The album, ironically, is entitled "Summertime Dream."īut there is no hint of summer in the moody strains of the "Edmund Fitzgerald." The lyrics are funeral the beat is heavily syncopated, recalling the pitch and roll of a great ship in heavy water. Garland said the song was "in the top five" in requests each day at CKLW, and that the single went from 14th to seventh in sales in the Detroit area last week. Les Garland, program director for CKLW radio in Windsor, says the song is being played an average of once every three hours on his station, a frequency that only the biggest hits receive. It has caught on in New York, Boston and Houston and is starting to be played on West Coast stations. The appeal of the song is not limited to the Midwest. "So we decided to release it as a single two weeks ago, and it's now our hottest single."
His particular mix of history, romance and adventure, always with a good deal of humor thrown in, has gained him a diverse readership ranging from teenagers to retired grandmothers. He is a German Historian and writer of historical fiction.
"The whole thing caught us by surprise," he added. Robert Thier is the author of the Storm and Silence book series. More: Gordon Lightfoot, 'Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' singer, dies at 84
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