# Does anyone know where the love of God goes? ( RIP Gordon Lightfoot: 2023-May-1 ) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death, music\ **Created:** [May 2, 2023, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-know-where-the-love-of-god-goes-rip-gordon-lightfoot-2023-may-1/983445 "2023-05-02T02:51:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 31
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After doing a quick search, we Dopers have remembered the Fitz often. Here are some of the threads with Edmund Fitzgerald in the title. There are some more, still. In a way, these are our way to chime the church bell 29 times… > **[Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wreck-of-the-edmund-fitzgerald/919087)** > > I tend to put youtube on as live action wallpaper - and not use any of my playlists, using the AI generated playlists. I hit on the for lack of a better term, the Woodstock Vintage playlist. I was pleasantly listening along to the generally... > **[Edmund Fitzgerald Day 2016](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edmund-fitzgerald-day-2016/771397)** > > I know one of the old threads was bumped a month or so ago, but I didn’t see it on the first page of this forum. Plus, doing the Billie Joe McCallister and Edmund Fitzgerald annual threads is pretty much my place in the world, so here we are. \*... > **[It's Edmund Fitzgerald Day](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-edmund-fitzgerald-day/737205)** > > Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn minutes to hours? the song, of course > **[Why is the Edmund Fitzgerald so remembered?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-edmund-fitzgerald-so-remembered/561208)** > > Someone makes a thread each year of the anniversary. I was 1 year old when it sank. At the time, was it a national news event? Or is it’s fame due more to the Gordon Lightfoot song? Why did a freighter that lost 29 people become so well known... > **[SS Edmund Fitzgerald](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ss-edmund-fitzgerald/517060)** > > Today is the anniversary of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald. > **[Anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald is today...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anniversary-of-the-edmund-fitzgerald-is-today/425914)** > > Nice tribute is here. > **[Edmund Fitzgerald - 30 Years On](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edmund-fitzgerald-30-years-on/330314)** > > Tomorrow will be the 30th anniversary of the loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and its 29 crew. November 10, 1975. Yes, I know I am a day early. Growing up in Wisconsin, even southern Wisconsin, the loss of the Fitz and its crew meant something. ... > **["Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wreck-of-the-edmund-fitzgerald/137033)** > > first, I was wondering who EF was & why they named a ship after him- I didn’t find much but enough to satisfy me for a while, but then I realized something… I thought the Wreck occurred back in the 1950’s- but nope, the ship was built then-... > **[Edmund Fitzgerald question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edmund-fitzgerald-question/130924)** > > I was reading the lyrics and came to the bit where it says, They might have split up, or they might have capsized. They may have broke deep, and took water. What does that last bold line mean/refer to? Thanks in advance. > **[Edmund Fitzgerald](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edmund-fitzgerald/106463)** > > Was the ship in that ole Gordon Lightfoot song (The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald) real? Did such a ship sink a hundred or so years ago? > **["The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wreck-of-the-edmund-fitzgerald/9639)** > > Gordon Lightfoot’s saddest song played on the radio this AM while I was out collecting supplies necessary for a proper Sunday - the newspapers, etc. Not a bad tune, actually, and I prolonged my errands to hear it in its entirety. The question I... --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-know-where-the-love-of-god-goes-rip-gordon-lightfoot-2023-may-1/983445)._