It's funny. Here it is--The year 2000. this December, I'll turn 26. I've known Harry Chapin's music for about 21 or so of those years. Only within the last year have I realized that the Chapin Brothers have touched my family's life in one way or another since the mid-60's.…
I'd been a Harry Chapin fan since I was a kid. In fact for many years, Harry's were the only concerts I'd gone to (my folks figured he was "drug-safe"). Anyway, I was in Yeshiva back in the mid/late '70's (1977 I think it was) in Santa Clara, and a…
I first experienced Harry Chapin (I don't believe that anyone just 'meets' Harry) on Oct. 10, 1976. I was a Freshman at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut, and a DJ on the campus AM station. I had heard only the too few songs of Harrys that were played on…
I suppose I was predestined to become a Harry Chapin fan from the moment I first heard "Corey's Coming" at the age of three, and heard Harry singing my name (my middle name is Joseph). I knew most of the words to most of his songs before I was really…