November 10, 1975
This one slipped by me. The last ten years I taught, every year my students would have a lesson on this ship, tied in with the Great Lakes and art.
I was reminded Thursday when one of the patrons at Donovan's Reef in Twin Lakes, Wisconsin, tried to play the song on the jukebox, only to find it was not offered. Nor was it on the jukebox at Dry Dock in Antioch, Illinois, yesterday.
These new jukeboxes with the huge numbers of expensive songs available really should have Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."
Worth remembering.
1 comment:
I live in the Los Angeles area, where local deejay Gene "Bean" Baxter counts the song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" among his obsessions. At one point he actually owned the wreckoftheedmundfitzgerald.com domain, but he never did anything with it.
For a techie musical discussion of the song, see http://empoprise-mu.blogspot.com/2011/10/is-wreck-of-edmund-fitzgerald-in-dorian.html
Post a Comment