Like many, I have fond memories
of Harry. When I was in high school our favorite pizza place, Honeys in Niagara Falls NY, had Taxi in on the
jukebox as a
45 (that dates me) with Empty on the flip side. I played it
often.
In my freshman year at SUNY Geneseo I saw him live for the first time
in a small stage where the power of his voice blew my mind. I remember
his guitarist Ron Palmer and his short bawdy songs. Harry invited everyone
backstage afterwards.
I saw Harry several more times - at Artpark in my hometown of Lewiston,
NY; Melody Fair in Buffalo where he spent time signing anything (I bought
his book of poems and a T-shirt) and talking with me as if he remembered
me from before; and finally at Geneseo after my graduation.
I even saw
Tom Chapin in concert in Florida.
Harry, you are missed
- Harry Chapin Music Intro
- HarryChapin.com - the Harry Chapin Archive
- Harry Chapin Foundation
- Harry Chapin Food Banks SWF
- World Hunger Year
- Classic Bands - Harry Chapin
- Remembering Harry Chapin
- iconoFAN Network - artist feature for Harry Chapin
- Harry's CDs on CDconnection
- VH1 Harry Chapin
- Internet Movie DataBase - Harry Chapin
- Amazon.com Books - Taxi: The Harry Chapin Story
- Find A Grave Cemetery Records - Harry Chapin
- Yahoo Music Harry Chapin - Search result
- FAN SITES - Harry
Chapin Pages
- Peter Steward's The Music and Life of Harry Chapin
- Welcome to the Cheap Seats
- Steve Gibbons' Harry It Sucks
- Harry Chapin There Only Was One Choice
- Any Old Kind of Day in Memory of Harry Chapin
- The Milarus Mansion - Discography of Harry & Bands
- Short Stories A Harry Chapin Web Site
- Chapintouch The Harry Chapin Appreciation Society
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Harry was much more than a songwriterBorn Dec. 7 1942 - Harry Chapin (songwriter, singer: Recipient of Special Congressional Gold Medal: Worldwide Humanitarian for the Hungry, Needy and Homeless; killed in auto accident July 16, 1981)
Folk singer HARRY CHAPIN died in a bizarre 1981 accident on New York's Long Island Expressway. Chapin had turned on his emergency flashers and was slowing and changing lanes when his car was struck from behind by a tractor-trailer rig. Sparks from the collision set Chapin's car on fire. According to the New York Times obituary, the truck driver "cut Mr. Chapin from his seatbelt and dragged him from the flaming wreckage," but Chapin was pronounced dead shortly afterwards. Further examination showed that Chapin had suffered a fatal heart attack -- though whether the heart attack led to the accident or vice-versa was never determined.
