CATS IN THE CRADLE – Harry Chapin
#1 December 21st, 1974
NEWS
• President Nixon resigned over the Watergate and agrees to pay 432,000 in back taxes.
• The country started Daylight Saving Time in the summer.
• We could only drive 55!
• Expo 74 Worlds Fair opens in Spokane, Washington.
• G. Gordon Liddy is found guilty of the Watergate break-ins.
FADS and ENTERTAINMENT
• T.V.: “Happy Days” “Rhoda” & “Chico & the Man”.
• Movies: “Blazing Saddles” & “Texas Chainsaw Massacre”
• The “Rumble in the Jungle” took place between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Zaire
• aAnew magazine called “People” was on the newsstands as was “Star”.
• Hank Aaron breaks Babe Ruth’s record of 714 home runs.
• Altair 8800 microcomputer kit goes on sale.
• The "String" Bikini is in fashion
DEAD
• Jack Benny: February 14, 1894 – December 26, 1974
• Mama Cass: September 19, 1941 – July 29, 1974
• Duke Ellington: April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974
• Charles Lindbergh: February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974
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#1@1
• A native New Yorker who originally intended to be a documentary filmmaker that started playing and telling his stories through song in village clubs.
• On December 7, 1987, on what would have been his 45th birthday, Chapin was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for his campaigning on social issues, particularly his highlighting of hunger around the world and in the United States.
• Harry Chapin “Cats In the Cradle” your #1 @ 1 from December 1974
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