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Nope. I'll have to look that one up.
sunk ocean liner move question
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I gotta ask...
What made you remember it? I ask because the other day I heard some Cajun music and remembered the movie Southern Comfort seemingly out of the blue. Haven't seen the movie in 20+ years but it popped right in my head.
weird.. I was listening to the ballad of the edmond fitzgerald ( gordon lightfoot) and I started thinking about sunk boats..
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Ha! That'll do it!
Speaking of sunken boats, if, for any reason, you are ever in Northern Michigan, go to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum, A maritime museum in upper peninsula Michigan on Whitefish Point at Whitefish Point.
It is a pretty nice little museum and they play The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald continuously (and I mean continuously) softly in all of the buildings and gift shop (great fudge shop). My kids kept singing the lines
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
with an emphasis on Gitche GUUMEEEE
over and over all day after we left.
For anyone that doesn't remember all of the lyrics to that song.... here's a link.
It really is a good set of lyrics, well written and sung.
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That is an awesome and Eire song, definitely one my favorites on my MP3 player.
I especially like songs like that, that are based on historic fact as opposed to all the "baby, baby, baby I love you" crap.
Along the lines of Dylan's Hurricane, Neil Young's Cortez, or Don McLean's Vincent.
Didn't know the lyric was gitche gumee, thought it was something like "Shugumey"
I like the line "fellas its been good to know ya"
That voice was just perfect for telling such a storey.
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I especially like songs like that, that are based on historic fact as opposed to all the "baby, baby, baby I love you" crap.
Along the lines of Dylan's Hurricane, Neil Young's Cortez, or Don McLean's Vincent.
Didn't know the lyric was gitche gumee, thought it was something like "Shugumey"
I like the line "fellas its been good to know ya"
That voice was just perfect for telling such a storey.
JB.
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yep.. good song, good story.
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Ha! That'll do it!
Speaking of sunken boats, if, for any reason, you are ever in Northern Michigan, go to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum, A maritime museum in upper peninsula Michigan on Whitefish Point at Whitefish Point.
It is a pretty nice little museum and they play The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald continuously (and I mean continuously) softly in all of the buildings and gift shop (great fudge shop). My kids kept singing the lines
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
with an emphasis on Gitche GUUMEEEE
over and over all day after we left.
For anyone that doesn't remember all of the lyrics to that song.... here's a link.
It really is a good set of lyrics, well written and sung.
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We only live about 25-30 miles from Lake Michigan's southern tip. When I was a kid in the late '60s, we used to go up to a beach at Benton Harbor, MI every summer. I remember HUGE ships going both directions back and forth to the steel mills around Gary, Indiana. Back then you could see all of the steel mills along the shorline and clear over to Chicago from Benton Harbor. MI. There would rarely be a time when there was not a huge ship somewhere on the horizon and usually two. These days, it is very rare to see an iron ore ship on Lake Michigan.
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that's sad..
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You know the funny thing is Northwest Indiana it is still the largest steel producing area in the U.S.
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Hey Soundguy,
Was that title supose to be "sunk ocean liner movie question" or "move question" as posted? When I saw the title, I said "HUH, I gotta read this". Then I saw you were the poster and really knew I had to check it out!
Great thread. Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald is one of my favorite songs from my youth.
Was that title supose to be "sunk ocean liner movie question" or "move question" as posted? When I saw the title, I said "HUH, I gotta read this". Then I saw you were the poster and really knew I had to check it out!
Great thread. Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald is one of my favorite songs from my youth.