CHICAGO (AP) - Folk singer Steve Goodman's "Go Cubs Go," about his beloved Chicago Cubs, is a hit decades after he died -- and months after his relatives sold the rights to his song collection. That ...
The Jewish songwriter never got to see his beloved hometown team get to a World Series. You’ve likely never heard of Steve Goodman. The late Jewish singer, who released at least 10 albums of folk ...
Folk singer Steve Goodman grew up going to Cubs games, and this diehard fan had a lifelong goal—to write a hit song about baseball. After being delayed because of the pandemic, baseball season is ...
Steve Goodman is the man responsible for "Go Cubs Go," a song that's been the anthem his beloved team since 1984. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Goodman's biographer Clay Eals about the singer's life.
With the Mariners failing (yet again) to make the postseason, the national pastime in this part of the woods has taken secondary interest to Seahawks and Cougars and all things football. I, too, lost ...
CHICAGO (AP) Folk singer Steve Goodman's ''Go Cubs Go'' about his beloved Chicago Cubs is a hit decades after he died - and months after his relatives sold the rights to his song collection. That ...
Long gone but never to be forgotten, Steve Goodman remains part of the soundtrack of the city he called home and the place he celebrated in songs about its joys (“Go Cubs Go”) and dark sides (“Lincoln ...
CHICAGO (AP) Folk singer Steve Goodman's ''Go Cubs Go'' about his beloved Chicago Cubs is a hit decades after he died - and months after his relatives sold the CHICAGO (AP) Folk singer Steve Goodman's ...
The latter song, which debuted in 1981, begins by describing a fictional character on his deathbed by the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago, dreaming of a “doubleheader funeral in Wrigley Field.” But ...