Today in Labor History, Canadian folksinger and composer, Gordon Lightfoot, died. Composed "Ode to Big Blue," about the slaughter of whales; "Protocol," about the futility of war, “Sundown,” his only #1 hit in the U.S.; and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," about the 1958 shipwreck on Lake Superior. The latter 2 songs he composed and continued to perform after contracting Bell’s Palsy, which left him partially paralyzed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vST6hVRj2A
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