort of trauma-- injury, illness, pain or fear-- knows what it means when time stretches out one's suffering.

The Theory of Relativity in a song lyric.

[lastlib]

5. Gordon Lightfoot's shipwreck songs can be described in one word--haunting.

They grab you and stay with you forever. Here is another one:

[Jbraybarten]

6. just reading the title my mind went straight to the song

[2naSalit]

7. Weather on the Lake...

Is probably similar today, the north country is having winter storms.

[dwayneb]

8. One of the greatest story songs of all time

May Gordon Lightfoot RIP, an amazing Canadian artist.

[EarthFirst]

9. Billy Strings - The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald @ Fiserv Forum, Milwaukee 8/8/25

[InstantGratification]

10. When Gordon Lightfoot passed away

I posted on FB that the bell that "rang 29 times, once for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald" would now ring 30 times to welcome one more lost soul home.

Sure enough, they now ring the bell 30 times.

[Kev80]

11. First take

This was the first take of the song that you hear. Others were recorded but didn’t sound as good as the original take.

[JMCKUSICK]

12. I have listened to this song

At least a thousand times if not more, and I get the same chills listening to it today that I got back in the mid seventies when I heard it first as a ten or eleven year old when it grabbed my heart.
Greatest story ballad ever written.
As others have written, thank you Chasstev365

[ProfessorGAC]

14. It Is, Indeed, Anthemic!

The uses of a drone creates a very haunting character.
Smart words, great backing music for what is essentially a sea chanty.
Very cool.

[Chasstev365]

15. Today

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[MustLoveBeagles]

16. RIP