He wrote her reaction to it --- "A nice pretty song. You sing a pretty song." ---
Less than a month later, and only a few days before Cathy Anne's fourth birthday, tragedy struck the Guthrie home.
The family radio malfunctioned and caused an electrical fire that fatally burned Cathy Ann while she lay in her bed.
Woody and (wife) Marjorie were devastated yet determined "to hold onto ourselves the way Cathy would like to see us do."
Cathy Ann Guthrie (1943-1947)
Tragedies like this and a world which becomes so impossible to comprehend, we can't help ourselves but to ask -
Why n Why n Why n Why?
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Nice find, Peter.
I happened to be at Belafonte's Greek Theatre concert in 1963 and it was akin to being at a Broadway Show.
The record itself was pretty good (which I still listen to) and my favorite song on there was Windin' Road,
a real superb (love/hate) ballad written by William Eaton:
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Harry Belafonte recorded a concert in 1963 which was almost as good his two Carnegie Hall albums
released in 1959 and 1960 (RCA Victor):
>>> BELAFONTE AT THE GREEK THEATRE <<<
One of the highlights was a Woody Guthrie song entitled - "Why 'n' Why?"
A pretty funny song - but the real highlight is at the end when Harry's son asks him:
"Why Don't You Answer My Questions? - Why 'n' Why 'n' Why?"
Harry answers:
"Because I Don't Know The Answers."
Good Night, Good Night.
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