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This 6CD 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.
This 6CD 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.
5013929430730

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Format: CD
Label: STRAWBERRY
Rel. Date: 04/01/2022
UPC: 5013929430730

Story Book: Elektra Albums 1972-1978 (Box) (Uk)
Artist: Harry Chapin
Format: CD
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DISC: 1

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
16. Circle
17. Woman Child
18. Winter Song Short Stories
19. Short Stories
20. Wold
21. Song for Myself
22. Song Man
23. Changes
24. They Call Her Easy
25. Mr Tanner
26. Mail Order Annie
27. There's a Lot of Lonely People Tonight
28. Old College Avenue Verities and Balderdash
29. Cat's in the Cradle
30. I Wanna Learn a Love Song
31. Shooting Star
32. 30,000 Pounds of Bananas
33. She Sings Songs Without Words
34. What Made America Famous?
35. Vacancy
36. Halfway to Heaven
37. Six String Orchestra Portrait Gallery
38. Dreams Go By
39. Tangled Up Puppet
40. Star Tripper
41. Babysitter
42. Someone Keeps Calling My Name
43. The Rock
44. Sandy
45. Dirt Gets Under the Fingernails
46. Bummer
47. Stop Singing These Sad Songs
48. Dreams Go By
49. Wold
50. Saturday Morning
51. I Wanna Learn a Love Song
52. Mr Tanner
53. A Better Place to Be
54. Let Time Go Lightly
55. Cat's in the Cradle
56. Taxi
57. Circle
58. 30,000 Pounds of Bananas
59. She Is Always Seventeen
60. Love Is Just Another Word
61. The Shortest Story
62. On the Road to Kingdom Come
63. The Parade's Still Passing By
64. The Mayor of Candor Lied
65. Laugh Man
66. Corey's Coming
67. If My Mary Were Here
68. Fall in Love with Him
69. Caroline
70. Roll Down the River Dance Band on the Titanic
71. Dance Band on the Titanic
72. Why Should People Stay the Same
73. My Old Lady
74. We Grew Up a Little Bit
75. Bluesman
76. Country Dreams
77. I Do It for You, Jane
78. I Wonder What Happened to Him
79. Paint a Picture of Yourself (Michael)
80. Mismatch
81. Mercenaries
82. Manhood
83. One Light in a Dark Alley (An Imitation Spiritual)
84. There Was Only One Choice
85. Dancin' Boy
86. If You Want to Feel
87. Poor Damned Fool
88. I Wonder What Would Happen to This World
89. Jenny
90. It Seems You Only Love Me When It Rains
91. Why Do Little Girls
92. Flowers Are Red
93. Somebody Said

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This 6CD 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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