Quote Originally Posted by 'Bollwerk',index.php?page=Thread&postID=110756#pos t110756
The song became the best known of Chapin's work and a staple for folk rock music. However, the song is widely mistakenly credited to artist Cat Stevens, in part due to a mistitled MP3 version of the song widely circulated on the internet.[citation needed] Jack Black contributed to this confusion, playing part of the song in a Saturday Night Live sketch where Black's character claimed the song was by Yusuf Islam, a.k.a. Cat Stevens.
There are no known, verifiable recordings of Cat Stevens performing the
song however, and a Cat Stevens fan web site assures readers that
Stevens has never performed the song, "not live, not in the studio, and
not even privately."
I'll show this to her tonight, but even it Cat himself told her that he didn't sign the song, she still wouldn't believe it. "How was i able to download it under his name if he didn't sign it!!!"