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silversurfer250
The song is set in San Francisco. Sandy Chapin explains: "The song was moved to the West Coast from the East Coast. His life, college and otherwise, his work, was all on the East Coast. Even his film work was on the East Coast, except for that one year in California when he was doing commercials. When I would look through Harry's notebooks, I was amazed at how little editing there was. He would start jotting down ideas for a song or a story, and then decide later that because of the rhyming or the rhythm or whatever it was, that San Francisco would be a good place. He probably just came up with the line, 'It was raining hard in Frisco,' and went on from there. There were some notebooks where he jotted down 4 or 6 lines that he might come back to later and use. But there are other notebooks where he just sat down and wrote the song." (Read more about Harry in our interview with Sandy Chapin.) http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1952
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silversurfer250
Behind the curtain of Harry Chapin's only #1 hit: Cat's in the Cradle. http://www.harrychapin.com/circle/winter04/behind.htm
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nomoresongs
MusicJim, there was indeed a sequel to this on the album called, funnily enough, Sequel. It was nowhere near as good, as there should never be completion in this kind of thing, as the cast of X Files and Moonlighting know all too well.
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nomoresongs
One of the great lyricists and his tunes are fantastic, too. The soundtrack to my changes, along with Phil Ochs. If anyone wants to listen to my singer/songwriter radio on my site, there are loads of Harry songs on it.
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downinahole55
Quite depressing, nothing will ever go the way you dream it will. Great song none-the-less
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Eclectic-G
It was raining hard in Frisco, I needed one more fare to make my night. A lady up ahead waved to flag me down, she got in at the light.
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