Gordon Lightfoot

[TC Chris]

Just heard that Gordon Lightfoot had died. The world was a better place with him making music in it.

Chris Campbell

[William]

He was 84 when he died. Thank you, Gordon, for your music.

Bill

[Firedome]

Oh no, really liked him... sad

[19&41]

Sad for his leaving us, glad that he was here. Stationed in Germany, I listened to that haunting sea chanty for a year before hearing that The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald was taken from a recent news story.

[Firedome]

My favorite brew, thanks to Great Lakes Brewing: Edmund Fitzgerald Porter... great pic on the label.

[TC Chris]

We upper-midwest types share the Great Lakes with our good neighbors, the Canadians. And we remember the big wrecks. which affect people in our state. In my memory, there have been the losses of Carl D. Bradley (639', 1958), Cedarville (604', lost in 1965), and the Fitzgerald (729', 1975). Those are very large vessels and yet the power of the Lakes overcame them. Those who have not experienced the Great Lakes underestimate both their majesty and their force. That's why we remember Lightfoot's most moving song. He got it.

Chris Campbell

[TC Chris]

They rang the bell one more time:

https://www.freep.com/story/entertainme ... 175392007/

Chris Campbell

[William]

Thank you Chris.

Bill

[Motorola minion]

Gordon Lightfoot was a very welcome sound on the old AM dial during the format's waning years days of pop-40 and disco.

Ill never forget hearing the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (for the first time) on a relatives' 1940 Westinghouse WR-288 right after I got it playing. The painted glass dial will always remind me of that evening.

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In the 80s, I recall finding a letter in an abandoned house that was rented by some college students in the early-mid 70s. In the letter this girl is writing to a friend, she mentions a folk singer performing at a local college. I recall she had not heard of this folk singer, then she mentioned Gordon by name and mused whether she wants to go see him. I had a laugh then, thinking everyone knew of him, then realized he was out there some time before his hits on Top 40 radio made him even more famous.

"Mornin' comes the blues from my heads down to my shoes"..Carefree Highway - good travels there

[electra225]

My wife had a relative who went down with the Edmund Fitzgerald. The Great Lakes, particularly Lake Superior has some of the most treacherous shipping routes there are.