He was 36 years old. Four days after Goodman's death, the Chicago Cubs clinched the Eastern Division title in the National League for the first time ever, earning them their first post-season appearance since 1945, three years before Goodman's birth.
Eight days later, on October 2, the Cubs played their first post-season game since Game 7 of the 1945 World Series.
Steven Benjamin Goodman (July 25, 1948 – September 20, 1984) was an American folk and country singer-songwriter from Chicago.
He graduated from Maine East High School in Park Ridge, Illinois, in 1965, where he was a classmate of Hillary Clinton's.
In the fall of 1965, he entered the University of Illinois and pledged the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity, where he, Ron Banyon, and Steve Hartmann formed a popular rock cover band, "The Juicy Fruits".
In the early spring of 1967, Goodman went to New York, staying for a month in a Greenwich Village brownstone across the street from the Cafe Wha?, where Goodman performed regularly during his brief stay there. Returning to Chicago, he intended to restart his education.
In 1968 Goodman began performing at the Earl of Old Town and The Dangling Conversation coffeehouse in Chicago and attracted a following.
By 1969, Goodman was a regular performer in Chicago, while attending Lake Forest College.
He dropped out of school again to pursue his musical dream full-time after discovering, in 1969, the cause of his continuous fatigue was actually leukemia, the disease that was present during the entirety of his recording career, until his death in 1984. In September 1969 he met Nancy Pruter (sister of R&B writer Robert Pruter), who was attending college while supporting herself as a waitress.
They were married in February 1970.
He extracted meaning from the mundane. ==Musical career== Goodman's songs first appeared on Gathering at The Earl of Old Town, an album produced by Chicago record company Dunwich in 1971.
He also remained closely involved with Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music, where he had met and mentored his good friend, John Prine. Later in 1971, Goodman was playing at a Chicago bar called the Quiet Knight as the opening act for Kris Kristofferson.
Goodman played "City of New Orleans", which Guthrie liked enough that he asked to record it. Guthrie's version of Goodman's song became a Top-20 hit in 1972 and provided Goodman with enough financial and artistic success to make his music a full-time career.
Jackie DeShannon covered Goodman's "Would You Like to Learn to Dance" on her 1972 album, Jackie. ==Death== On September 20, 1984, Goodman died of leukemia at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, Washington.
A French translation of the song, "Salut Les Amoureux", was recorded by Joe Dassin in 1973.
It reached number one on the Dutch Top 40 in December 1973 and has become a classic which is still played on Dutch radio.
According to the liner notes on the Steve Goodman anthology No Big Surprise, "City of New Orleans" was written while on the campaign trail with Senator Edmund Muskie. In 1974, singer David Allan Coe achieved considerable success on the country charts with Goodman's and John Prine's "You Never Even Called Me by My Name", a song which good-naturedly spoofed stereotypical country music lyrics.
A Hebrew version of the song "Shalom Lach Eretz Nehederet" was sung by famous Israeli singer Yehoram Gaon in 1977 and became an immediate hit.
Steven Benjamin Goodman (July 25, 1948 – September 20, 1984) was an American folk and country singer-songwriter from Chicago.
Goodman died of leukemia in September 1984. ==Personal life== 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 dropped out of school again to pursue his musical dream full-time after discovering, in 1969, the cause of his continuous fatigue was actually leukemia, the disease that was present during the entirety of his recording career, until his death in 1984. In September 1969 he met Nancy Pruter (sister of R&B writer Robert Pruter), who was attending college while supporting herself as a waitress.
Jackie DeShannon covered Goodman's "Would You Like to Learn to Dance" on her 1972 album, Jackie. ==Death== On September 20, 1984, Goodman died of leukemia at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, Washington.
The same year, the Chicago Cubs began playing Goodman's 1984 song "Go, Cubs, Go" after each home game win.
He wrote the song "City of New Orleans," which was recorded by Arlo Guthrie and many others including John Denver, The Highwaymen, and Judy Collins; in 1985, it received a Grammy award for best country song, as performed by Willie Nelson.
The song, about the Illinois Central's City of New Orleans train, would become an American standard, covered by such musicians as Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, Chet Atkins, Lynn Anderson, and Willie Nelson, whose recorded version earned Goodman a posthumous Grammy Award for Best Country Song in 1985.
He could also write serious songs, most notably "My Old Man", a tribute to Goodman's father, Bud Goodman, a used-car salesman and World War II veteran. Goodman won his second Grammy, for Best Contemporary Folk Album, in 1988 for Unfinished Business, a posthumous album on his Red Pajamas Records label. Many fans become aware of Goodman's work through other artists such as Jimmy Buffett.
His eldest daughter, Jesse, died in 2012. ==Legacy== In 2006, Goodman's daughter, Rosanna, issued My Old Man, an album of a variety of artists covering her father's songs. Interest in Goodman's career had a resurgence in 2007 with the publication of a biography by Clay Eals, Facing the Music.
His eldest daughter, Jesse, died in 2012. ==Legacy== In 2006, Goodman's daughter, Rosanna, issued My Old Man, an album of a variety of artists covering her father's songs. Interest in Goodman's career had a resurgence in 2007 with the publication of a biography by Clay Eals, Facing the Music.
Illinois Lieutenant Governor Pat Quinn declared October 5, 2007, Steve Goodman Day in the state.
In 2010, Illinois Representative Mike Quigley introduced a bill renaming the Lakeview post office on Irving Park Road in honor of Goodman.
The bill was signed by President Barack Obama on August 3, 2010. ==Discography== ===Albums=== ===Compilation albums=== ===Videos=== ==References== ==Further reading== Eals, Clay.
His eldest daughter, Jesse, died in 2012. ==Legacy== In 2006, Goodman's daughter, Rosanna, issued My Old Man, an album of a variety of artists covering her father's songs. Interest in Goodman's career had a resurgence in 2007 with the publication of a biography by Clay Eals, Facing the Music.
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