It’s much too fast a tempo.” Both of them were proved very wrong, as the song went to #1 in December 1974.Īny cover of the song has a good head start in reaching the listener’s emotions, simply by dint of its subject matter, and many’s the artist who took that shortcut. “That song will only appeal to 45-year-old men, and they don’t buy records.” Harry himself wanted to re-record the song, saying “It’s terrible, just terrible. “You can’t do that it’s ridiculous,” Sandy told him. But a year later Harry had become a father, and found himself living the life his wife had written about he wrote music and a chorus, and David Geffen selected it to be a single. “He came home and I showed him the poem, and he sort of brushed it aside,” she said. It started off as a poem by Sandy Chapin, Harry’s wife, inspired by the relationship between her first husband and his father. No number one hit says “massive guilt trip” like Harry Chapin’s “Cat’s in the Cradle.” It’s become a shorthand reference to neglectful father-son parenting, featured in popular culture from Simpsons to Shrek the Third, and Stevie Wonder only wishes he prompted as many phone calls just to say “I love you.”
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