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From: evan@petfe.UUCP (Evan Marcus)
Newsgroups: net.music.folk,net.music,net.college
Subject: Re: Add a new verse -- Harry Chapin
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Date: Sun, 12-May-85 01:59:19 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 12 01:59:19 1985
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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.

--Evan Marcus
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