Today in history, The Edmond Fitzgerald.

[Maggot]

Today in 1975 29 men went to the bottom of Lake Superior.

[Maggot]

I would think Bueberrybabe,Olderthandirtymind and Cars&pokeya would remember how big this was back then. Story songs are what kept things going back when that's all there was. Generation to generation they told the story. Some are gone forever.

[Duchess]

This is the first I've heard of it.

[SIXFOOTERsez]

Wow, I even remember that, hard to believe its been so long

[ramseycat]

I remember the song. It was creepy.

[Midwest Spy]

I've been in Duluth, MN when one of those big iron ore ships is heading out across Lake Superior.

They're massive. To think some wind and waves could essentially break a ship like that in half (which is one theory) is hard to contemplate.

Gordon Lightfoot looks like hell these days, but a great song-writer he is.

I've done 2 of his classics at karaoke: Sundown and If You Could Read My Mind.

[Maggot]

Wow, I even remember that, hard to believe its been so long

I forgot about you Buck.

[Duchess]

I've done 2 of his classics at karaoke

I'm laughing my ass off! The moment I read that I totally saw you doing it.

[blueberryhill]

You know, Maggs, I don't remember this. I was knee deep in books, electric typewriter. I returned to college when I was in my late 30s and I was so focused on school, I didn't know what was going on in World. However, in all fairness, I do remember my solid wood piece of furniture which was also a TV (it was a Magnavox). I remember watching SNL, the Dick Van Dyke show, Ed Sullivan, but they didn't have 24 hour news stations in those days and we didn't have the media coverage that we have today. I do remember the tune, (not lyrics). An added note, my TV kept breaking down and I kept taking it back to dealer and they never did fix it. I complained to Company and they thought i was just a chronic complainer so i gave up. Later (a year or so later) the TV dealer and his accomplice did a murder for hire. This happened in Rapid City, S.D., however, the man they killed was a tow-truck driver from Deadwood, S.D. He went out on a bogus call and he was ambushed. Never followed the story. I know he went to prison. I have tried to look up original story in Rapid City Journal but nothing comes up. This was 1978-79....I did write to Magnavox (sic) and told them that i tried to tell them he was a crook. Apparently, he never fixed appliances but told Mfg company he had, so he got credit for all the supposed repairs. Never received an apology or credit for the hundreds of dollars i spent from Maganvox .

[Maggot]

Maganvox .

Ya know....This is the superlative word as it says so much with only 2 vowels singular. To be truthful I read about it in the paper 4 days after the fact. Television was a contact sport back then, constantly fighting with the antennae and if you were really savy.....the curtain rod and the bird cage. Roller derby and horse races were a blessing.