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calimary

(81,295 posts) Thu Nov 3, 2016, 12:34 PM Nov 2016

For the late Steve Goodman, now that his beloved Cubs won the World Series!

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For the late Steve Goodman, now that his beloved Cubs won the World Series! (Original Post) calimary Nov 2016 OP

Do they still sing blues in Chicago when baseball season mucifer Nov 2016 #4

I have always felt this song is about Steve Goodman taunting death mucifer Nov 2016 #5

I love Stevie Goodman Lifelong Protester Nov 2016 #6

God bless and keep Steve Goodman. Paladin Nov 2016 #7

Go Cubs Go Ccarmona Nov 2016 #8

Well, that made me cry anniebelle Nov 2016 #9

I've loved Steve Goodman since I first discovered him when I worked in college radio. calimary Nov 2016 #12

His ashes are there. murielm99 Nov 2016 #10

while looking up some info on that song, I learned Steve Goodman was a classmate of rurallib Nov 2016 #11

No shit... calimary Nov 2016 #13

Really - blew me away rurallib Nov 2016 #14

mucifer

(23,547 posts)

4. Do they still sing blues in Chicago when baseball season

Reply to calimary (Original post)

Thu Nov 3, 2016, 01:08 PM

Nov 2016

rolls around?

No

mucifer

(23,547 posts)

5. I have always felt this song is about Steve Goodman taunting death

Reply to calimary (Original post)

Thu Nov 3, 2016, 01:10 PM

Nov 2016

He had leukemia and it was in remission when he wrote this song. So death was on his mind and I'm sure writing this song was therapeutic. Leukemia did eventually win and he died young.

Lifelong Protester

(8,421 posts)

6. I love Stevie Goodman

Reply to calimary (Original post)

Thu Nov 3, 2016, 01:23 PM

Nov 2016

and miss him!

Paladin

(28,262 posts)

7. God bless and keep Steve Goodman.

Reply to calimary (Original post)

Thu Nov 3, 2016, 02:19 PM

Nov 2016

We lost him way too soon.

Ccarmona

(1,180 posts)

8. Go Cubs Go

Reply to calimary (Original post)

Thu Nov 3, 2016, 02:47 PM

Nov 2016

I'm sure he was watching with Harry, Ron, & Ernie.

anniebelle

(899 posts)

9. Well, that made me cry

Reply to calimary (Original post)

Thu Nov 3, 2016, 03:15 PM

Nov 2016

I'm digging through all my Steve Goodman CD's now ~ love that man and his music ~ gone way too soon.

calimary

(81,295 posts)

12. I've loved Steve Goodman since I first discovered him when I worked in college radio.

Reply to anniebelle (Reply #9)

Thu Nov 3, 2016, 05:58 PM

Nov 2016

EONS ago!

Heard that song and was just totally taken away by it. Became a big Steve Goodman fan then and ever since. He's so under-appreciated! Cubs fans the world over should never forget him.

murielm99

(30,741 posts)

10. His ashes are there.

Reply to calimary (Original post)

Thu Nov 3, 2016, 04:41 PM

Nov 2016

Some are under home plate. The rest were scattered near the ivy.

This was always a fitting song for a city known for the blues.

RIP Stevie.

rurallib

(62,416 posts)

11. while looking up some info on that song, I learned Steve Goodman was a classmate of

Reply to calimary (Original post)

Thu Nov 3, 2016, 05:08 PM

Nov 2016

one Hillary Rodham at Maine East in Park Ridge, Ill. class of 1965

calimary

(81,295 posts)

13. No shit...

Reply to rurallib (Reply #11)

Thu Nov 3, 2016, 05:58 PM

Nov 2016

Small world.

rurallib

(62,416 posts)

14. Really - blew me away

Reply to calimary (Reply #13)

Thu Nov 3, 2016, 06:28 PM

Nov 2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Goodman

"Born on Chicago's North Side to a middle-class Jewish family, Goodman began writing and performing songs as a teenager, after his family had moved to the near north suburbs. He graduated from Maine East High School in Park Ridge, Illinois in 1965, where he was a classmate of Hillary Clinton. ,"

provided that wikipedia is reliable

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