Description
In this episode, the skipper and Gilligan navigate the choppy waters surrounding the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and the rebirth of its memory as a #1 hit by Gordon Lightfoot in 1975. Bound for Detroit, they circumnavigate the dangerous currents associated with taking on historical events in song and film. They seem to be heading toward a safe port with the common Great Lakes experience shared by the US and Canada...until Ty steers the SS Unity dangerously close to Niagara Falls. Batten down the hatches...that's the wrath of the north wind you're feeling.
Songs:
Reverb Syndicate - Better Dancing Through Technology
Joan Jett - I Love Rock and Roll
Madonna - Dress You Up
Chilliwack - My Girl
Dolly Parton - 9 to 5
Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
The Pogues and the Dubliners - The Irish Rover
Stan Rogers - Mary Ellen Carter
Rod Stewart - Tonight's the Night
Elvis Presley - Early Morning Rain
Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown
Sufjan Stevens - Say Yes! to M!ch!gan!
Simon and Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence
Bill Cole - Ballad of Gilligan's Isle
Chime of Wrens - Billow
Bill Frisell - Pipeline
Robert Randolph - Ain't Nothing Wrong With That
Chicago Mass Choir - Take It to Jesus
Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up
Boney M - Rasputin
Bob Dylan - Hurricane
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Books:
Michael Schumacher - Mighty Fitz: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald
T. J. Sugrue - Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
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