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Re: Your best HC memory....submit yours!
Posted by T. Denise

You guys are all new here...us "old timers" have done this before!

My favorite moment...I saw HC once, in Watertown, NY in the '70's. He did a benifit for the Disabled Persons Action Organization (typical!) and my mother was involved in the planning. She was invited to a reception before the first concert, and took me (I was about 13). Harry walked into a room full of local dignataries - mayor, councilmen, local leaders, etc.- and shook hands. Then he came to the table with 4 teenage girls and sat down. He talked with us for a while, kissed us all, gave some autographs, and was just "Harry". After the concert, at the album sales table, he remembered me, and signed the two albums I bought. I've loved his music, and cherish the albums, but the memory of a "star" sitting with teenagers and hanging out....That is Harry Chapin to me.

By the way, my husband is also a great fan (though he never saw HC perform live) and all four kids can name a Harry Chapin tune within the first few notes. We raise 'em well around here!

Harry's Music

Bottom Line Encore Collection       [Amazon] [iTunes] Dance Band On The Titanic*       [Amazon] [iTunes] Essentials       [Amazon] Gold Medal Collection       [Amazon] [iTunes] Greatest Stories Live*       [Amazon] [iTunes] Harry Chapin Tribute       [Amazon] Heads & Tales       [Amazon] [iTunes] Last Protest Singer       [Amazon] Legends Of Lost & Found*       [iTunes] Living Room Suite       [Amazon] [iTunes] On The Road To Kingdom Come       [Amazon] [iTunes] Portrait Gallery       [Amazon] [iTunes] Sequel       [iTunes] Short Stories       [Amazon] [iTunes] Sniper & Other Love Songs       [Amazon] [iTunes] Story of a Life       [Amazon] Verities & Balderdash       [Amazon] [iTunes] * = Highly Recommended

The Latest Release

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!