The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Song by Gordon Lightfoot
"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is a 1976 hit song written, composed and performed by the Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot to memorialize the sinking of the bulk carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior on November 10, 1975.... Wikipedia
B-side: "The House You Live In"
Genre: Folk rock; soft rock; progressive folk;
Label: Reprise
Length: 6:30 (album version); 5:57 (single edit)
Released: August 1976
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