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The fateful, final journey of the Edmund Fitzgerald

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Re: The fateful, final journey of the Edmund Fitzgerald

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Post by cbsmith »

AlexandrB wrote: post #3

Obligatory link to the Gordon Lightfoot song about this disaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuzTkGyxkYI

Obligatory link to the Paul Gross song, 32 Down on the Robert Mackenzie, which was composed after the show (Due South) was planning to do a story (featuring the song) about the Edmund Fitzgerald, but was convinced by the families of the deceased that it was better to craft something fictional: https://youtu.be/_d-t0959C3A

Re: The fateful, final journey of the Edmund Fitzgerald

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Post by incanus77 »

AlexandrB wrote: post #3

Obligatory link to the Gordon Lightfoot song about this disaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuzTkGyxkYI

What a song — chills me every time. I can’t think of another historical and/or tragedy song that grips me as much as this one.

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Post by jjulius »

AlexandrB wrote: post #3

Obligatory link to the Gordon Lightfoot song about this disaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuzTkGyxkYI

I was introduced to this song by a music teacher in elementary school, and I remember being wow'd by the story and thinking the song sounded cool as hell. I've almost never listened to it since then, but it has remained ingrained in my head for almost 30 years. Every couple of weeks it pops into my head, clear as a bell.

Not sure why I'm sharing this, but yeah...

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Post by swader999 »

incanus77 wrote: post #7
AlexandrB wrote: post #3

Obligatory link to the Gordon Lightfoot song about this disaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuzTkGyxkYI

What a song — chills me every time. I can’t think of another historical and/or tragedy song that grips me as much as this one.

Iron Maiden's adaptation of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner comes close. You have to get into the original work and perhaps have similar life experiences to appreciate it I suppose.

The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is more accessible.

http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1696/brief-review-t...

Re: The fateful, final journey of the Edmund Fitzgerald

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Post by bombcar »

Things I didn't know even though this is one of my favorite songs:

1. The person the ship was named after died 27 years after the ship named after him did (he hadn't wanted the naming, the board overruled him).

2. The wreck is in Canada.

3. Gordon changed the lyrics of his live performances to take in new information not available at the time of writing.

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