Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of Gordon Lightfoot’s biggest singles owes its title to a road sign that happened to catch the Canadian songwriter’s eye as he ...

"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.

(WXYZ) — Legendary Canadian folk singer Gordon Lightfoot died Monday at the age of 84, and we're looking back at one of his most popular hits, "The Wreck of the ...

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 ...

STURGEON BAY (WLUK) -- It's been 50 years since the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald in the Canadian waters of Lake Superior, taking its crew of 29 with her. The cargo ship's home port was ...

Lightfoot was doing well in Canada for a while, but it was “If You Could Read My Mind” from 1970 that piqued interest in his music among listeners down south. The song was a big US hit that peaked at ...

FILE - Singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, strums backstage at the Westbury Music Fair on Sept. 8, 1987, in Westbury, N.Y. Canada's legendary folk singer-songwriter, whose hits include “Early Morning ...

Gordon Lightfoot's music had already won over his native Canada. His American breakthrough came with an intensely personal ...