30,000 Pounds of Bananas

Posted on | April 17, 2010 | 2 Comments

One of her all time favorite records is actually a two record set entitled Greatest Stories Live by the late Harry Chapin. She never felt his studio recordings captured the magnificence that was caught in the on stage live recordings. One of her favorite songs is, of course, 30,000 Pounds of Bananas because… how could it not be a favorite? It is *brilliant* that anyone could write a song that is over 11 minutes long about 30,000 pounds of bananas!  [If you haven't heard this album, check it out, you already know some of the songs, you just don't know you know them.] Another reason she loves this song, without giving away too much, is that it is set very close to where she was born, and so of course the “occurrence” happening near where she was born is just spectacular. It is an event. It is almost as good as Neil Diamond singing Sweet Caroline as if directly to her.  Who’d have guessed *everyone* would know that song? 

Harry Chapin was a storyteller. Cat’s In The Cradle (written in 1974) hit home for many of us. The song has been redone, parts of the lyric remixed years later, still being relevant.  She imagined her words having relevance all those years later. She smiled. Maybe.  Maybe someday. FYI: Harry almost lost credit for the song thanks to the Internet and a mistake with .mp3 credits being given, but she knew. Harry Chapin wrote it. Those were his words, she’d heard those records played many, many times.

She listened with great pleasure as the songs she’d been hearing her entire life filled the room. She was grateful to her parents for a very eclectic musical taste. But this…this was storytelling.  She was listening to wonderful stories from an angel…and thinking about having a banana.

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