As a child, I used to listen to oldies in the car while riding around with my father. The station we listened to in the Twin Cities was Kool 108 where the station proclaimed in between songs, “Great times and Great oldies, Kool 108.” My father, a baby boomer, grew up with this genre of music and still enjoyed listening to some of the songs.
Most were fairly shallow, but one song came on every once in a while that I could tell had held a much deeper meaning. It was a song by Harry Chapin titled, “Cats in The Cradle.”
The story behind this song is fascinating. Harry Chapin’s wife wrote a poem about fatherhood. What inspired their soon-to-be-born son and the reality that her husband worked long hours. She was concerned that this pattern of work would continue and he would have no time for him.
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