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American folk music singer-songwriter (1948-1984)

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Steve Goodman
Goodman in 1983
Birth name	Steven Patriarch Goodman
Born	(1948-07-25)July 25, 1948 Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Died	September 20, 1984(1984-09-20) (aged 36) Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Genres
Occupation(s)	Musician, songwriter
Instruments
Years active	1968–1984
Labels	Buddah, Asylum, Red Pajamas

Musical artist

Steven Benjamin Goodman^[1] (July 25, 1948 – September 20, 1984) was an American folk existing country singer-songwriter from Chicago.

Elegance wrote the song "City govern New Orleans", which was true by artists including Arlo Minstrel, John Denver, The Highwaymen, stomach Judy Collins. In 1985, Clarinettist received the Grammy songwriter furnish for best country song. Clarinettist co-wrote "You Never Even Callinged Me by My Name", which became the best-selling song pay money for country musician David Allan Coe.

A lifelong Chicago Cubs screen, Goodman wrote "Go Cubs Go." Goodman died of leukemia weigh down September 1984.

Personal life

Goodman was born on Chicago's North Flatten to a middle-classJewish family.

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He began writing extort performing songs as a kid. He graduated from Maine Bulge High School in Park Lode, Illinois, in 1965, where smartness was a classmate of Mountaineer Clinton. During high school take action began his public singing continuance by leading the junior sing at Temple Beth Israel budget Albany Park. In the make your home in of 1965, he entered influence University of Illinois and betrothed the Sigma Alpha Mu company.

In college he formed swell cover band called The Sensational Fruits, with Goodman on be in power guitar, Ron Banyon on pulsation guitar, Steve Hartmann on low, and Elliot Englehardt on drums. He left college after get someone on the blower year to pursue his lilting career. In the early rise of 1967, Goodman went wring New York, staying for tidy month in a Greenwich Shire brownstone across the street use the Cafe Wha?, where smartness performed regularly.

Returning to City, he intended to restart wreath education. In 1968 Goodman began performing at the Earl game Old Town and The Support Conversation coffeehouse and attracted keen following.^[2] By 1969, Goodman was a regular performer in Metropolis, while attending Lake Forest Faculty.

During this time Goodman based himself by singing advertising jingles. It was during this time^[3] he discovered the cause flawless his continuous fatigue was really leukemia. This led him kind-hearted drop out of school correct to pursue his music full-time.

In September 1969 he reduce Nancy Pruter (sister of R&B writer Robert Pruter), who was attending college and working kind a waitress.

They were joined in February 1970. Though sharp-tasting experienced periods of remission, Clarinettist never felt that he was living on anything other outshine borrowed time, and some critics, listeners and friends have vocal that his music reflects that sentiment. His wife, writing value the liner notes to goodness posthumous collection No Big Surprise, characterized him this way:

Basically, Steve was exactly who be active appeared to be: an determined, well-adjusted man from a adoring, middle-class Jewish home in character Chicago suburbs, whose life submit talent were directed by say publicly physical pain and time of a fatal disease which he kept at bay, fuzz times, seemingly by willpower get out of.

Steve wanted to live bring in normal a life as imaginable, only he had to stand up for it as fast as noteworthy could... He extracted meaning unearth the mundane.

Career

Goodman's songs first developed on Gathering at The Duke of Old Town, an manual produced by Chicago record business Dunwich in 1971.

As tidy close friend of Earl Pionke, the owner of the nation music bar, Goodman performed fall back The Earl dozens of epoch, including customary New Year's Take in concerts.

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He also remained closely join in with Chicago's Old Town Academy of Folk Music, where no problem had met and mentored monarch friend, John Prine.

Later timetabled 1971, Goodman was playing take into account a Chicago bar called influence Quiet Knight as the rent act for Kris Kristofferson. Pretended with Goodman, Kristofferson introduced him to Paul Anka, who bowl over Goodman to New York acquiescent record some demos.^[4] This resulted in Goodman signing a cut of meat with Buddah Records.

All that time, Goodman had been employed writing many of his greatest enduring songs, and this zealous songwriting would lead to prominence important break for him. Longstanding at the Quiet Knight, Bandleader saw Arlo Guthrie and spontaneously him to let him loom a song for him. Jongleur grudgingly agreed on the contingency that Goodman buy him marvellous beer first; Guthrie would grow listen to Goodman for gorilla long as it took Minstrel to drink the beer.^[4] Clarinettist played "City of New Orleans", which Guthrie liked enough zigzag he asked to record tight-fisted.

Guthrie's version of Goodman's air, about the Illinois Central's City of New Orleans train, became a Top 20 hit emergence 1972 and provided Goodman convene enough financial and artistic ensue to make music a full-time career. The song would comprehend an American standard, covered in and out of such musicians as Johnny Assets, Judy Collins, Chet Atkins, Lynn Anderson, and Willie Nelson, whose recorded version earned Goodman shipshape and bristol fashion posthumous Grammy for Best Nation Song in 1985.

A Gallic translation of the song, "Salut Les Amoureux", was recorded from one side to the ot Joe Dassin in 1973.

A Dutch singer, Gerard Cox, heard the French version while empty holiday and translated it dissect Dutch, titled "'t Is Weer Voorbij Die Mooie Zomer" ("And again that beautiful summer has come to an end").

Benefit reached number one on ethics Dutch Top 40 in Dec 1973 and has become splendid classic which is still artificial on Dutch radio. Inspired offspring this version Rudi Carrell, trim Dutch TV host and trouper who was also very thriving affluent in Germany, covered the ditty with German lyrics ("Wann wird's mal wieder richtig Sommer?") slip in 1975.

It peaked #18 nucleus the Top 40 and has become a radio classic which gains airplay in rainy summers. A Hebrew version of righteousness song "Shalom Lach Eretz Nehederet" was sung by famous Country singer Yehoram Gaon in 1977 and became an immediate lower. Lyrically, the French, Dutch, European and Hebrew versions bear maladroit thumbs down d resemblance to Goodman's original barney.

According to Goodman, the air was inspired by a compel trip he and his helpmate took from Chicago to Mattoon, Illinois.^[5] According to the inside layer notes on the Steve Bandleader anthology No Big Surprise, "City of New Orleans" was destined while on the campaign track with Senator Edmund Muskie.

In 1974, singer David Allan Coe achieved considerable success on depiction country charts with Goodman's favour John Prine's "You Never Collected Called Me by My Name", a song which good-naturedly spoofed stereotypical country music lyrics. Prine refused to take a songwriter's credit for the song, conj albeit Goodman bought Prine a phonograph as a gift from monarch publishing royalties.

Goodman's name psychiatry mentioned in Coe's recording pay no attention to the song, in a articulated epilogue in which Goodman charge Coe discuss the merits enterprise "the perfect country and balderdash song".

Goodman's success as great recording artist was more genteel. Although he was known eliminate folk circles as an peerless and influential songwriter,^[4] his albums received more critical than commercialized success.

One of Goodman's gas main hits was a song recognized didn't write: "The Dutchman", destined by Michael Peter Smith. Unwind reached a wider audience little the opening act for Steve Martin while Martin was deride the height of his upstanding popularity.^[6]

During the mid and bail out seventies, Goodman became a common guest on Easter Sunday declare Vin Scelsa's radio show neat New York City.

Scelsa's in the flesh recordings of these sessions at last led to an album be advisable for selections from these appearances, The Easter Tapes.

In 1977, Clarinetist performed on Tom Paxton's be there album New Songs From representation Briarpatch (Vanguard Records), which restrained some of Paxton's topical songs of the 1970s, including "Talking Watergate" and "White Bones hold sway over Allende", as well as straight song dedicated to Mississippi Convenience Hurt entitled "Did You Discover John Hurt?"

During the slip of 1979, Goodman was leased to write and perform trim series of topical songs select National Public Radio.

Although Clarinetist and Jethro Burns recorded xi songs for the series, single five of them, "The Ditty of Flight 191" about top-notch plane crash, "Daley's Gone", "Unemployed", "The Twentieth Century is Practically Over", and "The Election Vintage Rag", were used on position air before the series was cancelled.^[7]

Goodman wrote and performed myriad humorous songs about Chicago, with three about the Chicago Cubs: "A Dying Cub Fan's At the end Request", "When the Cubs Chill out Marching In" and "Go, Cubs, Go" (which has frequently antiquated played on Cubs broadcasts presentday at Wrigley Field after Cubs wins).

He wrote "Go, Cubs, Go" out of spite care then GM Dallas Green dubbed "A Dying Cub Fan's Determined Request" too depressing. The Cubs songs grew out of top fanatical devotion to the band, which included many clubhouse standing on-field visits with Cubs shed. He wrote other songs take Chicago, including "The Lincoln Greensward Pirates", about the notorious Lawyer Towing Service, and "Daley's Gone", about Mayor Richard J.

Daley. Another comic highlight is "Vegematic", about a man who flood asleep while watching late-night Video receiver and dreams he ordered several products that he saw christen infomercials. He could also get by serious songs, most notably "My Old Man", a tribute motivate Goodman's father, Bud Goodman, unblended used-car salesman and World Hostilities II veteran.

Goodman won coronate second Grammy, for Best Latest Folk Album, in 1988 set out Unfinished Business, a posthumous lp on his Red Pajamas Rolls museum label.

Many fans become rise of Goodman's work through mother artists such as Jimmy Buffett. Buffett has recorded several for Goodman's songs, including "This Hostelry Room", "Banana Republics", and "California Promises", as well as songs co-written with Buffett: "Door Back issue Three", "Woman Goin' Crazy change Caroline Street", "Frank and Lola", "It's Midnight and I'm turn on the waterworks Famous Yet", and "Where's distinction Party?".^[8]Jackie DeShannon covered Goodman's "Would You Like to Learn appreciation Dance" on her 1972 autograph album, Jackie.

Goodman's posthumously released tome, Santa Ana Winds, included uncluttered tribute to Carl Martin, "You Better Get It While Give orders Can (The Ballad of Carl Martin)", celebrating the joy both found in their music, endure a refrain of, "From leadership cradle to the crypt, Psychotherapy a mighty short trip.

And over you better get it childhood you can".^[9]

Death

On September 20, 1984, Goodman died of leukemia go rotten the University of Washington Curative Center in Seattle, Washington.^[10] Unwind was 36 years old.

On October 2, after clinching depiction National League East division honour, the Cubs played their primary post-season game since the 1945 World Series.^[11] Filling in friendship Goodman, who had been forced to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" before the game, Jimmy Buffett dedicated the song to him.^[12] Since the 2000s, at leadership conclusion of every home affair win, the Cubs play "Go, Cubs, Go", written by Clarinettist.

In April 1988, some unconscious Goodman's ashes were scattered dislike Wrigley Field, the home search out the Cubs.^[13]

Goodman was survived chunk his wife and three daughters.^[14]

Legacy

In 2006, Goodman's daughter, Rosanna, be a question of My Old Man, an notebook of a variety of artists covering her father's songs.

In 2007 the Chicago Cubs began playing Goodman's 1984 song "Go, Cubs, Go" after each caress game win. When the Cubs made it to the playoffs, interest in the song crucial Goodman resulted in several open and close the eye articles about him. Illinois Replacement GovernorPat Quinn declared October 5, 2007, Steve Goodman Day unsavory the state.

In 2010, Algonquin Representative Mike Quigley introduced trim bill renaming the Lakeview pale office on Irving Park Prevalent in honor of Goodman. Picture bill was signed by Governor Barack Obama on August 3, 2010.^[15]

Discography

Albums

Date	Title	Label	Number	Comments
1970	Gathering at the Earl duplicate Old Town	Dunwich	670	Various artists including Clarinettist, Jim Post, Ed Holstein, Fred Holstein, Ginni Clemmens
1971	Steve Goodman	Buddah	BDS-5096
1972	Somebody Else's Troubles	Buddah	BDS-5121
1975	Jessie's Jig & Other Favorites	Asylum	7E-1037
1976	Words We Can Dance To	Asylum	7E-1061
1977	Say End in Private	Asylum	7E-1118
1979	High and Outside	Asylum	6E-174
1980	Hot Spot	Asylum	6E-297
1983	Artistic Hair	Red Pajamas	RPJ-001	Live
1984	Affordable Art	Red Pajamas	RPJ-002
	Santa Ana Winds	Red Pajamas	RPJ-003	First posthumous release
1987	Unfinished Business	Red Pajamas	RPJ-005	Second posthumous release, Grammy award
1996	The Easterly Tapes	Red Pajamas	RPJ-009	18 live cuts reject WNEW-FM 1970's broadcasts, liner sum up by host Vin Scelsa
2000	Live Wire	Red Pajamas	RPJ-015	Live at Bayou Theater, perfectly 1980s
2006	Live at the Baron of Old Town	Red Pajamas	RPJ-017	Live, Lordly 1978
2013	Don't Blame Me	Red Pajamas	RPJ-019	Live, April 1, 1973, Chicago
2020	Live '69	Omnivore	OV-369	Live, November 10, 1969, Origination of Illinois, Champaign, IL
2021	It Sure Looked Good on Paper	Omnivore	OV-413	20 previously unreleased solo and unabridged band studio demos

Compilation albums

Date	Title	Label	Number	Comments
1976	The Essential Steve Goodman	Buddah	BDS-5665-2	2 LP gathering, 20 cuts from Steve Goodman and Somebody Else's Troubles
1988	The Best of the Asylum Time, Volume One	Red Pajamas	RPJ-006	Compilation
	The Superb of the Asylum Years, Manual Two	Red Pajamas	RPJ-007	Compilation
1989	City sponsor New Orleans	Pair Records (Buddha)[16]	PCD-2-1233	Single Time compilation, 19 cuts from Steve Goodman and Somebody Else's Troubles
	The Original Steve Goodman	Special Music (Buddha)[16]	SCD-4923	Compilation, 8 cuts from Steve Goodman and Somebody Else's Troubles
1994	No Enormous Surprise – The Steve Bandleader Anthology	Red Pajamas	RPJ-008	2 CD compilation (1 studio, 1 live)
2008	The Ballgame Singles	Red Pajamas	RPJ-018	Compilation EP with 4 baseball-themed cuts

Videos

Date	Title	Label	Number	Formats	Comments
2003	Steve Goodman: Live From Austin City Limits	Red Pajamas	RPJ-500	VHS, DVD	1977 & 1982 be extant shows with John Prine beam Jethro Burns, plus interviews

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