It happened every year on November 10: if you were listening to the radio anywhere in Michigan, you’d inevitably hear the wail of a guitar that seemed to speak in a human voice, a mournful invitation.

NASHOTAH, Wis. (AP) — Without Gordon Lightfoot's song, the Edmund Fitzgerald could have faded from memory along with the names of the roughly 6,500 other ships that went down in the Great Lakes before ...

"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" was released in 1976, less than a year after the ship sank in Lake Superior. Gordon Lightfoot’s song peaked at number two on the Billboard chart that same year.

For those that live or have lived around the American Great Lakes region, the story of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald is likely familiar. It was, to date, the largest ship to ever sink in those waters, ...

NASHOTAH, Wis. (AP) — Without Gordon Lightfoot’s song, the Edmund Fitzgerald could have faded from memory along with the names of the roughly 6,500 other ships that went down in the Great Lakes before ...