November 10, 1975, the freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a horrific storm on Lake Superior, one of the last Great Lakes disasters.
Of course, there is the song "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot which came out in 1976 and went to Number 1. Hopefully WDRV will play that song today as they are in the letter "W" and are just playing "Wouldn't It Be Nice" by the Beach Boys.
My students used to hear the song and take it apart to find out all the history they could. This eventually evolved into a four day unit on the Great Lakes.
(They did play it, but Bobby Skafish, the DJ, didn't know it (nor did I until Liz reminded me). He said that two people had notified him on his Facebook page of the importance of playing that song on this day.)
--RoadDog
Being an account of some things I'm interested in, what I'm doing, and reflections on my past, especially music.
Listen to this man. Seven years of college, you know. Trying to reason with 2020 and, now, 2022.
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