Posted on 11/10/2023 2:29:14 AM PST by OttawaFreeper
Anniversary of the tragedy of November 10 1975.
Exactly! My brain keeps asking, Is it over yet??
Tip if you hate a song: There’s usually a button or icon that looks like a little “right arrow”. Press it. It works.
I remember when I first heard this song. I was in Tech School at Biloxi AFB in Mississippi.
There was a bunch of us airmen in the dayroom playing pool with the radio on.
When Gordon started singing his tale, everyone stopped and listened. There we were, enrapt in wonder, pool cues at our sides, as we learned the fate of the ship and then men on her.
Heh; I’m humming it too, and making-up my own lyrics.
Thanks for the reminder: I am ashamed to say it, but I always forget about it.
It’s almost 50 years…wow.
George Noory had a show about the Edmund Fitzgerald on 11/10/2005. Great show, still available to Coast to Coast subscribers.
To this day...still a very haunting song.
The Legend lives on……..
Excellent.
I like this video as it opens with the news broadcast, has some pictures and film footage of the ship (some are not of the Edmond Fitzgerald), recordings of the radio transmissions of other ships in the area, footage of the discovery of the wreck and ends with the list of the men lost and many of their actual pictures. Very moving.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgI8bta-7aw
It’s done in the style of a Sea Shanty.
Love the song. I also love Sundown; that’s the official song of our lake house.
Check your back stairs.
I will never be set free,
As long as I'm a ghost you can't see.
There's a sequence in the Netflix Arnold show called Fubar where his whole spy crew sing Gordon Lightfoot together on a mission.
It sank on the 200th birthday of the United States Marine Corps.
RIP to all. This is my second-favorite Lightfoot song, after “Canadian Railroad Trilogy.”
I like what this Youtuber has done with it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hgI8bta-7aw&t=86s
You posted this at 5:29 am. The Edmund Fitzgerald is reported to have gone down shortly after 7:10 pm. I mention this not as a criticism, but as grateful you brought this up early in the day. It is on my calendar in perpetuity.
One thing that came to mind this evening is how there has never been a good movie about it as there was, for example, with Captain Phillips. Maybe it is because there were no survivors.
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