Gordon Lightfoot, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" via iTunes (The Last Angry Man)
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Forty years ago to the day, 10 November 1975, the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald sank to the bottom of Lake Superior, taking with her all twenty-nine souls aboard. The "Fitz" was bound from Superior, Wisconsin to Detroit, Michigan, carrying a load of taconite (iron ore) when she broke in half & sank in over five hundred feet of water. She was the largest "lake boat" constructed when launched in 1958 & set six seasonal haul records during her career. Your humble narrator would be ignorant of the tragedy if not for Lightfoot's song, which rose to № 2 on the Billboard charts & artfully described the storm that sank the Fitz as "the witch of November." Twenty-nine men perished when the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald sank, forty years ago today.
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