Harry Chapin W.O.L.D. (WOLD)

[MdNgtRyder]

I saw Harry at the Mid Hudson Vallery Winery... In NY just a day or 2 before he passed away.The best part I remember is yellying to .....Harry This is Harry ...play wold hahaha.. I remember his word's I''ll get to it harry .What a cool dude with a great outlook on life.. RIP Harry .

[jez750]

One of my all time favourites.

[ZenAntics]

"You can travel on 10,000 miles and still stay where you are..." Still makes me tear up

[kevprange]

Thanks for posting.

[Sishen]

God, what an incredible talent. No one else ever wrote story songs anywhere near the caliber of his works. THE most under appreciated and under rated singer/song-writer ever.

[bzzzzap]

I miss the days when songs like this, story songs with adult content, could get played on the radio coast to coast. We've lost something in this country...

[chevyvictor]

i never knew the song title and kept looking for "i am the morning DJ" but could never find it. Untill the Internet came along :)

[youaintsee]

It's absolutely amazing that he can perform live and hit all the notes just the recorded one. The more I listen to this song, the more I appreciate his talent.

[malthuswasright]

what's the happy ending version? This is the only version I've ever known...

[urantiruslan]

harry rip

[urantiruslan]

my mom got to see him in concert

[xy23z5]

We lost a lot when we lost this guy! Loved him.

[baktrakband]

Best song that ever happened to me, apart from Better Place To Be ..... (Thanks Peter ....)

[baktrakband]

Best song that ever happened to me, apart from better Place To Be ..... (Thanks Peter ....)

[youplonker]

I was lucky I saw him perform in Dublin 2 times. Awesome.

[VonShoemaker]

@youplonker

my dad had tickets to see him the day he died :(

[martynh1981]

i know a bloke on the karaoke in my local who sings this every week and he@s pitch perfect. awesome song

[brightslumber]

@martynh1981 Where?!

[dholmes974]

Harry talked about life...

[dreamfield42]

Unreal ballads. Harry, the best ever. The greatest story teller ever. There will be no other.

[wendybellful]

Another one for us dad

[noshitdude]

What a song! So sad story, but the lyrics are amazing, yes Poetry.

RIP Harry, we miss you.

[oldsynth]

Good news is I have got the Jim Davidson tribute that Jim performed live in 1999. Jim is a big fan of this song and really did it justice. I'll upload it as soon as I can. Looking forward to the comments on it. Daz

[UncleMikeNJ]

They have GOT to get Jason O'Mara to play Harry in a movie, although he may balk at going back to 1973 New York.

[CxBuRkeY2]

I used to feel bad for my kids and the crap they were programmmed to listen to...but now they are listenting to my stuff (which I played all the time) and act like they're cool, cuz they're listening to "retro" music...frustrating yet satisfying at the same time...they WERE listening after all!

[wideglidepaul777]

Damn, weren't the 70's magical?! And yes, Mr. Chapin was part of it all. Harry, you will never be forgotten, my friend. God bless you and thanks for all of the memories...PJM

[Vojt1k]

@loveyouforeverMJ

True music my friend

[oldsynth]

What a legend. I saw the comedian Jim Davidson do this live once....fantastic!

[codyterrier]

@oldsynth same here thats where i first heard this song........was looking for jim davidson singing it but cant find it,if somebody has it please upload it thanks

[moovgirl]

That's me.. feeling all of 45 going on 15! Is there an artist now who captures feelings as well as this?? Think not. Harry.. you are loved and missed!

[loveyouforeverMJ]

Zzzzzzz WTF is this sh*t?

[kale11111]

love hows there's only 1 dislike... shall we all beat the crap out of that one person?

[BourneLippy]

Genius.

[moovgirl]

Storytelling songs.. a lost art. He was a truly gifted artist. Thanks for this video!

[jimjimellell]

Weasel is back on the air at WTMD as of 11/06/10 on Saturdays from noon til 3 EST. Radio is back!

[cinelloarn]

Great song Jaz. Hopefully you've found YOUR last home in radio. Would hate to see you go anywhere.

[MrWaeseL]

This song reminds me of when I used to be a morning DJ

[mustanglisa]

First heard Harry in concert as a warmup for the NY City Rock Ensemble. At the end of his set the crowd called for more and got it. NYRE came on and almost everyone left. The mood had been set. 6 months later our college brought just Harry back, what a concert! Talk about the day the music died...........

[epcthree]

Harry is and will always be one of my favorites.

That said I have to tell you Harry would be all over you guys for slamming Longboard. While I disagree with Longboards opinion, he is entilted to think and even say what he wants without being called a moron or clueless. Why not explain WHY you think the song is powerful rather than attack him for his views. Food for thought...

[hkfan1980]

this is real music, not manufactored artist working for disney claiming to be rock musicians . This song is beautiful yet sad, a lot of easy listening music seems to have a sad tone in them O.o wonderfun song rip harry <3

[oldredun]

hey longboardbc - you're a battery operated dick, not a clue in your tiny, narrow mind !

[Bluestu100]

LongboardBC your a moron.Enough said.

[zalewskimm]

An underrated great vocalist.

Long live Harry. Miss him tons.

[jimhow1]

Brilliant song rip harry

[jimhow1]

Brilliant song

[moovgirl]

A lost talent of music story telling. Love ya Harry. Rest in peace xxx

[lashlaroo]

Just think he got killed in a taxie cab in a wreck

[JLTravers8189]

@lashlaroo - No, he died in his VW bug on the Long Island expresway. Ironically, he was on his way to a meeting with his record execs to tell them he needed to slow down his touring and music writing to spend more time with his family. Sad and tragic.

[panzertoo]

he reminds me of Colin Firth in this video

[DivingHawk1]

If you work in radio, in the 70s, and early 80s this song kicks as**!!!

[envirojoe55]

A person who made a difference and transcends time and even death.

[DivingHawk1]

Very true song for a DJ at that time. I lived it. This is a such a great song. But r Radio is so bad, a old song like this is to long, and FM is not the old FM. The DJs are kids picking the song we should like. FM is not are FM. So Sad!!!

[CaninAble]

Gotta say, I sat and cried with a(fellow) drunk old hippy named Mark in Thorhild Alberta in about 2000. If Chapin had made it to age of video, he'd out-your-Lennon.

[conandan]

This song still sends shivers up and down my spine! Harry Chapin was the consummate storyteller. And who doesn't need a cello in the band!

[MrCgon3188]

I understand that one of the muscians is his brother. Can you tell me which one?

[lulubelle410]

@MrCgon3188

Actually, 2 were his brothers. Tom Chapin, who is now famous for kids/family music often played with him as did his brother Steve. They played guitar and piano

[cookin5188]

A TRUE GREAT HUMAN BEING. FATHER. ARTISIT! WISH I COULD BE LOOKIN FORWARD TO OLD HARRY COMING TO MY TOWN TO BE PUTTIN ON A SHOW. CLASSIC TUNES THAT WILL AND HAVE STOOD THE TEST OF TIME. HERES TO YOU HARRY! SO LITTLE OF A COMMENT FOR SUCH A TALENT.

[mwloco62]

This is the true American poet

[thebadloser]

it's difficult to imagine a song this good being written now - in those days we took quality for granted

[TheCeltenz]

The man rocks still and still tells the best stories in music ever.

[silverxenadreams]

So pleased to see this here. I loved this song and couldn't get hold of it for years. Thank you.

[tommy5586]

he was very good looking, I don't remember that.

[moovgirl]

Lost art of story telling in music. Harry was the best. Missed and loved.

[Bluestu100]

Great artist..Great lyrics...RIP HARRY

[truittmom57]

re-run of earlier post. Happy Birthday Steve--the morning DJ at WWCH Radio 13! I love you !!

[truittmom57]

i know the morning dj at wold!!

[motorjan]

Supersong!!!!!!!!

As a former Dutch Radio DJ (in the 80's) for me it's more than just a song. LOVE IT!

[rem299]

nice words kss, ur very lucky, i wasnt even bourn when he was around. ide never heard of him till bout 7 months ago when i heard cats in the cradle, been obsessed ever since and i learned 4 of his songs. ive got all my friends listenig to him too.

[MW277j]

RIP Harry we miss you and the stories we will never had the chance to hear.

[duxberry1958]

even i get it wrong some times , but not very offed

[capttheo1]

The man was a story telling God!

[QPRLAD86]

I wasn't alive when Harry died. My dad brought me up on good music like Harry Chaplin one of the most under rated singers of his generation. Thanks dad but most importantly Thanks Harry and Rest In Peace. You died too early.

[tragnilrats]

Harry is awesome!.......is'nt he?

[duxberry1958]

the great good morning boys who,s heard but never seen

[tvnetdude]

@duxberry1958

The great good morning voice isn't it?

[daasin]

seen harry at newcastle city hall late 70s still the best gig i have ever been to

[gearjam44]

it is true, the version that was played in the uk did not have the very last verse, although i don't know the actual reason why. it was not until i heard the full live version that i heard the last verse...really it provided closure to the story, albeit a sad ending. many of harry's songs didn't have a happy ending though, but isn't life like that, not sugar-coated all the time...Harry is still, in my opinion one of the greatest singer-songwriters ever though...a great loss to humanity...

[sinning1966]

The song is simple: a young man making it as a DJ on the radio, impressing his family and auditors. However, the music let the place for a sort of sad completion of the story, kind of a death trap (like the sad end) or a danger thrill all song long.

It's astonishing to know that it was a real radio station in the USA back in the 70's and that Harry didn't receive any sort of bad criticism associated to it.

[gearjam44]

Harry Chapin, in my opinion, is a very underrated singer/songwriter. If anyone who is reading this comment decides to study his music, I believe they will easily form the same opinion as my own...among my favourites are this one, 'they call her easy', 'a better place to be' and sniper. please don't just listen, study the lyrics too...Harry had a lot to say.....

[BruinsBuckShot77]

@gearjam44

if we were on facebook i would give you a "likes"

i love harry

such a good story teller

[kssocref]

I saw Harry in concert three times, the last the November before we lost him as he was supporting the release of the "Sequel" album. He did "Sniper" once in those three because, as he told the audience, it took too much out of him. He was the best live performance... rather the best visit with a performer that I have experienced. Long before "We Are the World" Harry'd created his World Hunger Year effort. He was a pathfinder for social responsibility among performers.

[Gunstar1701]

@kssocref I'm ashamed to say I don't know as much about Mr. Chapin as i should. I grew up listening to his wonderful stories. What exactly was it about "Sniper" that drained him so? I apologize if this is a stupid question, I've never heard the song.

[kssocref]

@Gunstar1701 - Sniper was an intense song, where Harry took on the persona of Charles Joseph Whitman, who killed 14 and wounded 32 as a sniper from the Univ. of Texas clock tower in 1966. It was an event that galvanized the country. The song goes 10 minutes, and Harry (as always) poured everything into it. It's a wonder they didn't have to carry him off after he performed it. The song is available on iTunes, but - as with all of Harry's songs - the studio version dims in comparison to live.

[gadgetmonsterjka]

@kssocref

I love Harry Chapin's music. Watched him in a concert... he walked out on stage by himself and just sang his stories. It was beautiful. Until today I never heard of Sniper. Powerful. Thanks.

[kssocref]

@Gunstar1701 A live version of "Sniper" is available here. Search for Harry Chapin and Sniper and I'm sure you'll find it. Just finished watching it. Watch Harry's reaction at the end and you'll understand why he couldn't do it too often.

[iaced1]

Wow! Chills!

[ianmistben]

"...sometimes I get this crazy dream, where I just 'take off' in my car,

but you can travel on 10,000 miles and still stay where you are..."

Poetry ..... sheer f**king poetry. Best line EVER. Love it!

[tvnetdude]

@ianmistben

EXACTLY!

[flsunfan]

@ianmistben -- If you love Harry's poetry, listen to Greyhound. "Stepping off of this dirty bus, first time I understood, it's got to be the going, not the getting there that's good"

[bowlermikey]

@ianmistben Same here. think of it and use it often.

[ciucia2222]

@ianmistben His wifes poetry many times ;) but the man gets the credit always :(

[muleshoe1962]

You can travel 10,000 miles and still be right where you are. wow!! the deepest thought of all.

[wideglidepaul777]

Haunting. Miss ya Harry.

[stacksovids12]

REAL musicians, REAL music, Real LIVE vocals, REAL meaninfull lyrics......HOW can the vapid talentless ........SHIT that passes as music now compare? Posturing, bluffing fakers almost all of them

[atgskater14]

yeah it seems "music" today is all smoke and mirors its bull shit if you ask me in fourty years the music that plays today will be gone and this will still be playin i'll make damn sure of it

[Greenthigh]

@stacksovids12 Hear Hear. I feel so sorry for the kicks growing up and listening to the garbage around these days.

[MrCatfishMusic]

@stacksovids12 So right. 

[moovgirl]

@stacksovids12 You are so right (-:

[VideoMakinProduction]

@stacksovids12 thats like kesha nvm...its opposite.

[BarbedHook]

@stacksovids12 calm down your'e right and the majority agree with you...

[chatman2a]

@stacksovids12 The "music" of today? You mean the cacophony, dissonance, and clatter that masquerades as "music?" No matter what you call it, it's all crap... as in (c)rap music. Thank God I lived during the golden era of American popular music (1940s-1980s).

[coracleman]

@chatman2a Oh how I completely agree with your sentiments. I was only chatting to the wife earlier today and saying that back in the 70's how much more the artists seemed to take pride in their work, how you could actually hear the lyrics that were being sung, there was no nasty edge to the great singer/songwriter of the period. I only ever watch and listen to the music that was around from that particular period as todays stuff is just, well, what you said it was.

[MrCopperhead1861]

Someone told their are two endings to this, is that true?

[seamusmurphy55]

Dont know if its true, but I have heard that the UK radio stations cut off the end of the song...so he doesnt get rejected

[MrCopperhead1861]

Wow, that ruins the beauty of the lyrics! O.o

[Sonovox01]

Outstanding. Where was this filmed?

[tonto4848]

Harry was a genius !

Great songs ! Fantastic stories !

Surely left us far too soon !

[bringinhomesara]

2:17 is awesome. bum bum bum bum bum bum bum yahhhhhhh

[MrRapidarnis]

singordie1818.....

Thats a nice message mate..

same for me,it feels like yesterday....

play those harps harry...:)

your friend c :)

[singordie1818]

man, i went to the concert that harry never got to: eisenhower park, in east meadow, LI. harry had a heart attack and died while driving the LIE on his way to the show... now, here i am, a first baby in the family, and i suddenly find myself singing "circle" to her... i really miss u, harry! i'm gonna take ur music and pass iton to my wife and baby... thanks, harry!

[happymike44]

Seems just like yesterday when he died.

I looked at the calendar and realized it has been twenty eight years since then.

Glad to see him and hear him perform once more.

[cfj272]

we have a version of this song where Tom Chapin sings a part of the song.

[truittmom]

i love harry, now my son is the morning DJ

[kgrueschowjr2009]

turning 45 in November, I sure can

relate!

[Fichchef]

Saw Harry twice--once in Poughkeepsie, and once in hartford. He didn't keep a penny of either concert, save for expenses. all the rest went to World Hunger. He is my muse.

[aiky1956]

brilliant soo good to hear again after all these years got it on a 45 if anyone remembers them

[311herbs]

The man totally had the ideals of true human being.  He didnt sleep so he could play as much as he could to help people.

[bkruse92]

great song great honest guy im only 18 but Harry is still one of my favorite artists

[wintersTCR]

The reason I really listen to Harry is because of how honest he was when he performed. He had a talent for making even the saddest stories seem a little brighter.

[sl500black]

Some times I get this crazy dream and I just take off in my car..........But you can travel on some ten thousand miles and still stay where you are.......WOW......What a great line--

[TartanBiscuit]

Possibly the greatest song ever.

[MacGrurry]

i bet this was the inspiration for the Movie F.M. and then W.K.R.P.

[jimmyb227]

True talent...RIP, Harry.

[xscrowman]

YEAH DUDE! - Soul NEVER Dies!

[iamhagrid]

2:17. Bup Bup Bup Bup Bup Bup ...Yeah.

[BobbieGood]

This is great! I have been listening to the other online versions for months. This is my favourite. I heard it when in my 20's but remembered the song and came back to look for it now. I am pased 60. Amazing how we recall stuff. It's good Harry's message is being understood over and over, he is understood. When young it was just a pop record. Now I've suffered ups and downs like we all do. I sure hope I can help others a bit more before I die.

[himynameismick]

What a song...a true great

[ztubs6]

geez- i listened to this version again tonight and there is so much hidden stuff that is so quality. the guitar part in the very beginning where he is tapping the strings. all the strange bass vocals throughout the song. what a tight band and a very cool and strange song.

[coltrain210]

hahahahaha that is sooo much fog. haha

[ztubs6]

that hook is keiller and that electric guitar player is great- anyone know who he is????

[foundationandempire]

the electric guitar player is his brother, Steve Chapin. Both Harry's brothers Tom and Steve were musicians and played with him on many occasions. Harry's father , Jim Chapin , was and is a drummer, still alive at 90 and still playing and teaching although he was pretty much an absentee father as the drummer's life took him on the road. If you wanna see what Harry would have looked like as an old man. Google Jim Chapin and go to his website.

[funorbfrank]

jim died july 4 2009 (my last birthday)

[foundationandempire]

thanks for the update funorbfrank. For those who don't know what he is talking about . Apparently Harry's father, Jim Chapin died about a month ago. He was an outstanding drummer in his own right.

[nanajanamike]

I was the mornin' DJ at 3WC,CCCC,and I loved playing this great song!

[joshrubin]

Amazing. You can see it in his eyes that he ain't fakin it.

[psakref]

you could travel all 10,000 miles and still stay where you are; think about it

[KeithMajor11]

Wow, what a video - what a voice!

[WrestlingHeretic]

You kind of get the idea the creators of WKRP in Cincinnati based the character of Dr. Johnny Fever on this song.

[cactusjack901]

Actually...they did =p

Hugh Wilson has stated that this song was an inspiration in creating the show

[NEDERLANDADDICT]

Always loved this song !

I was the evening deejay on a radio station somewhere in Northern France and ,of course, like the songs talkin about radio.

[ecdact]

his voice carries me away with the story=) i love it. i listened to this as a child & plan to carry it on through my lifetime.

[hellblazer116]

i love the part at 2:18

[ronanmurray]

Beautiful.

[birdbath7]

Fantastic video! Thanx from heart. I grew up in poor White family of 15 & only concert I ever went to was Harry Chapin 1973. He put so much 'feeling' into his 'stories,' that with binoculars one could see his forehead straining, his lips pulsating-eyes looking 'inward,' towards soul of America not at audience. Sounds strange, but he even seemed to sing from his teeth to get his story across. Having suffered from White starvation in South Chicago, I truly understand his work toward "World Hunger"