Matthew and Son

Matthew and Son
"Matthew and Son"
Single by Cat Stevens
from the album Matthew and Son
B-side "Granny"
Released December 30, 1966
Format 45 RPM vinyl single
Recorded 1966
Genre Pop
Length 2:46
Label Deram Records
Writer(s) Cat Stevens
Producer Mike Hurst
Cat Stevens singles chronology
"I Love My Dog"
(1966)
"Matthew and Son"
(1966)
"I'm Gonna Get Me a Gun"
(1967)

"Matthew and Son" is a single written and performed by Cat Stevens. It was selected as the title song for his debut album. Stevens, a newly-arrived teenage singer-songwriter, was performing for a youthful audience, but during the mid-1960s, the period of the start of his musical career, was seen by his audience initially in the role of a crooner, or a young, foppish, "swinging" version of older celebrities who sang as television performers. This was in comparison to the newly emerging folk-rock genre from the skiffle which had, in part, inspired him to begin writing and performing.

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Origins

The song, according to Stevens, was inspired in part, by the tailor, Henry Matthews, who made suits for Stevens. He thought up the story of the worker that became the main character in the song.[1]

Another theory is that he noticed a shop-front in Trinity Street, Cambridge, called 'Matthew and Son'. It was an up-market shop that sold grocery provisions, cheeses, coffee and household china. It was on the site occupied by Heffer's bookshop today.

Stevens later commented, "I had a girlfriend, and she was working for this big firm, and I didn't like the way that she had to spend so much of her time working. The riff seemed to fit the words, Matthew and Son. There was a bit of social comment there about people being slaves to other people."[2]

Charts

Song

Year Chart UK Chart Position
1966 Pop Songs #2

Personnel

  1. Cat Stevens - Guitar, Piano
  2. Alun Davies: Guitar, backing vocals
  3. John Paul Jones: bass guitar
  4. Nicky Hopkins: keyboards
  • Arranger: Allen Tew

Peel Sessions

The song was covered by the band The Delgados in a 2002 Peel session and included on their 2006 collection The Complete BBC Peel Sessions.[3]

References

  1. ^ http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=282 Song Facts
  2. ^ DeYoung, Bill Cat Stevens Box Set Liner notes for the box set from Yusuf Islam
  3. ^ The Complete BBC Peel Sessions Retrieved 3 December, 2008

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