Single:
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald entered the Australian singles chart* on 6 December 1976 and peaked at #46.
Album:
The song is on Summertime Dream which entered the Australian albums chart* on 13 December 1976 and peaked at #63.
Songwriter:
Gordon Lightfoot
Producers:
Lenny Waronker, Gordon Lightfoot
Record label of Australian release:
Reprise
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Wikipedia:
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is a 1976 hit song written, composed and performed by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot to commemorate the sinking of the bulk carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior on 10 November 1975. Lightfoot drew his inspiration from Newsweek‘s article on the event, “The Cruelest Month”, which it published in its 24 November 1975 issue. Lightfoot considers this song to be his finest work.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wreck_of_the_Edmund_Fitzgerald
Lyrics:
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call ′Gitche Gumee’
The lake it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy
With a load of iron ore, twenty six thousand tons more
Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty
That good ship and true was a ′bone to be chewed’
When the gales of November came early
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