"The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald," no question. I can't begin to describe how the haunting tune moves me. I had only turned 14 and wasn't even aware that this happened. When the song came out it meant a lot to me as a musical piece, but when I found out it was true and the Fitzgerald sank on my birthday, it really embedded itself in my spirit. So this song is very much in my heart. Thank you, Gordon Lightfoot, for this beautiful tribute. The death the men on the Fitzgerald faced was every bit as real to them as those on the Titanic, yet they may not have been remembered so exquisitely without your song. To this day I listen to it as passionately as when it first came out, and even more so because of personal memories it brings back. I wish James Cameron or Steven Speilberg would make a movie about the Edmund Fitzgerald and let this song grace the soundtrack.
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