[LM_NET] Share: Shel Silverstein

[Josephine Dervan <dervan@OPTONLINE.NET>]

Like many of you, I have enjoyed Silverstein's books for many years. However last 
night I learned something new about him. I was listening to a NY radio station and 
after they played the song, Sylvia's Mother, they mentioned that the song was 
written by Shel Silverstein in reaction to a conversation he had with the Mom of an 
old girlfriend. Sylvia was really leaving to marry someone else and her Mom didn't 
want Shel to stop the wedding.
 
I did some research and learned that Silverstein, a true renaissance man, also 
wrote such hits as “A Boy Named Sue” for Johnny Cash and “The Cover of the Rolling 
Stone” for Dr. Hook. 
 
Jo

Josephine Dervan, MLS -Adjunct Instructor 
School of Communication, Information and Library Studies 
Rutgers University 
dervan at optonline.net 


He who has a library and a garden, wants for nothing- Cicero 

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