Harry Chapin

Harry Chapin - Some More Stories (Live at Radio Bremen 1977) (2020) Music

Posted by delpotro at June 21, 2020

Harry Chapin’s brother Steve and his drummer Howard Fields remember: “On April 11th 1977, Harry Chapin and his band, near the end of their first tour overseas, performed a concert broadcast over German radio at a small auditorium in the city of Bremen in front of 400 people."

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Harry Chapin - Story Book: The Elektra Albums 1972-1978 (Remastered) (2022) Music

Posted by Rtax at July 20, 2024

Harry Chapin - Story Book: The Elektra Albums 1972-1978 (Remastered) (2022)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 2.7 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 1.1 GB
7:44:21 | Folk Rock, Pop Rock | Label: Cherry Red

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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Harry Chapin - Original Album Series (2009) 5CD Box Set [Re-Up] Music

Posted by Designol at Feb. 17, 2020

This Rhino-issued box set features five of the late great singer/songwriter's best albums in their entireties, including Heads and Tales (1972), Sniper and Other Love Songs (1972), Short Stories (1973), Verities & Balderdash (1974), and On the Road to Kingdom Come (1976).

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Harry Chapin - The Elektra Collection 1972-1978 (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at Jan. 4, 2024

Harry Forster Chapin was an American singer-songwriter best known for his folk rock songs. New York singer-songwriter whose story songs delivered in a soulful rasp bewitched 1970s pop radio. Here is the Harry Chapin retrospective collection featuring the albums: "Heads & Tales", "Sniper & Other Love Songs", "Short Stories", "Verities & Balderdash", "Portrait Gallery", "On The Road To Kingdom Come", "Dance Band On The Titanic", and "Living Room Suite".

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Harry Chapin - Castles In The Sky 1978 (2021) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Feb. 10, 2021

Harry Chapin - Castles In The Sky 1978 (2021)
MP3 320 kbps | 2:23:33 | 330 Mb
Genre: Folk Rock / Label: Hatbox

Harry Chapin's career as a popular singer/songwriter was cut short by an auto accident in 1981, yet he left behind a series of recordings that his fans continue to treasure decades after his death. Chapin was never a critically acclaimed singer/songwriter. Critics accused him of over-sentimentalizing his subjects and attaching heavy-handed morals to his socially aware story-songs; the heavily orchestrated arrangements that accompanied many of his songs didn't help his case with the critics, either. Nevertheless, Chapin earned a devoted audience during the '70s, through his music and his charity work as a social activist. Chapin began performing while he was in high school, singing in the Brooklyn Heights Boys' Choir and forming a band with his brothers Tom and Stephen.

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Harry Chapin - Some More Stories (Live at Radio Bremen 1977) (2020) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Feb. 27, 2020

Harry Chapin - Some More Stories (Live at Radio Bremen 1977) (2020)
FLAC tracks / MP3 320 kbps | 01:19:49 | 183 / 474 Mb
Genre: Folk, Rock / Label: M.i.G - music GmbH

Harry Chapin's brother Steve and his drummer Howard Fields remember: "On April 11th 1977, Harry Chapin and his band, near the end of their first tour overseas, performed a concert broadcast over German radio at a small auditorium in the city of Bremen in front of 400 people. The performance was akin to the calm after a storm in that it followed two consecutive arena shows (in Munich and Dortmund) where Harry would open up for a roster of rock, blues and heavy metal bands that featured The Small Faces, John Mayall, The Scorpions and headliner Status Quo. A more unlikely billing for Harry and the band was unimaginable. The crowd was very drunk, very loud and very not-at-all-interested in Harry's songs and sound. So, on the following night he was delighted to be back in his element, in Bremen, in front of a small, quiet, and appreciative audience attentively listening to his words and stories. Fueled by the change of atmosphere, a now energized Harry would speak and speak and speak, as if he were in Boston or Boise, to an adoring audience regardless of how many of his words were actually understood.

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Harry Chapin - The Elektra Collection 1971-1978 (2015) Music

Posted by Rtax at Dec. 4, 2022

Harry Chapin - The Elektra Collection 1971-1978 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) - 2.2 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 925 MB
6:25:50 | Folk Rock, Pop Rock | Label: Rhino - Elektra

Harry Chapin didn't spend his entire career on Elektra Records, but the years during which he found his most significant commercial success were most definitely during the Elektra era, starting with his 1971 debut album, Head & Tales. This effort is, as you'd expect from its title, one of the eight albums contained within The Elektra Collection (1971-1978). The others, in case you don't know his catalog backwards and forwards - heck, you may not know anything at all beyond “Cat's in the Cradle” - are Sniper and Other Love Songs (1972), Short Stories (1973), Verities & Balderdash (1974), Portrait Gallery (1975), On the Road to Kingdom Come (1976), Dance Band on the Titanic (1977), and Living Room Suite (1978). Chapin was one of the great singer-songwriters of the '70s, and people should know him for far more than just his signature song. Now's your chance to dive in and educate yourself.

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Harry Chapin - Dance Band on the Titanic (1977) {Elektra ‎9 60549-2 rel 1995} Music

Posted by ruskaval at Oct. 19, 2020

Harry Chapin - Dance Band on the Titanic (1977) {Elektra ‎9 60549-2 rel 1995}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 432 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 177 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 30 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1977, 1995 Elektra / Warner | ‎9 60549-2
Rock / Soft Rock / Folk Rock / Pop Rock

Excellent reissue, sound quality is A1. Probably the rarest of any Harry Chapin CD reissue. Who would have figured, listening to the heart-on-his-sleeve sensibilities of Heads & Tales in 1972, that Harry Chapin would or could ever generate a wry, sly, sardonic double-LP (single CD) album like this? The diversity of this album is its strong point, the core of the record made up of straightforward, serious songs, most notably "We Grew up a Little Bit" and the gorgeous ballads "Mismatch" (arguably Chapin's prettiest song) and "I Do It for You, Jane" (of which the latter could have been a smash done countrypolitan style in Nashville), and there's one lean vignette into traditional music ("Bluesman").

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Harry Chapin: When in Doubt, Do Something Movies

Posted by at April 16, 2021

Harry Chapin: When in Doubt, Do Something (2020)
The life of singer-songwriter and activist Harry Chapin, who spent his fame and fortune trying to end world hunger before his tragic passing.

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Harry Chapin - Verities & Balderdash (1974) Original US Terre Haute Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz Vinyl & HR

Posted by Fran Solo at Dec. 12, 2019

Verities & Balderdash is a very strange and wonderful album. “Cat’s in the Cradle” was the driving force behind the album’s sales, but there’s a lot more to appeal to listeners, along with enough personal, topical material to make it seem a bit didactic at the time, but Chapin was cultivating a politically committed audience.

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