JJ's Vinyl Madness Countdown #892
By JJ
@JolietJake (50190)
June 7, 2017 2:46am CST
No, the cat is not in the cradle...he's yelling at me to wake up.
What can I say? You either know who Harry is, and what a great performer he was...or you don't.
If you don't, that is your loss, and you need to check him out.
Unfortunately, Harry Chapin was killed in a freeway accident in 1981, but he left behind a good catalog of material.
Harry Chapin - Verities & Balderdash
What can I say? You either know who Harry is, and what a great performer he was...or you don't.
If you don't, that is your loss, and you need to check him out.
Unfortunately, Harry Chapin was killed in a freeway accident in 1981, but he left behind a good catalog of material.
Harry Chapin - Verities & Balderdash
One of his "more-famous" songs in it's original form, the version on Greatest Stories Live, which I've already uploaded, contains two alternative endings and...
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@FourWalls (76360)
• United States
7 Jun 17
I do. He's one of the few people I will say this about: if you never saw him live, you REALLY missed something.
I still have my Harry Chaplin on Tour shirt, which he signed (twice). It has a banana on the front and the words "Harry, it S...s" (yes, "sucks" is not there because this was 1980). The live version of this was hilarious.
And, as in many cases of Harry's song, it was inspired by a true event.
Excellent choice. (Raising cup) As your captioning on Facebook says, "call me." 
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@FourWalls (76360)
• United States
7 Jun 17
@JolietJake -- you have Dance Band on the Titanic? I'd recommend so many of his albums, if for no other reason than the titles (such as Sniper and Other Love Songs, which has "W*O*L*D" on it).
And watch live concerts on You Tube. Man, was he funny live. You'd think a guy sitting on a stool playing folk songs wouldn't be entertaining, but oh, how it was. I'm so thankful I got to see him twice.
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@FourWalls (76360)
• United States
7 Jun 17
@JolietJake -- "W*O*L*D" with a WKRP reference.....
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@crossbones27 (50891)
• Mojave, California
7 Jun 17
You know what I would do with 30,000 bananas, eat them. Love me some bananas. Funny song, made me have a banana.
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@crossbones27 (50891)
• Mojave, California
7 Jun 17
@JolietJake Pretty awesome brother, here, have a banana.
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@JolietJake (50190)
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7 Jun 17
It is a good song, Harry had a way of telling a story for sure
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@JohnRoberts (109845)
• Los Angeles, California
7 Jun 17
Harry his driving his Taxi in the musical otherworld.
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