Harry Chapin: Story Of A Life

Harry Chapin - Harry Chapin: Story Of A Life

Harry Chapin: Story Of A Life
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Artist: Harry Chapin
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 1999-10-19
Music Label: Elektra / Wea
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Taxi [Live]
  2. Someone Keeps Calling My Name [The Chapin Brothers]
  3. Could You Put Your Light on, Please
  4. Empty
  5. Greyhound
  6. Any Old Kind of Day
  7. Sunday Morning Sunshine
  8. Sniper
  9. Better Place to Be
  10. They Call Her Easy
  11. Mr. Tanner
  12. Mail Order Annie
  13. W.O.L.D.
  14. Old College Avenue
  15. Circle
Music CD 2
  1. Short Stories
  2. Cat's in the Cradle
  3. I Wanna Learn a Love Song
  4. 30,000 Pounds of Bananas [Live]
  5. Shooting Star
  6. What Made America Famous?
  7. Vacancy
  8. Dreams Go By
  9. Tangled Up Puppet
  10. Rock
  11. She Is Always Seventeen
  12. Mayor of Candor Lied
  13. Caroline
  14. Laugh Man
  15. Taxi [Live]
Music CD 3
  1. Corey's Coming
  2. If My Mary Were Here
  3. Dance Band on the Titanic
  4. Mismatch
  5. I Wonder What Happened to Him
  6. Dancing Boy
  7. Flowers Are Red [Live]
  8. Poor Damned Fool
  9. Jenny
  10. I Wonder What Would Happen to This World
  11. Old Folkie [Live]
  12. Remember When the Music (Reprise)
  13. God Babe, You've Been Good for Me
  14. Story of a Life
  15. November Rains
  16. Sequel
  17. Last Stand

Music reviews of Harry Chapin: Story Of A Life

Music Review: Disc 3 is the best
Rating: 3 Stars

This boxed set into the life and music of Harry Chapin is full of good music and great insight into his life and times, but it's really the last CD of the three disc sets that makes the album. It has his classics "Corey's Coming", "If My Mary Were Here", and "Danceband on the Titanic", live versions of "Flowers are Red" and "Old Folkie", and his rare recordings such as "November Rains" and "Last Stand" (the latter being the best). On its own 8/10. With the last disc 10/10.

Description of Harry Chapin: Story Of A Life

The 1970s produced a peculiar school of singer-songwriters whose narrative-driven lyrics set them apart from their self-reflective peers. Think of David Ackles and Randy Newman on the fringes, and far nearer the mainstream, the "Captain Jack"-era Billy Joel and earnest-to-the-core Harry Chapin. Chapin first made a splash in 1972 with "Taxi," a claustrophobic little melodrama set in a cab. He made the top 20 two years later with the familial "Cat's in the Cradle." Though he'd never climb so high again, songs such as "W*O*L*D" and "Dance Band on the Titanic," and albums like Verities & Balderdash kept the folk crooner in the spotlight. From there, he championed a variety of social causes until he was killed in a 1981 auto accident. Story of a Life packages three discs of Chapin recordings in one attractive box. Given the singer's excesses (he wasn't the subtlest of artists, either as a writer or singer), that's a lot of Chapin. But fans will appreciate the loving liner essays from family members and, of course, the cinematic songs from a performer whose heart was always in the right place. --Steven Stolder

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