Throwing back to the week of October 24, 1975, we find a trio of repeats atop the Billboard Hot 100: Chicago’s ‘If You Leave Me Now,’ Rick Dees’ ‘Disco Duck,’ and The Steve Miller Band’s ‘Rock’n Me.’
That brings us to #4 and Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot’s ‘The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,’ a folk rock song that ultimately peaked at #2 for two weeks in November. This was Lightfoot’s second-highest charting song, after his sole #1 hit, 1974’s ‘Sundown.’
