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The Essentials
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0081227606121
Format: Original recording remastered
Label: Elektra / Wea
Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
MPN: 76061
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Elektra / Wea
Release Date: April 10, 2006
Studio: Elektra / Wea
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Editorial Review:
Includes #1's 'Cat's In The Cradle', 'Taxi', I Wanna Learn A Love Song', 'Sequel' and 7 more musical vignettes of life and love, despair and hope in modern America. Digitally remastered. Elektra. 2002.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Excellent
This is an excellent CD with all the old classics, well worth listening to, even if you don't know Harry Chapin's music.
Rating:  - Not quite pleased
I thought the cd was going to be studio versions of the songs. Instead it is live versions that do not sound well. You can barely hear Chapin sing. Not quite pleased with this purchase.
Rating: - A Storyteller's Dozen
The late Harry Chapin had few peers in the seventies. Like Jim Croce and Harry Nilsson, Chapin was a troubadour in the storyteller's tradition. At his best, he spun tales of folksy everymen gone down on their luck ("Taxi" and "WOLD"). He could also go all out cinematic, like the 10-plus minutes of "Sniper," which could be one of the weirdest songs ever recorded by a so-called folk artist. (And one of the most disturbing I-hate-my-parents howls this side of The Door's "The End.")
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Rating: - In the High School English Book!
I teach and the kids read the poetry book and NEVER heard of Harry.
iPODS surrounded me.............
Rating:  - It's What's Missing
Minus two stars for not including Harry's two best storytelling gems: 30,000 Pounds of Bananas & Six String Orchestra. Some gold is on the surface. Some gold is buried, and sadly overlooked.
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