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Chasstev365

(6,706 posts)
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 07:31 AM Monday

50 Years Ago today: The Edmund Fitzgerald sinks on Lake Superior during the Gales of November

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50 Years Ago today: The Edmund Fitzgerald sinks on Lake Superior during the Gales of November (Original Post) Chasstev365 Monday OP
Gave Me Shivers Listening and Reading Teak411 Monday #1
Welcome to DU! KS Toronado Monday #4
It's always nice to come upon a story that inspires a response. JMCKUSICK Monday #13
I know the song but never knew the story. Thanks! byronius Monday #2
"Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?" Collimator Monday #3
Gordon Lightfoot's shipwreck songs can be described in one word--haunting. lastlib Monday #5
just reading the title my mind went straight to the song Jbraybarten Monday #6
Weather on the Lake... 2naSalit Monday #7
One of the greatest story songs of all time dwayneb Monday #8
Billy Strings - The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald @ Fiserv Forum, Milwaukee 8/8/25 EarthFirst Monday #9
When Gordon Lightfoot passed away InstantGratification Monday #10
First take Kev80 Monday #11
I have listened to this song JMCKUSICK Monday #12
It Is, Indeed, Anthemic! ProfessorGAC Monday #14
Today Chasstev365 Monday #15
RIP MustLoveBeagles Monday #16

Teak411

(9 posts)
1. Gave Me Shivers Listening and Reading
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 08:29 AM
Monday

Gave Me Shivers Listening and Reading - Thanks for posting!

JMCKUSICK

(4,575 posts)
13. It's always nice to come upon a story that inspires a response.
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 10:40 AM
Monday

That you chose this one Teak411 shows your heart.
God bless and welcome to your voices new home as often as you care to use it.

Collimator

(2,044 posts)
3. "Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?"
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 09:27 AM
Monday

You could live your life in the middle of a desert and understand that line. Anyone who has suffered any sort of trauma-- injury, illness, pain or fear-- knows what it means when time stretches out one's suffering.

The Theory of Relativity in a song lyric.

lastlib

(27,101 posts)
5. Gordon Lightfoot's shipwreck songs can be described in one word--haunting.
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 09:38 AM
Monday

They grab you and stay with you forever. Here is another one:

dwayneb

(1,099 posts)
8. One of the greatest story songs of all time
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 09:56 AM
Monday

May Gordon Lightfoot RIP, an amazing Canadian artist.

10. When Gordon Lightfoot passed away
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 10:06 AM
Monday

I posted on FB that the bell that "rang 29 times, once for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald" would now ring 30 times to welcome one more lost soul home.

Sure enough, they now ring the bell 30 times.

Kev80

(45 posts)
11. First take
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 10:23 AM
Monday

This was the first take of the song that you hear. Others were recorded but didn’t sound as good as the original take.

JMCKUSICK

(4,575 posts)
12. I have listened to this song
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 10:37 AM
Monday

At least a thousand times if not more, and I get the same chills listening to it today that I got back in the mid seventies when I heard it first as a ten or eleven year old when it grabbed my heart.
Greatest story ballad ever written.
As others have written, thank you Chasstev365

ProfessorGAC

(75,188 posts)
14. It Is, Indeed, Anthemic!
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 10:43 AM
Monday

The uses of a drone creates a very haunting character.
Smart words, great backing music for what is essentially a sea chanty.
Very cool.

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