Harry Chapin

Person · Open Library

Born

7 December 1942

Died

16 July 1981

Works

14

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

US

Active from

1942-12-07

Active to

1981-07-16

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

486,707

Total plays

3,665,590

Harry Chapin (December 7, 1942 – July 16, 1981) was an American singer and songwriter. Chapin's debut album, Heads and Tales (1972), was a success thanks to the single "Taxi". His follow-up album, Sniper and Other Love Songs, was less successful; but his third, Short Stories, was a major success. Verities & Balderdash, released soon after, was even more successful, bolstered by the chart-topping hit single "Cat's in the Cradle". He also wrote and performed a Broadway musical, The Night That Mad

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

   · 2016 · cited 11,691x

2. Global Consequences of Land Use

   · 2005 · cited 9,851x

3. A safe operating space for humanity

   · 2009 · cited 9,696x

4. Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines

   · 2018 · cited 9,642x

5. The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans

   · 2020 · cited 9,170x

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Quotes

• “I spent a week there one afternoon.”
• “I never really drove a cab, but I do have a hack license in case of emergencies – like no money.”
• “The major thing I'm afraid of is being 65 and saying, 'Gee, I wish I had done this and that, and that.' I want to face old age knowing I've tried all I wanted to try.”
• “It took a while, but she looked in the mirror, And she glanced at the license for my name. A smile seemed to come to her slowly, It was a sad smile, just the same. And she said, "How are you Harry?" I said, "How are you Sue? Through the too many miles and the too little smiles I still remember you."”
• “There was not much more for us to talk about, Whatever we had once was gone. So I turned my cab into the driveway, Past the gate and the fine trimmed lawns. And she said we must get together, But I knew it'd never be arranged. And she handed me twenty dollars, For a two fifty fare, she said "Harry, keep the change." Well another man might have been angry, And another man might have been hurt, But another man never would have let her go... I stashed the bill in my shirt.”
• “And she walked away in silence, It's strange, how you never know, But we'd both gotten what we'd asked for, Such a long, long time ago.”

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