# @detroitfreepress on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DQ4xMg7gao9
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/79311096-detroitfreepress-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-11-10T19:04:21.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Detroit Free Press (@detroitfreepress) — https://gondola.cc/detroitfreepress

## Caption

On paper, it should never have been a hit record.
 
But despite the odds stacked against it — the 6-minute length, the somber subject matter, the last-minute recording session — “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” went on to become one of the defining singles of the 1970s.
 
Canadian songwriter Gordon Lightfoot was a week from his 36th birthday when the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, the biggest Great Lakes freight ship of its era, gave way to Lake Superior amid a daunting storm on Nov. 10, 1975.
 
Check the link in our bio for more.

📰 by Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press

#detroit #michigan #edmundfitzgerald #shipwrecks #greatlakes #lakesuperior #ssedmundfitzgerald #gordonlightfoot #wreckoftheedmundfitzgerald #songs #music #songwriters

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songwriters, ssedmundfitzgerald, songs, greatlakes, detroit, shipwrecks, gordonlightfoot, music, wreckoftheedmundfitzgerald, lakesuperior, michigan, edmundfitzgerald

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