Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
"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 his signature song and a staple for folk rock music.
Singer and songwriter Guthrie Thomas has long publicly stated that Chapin's song "Cat's in the Cradle" is one of the most difficult songs to perform, due to Chapin's masterful guitar playing and his brilliant syncopation of the lyrics, meaning each word must fit perfectly and in time with the playing.
Verities & Balderdash is the fourth studio album by the American singer/songwriter Harry Chapin, released in 1974.(see 1974 in music)."Cat's in the Cradle" was Chapin's highest-charting single, finishing at number 38 for the year on the 1974 Billboard year-end Hot 100 chart.
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 ]
Fifty years after the original album's release, in September 2020, Stevens remade the album as Tea for the Tillerman 2, including new lyrics and new instrumentation, and he sings along with his 22-year-old self in "Father and Son". [2] That same year, Tea for the Tillerman was re-released as a 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition. [3]
This seems like a more likely source of "cat's in the cradle" than the story about cats sucking the breath out of infants. As to "silver spoon", it was once common even in families of modest means for some relative (generally a grandparent) to award a new infant with a silver spoon engraved with the name and birth date of the child.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Mona Bone Jakon is the third studio album by singer-songwriter Cat Stevens, released in April 1970 on the Island Records label in the United Kingdom and on A&M in the United States and Canada. Overview