Gordon Lightfoot turned a brief news item about a Great Lakes tragedy into one of the most haunting songs ever written — an elegy that still echoes 50 years later.

This week's Trending Up looks at the unlikely revival of the five-decade-old story song, as well as a curious new dance smash ...

Less than a year after the American cargo carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in the Great Lakes in November 1975, the late ...

Fifty years ago, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, killing 29 crew members. Gordon Lightfoot's haunting ballad ...

Gordon Lightfoot and his band recorded the "little ditty" in a Toronto studio in December 1975, just weeks after the ...

The Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot and the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald are inextricably linked in a way few ...

Gordon Lightfoot wrote one of the most iconic songs about a historical event, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." ...

"The Edmund Fitzgerald was a Great Lakes freighter ship, which sunk in a November storm on Lake Superior in 1975. None of her 29 crew members survived, and none of their remains were ever recovered. A ...

A Gordon Lightfoot Tribute concert is coming up on Friday, October 10 at the World of Accordions Museum- Harrington Arts Center in Superior. Michigan native Mike Fornes will be appearing as Gordon ...

A half century after the Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, the ship has become more than a wreck. It’s a grave and a legend ...

On Nov. 10, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sunk in the Great Lakes, inspiring Gordon Lightfoot to write a hit song called 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.' ...

A standing room only crowd gathered at Mariner’s Church of Detroit Sunday to commemorate the shipwreck's 50th anniversary.