Latest Release

- 14 AUG 2023
- Make My Night (Live New York '78)
- 21 Songs
- Verities & Balderdash · 1974
- Heads & Tales · 1972
- The Gold Medal Collection · 1974
- The Elektra Collection (1971-1978) · 2015
- The Bottom Line Archive Series: (Live) · 2015
- Verities & Balderdash · 1974
- Sniper & Other Love Songs · 1972
- On the Radio: 70s · 1974
- Cats In the Cradle · 1974
- 70's Essential Rock Ballads · 1974
Artist Playlists
- A storyteller who paired plainly told tales with sweeping music.
Singles & EPs
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- Daniel Robinson
About Harry Chapin
Singer-songwriter Harry Chapin was an Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker before turning his focus to music in the late ’60s. ∙ Chapin’s first two Top 40 hits, 1972’s “Taxi”—about a night in the life of a cab driver—and 1973’s DJ tale “W.O.L.D.,” established his reputation as a master of the narrative song. ∙ Verities & Balderdash, released in 1974, was the highest-charting album of his career and featured the hits “Cat’s in the Cradle” and “I Wanna Learn a Love Song.” ∙ “Cat’s in the Cradle,” about a turbulent relationship between a father and son, became his signature song and was his sole No. 1 hit. ∙ He wrote and starred in the 1975 musical The Night That Made America Famous, which was nominated for two Tony Awards. ∙ Six years after his death in a car accident, 3,400 radio stations around the US honored his memory by simultaneously playing his song “Remember When the Music.” ∙ One of the most politically active artists of the ’70s, he helped create the Presidential Commission on World Hunger and received the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor in 1986.
- HOMETOWN
- New York, NY, United States
- BORN
- 7 December 1942