My first memory of hearing this was during the funeral for John F. Kennedy.

Eighty years ago tonight — November 13, 1940 — Walt Disney’s Fantasia premiered in New York.  It was the first motion picture with stereophonic sound.  Leopold Stokowski of the Philadelphia Orchestra arranged and conducted the score.

Were it not for Gordon Lightfoot and this song, the 29 men lost on the Edmund Fitzgerald would only be a memory to their friends and families, including some from my hometown of Perrysburg, Ohio. But the world knows what happened on this night forty-five years ago, November 10, 1975.