# Has Gordon Lightfoot abandoned "The Wreck of the 'Edmund Fitzgerald'"?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 7, 2003, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-gordon-lightfoot-abandoned-the-wreck-of-the-edmund-fitzgerald/159630 "2003-03-07T01:47:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-gordon-lightfoot-abandoned-the-wreck-of-the-edmund-fitzgerald/159630/1 "2003-03-07T01:47:45Z")

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I was trying to help somebody find an album that had this song on it, if only to confirm that it was by Gordon Lightfoot, and had no luck whatsoever. What’s going on?

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**Author:** ![Donovan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@Donovan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Donovan)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-gordon-lightfoot-abandoned-the-wreck-of-the-edmund-fitzgerald/159630/2 "2003-03-07T01:56:13Z")

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[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005YW4N/qid=1047002162/sr=8-1/ref=sr\_8\_1/103-5243449-1823043?v=glance&s=music&n=507846](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005YW4N/qid=1047002162/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/103-5243449-1823043?v=glance&s=music&n=507846)

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**Author:** ![Donovan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@Donovan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Donovan)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-gordon-lightfoot-abandoned-the-wreck-of-the-edmund-fitzgerald/159630/3 "2003-03-07T01:59:56Z")

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or, if you’re looking for the original album:  
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002KCK/ref=pd\_sim\_music\_8/103-5243449-1823043?v=glance&s=music](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002KCK/ref=pd_sim_music_8/103-5243449-1823043?v=glance&s=music)

no, I’m not a Gordon Lightfoot fan, I just used the search function on [amazon.com](http://amazon.com).

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**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-gordon-lightfoot-abandoned-the-wreck-of-the-edmund-fitzgerald/159630/4 "2003-03-07T03:41:26Z")

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Aw, crap.

I have no idea why I didn’t find that when I searched there yesterday. Thanks, **Donovan**.

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**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-gordon-lightfoot-abandoned-the-wreck-of-the-edmund-fitzgerald/159630/5 "2003-03-07T04:09:52Z")

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The CD is called “Summertime Dream”. The songs are quite good, but, I admit, they had to grow on me. And, yes, it is Gordon Lightfoot. - Jinx