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"Cat's in the Cradle" is a folk rock song by American singer-songwriter Harry Chapin, from his fourth studio album, Verities & Balderdash (1974). The single topped the US Billboard Hot 100 in December 1974. As Chapin's only number-one song, it became the best known of his work and a staple for folk rock music.
Harry Forster Chapin (/ ˈtʃeɪpɪn /; December 7, 1942 – July 16, 1981) was an American singer-songwriter, philanthropist, and hunger activist best known for his folk rock and pop rock songs. He achieved worldwide success in the 1970s. Chapin, a Grammy Award -winning artist and Grammy Hall of Fame inductee, has sold over 16 million records ...
Eddie Jerome Vedder (born Edward Louis Severson III; December 23, 1964) is an American singer, musician, and songwriter. He is the lead vocalist, primary lyricist, and one of three guitarists for the rock band Pearl Jam. He was previously a guest vocalist for supergroup Temple of the Dog, a tribute band dedicated to the late singer Andrew Wood.
Squeeze are an English rock band that came to prominence in the United Kingdom during the new wave period of the late 1970s, and continued recording in the 1980s, 1990s and 2010s. In the UK, their singles "Cool for Cats", "Up the Junction", and "Labelled with Love" were top-ten chart hits. Though not as commercially successful in the United ...
Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. (born March 18, 1966) [1] is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is best known as the founder, lead guitarist, co-lead vocalist, and main songwriter [9] of the rock band Alice in Chains. [10] The band rose to international fame in the early 1990s during Seattle 's grunge movement and is known for its ...
In December, the MGM film Get Yourself a College Girl was released, featuring the Animals and the Dave Clark Five. The Animals sang the Chuck Berry song "Around and Around" in the film. [12] By May 1965, the group was starting to feel internal pressures. Price left because of personal and musical differences, as well as his fear of flying while ...
Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou; 21 July 1948), [1] commonly known by his stage names Cat Stevens, Yusuf, and Yusuf / Cat Stevens, is a British singer-songwriter and musician. He has sold more than 100 million records and has more than two billion streams. [2] His musical style consists of folk, rock, pop, and, later in his career ...
Cat's Cradle. Cat's Cradle is a satirical postmodern novel, with science fiction elements, by American writer Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut's fourth novel, it was first published on March 18, 1963, [1] exploring and satirizing issues of science, technology, the purpose of religion, and the arms race, often through the use of morbid humor.