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The Gold Medal Collection

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Released
  
September 13, 1988

Artist
  
Harry Chapin

Label
  
Elektra Records

Length
  
2:20:13

Release date
  
13 September 1988

Genre
  
Folk rock

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Producer
  
Sandy Chapin & Charles J. Sanders

The Gold Medal Collection (1988)
  
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Similar
  
Story of a Life, Dance Band on the Titanic, Greatest Stories Live, Sniper and Other Love Songs, Living Room Suite

The Gold Medal Collection is a two-CD compilation of various songs from Harry Chapin's career, released to honor Chapin being posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for his humanitarian work and campaigns to end hunger. Released in 1988, the album also featured recordings of Chapin speaking about various things, such as alleviating hunger, Pete Seeger, his grandfather, and his early music.

Contents

Track listing

Disc 1 (1:08:22):

  1. "Taxi" - 6:44
  2. "Sunday Morning Sunshine" - 3:30
  3. "Old College Avenue" - 4:25
  4. "Dirty Old Man" - 1:25
  5. "I Wanna Learn A Love Song" - 4:19
  6. "Cat's in the Cradle" - 3:44
  7. "Tangled Up Puppet" - 3:42
  8. "Dancing Boy" - 3:40
  9. "Thanksgiving Hunger Drives" - 0:47
  10. "Flowers Are Red" - 5:01
  11. "She Sings Songs Without Words" - 3:31
  12. "Shooting Star" - 4:02
  13. "Winter Song" - 2:30
  14. "Story of a Life" - 5:15
  15. "Commitment and Pete Seeger" - 1:47
  16. "There Only Was One Choice" - 14:00

Disc 2 (1:11:51):

  1. "A Better Place to Be" - 7:35
  2. "Mail Order Annie" - 4:52
  3. "Performing" - 0:30
  4. "W*O*L*D" - 4:46
  5. "Mr. Tanner" - 4:45
  6. "Corey's Coming" - 5:38
  7. "A Child Is Born" - 0:30
  8. "Sniper" - 9:50
  9. "Calluses" - 0:41
  10. "The Rock" - 4:15
  11. "Dance Band on the Titanic" - 5:11
  12. "I Wonder What Would Happen to This World" - 3:28
  13. "Sequel" - 6:35
  14. "My Grandfather" - 1:45
  15. "Remember When the Music (Reprise)" - 3:50
  16. "Circle" - 7:30

Songs

1Taxi6:43
2Sunday Morning Sunshine3:50
3Old College Avenue4:25

References

The Gold Medal Collection Wikipedia