Is there a better song writer than Harry Chapin?
Yeah, I'm sure that there is. I can name a few on my own. But damn if he isn't high on my list.
I'm listening to Harry Chapin's The Gold Medal Collection, which is a collection of greatest hits. I don't listen to this disk very often, but something I heard on TV last night prompted me to want to hear Taxi. The songs on this disk are all so well written that even the songs that I don't particularly like have to be admired for their craftmanship.
I've never spent enough time getting to know Chapin's music. I was a little too young to be interested when he was releasing albums and he was dead by the time I was old enough to care. I definately feel that I missed something due to this unfortunately timing.
It's never too late to appreciate and enjoy the music. But I would sure have loved the opportunity to see him perform live.
Any other Chapin fans here?
Yeah, especially since he's dead.
:D Yes, I point out the obvious. Harry was a pretty fine story teller, if you like songs that go on and on with many verses, kinda like that guy up there in the United States of Canda with his Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and so forth. Some of his toons are entirely too long to hold my attention, and one I heard it that kazillionth time, I'm kinda tired of it if ya know what I mean. As for Harry, I kinda like a few of his, but was never a huge fan. I would lean toward someone like Van Morrison, or even Randy Newman.
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