Harry Chapin

LPs/CDs:
* Chapin Music! (1966, Rock-Land Records)
* Heads & Tales (1972, Elektra)
* Sniper and Other Love Songs (1972, Elektra)
* Short Stories (1973, Elektra)
* Verities & Balderdash (1974, Elektra)
* Portrait Gallery (1975, Elektra)
* Greatest Stories Live (Double Album, 1976, Elektra)
* On the Road to Kingdom Come (1976, Elektra)
* Dance Band on the Titanic (Double Album, 1977, Elektra)
* Living Room Suite (1978, Elektra)
* Legends of the Lost and Found (Double Album, 1979, Elektra)
* Sequel (1980, Boardwalk Records)
* Anthology of Harry Chapin (1985, Elektra)
* Remember When the Music (1987, Dunhill Compact Classics)
* The Gold Medal Collection (1988, Elektra)
* The Last Protest Singer (1988, Dunhill Compact Classics)
* Harry Chapin Tribute (1990, Relativity Records)
* The Bottom Line Encore Collection (1998, Bottom Line / Koch)
* Story of a Life (1999, Elektra)
* Storyteller (1999, BOA Records)
* Onwards and Upwards (2000, Harry Chapin Foundation)
* VH1 Behind the Music: The Harry Chapin Collection (2001, Elektra)
* The Essentials (2002, Elektra)
* Classics (2003, Warner Special Products)
* Heads and Tales / Sniper and Other Love Songs (2004, Elektra. Double CD re-release of first two albums with bonus tracks)
* Introducing... Harry Chapin (2006, Rhino Records)

Singles
1972 "Taxi" #24
1972 "Sniper" -
1972 "Sunday Morning Sunshine" #75
1972 "A Better Place to Be" #86
1974 "W*O*L*D" #36
1974 "Mr. Tanner" -
1974 "Cat's in the Cradle" #1
1974 "I Wanna Learn A Love Song" #44
1978 "Flowers Are Red" -
1980 "Sequel" #23

Video / DVD releases
An Evening With... Harry Chapin (also known as "The Book of Chapin") (1998)
Rockpalast Live (2002)
Remember When: The Anthology (2005)
You Are the Only Song (also known as "The Final Concert") (2006)

All songs by Harry Chapin
1. "Could You Put Your Light on, Please" - 4:30
2. "Greyhound" - 5:45
3. "Everybody's Lonely" - 4:07
4. "Sometime, Somewhere Wife" - 4:58
5. "Empty" - 2:57
6. "Taxi" - 6:44
7. "Any Old Kind of Day" - 4:56
8. "Dogtown" - 7:30
9. "Same Sad Singer" - 4:12

Personnel
Harry Chapin - guitar, vocals
Steve Chapin - keyboards
Russ Kunkel - drums, percussion
Ronald Palmer - guitar, vocals
Tim Scott - cello
John Wallace - bass, vocals

Produced by Jac Holzman

Released on the Elektra label on March 11, 1972

All songs by Harry Chapin
1. "Sunday Morning Sunshine" - 3:51
2. "Sniper" - 9:58
3. "And the Baby Never Cries" - 5:09
4. "Burning Herself" - 3:30
5. "Barefoot Boy" - 3:29
6. "A Better Place to Be" - 8:36
7. "Circle" - 3:24
8. "Woman Child" - 5:24
9. "Winter Song" - 2:31

Produced by Fred Kewley

Released on the Elektra label in October 1972

All songs by Harry Chapin
1. "Short Stories" - 4:37
2. "W*O*L*D" - 5:15
3. "Song for Myself" - 4:30
4. "Song Man" - 3:15
5. "Changes" - 4:32
6. "They Call Her Easy" - 4:05
7. "Mr. Tanner" - 5:12
8. "Mail Order Annie" - 4:56
9. "There's a Lot of Lonely People Tonight" - 3:45
10. "Old College Avenue" - 4:19

Personnel
Harry Chapin - guitar, vocals
Dave Armstrong - harmonica
Tomi Lee Bradley - vocals
Bobby Carlin - drums
Jeanne French - vocals
Paul Leka - keyboards
Michael Masters - cello
Ronald Palmer - guitar, vocals
Buddy Salzman - drums
John Wallace - bass, vocals
Tim Scott - cello

Produced by Paul Leka

Released on the Elektra label in April 1974

1. "Cat's in the Cradle" (Chapin, Chapin) - 3:44
2. "I Wanna Learn a Love Song" (Chapin) - 4:19
3. "Shooting Star" (Chapin) - 4:02
4. "30,000 Pounds of Bananas" (Chapin) - 5:45
5. "She Sings Songs Without Words" (Chapin) - 3:31
6. "What Made America Famous?" (Chapin) - 6:53
7. "Vacancy" (Chapin) - 4:00
8. "Halfway to Heaven" - 6:10
9. "Six String Orchestra" - 5:25

Produced by Paul Leka

Released on the Elektra label August 31, 1974

All songs written by Chapin unless otherwise noted.
1. "Dreams Go By" - 4:46
2. "Tangled Up Puppet" (Harry Chapin/Sandy Chapin) - 3:45
3. "Star Tripper" - 4:19
4. "Babysitter" - 4:36
5. "Someone Keeps Calling My Name" - 6:30
6. "The Rock" - 4:16
7. "Sandy" - 2:48
8. "Dirt Gets Under the Fingernails" - 3:48
9. "Bummer" - 9:55
10. "Stop Singing These Sad Songs" - 2:59

Produced by Paul Leka

Released on the Elektra label September 27, 1975

1. "Dreams Go By" - 4:54
2. "W*O*L*D" - 5:04
3. "Saturday Morning" (Tom Chapin) - 3:05
4. "I Want To Learn A Love Song" - 5:04
5. "Mr. Tanner" - 5:17
6. "A Better Place to Be" - 9:59
7. "Let Time Go Lightly" (Steve Chapin) - 4:56
8. "Cat's in the Cradle" - 4:04
9. "Taxi" - 6:53
0. "Circle" - 7:21
11. "30,000 Pounds of Bananas" (Extended with two alternate endings) - 11:28
12. "The Shortest Story" (Studio track) - 2:25

"She Is Always Seventeen" and "Love Is Just Another Word" appear between "30,000 Pounds of Bananas" and The Shortest Story" on side 4 of the original 1976 vinyl release.

Produced by Stephen Chapin, Fred Kewley, Paul Leka

Released on the Elektra label on April 23, 1976 from a show recorded on November 9, 1975.

1. "On the Road to Kingdom Come" - 5:26
2. "The Parade's Still Passing By" - 3:26
3. "The Mayor of Candor Lied" (Chapin) - 8:27
4. "Laugh Man" (Chapin) - 3:36
5. "Corey's Coming" (Chapin) - 5:41
6. "If My Mary Were Here" (Chapin) - 3:32
7. "Fall in Love With Him" - 3:54
8. "Caroline" (Chapin, Chapin) - 3:41
9. "Roll Down the River" - 4:28

Personnel
Harry Chapin - guitar, vocals
Buzz Brauner - recorder
Stephen Chapin - keyboards, vocals
Carolyn Dennis - vocals
Ron Evanuik - cello
Donna Fein - vocals
Howie Fields - drums, percussion
Bobbye Hall - percussion
Muffy Hendrix - vocals
Sharon Hendrix - vocals
Doug Walker - guitar, vocals
John Wallace - bass, vocals

Produced by Stephen Chapin, Harry Chapin

Released on the Elektra lable on October 23, 1976

All songs by Harry Chapin unless otherwise noted.

1. "Dance Band on the Titanic" - 5:15
2. "Why Should People Stay the Same" - 4:47
3. "My Old Lady" - 3:52
4. "We Grew up a Little Bit" - 5:10
5. "Bluesman" - 5:18
6. "Country Dreams" - 4:47
7. "I Do It for You, Jane" (Chapin, Sandy Chapin) - 5:08
8. "I Wonder What Happened to Him" - 4:11
9. "Paint a Picture of Yourself (Michael)" - 3:52
10. "Mismatch" - 5:00
11. "Mercenaries" - 5:46
12. "Manhood" - 3:48
13. "One Light in a Dark Valley (An Imitation Spiritual)" (Kenneth Burke) - 3:26
14. "There Only Was One Choice" - 14:01

Personnel
Harry Chapin - guitar, vocals
Buzz Brauner - tenor saxophone
Barbara Carr - vocals
Stephen Chapin - piano, vocals
Tom Chapin - guitar, banjo, vocals
Harry DeVito - trombone
Howie Fields - drums
Steve Gadd - drums
Marsh Lynn Goldberg - vocals
Jeff Gross - vocals
Neil Jason - bass
Arthur Jenkins - percussion
Bernie Keising - bass, vocals
Art Krahulek - vocals
Barbara Lindquist - vocals
Theodore Marnel - vocals
Craig Mitchell - vocals
Nancy Newman - vocals
Ronald Palmer - guitar, vocals
John Quayle - vocals
Elliott Randall - guitar
Steve Randall - vocals
Donna D. Reilly - vocals
Kim Scholes - cello
Tim Scott - cello
Gus Skinas - programming
Mike Solomon - vocals
Chris Waite - percussion
Doug Walker - guitar, mandolin, vocals
John Wallace - bass, vocals

Produced by Stephen Chapin

Released on the Elektra label on September 10, 1977/

All songs by Harry Chapin
1. "Dancing Boy" - 3:55
2. "If You Want to Feel" - 4:56
3. "Poor Damned Fool" - 4:36
4. "I Wonder What Would Happen to This World" - 3:33
5. "Jenny" - 4:54
6. "It Seems You Only Love Me When It Rains" - 4:47
7. "Why Do Little Girls" - 5:12
8. "Flowers Are Red" - 4:30
9. "Somebody Said" - 5:18

Personnel
Harry Chapin - guitar, vocals
George Bohannon - trombone
David Burgen - harmonica
Stephen Chapin - keyboards
Tom Chapin - banjo, guitar
The Cowsills - vocals
Bob Cowsill - guitar
Dixie Hummingbirds - vocals
Howie Fields - drums, percussion
Chuck Findley - trumpet
Steve Forman - percussion
Dennis Frick - bassoon
Richard Hyde - trombone
Neil Jason - bass
Jackie Kelso - baritone saxophone
Jim Keltner - drums
Steve Madaio - trumpet
Andy Newmark - drums
Bill Payne - organ
Herbert Rhoad - vocals
Joe Russell - vocals
Kim Scholes - cello
Lou Volpe - guitar
Doug Walker - guitar
John Wallace - bass, vocals
Ernie Watts - clarinet, flute, oboe, saxophone

Produced by Chuck Plotin

Released on the Elektra label September 10, 1977

1. "Stranger With the Melodies"
2. "Copper"
3. "The Day They Closed the Factory Down"
4. "Pretzel Man"
5. "If My Mary Were Here" (Chapin)
6. "Old Folkie" (Chapin)
7. "Get on With It"
8. "We Were Three"
9. "Poor Damned Fool" (Chapin)
10. "Flowers Are Red" (Chapin)
11. "Mail Order Annie" (Chapin)
12. "Odd Job Man"
13. "Legends of the Lost and Found"
14. "Tangled up Puppet" (Chapin, Chapin)
15. "Corey's Coming" (Chapin)
16. "You Are the Only Song"

CD track listing
Disc 1:
1. "Old Folkie" - 4:51
2. "Stranger With the Melodies" - 7:06
3. "We Were Three" - 5:20
4. "Legends of the Lost and Found" - 4:12
5. "Flowers Are Red" - 5:08
6. "Pretzel Man" - 3:09
7. "Odd Job Man" - 5:16
8. "Tangled Up Puppet" - 4:37
9. "Get on With It" - 5:22
10. "If My Mary Were Here" - 4:51

Disc 2:
1. "Poor Damned Fool" - 4:27
2. "Copper" - 5:15
3. "The Day They Closed the Factory Down" - 5:47
4. "Mail Order Annie" - 5:44
5. "Corey's Coming" - 8:09
6. "You Are the Only Song/Circle" - 3:59

Personnel
Harry Chapin - guitar, vocals
Stephen Chapin - piano, vocals
Howie Fields - drums
Kim Scholes - cello
Doug Walker - Guitar, vocals
John Wallace - bass, vocals

Released on the Elektra label Novemeber 1979

1. "Sequel" (Chapin) - 6:40
2. "I Miss America" - 5:19
3. "Story of a Life" (Chapin) - 5:24
4. "Remember When the Music" (Chapin) - 3:56
5. "Up on the Shelf" - 3:58
6. "Salt and Pepper" - 4:12
7. "God Babe, You've Been Good for Me" (Chapin) - 3:22
8. "Northwest 222" - 3:47
9. "I Finally Found It Sandy" - 4:42
10. "Remember When the Music (Reprise)" (Chapin) - 3:59

Additional tracks on 2001 remastered edition
1. "Sequel (Album Version, Gehman Mix)" - 8:30
2. "Remember When the Music (Extended Version)" - 4:19
3. "Story of a Life (Alternate Version)" - 5:38
4. "Sequel (Alternate Mix)" - 6:34

Personnel
Harry Chapin - guitar, vocals
Howard Albert - synthesizer
Yvonne Cable - cello
Charles Chalmers - vocals
Sandra Chalmers - vocals
Steve Chapin - piano, vocals
Tom Chapin - banjo, guitar
Howie Fields - drums
Chuck Kirkpatrick - vocals
Joe Lala - percussion
Donna Rhodes - vocals
John Wallace - bass, vocals

Released on the Boardwalk label January 1981

1. "Last of the Protest Singers"
2. "November Rains"
3. "Basic Protest Song"
4. "Last Stand"
5. "Sounds like America to me"
6. "Word Wizard"
7. "Anthem"
8. "A Quiet Little Love Affair"
9. "I Don't Want to Be President"
10. "Silly Little Girl"
11. "You Own the Only Light"

Personnel
Harry Chapin - guitar, vocals
Clair Marlo - Producer, arranger,synthesizer
Tom Chapin - guitar
Grant Geissman - guitar
Jon Corbert - piano
Steve Chapin - piano
Pat Coil - piano
Bill Lanphier - bass guitar
John Wallace - bass guitar
Howie Fields - drums and percussion
M. B. Gordy - drums and percussion
Doug Walker - electric guitar
Jon Corbert - synthesizer

Released posthumously in 1988 from music he was working on at the time of his death in 1981.

Track listing
Disc 1:
1. "Taxi" - 6:52
2. "Story of a Life" - 5:21
3. "I Miss America" - 6:56
4. "Mercenaries" - 6:04
5. "A Better Place to Be" - 9:16
6. "I Wanna Learn a Love Song" - 4:24
7. "Mr. Tanner" - 6:55
8. "W*O*L*D" - 4:54

Disc 2:
1. "Cat's in the Cradle" - 3:50
2. "Mismatch" - 4:10
3. "Old Folkie" - 5:33
4. "Let Time Go Lightly" - 4:41
5. "Remember When the Music" - 8:45
6. "30,000 Pounds of Bananas" - 12:48
7. "Sequel" - 7:11

Personnel
Harry Chapin - Guitar, Vocals
Steve Chapin - Keyboards
John Wallace - Bass
Dougie Walker - Lead Guitar
Howie Fields - Drums
Yvonne Cable - Cello

Produced by Peter Fornatale, Hank Medress

Recorded at the Village in New York, and was Harry's two-thousandth concert.

Released on the Bottom Line Record Company label on March 10, 1998.