Harry Chapin | SOLID GOLD | “Remember When the Music” (3-14-81)

[@Cocobon-co2rr]

I saw the Chapin family last night in concert as they carry on Harry's AMAZING legacy. It was WONDERFUL! He and his music live on, as does his caring for the hungry. We were asked to bring food for the local food pantry. Thank you to the Chapin family for sharing their musical gifts and carrying on the legacy of activism.

[@valerietakacs1519]

Remembering Harry on the anniversary of his passing. I sure do miss him!

[@railboss431]

One of the most amazing people I ever met, his passing still hurts to this day. But as the years go by and Father Time finally calls my number hopefully we'll meet again.

[@danmeadows3859]

It was always so relaxing to listen to Harry. His songs spoke of real life and it drew you in. He made the songs so interesting. I was in my 20’s when he passed. I wish I could have gotten to see him in concert. The world lost a treasure that sad day 😞

[@jasonburger3533]

That was a poignant performance by Harry Chapin on "Solid Gold." He had mentioned before the song that, at 38, he had lived through 1/4 of his life. That would imply that he was optimistic about maybe living past 100 years old. Sadly, he passed on about 4 months later due to that collision with a supermarket truck. "The Cat's In The Cradle" is the song that I most associate with him. He mentioned about the technology of the day. I wonder what he would think of the current technology, including how his legacy is being viewed online, including on what turned out to be his last television broadcast. This Friday is 40 years to the day to when he passed on. It would have been interesting how he would have evolved over the ensuing years and as a potential elder statesman and presumably still a philanthropist at the age of 78. Thank you, Mr. Miller, for helping to preserve his legacy with this clip.

[@JATYmusic]

Took the yhoughts from my heart and mind. The bridge, that is our job - to carry on .

[@jasonburger3533]

@@JATYmusic Thank you! Carrying is necessary, but not always easy, depending on the circumstances.

[@AllieJ123]

I remember that horrible day like it was yesterday. I was at my office in Garden City and heard on the radio that there was a horrible accident on the LIE. They talked about it through the day but they never said who was involved in it. When I got home my sister called me and asked if I heard about Harry Chapin. I said yes I'm going to the concert tonight and then she told me that he had died in that accident. I was heartbroken. It was like I lost a family member. That's how it was with Harry. He made feel like you were on his level. Hewas just a down to earth guy. I have many fond memories of him.Years before he performed at Hewlett high school. Non-perishable food was the price of admission. Waiting for him to get there I sat in the parking lot with my sister. A beat up blue car entered the lot. I said Harry is here. My sister replied there's no way that he's in that car. But of course he got out of the car and I said see I told you he's a humble guy. One last memory. When Taxi came out friends of mine and I called his house. Yes his number in Huntington was still listed. His wife Sandy answered the phone and my friend Tommy asked for him. She told him that Harry was doing the Tonight Show in California. She asked if he wanted to leave a message and he said just tell him that Tom called. We never called him again. Thank you for posting this video.

[@jasonburger3533]

@@AllieJ123 Michael Miller, the musical director of "Solid Gold" posted the video. Harry was the first major philanthropical artist in such a way and inspired others. He was ahead of his time with that. It would be nice to know what kind of repertoire he would have made had he lived to the present time and had there been no accident. However, he left us with a musical legacy that was of a long length for someone so short in years lived. He had made his mark early on and it showed.

[@cosmodave69]

Enjoy my pizza parody of taxi 6th thumbnail

[@mobaem3]

4 months after this aired, you'd be taken from us at 38 YO. Happy Heavenly 80 Harry ! RIP 🙏

[@lunesnieves]

… and so we’d sing Those days are gone … gone …

[@donaldmatthews1194]

Wonderful version - I hadn't hears this one before.

[@addison5180]

Still can't listen to this song without crying...such an extreme talent...so missed!

[@erichinton5774]

My goodness I so remember this............

[@christopherlundgren3499]

Oh, how I truly miss, and how we truly need, Harry 😪 I say it with no hyperbole. He was one of the greatest storytellers, a fantastic performer, a true humanitarian, and just a damn fine man, flawed as we all may be. He BELIEVED, not necessarily in God, or anything that abstract, though maybe, but in US, as people. He believed that we, as monkeys screaming at the other monkeys in the next tree, could be BETTER! He believed in LOVE, in fact it was his main focus and point, but he didn't buy the illusions of love that others were selling at the time. Gods, how I miss him and his works

[@adamforest1986]

So this was 4 months before Harry's death. What a genius, beautiful person.

[@MrJmervel]

I also remember an episode of SOLID GOLD that Harry hosted. I remember it because it aired after he passed and they had a sign on the screen saying that he had died. I think Dionne sang THE WINDOWS OF THE WORLD on that particular episode but it has been so long that I can't say for sure.

[@jasonburger3533]

That would have been an appropriate song for the occasion. I do not recall exactly what they did, but that would have been a nice tribute.

[@spoonwalk]

@@jasonburger3533 I believe he filmed it in May or June of 1981 & it aired in August. Harry & Tom sang Circle at the end of the show. If anyone has THAT, please post it! :) There are snippets of it but around, not a complete version.

[@jasonburger3533]

@@spoonwalk That is interesting. It is such a tragedy that his talents left this world so soon. Reports indicate he was in a 1975 Volkswagen Rabbit and that a large grocery transport truck had collided with him 40 years to the day today, July 16, 2021. He would have been 78 if he were alive today. More time has passed since his untimely death than how many years he had lived.

[@bigeyezzzzzzz]

@@spoonwalk Here is Harry Chapin‘s last-ever television performance. This was from the Solid Gold episode that aired on August 1, 1981.: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fKGWlHd_e9iVrpY

[@bigeyezzzzzzz]

Here is Harry Chapin introducing Dionne Warwick’s performance of “Windows of the World“ on the August 1, 1981 episode of SOLID GOLD: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eIS6gpiAbceZm9E

[@roshkatan702]

Harry graduated from Brooklyn Technical HS in 1960!

[@adamforest1986]

Wow

[@JasonColannino]

I've been looking for Harry's final TV appearance on Solid Gold. It was taped in June 1981, then aired in August 1981 weeks after his death

[@bigeyezzzzzzz]

Your wish is my command. I was the musical director for Solid Gold (('m Michael Miller) and I've just posted my old clip of Harry Chapin's final television performance here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fKGWlHd_e9iVrpY Sorry about Robert W. Morgan's intro being slightly cut off, but that's how it goes sometime with old VHS tapes!

[@JasonColannino]

@@bigeyezzzzzzz thank you sir much obliged on this day the 40th anniversary of Harry passing

[@bigeyezzzzzzz]

@@JasonColannino WOW! Although I had typed that date in the info section below that newly uploaded video of mine, it didn’t even dawn on me that this is the anniversary of his passing! Thanks so very much for your perfectly-timed video request!

[@JasonColannino]

@@bigeyezzzzzzz do you have any thoughts or comments about working with Harry during that taping?

[@bigeyezzzzzzz]

@@JasonColannino Absolutely. When I was in his dressing room before the performance, I asked him if he could play a little bit of “Cats in the Cradle“ for me. And he did. It was a moment I will never forget.

[@mikestevenson576]

Solid Gold dancers didn't know what to do with this one.

[@TheBrad605]

Search Bruce Springsteen Remember When the Music. He does a sick version at the Harry Chapin tribute concert.

[@Rob-eo5ql]

I watch it all the time. It’s pretty great.

[@mck24601]

Ironic. He talked about being 1/3 through is life at 38 and how others died young. Then shortly afterwards at 38 he too died.

[@FlairFan2003]

That was actually a joke he would tell in concert.