Released October 1972 Length 45:52 Sniper and Other Love Songs
(1972) Short Stories
(1973) Release date October 1972 Genre Folk rock | Recorded 1972 Producer Fred Kewley Artist Harry Chapin Label Elektra Records | |
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Similar Heads & Tales, On the Road to Kingdom, Living Room Suite, Portrait Gallery, Verities & Balderdash | ||
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Sniper and Other Love Songs is the second studio album by the American singer/songwriter Harry Chapin, released in 1972. The album's title song is a vaguely fictionalised account of Charles Whitman's shootings from the clocktower of the Main Building of the University of Texas at Austin in August 1966. In 2004 it was released as a double CD package with Heads & Tales featuring several previously unreleased out-takes.
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The song "Circle" was a major hit for The New Seekers (released as "Circles") and became known as the Chapin Anthem. "Sunday Morning Sunshine" cracked the Billboard Hot 100. A live version of "Better Place To Be" charted in 1976.
Track listing
All songs by Harry Chapin
Side One
- "Sunday Morning Sunshine" – 3:51
- "Sniper" – 9:58
- "And the Baby Never Cries" – 5:09
- "Burning Herself" – 3:30
Side Two
- "Barefoot Boy" – 3:29
- "Better Place to Be" – 8:36
- "Circle" – 3:24
- "Woman Child" – 5:24
- "Winter Song" – 2:31
Personnel
Songs
1Sunday Morning Sunshine3:50
2Sniper9:57
3And The Baby Never Cries5:09