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The Harry Chapin Archive was created in 1996 during my freshmen year of college as a way
for me to share information I had been collecting on this amazing musician I had first
heard of my sophomore year of high school.
Thinking, but not sure, that I was alone in appreciating the work of this no-longer-living
singer-songwriter, with the help of a friend, I created a newsgroup, alt.music.harry-chapin,
hoping to meet a couple of people who had also "discovered" Harry.
I got much more than I bargained for. There were tons of Chapin fans out there, young and
old.
This web site grew out of the simple idea that those of us who had thoughts to share
on Chapin, or interesting things we'd found relating to him, should have a "permanent"
place to put them, so that anyone would be able to find them.
Several years later, the purpose of the site remains much the same.
Layout, design, images, and user-contributed text are © Copyright 1996-2017 HarryChapin.com: The Harry Chapin Archive.
"Oh, if a man tried to take his time on earth and prove before he died what one man's life could be worth, I wonder what would happen to this world?" -- Harry Chapin, 1942-1981.
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The Latest Release
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Sniper & Other Love Songs
[iTunes]
In 1972, Harry released
Sniper & Other Love Songs.
Thirty years would pass before the album would ever reach the CD format. Sniper was finally re-released in June, 2002.
Originally given a working title of Sweet City Suite, the album tells the story of various characters one might run into in
a city. The album features the original studio versions of Chapin classics "A Better Place to Be" and "Circle." But
perhaps more importantly (as those songs are already well-distributed on compilation CDs), the album features seemingly
lost Chapin stories, including "And the Baby Never Cries," "Burning Herself," "Barefoot Boy," and "Woman Child."
Sniper is for the seasoned Chapin fan. New fans would do better to check out
Greatest Stories
Live. But for Chapin fans who have reached the level of the
Dance Band on the Titanic album, this is the next step. Slightly over-produced and having a little of the "forced"
feel that some of Harry's studio albums possess, this album does not capture the powerfully live Harry Chapin. Nonetheless,
it captures Harry's great iconoclastic songwriting--Harry takes the story song to new heights here. But the album works best
for those ready for it; don't buy it until you are ready to appreciate it!
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