Because they have no taste, and they are Trolls. I was introduced to Harry Chapin's music by my Uncle. He loaned me his truck for a while and there was a Harry Chapin cassette stuck in the tape deck. I listened to it constantly. I love his music.
This is really beautiful especially this live performance. They certainly don’t make beautiful music 🎼 like this anymore. If it were possible Harry Chapin is someone they need to bring back.
I was a youth of 17 when I started working in radio. When I first heard this song, I could relate to all the vividly described aspects of radio depicted in this song. So much so that I could feel the frustration, futility, insecurity and helplessness of an industry where the "next big thing" was ready to knock you off your pedestal and take your place. Underscored and punctuated by the personal challenges of a career in a fickle industry. Chapin captured it brilliantly.
This was one of my mom's favorites as well and I loved listening to it. This entire album is awesome. I'm divorced now and I totally relate to a better place to be. Living a selfish life will bring you loneliness later in life. Only get one shot, do it right.
Still remember seeing Harry in concert for the first time in the Summer of 1979. In between songs, he mentioned he had tape cassettes of his latest release for sale and the price. He then added w/a shrug, "If you can't afford to buy it...steal it!" The crowd erupted w/cheers and applause. If his music wasn't enough, his connection w/the audience in itself was enough to make me a lifelong fan right there! Miss ya Harry!
Met him after one of his concerts at Merriweather Post in MD. The nicest person you could imagine. Absolute tragedy his life was cut so short. He was a story teller par excellence. I will never forget how genuine he was.
Any person that loves to listen to the radio has to.love this song. Thank you Harry for your wonderful music, you (and still are the best) RIP Harry,you were loved,and still are. 🙏😇🌹
The Wife told me not to sing out loud (it's almost 11:00pm Down Under) but Jeez it's hard. This is one of Harry's greatest and it's awful hard not to sing along. For all you die hards (like me) please enjoy ... and yeah, I'm singing out loud and I can hear her coming down the hallway to get me .. I'm toast, but I'm going out in style ...
Hi spencer me, Just out of traction and still singing!. The Wife has been spoken to by the Constabulary and will no longer do anything to me that can get her arrested (pays to know the local Coppers). Thanks for the "mitigating circumstance" option - you are definitely on my Christmas List.
I must be married to her identical twin sister in GLASGOW,SCOTLAND !!!!!!!!!!! HHHHHHEEEEELLLLPPPPP AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHGGGGGHHHHHHH TOO LATE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just imagine if him and Jimmy Buffett sung a duet together. They were both AMAZING storytellers in their music! God bless Harry Chapin and Jimmy Buffett.
One of my all time fav "record" and giving my age away !!!!! I don ' t care " feeling all of 63 going on 18 " ( it is booze in GLASGOW that keeps you young) !!!!!!!!!
This music brings back such memories growing up, so long ago. My Mother used to love Harry Chapin, and listened to this album: Greatest/Stories/Live, specifically. I remember how much I took to it as a young man, and we even went to see him play live at the Dade County Youth Fair, probably around 1977 or so. I was only 10 yrs. old. Amazing, that after all these years gone by, and a current trip down memory lane; I still love his music. Where are the Harry Chapin's of today now? :(
I had the same experience with my mother it was on 8 track and we would listen to this album all the time and my family saw him live at the Kiel opera house in st louis mo. I was around 10 or 11 years old it was one amazing experience and a fond memory especially when the group in the seats in front of us fired up a doobie then got an autograph after the show it was awesome
@@williamkay7143 It’s was so sad to hear about how he died, and well before his time too. Today’s “so-called” music pales in comparison to what true song writers/ musicians like Harry produced in his time. Thanks for your comments.
Harry Chapin One Of The Greatest Men On Earth December 7, 1942 - July 16, 1981 While waiting outside of Colden Auditorium at Queens College, after a canceled concert, I met and had a few words with the man who was to have given the concert. In my eyes, one of the greatest men on Earth. He was a dedicated humanitarian who fought to end world hunger. He was the co-founder of World Hunger Year or WHY, now known as WhyHunger, a wonderful and efficient non-profit that is still helping feed hungry people today. He was instrumental in the creation of the Presidential Commission on World Hunger in 1977. He was a man that was posthumously awarded the highest civilian award in the United States, the Congressional Gold Medal. He was a man who performed benefit concerts for hundreds of worthy organizations during his career. He was a man who raised more than 3,000,000 USD for those in need in the last six years of his life. He was a man that donated to charitable causes an estimated 33% of the revenues from his indefatigable schedule of 200 plus concerts performed each year. Besides his tireless humanitarian work, he was an accomplished and creative renaissance man that during his life was nominated for the following illustrious awards: Oscar, Grammy, Peabody, Emmy, and Tony. He was a man that I was lucky enough to have seen in concert a handful of times between 1975 and 1980. He is a man that I still miss today. His name was Harry Chapin. by Mark R. Elsis earthnewspaper.com/harrychapin
The last time he sings the chorus, he sings;"I am the morning DJ at KHJ". KHJ was a popular top 40 AM station in the LA area during the 60's and 70's. I lived there at that time. He must have been performing in this area. Harry used to do free concerts at parks here on Long Island and actually died on the way to one. I wish I would have seen him back then. I did see his brother Tom open up for Cliff Richards in NYC back in the '80s. Harry was one of the greatest singer- songwriters.
We still miss you Harry.But Harry you can always count on the cheap seat ! And the circle of life go on, God bless you. We know you are singing in the choir.Now the heaven can hear you. !! 😒😍😍😍
I agree but my true first LOVE of his songs were TAXI. i will never 4get Taxi becouse i was 18 ( going on 53) and only job i could find in CARTERS EcOnOmY at this time was at GOD FATHERS PIZZA . My true love LISA went off to college to be an engineer and eventuatly DUMPED ME but i never forgot her and TAXI was on the JUKE BOX as i always played this song b4 I started my shift. It always helped with pain of her dumping me for her new found college boy friend! Never 4got you lisa but, for what its worth...ive done well in my life and i even own a 45 copy of TAXI on my own juke box. I still,after 40 ish years i miss you sometimes😢....
I saw Harry in concert a few times. He hated the spotlights shining in his eyes. At one show he made the spotlight operators shine the lights at each other. lol At another, a photographer next to the stage was about to snap his picture and Harry warned him if set off the flash he'd cram that camera down his throat, and he wasn't kidding.
Yes, I do, although I refer to a lot of things as radios like the device in my room, which plays my nature sounds for me to go to sleep. A lot of things can connect to radio stations now.
Harry introduced me to the Dance Band on the Titanic and finally thing I learned so much about the disaster and recently discovered I am related to the survivor of the disaster. His music was always played at my brothers house and I loved it way back when. TY Harry for the music no matter how many years I woke up this morning and just needed to hear you this morning.
The critics always came down on him because his songs were so melancholy. But even in college, when he came to my school, he touched me. I should have not been interested, my life was just beginning, what did I know of the sorrows of life? But Chapin seemed to understand the songs of the soul. Like Homer's Syrians, his call drew me in.
Def a boomer song. Only we can relate to his job and the influence of his line of work. Not to mention the mental toll it can take on a good, "never seen" celeb.
of the days before clear channel, I heart radio, and the rest of the corporate mass media outlets were in power, DJ'S had fun, "x-band mobile station's, wolfmanjack," every low to middle market station had the bosley hair club for men video, and hours of female exercise videos(porn was not cool 😂), cart machines, records, feeds, FCC, reel to reel, records, picture disk's(record's with images on them, cassettes, oh the LSD! People didn't try to tell you how to live your life, being a man wasn't a crime...
+tonysurface1th-cam.com/video/SbNhdhKJpf0/w-d-xo.html Think KHJ is the local station for the live gig this audio is from ?. What's with KLBJ in the description / Lyrics ? ?.www.google.co.nz/search?q=KLBJ&oq=KLBJ&aqs=chrome..69i57&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8 Oh now i think about it besides the odd word added or missing from the description / lyrics the album version had the lyric KLBJ cause the D.J. switched to KLBJ . " ... That's how this business goes.". ... sorry to be picky.
I wonder why anyone, let alone 26 people, would thumb this down? Love his songs...he was an old soul lost to us at a young age.
Cause they are stupid!!
Because they have no taste, and they are Trolls. I was introduced to Harry Chapin's music by my Uncle. He loaned me his truck for a while and there was a Harry Chapin cassette stuck in the tape deck. I listened to it constantly. I love his music.
Those are the deaf people
Happy Accidents 🎉
Loving Harry since the first time I heard him ❤
This is really beautiful especially this live performance. They certainly don’t make beautiful music 🎼 like this anymore. If it were possible Harry Chapin is someone they need to bring back.
Friends, Harry and Jim Croce are playing their guitars and singing together in Heaven.
So great when he asked his brother to sing in a ' bridge '....he was incredible!!!
30 years in radio and still the greatest song about radio ever
The greatest storyteller there ever was. Love Harry!!!!!
I was a youth of 17 when I started working in radio. When I first heard this song, I could relate to all the vividly described aspects of radio depicted in this song. So much so that I could feel the frustration, futility, insecurity and helplessness of an industry where the "next big thing" was ready to knock you off your pedestal and take your place. Underscored and punctuated by the personal challenges of a career in a fickle industry. Chapin captured it brilliantly.
My dad use to play this cassette tape in the car back in the late 80s early 90s still one of my favourite artists in 2021
Who is listening to this classic with me in October 2021?
April 2024!!
Memorial Day 2024
December 2024
This was one of my mom's favorites as well and I loved listening to it. This entire album is awesome. I'm divorced now and I totally relate to a better place to be. Living a selfish life will bring you loneliness later in life. Only get one shot, do it right.
couldn't have said it better brother you only get one shot.
Hear you bro 💪🇮🇪💪
Makes me tear up every time.
Still remember seeing Harry in concert for the first time in the Summer of 1979. In between songs, he mentioned he had tape cassettes of his latest release for sale and the price. He then added w/a shrug, "If you can't afford to buy it...steal it!" The crowd erupted w/cheers and applause. If his music wasn't enough, his connection w/the audience in itself was enough to make me a lifelong fan right there! Miss ya Harry!
Met him after one of his concerts at Merriweather Post in MD. The nicest person you could imagine. Absolute tragedy his life was cut so short. He was a story teller par excellence. I will never forget how genuine he was.
What a powerful vocal range Harry had
I was lucky enough to see him in concert shortly before his death. He was amazing. RIP Harry.
i am quite disappointed i never got to see him live. big frickin sads
I am shocked that Harry isnt in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Me too. he had a loyal following, but not popular enough for the H of F
Like many of his songs, and rarely, his live versions are better than the album versions.
R.I.P. Harry - a true legend and great person
Any person that loves to listen to the radio has to.love this song. Thank you Harry for your wonderful music, you
(and still are the best) RIP Harry,you were loved,and still are. 🙏😇🌹
The Wife told me not to sing out loud (it's almost 11:00pm Down Under) but Jeez it's hard. This is one of Harry's greatest and it's awful hard not to sing along. For all you die hards (like me) please enjoy ... and yeah, I'm singing out loud and I can hear her coming down the hallway to get me .. I'm toast, but I'm going out in style ...
+MrJimbo59 apologize profusely so that you don't have to sing it with feeling
+MrJimbo59 Well when you meet her start over the song so it's starts, "Hello Honey it's me."
Hi spencer me, Just out of traction and still singing!. The Wife has been spoken to by the Constabulary and will no longer do anything to me that can get her arrested (pays to know the local Coppers). Thanks for the "mitigating circumstance" option - you are definitely on my Christmas List.
I must be married to her identical twin sister in GLASGOW,SCOTLAND !!!!!!!!!!! HHHHHHEEEEELLLLPPPPP AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHGGGGGHHHHHHH TOO LATE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jack, My long lost Brother-In-Law! Have faith Brother, there's life after Death (I married the older Sister, remember?) Sing loud, sing proud.
my dad exposed me to this at a very young age.
Just imagine if him and Jimmy Buffett sung a duet together. They were both AMAZING storytellers in their music! God bless Harry Chapin and Jimmy Buffett.
Sometimes I get this crazy dream that I just take off in my car but you can travel 10,000 miles and stay just we're you are......so good
One of my all time fav "record" and giving my age away !!!!! I don ' t care " feeling all of 63 going on 18 " ( it is booze in GLASGOW that keeps you young) !!!!!!!!!
I totally agree with you Jack. I have it in an album and CD. From Canada. 😎🇨🇦❤
This music brings back such memories growing up, so long ago. My Mother used to love Harry Chapin, and listened to this album: Greatest/Stories/Live, specifically. I remember how much I took to it as a young man, and we even went to see him play live at the Dade County Youth Fair, probably around 1977 or so. I was only 10 yrs. old.
Amazing, that after all these years gone by, and a current trip down memory lane; I still love his music.
Where are the Harry Chapin's of today now? :(
I had the same experience with my mother it was on 8 track and we would listen to this album all the time and my family saw him live at the Kiel opera house in st louis mo. I was around 10 or 11 years old it was one amazing experience and a fond memory especially when the group in the seats in front of us fired up a doobie then got an autograph after the show it was awesome
@@williamkay7143
It’s was so sad to hear about how he died, and well before his time too.
Today’s “so-called” music pales in comparison to what true song writers/ musicians like Harry produced in his time.
Thanks for your comments.
Harry Chapin
One Of The Greatest Men On Earth
December 7, 1942 - July 16, 1981
While waiting outside of Colden Auditorium at Queens College, after a canceled concert, I met and had a few words with the man who was to have given the concert. In my eyes, one of the greatest men on Earth.
He was a dedicated humanitarian who fought to end world hunger. He was the co-founder of World Hunger Year or WHY, now known as WhyHunger, a wonderful and efficient non-profit that is still helping feed hungry people today. He was instrumental in the creation of the Presidential Commission on World Hunger in 1977.
He was a man that was posthumously awarded the highest civilian award in the United States, the Congressional Gold Medal. He was a man who performed benefit concerts for hundreds of worthy organizations during his career. He was a man who raised more than 3,000,000 USD for those in need in the last six years of his life. He was a man that donated to charitable causes an estimated 33% of the revenues from his indefatigable schedule of 200 plus concerts performed each year.
Besides his tireless humanitarian work, he was an accomplished and creative renaissance man that during his life was nominated for the following illustrious awards: Oscar, Grammy, Peabody, Emmy, and Tony.
He was a man that I was lucky enough to have seen in concert a handful of times between 1975 and 1980. He is a man that I still miss today.
His name was Harry Chapin.
by Mark R. Elsis
earthnewspaper.com/harrychapin
Only Harry could put that "HIP-HOP" 50's beat and drop it right in the middle of a song. Pure Genius ! Gone ...way to soon.
The last time he sings the chorus, he sings;"I am the morning DJ at KHJ". KHJ was a popular top 40 AM station in the LA area during the 60's and 70's. I lived there at that time. He must have been performing in this area. Harry used to do free concerts at parks here on Long Island and actually died on the way to one. I wish I would have seen him back then. I did see his brother Tom open up for Cliff Richards in NYC back in the '80s. Harry was one of the greatest singer- songwriters.
KHJ had the boss 30
Damn...another sad song that hits home..RIP Mr. Chapin
We still miss you Harry.But Harry you can always count on the cheap seat ! And the circle of life go on, God bless you. We know you are singing in the choir.Now the heaven can hear you. !! 😒😍😍😍
Every single one hits home.
Another great tune my pops played for me when I was really young.
I remember hearing this on the bus going to school on AM KHJ radio when it came out. Thanks for posting this version.
This is such a great song.
I love love love this version. Harry was truly one of a kind and he is badly missed. Thanks for uploading this!!!!
One of the greatest songs in the history of music!!
I agree but my true first LOVE of his songs were TAXI. i will never 4get Taxi becouse i was 18 ( going on 53) and only job i could find in CARTERS EcOnOmY at this time was at GOD FATHERS PIZZA . My true love LISA went off to college to be an engineer and eventuatly DUMPED ME but i never forgot her and TAXI was on the JUKE BOX as i always played this song b4 I started my shift. It always helped with pain of her dumping me for her new found college boy friend! Never 4got you lisa but, for what its worth...ive done well in my life and i even own a 45 copy of TAXI on my own juke box. I still,after 40 ish years i miss you sometimes😢....
My dad used to sing this song. Good ass memories...
Thank You for that, I appreciate it so much..I love the guy, spend many an hour listening to him in my truck..
His songs get me right in the heart
I love the greatist
One of the great musical storytellers.
Classic Harry!
Great song by great singer/composer and makes a GLASWEGIAN a happy man !!!!!!!!!!!
I saw Harry in concert a few times. He hated the spotlights shining in his eyes. At one show he made the spotlight operators shine the lights at each other. lol At another, a photographer next to the stage was about to snap his picture and Harry warned him if set off the flash he'd cram that camera down his throat, and he wasn't kidding.
Do people today (2023) even know what that radio is?
Yes, I do, although I refer to a lot of things as radios like the device in my room, which plays my nature sounds for me to go to sleep. A lot of things can connect to radio stations now.
It's extremely interesting you can traveling so many miles and you end up where
Are
TEH GREATEST STORY TELLER, RIP.
this song used to put me to sleep as a kid. soo long ago
Harry introduced me to the Dance Band on the Titanic and finally thing I learned so much about the disaster and recently discovered I am related to the survivor of the disaster.
His music was always played at my brothers house and I loved it way back when.
TY Harry for the music no matter how many years I woke up this morning and just needed to hear you this morning.
The critics always came down on him because his songs were so melancholy.
But even in college, when he came to my school, he touched me. I should have not been interested, my life was just beginning, what did I know of the sorrows of life? But Chapin seemed to understand the songs of the soul. Like Homer's Syrians, his call drew me in.
I love the reference to the legendary Boss Radio, KHJ 930 AM
Reminds me of WKRP in Cincy...
Thanks for a great story idea!
Def a boomer song. Only we can relate to his job and the influence of his line of work. Not to mention the mental toll it can take on a good, "never seen" celeb.
The Gold Medal Collection maybe?
For Chuck my darling RIP
A GREAT STORY TELLER !!!!
For my beloved Chuck RIP
Just as good as the studio version!
It's a rap song that takes the part "hello honey it's me, what did you think when you heard me back on the radio...." Part
Love Always Love
Do people born after 1985 realize what W.O.L,D stands for and means?
Awesome
Not KLBJ (at the end) but KHJ (Boss93 in LA at the time)....Charlie Van Dyke (Morning man at KHJ) was in the audience when this version was recorded..
SETX Bubba Harry would change it for the city he was in.
He is a legend. Please join the FB page, Harry Chapin Fans to continue his legacy!
Gold medal Collection is the name.
S very very good human being so sad he is gone
Feeling all of 65 going on 15
You're very welcome!!
of the days before clear channel, I heart radio, and the rest of the corporate mass media outlets were in power, DJ'S had fun, "x-band mobile station's, wolfmanjack," every low to middle market station had the bosley hair club for men video, and hours of female exercise videos(porn was not cool 😂), cart machines, records, feeds, FCC, reel to reel, records, picture disk's(record's with images on them, cassettes, oh the LSD! People didn't try to tell you how to live your life, being a man wasn't a crime...
CMS, maaaaan!
i used to have a 2 cd of harry chapin where he did some comertary between songs, anyone know what the name of it was? loved it
I used to have that set, too and lent it to a friend of mine. He still jokes that he owes me the Harry Chapin Gold Medal Collection 2 CD set.
Wow great song, does anyone know the song that samples this?
3 people disliked this song. Explains why some people don't like mother Teresa.
HARRY CHAPIN JIM CROCE HARRY NILSSON YOU DECIDE ALL 3 PLEASE
KHJ not KLBJ
+tonysurface1th-cam.com/video/SbNhdhKJpf0/w-d-xo.html
Think KHJ is the local station for the live gig this audio is from ?.
What's with KLBJ in the description / Lyrics ? ?.www.google.co.nz/search?q=KLBJ&oq=KLBJ&aqs=chrome..69i57&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8
Oh now i think about it besides the odd word added or missing from the description / lyrics the album version had the lyric KLBJ cause the D.J. switched to KLBJ . " ... That's how this business goes.". ... sorry to be picky.
i think they posted the lyrics for the studio version. i like this one much better (pretty much all of greatest stories live, really)
:-)
why do we loose good man like harry and wind up with trump ?
lol never thought about that before but u right lmao
Too much fun no?