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The original bell from the ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald which sank with 29 crew members in November, 1975. Divers retrieved the bell on July 4, 1995, replacing it with a replica on which the names of the crew were inscribed. The original bell is now at the Whitefish Point Shipwreck Museum.
The song was written to commemorate the November 10, 1975 sinking of the American Great Lakes freighter the SS Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior. Lightfoot talks about how he managed to get his hit on top 20 radio. âWe had to nip [The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald] a little bit to get it in top 20 radio. But we did it with the instrumentals, we found a way to do it and shorten it down. Four and half minutes or they wouldnât play on FM in LA. They said, âIf you want it to be on top 20, you better edit it boys.â And thatâs what we did.â. The 75-year-old Songwriterâs Hall of Famer also shares what led him to write a song about the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.