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Subject: Re: Add a new verse -- Harry Chapin
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Date: Wed, 29-May-85 17:43:25 EDT
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In article <271@petfe.UUCP> evan@petfe.UUCP (Evan Marcus) writes:
>
>In article <852@sdcsvax.UUCP>, Dan Rose writes:
>> In article <433@talcott.UUCP> jak@talcott.UUCP (Joe Konstan) writes:
>> >
>> >if anybody happens to know where to reach [Harry] Chapin (if he's
>> >still alive--I really don't know), I'd be happy to send them along
>> >to him, or the record company as well, with full attributions.
>> 
>> If I remember correctly, Harry Chapin died in a terrible car crash
>> in the late 1970's or early 1980's.  Unfortunately, he was drunk at
>> the time and apparently driving completely out of control.  This may
>> not have cast a bad light on his music, but it certainly didn't help
>> his fans' perception of him.  I don't remember if anyone else was
>> involved in the accident.
>> 
>Quite right--Harry did die in the crash.  It was 1981 as I recall.
>The story as I understood it was that although he was a notoriously
>bad driver, this accident was NOT his fault.  An 18-wheeler lost control
>and skidded into his small, old car, killing him, although I have
>also heard that he may have suffered a heart attack during the accident
>which killed him.  He was not, as I recall, drunk, or in any way at fault
>in this case.
>
>A small digression:  Harry was a true champion of the hungry. (He was the
>founder of World Hunger Year -- Every Year is World Hunger Year.)   Whenever
>I hear We Are the World (I STILL like that song!), I think of him smiling
>down on us.  It took a long time, but he has gotten what he worked for for
>years and years.

Harry would also donate much of his profits to chatrity, and
would visit orphanages and perform for free.

He was a great guy.  I remember when I heard he died (I was
out of the country at the time, and didn't hear till months
later).  It was 1980.

		-Debi Cohen
"...I'm a butterfly in s spiders web caught within my
dreams..."