CD Title: Greatest Stories Live
Genre(s): Ballads (not sure really how to classify it)
Your
own words on why you're recommending this CD: I had started
listening to this when it came out on 8-track and have continued
listening to the music to this day. All of his songs are based on
real life stories or events that have happened in either his life or
someone he knows. A couple of examples are: 'She Wants to Learn a
Love Song' is how he met his wife Sandi, 'Cat's in the Cradle' was
based on a poem that Sandi wrote when Harry mentioned that he was
scared about not being around for his son as his son grew up and 'Taxi'
was based on when he was actually a cabbie. My siblings and I
always talk about how we would sing the words to the songs in the car
when we were on trips with my parents. Some of our favourite
things were saying the "Harry, it sucks" from '30,000 Pounds of
Bananas' or just singing that song out loud. To me, it's what I
call one of my favourite 'comfort cds', one that I will continuously go
back and listen to no matter what (I grew up listening to Harry as well
as Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand and they're ones we continue to
listen to even now).