I Like Music With Meaning - The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald

I also like listening to Gordon Lightfoot as well!

Great song telling a sad story. I'm like you, I like songs that tell a story.

hey still play it ocassionaly on the radio here and I still get emotional everytime I hear it. I too can't help thinking about those poor lost souls and their families.

yeah, great tune huh? but sadly a true story.

I lived in Duluth at the time the Fitzgerald went down. As I watched the local television news, I could not help but to pen some lines for a song that I wrote about the Fitzgerald. My song entitled "Twenty-Nine More Men" was recorded in Nashville about a year later. Gordie had the first release of his song which was a great one and one that will always be remembered. Over the years, there has been interest in my song by writers and publishers of various books. Even to this day, I get calls to discuss my song on various radio stations. Nontheless, Gordon deserves great credit in bringing the story to the public such as he has done. Thank you Gordie for all your great musical works.

Charlie Frederick

I remember the song and how long it was. I can't imagine how those, "sons and the wives and the daughters" felt. Thanks for sharing this. Amazing how music can return you to memories long forgotten.

Haunting song......one of my favorites of his. Did you ever see the documentary showing where they found the ship and brought up the bell?? Such a sad thing to see.

An Ontarian? sounds like a allien from space. We are Ontarians!

Gordon Lightfoot sings some of the most haughting songs ever written.

I still get a shiver when I hear this song! as a Detroiter!

My bad...wrote that at umm, Oh Late Thirty. But my mom still is a huge S& G fan. :-)

I remember this as well...I was in kindergarten and when my mom heard of the tragedy she was crying in the kitchen. I didn't understand and the next day, we were supposed to take the Ferry from San Fransisco, CA over to Angel Island for a field trip....my mom would not let me go. I was upset then, but understand now and realize as a mother, when the world experiences a heartfelt sadness, we tend to want our children as close as possible.



Side note, my mom was the BIGGEST Simon and Garfunkel fan so this song was played over and over once it came out.

Wow, your very lucky to be so close !

Bring back lots of pictures ! I would love to see !

One of my all time favorite songs !!!

The church bell chimed 'til it rang twenty-nine times

for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.

ItsWindy,



I remember the song when it first came out and I thought is was about an event 100 years prior. I was shock that the wreck occur recently and always get a chill when I hear that song.



Bare Hugs

Nudy