Edit Harry Chapin. Showing all 32 items. Was the childhood sweetheart of actress Mary Woronov. Gave over concerts a year with half being benefits for various causes, most prominently, The World Hunger Year, dedicated to ending world hunger.
During his life, Harry supported 82 charities and 33 organizations focused on ending world hunger. Volume One, , pages New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, Uncle of Lily Chapin and Abigail Chapin. His maternal grandfather was the prominent American philosopher, poet and literary critic Kenneth Burke.
The epitaph on his tombstone is a bit of verse from his song, "I Wonder What Would Happen to This World" which reads: "Oh if a man tried To take his time on Earth And prove before he died What one man's life could be worth I wonder what would happen to this world" The tombstone faces the state of Connecticut where he last resided.
The Harry Chapin Memorial Humanitarian Award was created in to honor the legacy of the Folk-Rock singer-songwriter, who fought tirelessly to end world hunger and received the Congressional Gold Medal in for his philanthropic work. By the age of 33, Chapin had been nominated for an Oscar, a Tony, and a Grammy.
A bidding war had earned him what was, at the time, the biggest record contract in history. And he had the ear of President Carter and was the inspiration behind creating a Presidential Commission on ending world hunger. He also won a Peabody award. I've got nothing against selling out, but just let me do it for something that matters.
Robert Redford said, "The kind of commitment Harry made is rare. In all my experience in this business, I can honestly say that Harry was the most stand-up guy I ever met. Nine senators and 30 congressmen rose up from the floor of Congress to pay tribute to Chapin. No other singer not Bing Crosby, or Elvis Presley, or John Lennon has ever been so widely honored by the nation's legislators.
Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont said, "I think I've shed more tears in the last few days than any other time in my adult life. Bruce Springsteen exhorted the audience to follow Chapin's activist exa. This occurred at p. The driver of the truck, 57 year old Robert Eggleton of South Plainfield, NJ and another passerby were able to get Harry out of the burning car through the window and by cutting the seatbelts, before the car was completely engulfed.
Ed Smith, a spokesman for the Nassau County Medical Center said that Harry had suffered a massive heart attack and "died of cardiac arrest" but there was no way of knowing whether it occurred before or after the accident. The news reports at first reported that he had died of a heart attack and then later said that death was caused by the impact which tore the artery away from the heart. Supposedly the only initial means of identification on Harry was a gold pocket watch, but police were later able to make identification through a license plate check.
Heads and Tails , Chapin 's first album, was released in the summer of and became a success thanks to the hit single "Taxi," which soon became the songwriter's signature tune. Later that year, he released his second album, Sniper and Other Love Songs , which didn't fare quite as well as his debut.
Short Stories , Chapin 's third album, appeared in the spring of ; it spent 23 weeks on the chart due to the success of the single "W. While he was working on the musical, Verities and Balderdash became his biggest hit, peaking at number four on the U. The album's success was benefited by the number-one single "Cat's in the Cradle," a song about an inconsiderate, career-oriented father that was based on a poem written by Chapin 's wife.
It closed on April 6, after 75 performances; the show would earn two Tony nominations. Chapin won an Emmy award that spring for his contributions to ABC television's children's series Make a Wish, which was hosted by his brother Tom.
While the album performed respectably, peaking at number 53, it failed to recapture the mass audience of his previous album. Chapin was becoming more politically active throughout , as evidenced by his role as a delegate at that summer's Democratic Convention.
Late in , he released On the Road to Kingdom Come , which spent a mere six weeks on the charts.
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