Posted on 11/10/2011 7:22:43 AM PST by WOBBLY BOB
It’s been 36 years on Thursday since the ore boat Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a violent storm in eastern Lake Superior taking all 29 crew members with her.
The storm of November 9-10, 1975, ranks among the most powerful to strike the Lake Superior region.
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Lightfoot was the best.
Well now we’ll all have that dreary song stuck in our heads all day.
“Was”? He’s still with us.
“I’m not dead yet”
I never listened to that whole song (it is so....... repetitious....) until I forced myself to, in the car a couple of years ago.
Was it really 45 minutes long?
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is arguably my favorite song of all time.
Well, yeah, but a little past his prime.
No, that was Free Bird.
Yeah, UFO's hate Great Lakes ore-carriers.
I had no idea we were on the anniversary - but at our dinner table last night we were talking about how this song came up in one of our trivia games - Pictionary or one of those type games.
How much payload did the Edmund Fitzgerald carry?
“...with a load of iron ore 26 thousand pound more than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty......”
I heard on one of the XM radio stations recently that this song is the most requested by truck drivers...feeling of kinship I suppose.
The ship was named after the CEO of Northwestern Insurance, which owned it.
Probably Herman Cain.
I worked on Great Lakes ore carriers from 1972 to 1976 (did not sail in 1975-the year the Fitzgerald sank). Have spoken
to US Coast Guard officials and they still are not certain what caused her to sink. Several good explanations but not proven definitively. After the sinking, survial suits became required on the ore carriers, but the Fitzgerald sank
in something like 30 seconds or so-not enough time to put on the suits.
Was it really 45 minutes long?
Here's a "long song" antidote to Gordon Lightfoot.
:^)
There’s no bridge to the song that’s why it’s so repetitious. It’s sad, because the lyrics are poetic.
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