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Gordon Lightfoot released his hit song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" less than a year after the ship sank. Was there any controversy at the time surrounding the quick release? Was the song viewed as exploitative?

by /u/derstherower in /r/AskHistorians

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