I was sitting on the couch this morning writing an article for this blog and received a call and since I was not watching FOX NEWS on Cable TV, I could not tell what number was calling us but the answering machine's female voice spoke something that I could not understand. My wife, who was in the
water closet (that is to say bathroom) called out:
"who was calling?" My response was
"I could not understand what was said." With that comment and expecting another question, I got up off the couch and walked over to where the telephone was to check out the list of previous callers by pressing the
CID key twice.
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| Harry Chapin |
The call was from Chapin, SC and I called out to my wife,
"It was Chapin, South Carolina," and
"wasn't there a singer named Chapin? I believe the song was 'Cats in the Cradle,'" Still in the water closet, she responded,
"No that was Cat Stevens." Not accepting her response, I looked it up on the internet and told her...
"no,. it was Harry Chapin."
pausing for a second or two, I said,
My first thought after this conversation exchange was the fact that I had always liked the song '
Cats in the Cradle,' because it reminded me of my relationship with my father and the subsequent relationship with my daughter.
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| Cat Stevens |
My second thought was that I had always liked Cat Stevens also who was famous for his song,
'Peace Train.' The song was released in 1971 when I was still in the military and the Vietnam War was still active in the minds of most Americans.
I remember that Cat Stevens disappeared from the music scene and I always thought maybe that he had died from a drug overdose or something... but, I was WRONG... and later discovered that Cat Stevens had become a Muslim and changed his name to Yusof Islam and began writing and singing Islamic songs...
