Using songs to remember important events in our cultural history

Just heard this song and it always brings tears.  I don't suppose many people are still alive who remember the plane crash.  But I have great affection for songs that keep events alive in our memories.

And another famous crash

Not a crash this time, but just as sad

Well, Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" probably qualifies. The US families were scandalized that a Canadian capitalized on their loss with a hit song. Except he immortalized these 29 men on an industrial freighter who otherwise would have been instantly forgotten. This the power of the artist, who puts the moment that matters right in our face, and lets us remember through time.

Aside: It might be helpful to define "our cultural history." These are trying times as you might know.

Music transends boundries and with so many ways to communicate in this day and age, I like the broader, more inclusive sense of "our culture".

My friends kids are getting into their buddy holly phase, and the song about how he parished lead them to learn about the big bopper and  ritchie valens.  That's the value of songs keeping history alive.  I kind of like that.

Shipwrecks eh?

I play this one when I'm struggling with a task.  It's a hopeful shipwreck.

I know a few such songs. Maybe one of the most notable is "Wildfire" by Watchhouse (formerly Mandolin Orange)

"The Day the Mississippi Died" by Gillian Welch & David Rawlings--a song about climate change and our time in history. The Mississippi running dry, and frustration with society as being too polarized to do anything about it.

From the same album is Hashtag, a song for Guy Clark.

Two questions -- a) does it have to be an "event" or can it be a moment? And b) does it count if the video is just about required to unpack the full context of the song's referents?