Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DETROIT — Here in the Mariners' Church, planted in the shadow of the Renaissance Center at the corner of Woodbridge Street and ...

Dave Strandberg, the first DJ to play Gordon Lightfoot's song in the city — and, likely, one of the first in the country — said "the phones basically lit up" when he dropped the needle. A detail view ...

"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.

“The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down, of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee” - From “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” First come the mournful notes - an electric guitar layered over a ...

Wisconsin Assembly passes bill to eliminate state income tax on tips; now moves to Senate A proposal to eliminate the state income tax on tips is moving forward in Madison. Shawano School District ...

Newspaper clippings donated to the Lake Superior Maritime Visitor Center in Duluth recount the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald on Nov. 10, 1975.

Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson made an increasingly rare appearance onstage together Thursday as the Rush duo covered Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Way I Feel” at a Toronto tribute concert for the late Canadian ...

NASHOTAH, Wis. — 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 it.

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, ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald was so impressive, crowds would gather to watch it go through the Soo Locks. DETROIT — Here in the Mariners' Church, planted in the shadow of the Renaissance Center at the corner ...