STEVE GOODMAN
Steve Goodman (July 25, 1948 – September 20, 1984) was an American folk music singer-songwriter from Chicago. Goodman was diagnosed with leukemia while attending college, and he set out to make the most of the time he had left to write music. Goodman, a prolific writer, penned “City of New Orleans”, a song made popular by Arlo Guthrie and Willie Nelson, for which Goodman won his first Grammy Award posthumously in 1985, with a second Grammy awarded to him in 1988 for Unfinished Business. (More from Wikipedia)
The article by Allmusic (by William Ruhlmann) on Arlo Guthrie opens with: “Is it possible to be a one-hit wonder three times?” The whole idea of course is nonsense. True, Arlo’s only Top 40 hit was “City of New Orleans” in 1972, one of the great train songs. Arlo writes most of his own music, though this song was written by Steve Goodman.
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