The Official Harry Chapin Thread

One of the big Canadian banks, Toronto Dominion, has a commercial running that uses a not particularly good "Cat's in the Cradle" cover: fathers and sons, getting older side by side, invest in the future, etc. Either they don't know what the song's about, or they're assuming no one watching knows what it's about.

No redeemable features.

The Sniper is truly insane. It's also undeniably musically impressive. Why is this not better known?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWKpblxejWE

"deadly accuracy" in that poem is really bothering me.

Dave Marsh:

I’ve had very intense friendships with people whose music I can’t stand. I mean, I was very close to Harry Chapin. And Harry and I just agreed that we didn’t agree about the quality of his music. And I miss him. He was a really good friend. It was funny, there was a record store about a block from my house, and I went down there to get something one day, this was in the summertime, and one of the clerks who knew me said, “Oh well, did you hear that Harry Chapin just died in a car accident out on Long Island? I’m sure that’s a great day in rock criticism for you,” or something. Totally legitimate thing for him to say. And I literally ran out of the store to go home and find out, could this be true?