Today is the 33rd anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. So CBC played that song this morning.
Now I can't get it out of my head.
I'm passing this info on in the hope that it will get lodged in somebody else's brain, and I can stop singing it.
Try it....The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the great lake they call Gitchee Gumee....keep going....
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I think I have it on 45 rpm at home...Perhaps I should play it this evening in honour of the day.
Of course, if I pull out my 45s, I might be tempted to play El Bimbo or Dynomite instead.
JAW fan
thanks--
now edmund fitzgerald AND dynomite are stuck in my head--
Everytime I hear it (and I did in the car a few days ago) I am always struck by the fact that, just like when I was younger and it first came out - that it always, always seems to go on longer than I think it should. I keep thinking "okay - it's over now" and another verse begins.
I do remember my father complaining that there was no tune to it and that it sounded like he was making it up as he went along.
Well, I was shocked that the disaster was so recent. I never paid much attention to the words, and just assumed it was some 19th Century shipwreck.
it wasn't in the 19th c?!
and yeah, anon, that's one long song
The disaster was in 1975, and the song came out in 1976. (thank you, wikipedia)
Ye cats! Gordon was sure topical. I wonder if the families of the victims thought it was a little soon.
I too thought it was a 19th century shipwreck for some reason. Did DJs at the time never give us any background?
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