Edmund Fitzgerald Sank 50 Years Ago

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

It was a shipwreck so notorious, it inspired what many critics and listeners agree is one of the greatest songs of all time ...

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Today marks 50 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald and her crew of 29 sank during a violent storm on Lake Superior. In Minnesota, we continue to honor their legacy. www.startribune.com/ss-edmund-fi ...

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-- Governor Tim Walz (@governorwalz.mn.gov) Nov 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM

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Hi Redial:

How are you? Here's the famous song which I'm sure you heard today: www.youtube.com

BTW: We have our "Jagmeet Singh" here in NYC with Zohran Mamdani and we're all thrilled. One of your MPs in a Montreal riding must have been absolutely apoplectic that Zohran will be mayor of the Big Apple in two months and that PM Mark Carney finally recognized Palestine. What took so long, right?

In July 2025, MP Anthony Housefather whined that the popular Irish band Kneecap should be banned from entering Canada and I think his kvetching unfortunately succeeded.

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-11 01:17 AM | Reply

A note from Wikipedia re the sinking, Lightfoot, and the song:

Although the lyrics of the song memorialize the 29 lives lost in the wreck, following Lightfoot's death, the sailors are now remembered with 31 rings of the memorial bells at the Great Lakes Maritime Academy: "29 for the lives lost that day back in 1975 on Lake Superior, once for all lives lost at sea, and once for singer Gordon Lightfoot, who wrote the ballad of the ship's sinking".
en.wikipedia.org

#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-11-11 07:01 AM | Reply

Gordon Heavyhand wrote a song about it.

#3 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-11-11 12:28 PM | Reply

Here's the famous song which I'm sure you heard today...

Not today, but at least a thousand other times. Lots of theories on what happened that night. Most of the folk at the Whitefish Point museum think it grounded on the 6-Fathom Shoal on the way by.

Interesting there was a nasty storm on Superior yesterday as well. 'Tis the season.

#4 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-11 12:55 PM | Reply

Then why does it seem like I've been hearing the song for sixty years?

#5 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-11-11 02:25 PM | Reply

Then why does it seem like I've been hearing the song for sixty years?

Be glad you don't work at the Shipwreck Museum... it's on a continuous loop.

#6 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-11 03:05 PM | Reply

Gitchie Goomie my ass

#7 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-11-11 07:47 PM | Reply

@#4 ... Not today, but at least a thousand other times. Lots of theories on what happened that night. Most of the folk at the Whitefish Point museum think it grounded on the 6-Fathom Shoal on the way by. ...

Yeah, the Edmond Fitzgerald entered into the pop music scene with this Gordon Lightfoot song ...

Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald (1976)

... You're listening to the official audio for Gordon Lightfoot - "Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" from the album 'Summertime Dream'.

Lightfoot wrote "Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" to commemorate the 29 lives lost in the sinking of the ore carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior on November 10, 1975. ...

Lyrics in next message due to 4k character length constraints ...

#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-11 11:15 PM | Reply