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My first memory of Harry was hearing "Cat’s In The Cradle" on AM radio in 1974 when I was 15. As I hadn’t really grown up yet, the song didn’t mean much to me at the time. That was to change. Fall 1976 found me at college, State University of…
I can remember sitting on the floor with my sons on a Sunday morning. I had very little time for them. I had a business to run and political ambitions, etc. So Sunday morning was basically my time for them. This was around 1975. I heard Cat's In The Cradle.…
I was named for, respectively, my great-grandfather and the grandfather who never lived to see his oldest grandchild be born. My name is John Joseph Dybala. I suppose for that reason alone, I was predisposed to becoming a Harry Chapin fan. My mother became a fan when Cats In the…
I was a late comer to Harry's music. Oh, I'd heard "Taxi" in the early 70's, and loved it of course, and "Cats In The Cradle" got more air play than any of his other songs, but I didn't really discover the man behind the vast volumes of words and…