In September 1969 he met Nancy Pruter (sister of R&B writer Robert Pruter), who was attending college and working as a waitress. This led him to drop out of school again to pursue his musical dream full-time. It was during this time he discovered the cause of his continuous fatigue was actually leukemia. During this time Goodman supported himself by singing advertising jingles. By 1969, Goodman was a regular performer in Chicago, while attending Lake Forest College. In 1968 Goodman began performing at the Earl of Old Town and The Dangling Conversation coffeehouse and attracted a following. Returning to Chicago, he intended to restart his education. In the early spring of 1967, Goodman went to New York, staying for a month in a Greenwich Village brownstone across the street from the Cafe Wha?, where Goodman performed regularly during his brief stay there. He left college after one year to pursue his musical career. In college he formed the popular cover band "The Juicy Fruits" with Goodman on lead guitar, Ron Banyon on rhythm guitar, Steve Hartmann on bass, and Elliot Englehardt on drums. In the fall of 1965, he entered the University of Illinois and pledged the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity. During high school he began his public singing career by leading the junior choir at Temple Beth Israel in Albany Park. He graduated from Maine East High School in Park Ridge, Illinois, in 1965, where he was a classmate of Hillary Clinton. He began writing and performing songs as a teenager. Goodman was born on Chicago's North Side to a middle-class Jewish family.
Goodman died of leukemia in September 1984. His most frequently sung song is, " Go Cubs Go" about the Chicago Cubs. Goodman had a small but dedicated group of fans for his albums and concerts during his lifetime. He wrote the song " City of New Orleans", which was recorded by Arlo Guthrie and many others including John Denver, The Highwaymen, and Judy Collins in 1985, it received a Grammy award for best country song, as performed by Willie Nelson. Steven Benjamin Goodman (J– September 20, 1984) was an American folk and country singer-songwriter from Chicago.
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