This six CD box - the first serious, multi-disc reappraisal of Chapin's work - presents the nine albums he issued from 1972 to 1978: Heads And Tales, Sniper And Other Love Songs, Short Stories, Verities And Balderdash, Portrait Gallery, Greatest Stories Live, On The Road To Kingdom Come, Dance Band On The Titanic, and Living Room Suite. After Elektra, Chapin signed with Boardwalk for a final album before dying tragically and prematurely in a car accident in 1981. With 4000-word notes, placing Chapin's career in context, and arguing for his elevation in the cultural hierarchy, by Record Collector contributor, Charles Donovan. Acoustic guitarist and singer/songwriter, Harry Chapin, who was born in New York, was a pioneer of the elaborate story-song, a style whose roots lay in
folk and
country music.
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Disc: 1 Heads & Tales 1 Could You Put Your Light on, Please
2 Greyhound
3 Everybody's Lonely
4 Sometime, Somewhere Wife
5 Empty
6 Taxi
7 Any Old Kind of Day
8 Dogtown
9 Same Sad Singer
Sniper And Other Love Songs 10 Sunday Morning Sunshine
11 Sniper
12 And the Baby Never Cries
13 Burning Herself
14 Barefoot Boy
15 Better Place to Be
Disc: 2 1 Circle
2 Woman Child
3 Winter Song Short Stories
Short Stories 4 Short Stories
5 Wold
6 Song for Myself
7 Song Man
8 Changes
9 They Call Her Easy
10 Mr Tanner
11 Mail Order Annie
12 There's a Lot of Lonely People Tonight
13 Old College Avenue
Verities & Balderdash14 Cat's in the Cradle
15 I Wanna Learn a Love Song
16 Shooting Star
17 30,000 Pounds of Bananas
18 She Sings Songs Without Words
Disc: 3 1 What Made America Famous?
2 Vacancy
3 Halfway to Heaven
4 Six String Orchestra
Portrait Gallery5 Dreams Go By
6 Tangled Up Puppet
7 Star Tripper
8 Babysitter
9 Someone Keeps Calling My Name
10 The
Rock11 Sandy
12 Dirt Gets Under the Fingernails
13 Bummer
14 Stop Singing These Sad Songs
Disc: 4 Greatest Stories Live 1 Dreams Go By
2 Wold
3 Saturday Morning
4 I Wanna Learn a Love Song
5 Mr Tanner
6 A Better Place to Be
7 Let Time Go Lightly
8 Cat's in the Cradle
9 Taxi
10 Circle
11 30,000 Pounds of Bananas
12 She Is Always Seventeen
13 Love Is Just Another Word
14 The Shortest Story
On The Road To Kingdom Come 15 On the Road to Kingdom Come
16 The Parade's Still Passing By
Disc: 5 1 The Mayor of Candor Lied
2 Laugh Man
3 Corey's Coming
4 If My Mary Were Here
5 Fall in Love with Him
6 Caroline
7 Roll Down the River
Dance Band on the Titanic 8 Dance Band on the Titanic
9 Why Should People Stay the Same
10 My Old Lady
11 We Grew Up a Little Bit
12 Bluesman
13
Country Dreams
14 I Do It for You, Jane
15 I Wonder What Happened to Him
Disc: 6 1 Paint a Picture of Yourself (Michael)
2 Mismatch
3 Mercenaries
4 Manhood
5 One Light in a Dark Alley (An Imitation Spiritual)
6 There Was Only One Choice
Living Room Suite 7 Dancin' Boy
8 If You Want to Feel
9 Poor Damned Fool
10 I Wonder What Would Happen to This World
11 Jenny
12 It Seems You Only Love Me When It Rains
13 Why Do Little Girls
14 Flowers Are Red
15 Somebody Said
All thanks to original releaser