Harry, It Sucks!

Harry, It Sucks!

Fan Directory

Part of "keeping the Circle coming around again" is getting to know other fans.

God bless the Internet, because so many of us have met through the 'net but haven't bumped into each other in person yet. I hope that this page may become something like the "White Pages" of Harry Chapin fans and friends.

If you would like to be included here download this small text file, fill in the answers and e-mail to sgibbons1@kc.rr.com and include the words "fan directory" in the subject line. Attach a photo if you would like and once I get your e-mail, I'll add you to this page and send you your personal link into the page at your entry point.

Index of Harry Chapin Fans:
  • Marty Acks
  • Doug Anderson
  • Sandy Barnick
  • Donald Barton
  • Dwayne Bevins
  • Debbie Boden
  • Richard Buikema Jr.
  • Gerry Buldak
  • Chris Brewer
  • Ric Candor
  • Frank Caliguiri
  • Tom Carpenter
  • Aaron Groff Cohen
  • Gail Cooper
  • Rob DeVitis
  • Daniel Drew
  • Tere Dunham
  • John Foster
  • Dan Garrison
  • Colin Gerrard
  • Steve Gibbons
  • Jim Goldman
  • Jeff Green
  • Jeff Gross
  • Doris Heim
  • Linda Hickok
  • Mark Hosch
  • Juha M. Hyrsky
  • Michael Kaplan
  • Sarah A. Kramer
  • Kathy Lange
  • Thomas Lauer
  • Gary Leonard
  • Ben Lovejoy
  • Roberta Lovejoy
  • Stephanie Lycan
  • Billy Marsden, Jr.
  • Leonie Marshall
  • Janet McCluskey
  • Corrie McGibney
  • Jean McKeever
  • Brian McNally
  • John Morgan
  • Bill Nash
  • Harry Nydick
  • Rod O'Brien
  • Sarah Chapin O'Leary
  • Andrea Phinney
  • Kuinton Raj
  • Scott Ramseyer
  • Koni Roach
  • Timothy Rose
  • Curtis Ruder
  • Sam
  • Brian Stainthorpe
  • Emily Schanker
  • Brian Schmid
  • John Scocco Jr.
  • Sarah Shay
  • Chapin Shearer
  • Sarmento Silva
  • Scott Sivakoff
  • Doug Smith
  • Donna Taylor
  • Roger Tewson
  • Chris Tyers
  • George Ubertaccio
  • Mary Lou Unangst
  • David Underwood
  • Mark Weinberg
    • (sgibbons) Steve Gibbons - Platte City, Missouri USA
    Steve Gibbons
  • Handle: sgibbons
  • Real Name: Steve Gibbons
  • eMail Address: sgibbons1@kc.rr.com
  • Location: 3118 Eagle Ridge Drive, Platte City, MO 64079
  • Phone: 816-826-6309
  • Home Page: www.harryitsucks.com
  • Birthday: September 26, 1958
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Doris (a.k.a. Soulmate and/or List Lady.) Though we're not together anymore, she's still the love of my life. For the record, I'm single and not looking. I recently took on a new client that required I move from Omaha to a Kansas City suburb. Such is life...
  • Children: Teddy Despite my (usually) good judgement, I have adopted a new dog. He's a Maltese and we've become bestest friends. That doesn't mean I don't still love and miss Starbuck and Spooky (and even Bananas and Bailey), but I have a new companion. Sadly, he's more of a Willie Nelson fan than a Harry Chapin fan - but I'm working on him!
  • Notes: Webmaster of Harry, It Sucks! and a Harry Chapin fan since the early 1970's. Also a co-conspirator of ChapinMusic.com with my good friend Scott Sivakoff.
  • Favorite Song: All of them!
  • Favorite Quote: "It's got to be the going, not the gettin' there that's good."


    • (dougsmith68) Doug Smith - Boyertown, Pennsylvania USA
    Doug Smith
  • Handle: dougsmith68
  • Real Name: Doug Smith
  • eMail Address: dgsmith@ptd.net
  • Location: 5 Dale Court, Boyertown, PA USA 19512
  • Phone: 610-369-9731
  • Home Page: www.nshs1968.org/personal/dsmith.html
  • Age/Born: 50 and okay with it. (February 16, 1950)
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Paula
  • Children: Emily, Abigail, Joey and David
  • Notes: Introduced to Harry via Greatest Stories Live by some nameless ex-girlfriend to whom I am forever grateful!
  • Favorite Song: Sniper
  • Favorite Quote: "Old friends, they mean much more to me than the new friends, 'cause they can see where you are, and they know where you've been"

    "It was the most single wonderful outpouring of generosity... what are those people gonna eat NEXT week?"



    • (frankc) Frank Caliguiri - Bensalem, Pennsylvania USA
    Frank Caliguiri
  • Handle: frankc
  • Real Name: Frank D. Caliguiri
  • eMail Address: Animal0781@aol.com
  • Location: 5078 S. Hunters Ct., Bensalem, PA 19020
  • Phone: 215-638-0954
  • Home Page: http://www.angelfire.com/pa4/harrychapin
  • Born: July 22, 1981
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Jenny
  • Children: 3 cats
  • Notes: A Harry Chapin fan since age 12.
  • Favorite Song: "The Old Greasy Spoon" - I performed it at Firehouse Jam
  • Favorite Quote: "We're all just travelers on the road to kingdom come."


    • (sivakofs) Scott P. Sivakoff - Wallingford, Connecticut USA
    Steve Chapin, Scott Sivakoff and John Wallace
    Steve Chapin, Scott Sivakoff, John Wallace
    at Oven's Park 2000
  • Handle: sivakofs
  • Real Name: Scott P. Sivakoff
  • eMail Address: sivakofs@yahoo.com
  • Location: Wallingford, Connecticut, USA
  • Home Page: http://www.purgatory.com/scott/ChapinMusic
  • Born: April 17, 1975
  • Children: One day, with any luck.
  • Notes: I perfer chords instead of notes :8^). How about C double Flat???
  • Favorite Song: Always a tough choice for me... but most probably "Sniper".
  • Favorite Quote: "When In Doubt, DO SOMETHING!"


    • (ric) Ric Candor - Orlando, Florida USA
  • Handle: ric
  • Real Name: Ric Candor
  • eMail Address: candor@writeme.com
  • Location: Box 592511, Orlando, FL USA 32859
  • Phone: 407-426-7101
  • Home Page: http://home.att.net/~candor
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Single
  • Notes: Harry fan since early 70s, and the excitement continues to build. If you live around or visit Orlando, call.
  • Favorite Song: All - a dozen for every mood.
  • Favorite Quote: "Can we avoid the question, is this all that it means?" or "Do I believe the answer is still blowing in the wind..."


    • (Gail_C) Gail Cooper - Edmonton, Alberta Canada
  • Handle: Gail_C
  • Real Name: Gail Cooper
  • eMail Address: hchapinfan@yahoo.com
  • Location: #325, 17103 - 69 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta T5T 2W6 (that's way up here in the great white north!)
  • Phone: 780-487-2920
  • Age: Old: 36
  • Children: Ketzel and Toulie (my cats)
  • Notes: A Harry fan since I was about 10 years old. My friends think I'm a bit obsessed but you all understand where I'm coming from.
  • Favorite Song: What Made America Famous?
  • Favorite Quote: "It's funny when you get that close it's kind of hard to hate"


    • (tomcarp) Tom Carpenter - Croydon, Victoria, Australia
    Tom Carpenter
  • Handle: tomcarp
  • Real Name: Tom Carpenter
  • eMail Address: tomcarp@melbpc.org.au
  • Location: 11 Strathfield Pde, Croydon, Victoria, Australia, 3136
  • Phone: +61 3 9879 2071
  • Age/Born: 41 - June 7, 1959
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Ingrid
  • Children: Jason, John, Bluey, Bingo and Misty (two kids, two dogs and a cat)
  • Notes: A Harry Chapin fan since around 1974.
  • Favorite Song: Sniper, Burning Herself, Dogtown - the 'heavy stuff'
  • Favorite Quote: "Do Something!"


    • (agcohen) Aaron Groff Cohen - Los Angeles, California, USA
    Aaron Cohen
  • Handle: agcohen
  • Real Name: Aaron Groff Cohen
  • eMail Address: agcohen@cyberverse.com
  • Location: Los Angeles, CA USA
  • Born: June 11, 1957
  • Notes: I "discovered" Harry in the fall of 1975. I attended six concerts and remember them as if it were today.
  • Favorite Song: A Better Place To Be
  • Favorite Quote: "It's got to be the going, not the getting there that's good."


    • (sarahc) Sarah Chapin O'Leary - Annville, Pennsylvania, USA
    Sarah Chapin O'Leary
  • Handle: SarahC
  • Real Name: Sarah Chapin O'Leary
  • eMail Address: SarahC_517@yahoo.com
  • Location: Annville, Pennsylvania, USA
  • Home Page: http://JesterZ.tripod.com/SarahC.html
  • Born: 18 (May 7, 1982)
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Not as of the moment, but I have my eyes set on someone. :)
  • Children: 2 cats, 1 dog (lol)
  • Notes: I thank my parents for giving me the middle name 'Chapin'. I can't think of a better name!
  • Favorite Song: "She Is Always 17", "Mr. Tanner"
  • Favorite Quote: "There are so many colors in the rainbow, so many colors in the morning sun, so many colors in the flower, and I see everyone!"


    • (muzition) Bill Nash - Dallas, Texas USA
    Bill Nash
  • Handle: Muzition
  • Real Name: Bill Nash
  • eMail Address: Muzition@aol.com
  • Location: Dallas, Texas, USA
  • Phone: 972-680-3067
  • Home Page: http://members.aol.com/muzition
  • Born: May 18, 1957
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Single
  • Children: None
  • Notes: I'm a singer/songwriter from Dallas with about 30 Harry Chapin songs in my repertoire! I also have 2 CDs available to the public, and my music is very story song-like... like one of my heroes! Saw Harry only once, was already a fan by then and was affected monstrously by it!!
  • Favorite Song: "Old College Avenue"
  • Favorite Quote: "You can travel on 10000 miles and still stay where you are..."


    • (JimGPhynn) Jim Goldman - Warrington, Pennsylvania USA
    Jim Goldman
  • Handle: JimGPhynn
  • Real Name: Jim Goldman
  • eMail Address: jimphynn@mindspring.com
  • Location: 600 Valley Road, E48, Warrington, PA 18976 USA
  • Phone: 215-491-4620
  • Home Page: http://www.mindspring.com/~jimphynn
  • Age/Born: 28 - March 26, 1972
  • Spouse/Significant Other: I'm "in-between" girlfriends right now...
  • Children: This space intentionally left blank!
  • Notes: Being the youngest of three children, I had the advantage of hearing the music my older sister and older brother liked. They both had the Anthology of Harry Chapin, which turned me on to Harry's music.
  • Favorite Song: "There Only Was One Choice."
  • Favorite Quote: "Sometimes words can serve me well, sometimes words can go to hell, for all that they do."


    • (andyphin) Andrea Phinney - Fremont, Nebraska USA
    Andrea Phinney
  • Handle: andyphin
  • Real Name: Andrea Phinney
  • eMail Address: andyphin@earthlink.net
  • Location: 1424 Watson St., Fremont, Nebraska 68025 USA
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Darren
  • Children: Alexandra 10 yrs, and twin boys that are 3, Jonathan and Lane.
  • Notes: I saw Harry in concert when I was just 5 or 6 yrs old, my parents took me. They were hippies that took me everywhere they went and I a very rich upbringing because of it. One of my earliest visual memories is the cover of "Verities and Balderdash".
  • Favorite Song: "There Only Was One Choice."


    • (USSAriBB39) Michael Kaplan - Long Island, New York USA
    Mike Kaplan
  • Handle: ussaribb39
  • Real Name: Michael Kaplan
  • eMail Address: USSAriBB39@aol.com
  • Location: 25-30 miles southwest of Harry's grave.
  • Phone: 516-546-0945
  • Home Page: Not quite yet!
  • Born: June 26, 1985
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Not yet.
  • Children: Nope.
  • Notes: [Ed. Note: Deleted one of Harry's oft used words!]
  • Favorite Song: "Sniper"
  • Favorite Quote: "There's no tick-tock on your electric clock, but still your life runs down"


    • (towoc) Sandy Barnick - Montana USA
    Sandy Barnick on a BAD Day
  • Handle: towoc
  • Real Name: Sandy Barnick
  • eMail Address: cake@midrivers.com
  • Location: Montana, USA
  • Home Page: http://www.midrivers.com/~dav/
  • Age/Born: 42 - 1958
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Dave
  • Children: 2 teenage boys. John & Tom
  • Notes: I have been "hooked" since I heard Taxi in the spring of 1972.
  • Favorite Song: Too many to list!
  • Favorite Quote: I most often say: So it goes......... "Now if a man tried To take his time on Earth and prove before he died, what one man's life could be worth. Well I wonder what would happen to this world?"


    • (Myr Candor) Sarmento Silva - West Chester, Pennsylvania USA
    Sarmento Silva
  • Handle: Myr Candor
  • Real Name: Sarmento Silva
  • eMail Address: Sarmento.silva@astrazeneca.com
  • Location: West Chester, Pennsylvania USA
  • Phone: 302-885-8886 (office)
  • Born: April 10, 1954
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Carla
  • Children: Meredith 23, Joseph 21, William 20, & Robert 16
  • Notes: Been a fan since 1970 (wow that's 30 years!!!!) when I saw harry do a concert in New York.
  • Favorite Song: The Mayor of Candor Lied
  • Favorite Quote: "...reality is only just a word."


    • (Richard In Sacramento) Richard Buikema Jr. - Elverta, California USA
  • Handle: Richard In Sacramento
  • Real Name: Richard Buikema Jr.
  • eMail Address: Rapidrb@aol.com
  • Location: Elverta, California USA
  • Age/Born: 42 - (January 15, 1958)
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Janine (She does not like Harry's Music; Sigh)
  • Children: None
  • Notes: Discovered Harry's Music in 1976, been a big fan ever since. Saw him 3 times. I appreciate all the new music being put out.
  • Favorite Song: A Better Place To Be, Mr Tanner, Stranger With The Melodies,Sniper
  • Favorite Quote: "It's got to be the going, not the getting there that's good."


    • (doheim) Doris Heim - San Antonio, Texas USA
    Doris Heim
  • Handle: doheim
  • Real Name: Doris Heim
  • eMail Address: wisclady1@yahoo.com
  • Location: San Antonio, Texas USA
  • Age/Born: June 6, 1957
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Single
  • Children: Bananas and Bailey (A house isn't a home without cats!)
  • Notes: I discovered Harry's Music because that's all Steve ever plays!
  • Favorite Song: Danceband On The Titanic, Better Place To Be, Sequel
  • Favorite Quote: "It's got to be the going, not the getting there that's good."


    • (mhheadblade) Chris Tyers - Maidenhead, Berks, England
    Chris Tyers
  • Handle: MhHeadBlade
  • Real Name: Chris Tyers
  • eMail Address: Keepthech4nge@aol.com
  • Location: Maidenhead, Berks, England
  • Age/Born: 45 - (November 22, 1955)
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Wife of 23 years
  • Children: 2 kids: Boy aged 16, and Girl aged 14
  • Notes: First heard of Harry through Radio 1 in England, which had a DJ who used to play some of Harry's songs on his Sunday morning show. I can't remember specifically what songs he played but it was around 1974-1975 and resulted in me buying "Heads & Tales." Very soon afterwards my girlfriend (now wife) followed up buying Short Stories as a Birthday present.
  • Favorite Song: Lots, love the tunes, love the words love the reality of them. Favourite at any time depends on the mood but I Wanna Learn a Love Song and Country Dreams are never far away
  • Favorite Quote: "You can always rely on the cheap seats. What a way to say judge people by what they are not by what they have, those who have work hard to give more are always the most reliable"


    • (jilldwayne) Dwayne Bevins - Charleston, West Virginia, USA
  • Handle: jilldwayne -or- mr.tanner
  • Real Name: Dwayne Bevins
  • eMail Address: jilldwayne@juno.com
  • Location: Charleston, West Virginia, USA
  • Age/Born: 32 - (August 11, 1968)
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Jill, also a Harry fan, just not as big, but who actually introduced me to his music!
  • Children: An adoption process, until then: 3 dogs, Abby, Chessie,and Roscoe.
  • Notes: My WV license plate is: HARYCHPN Also, I don't know what my life would be like without Harry's music!
  • Favorite Song: "Story Of A Life", "Shooting Star", "Mr. Tanner", "W*O*L*D"... Man its hard to pick just a few!
  • Favorite Quote: "...Somewhere on your path to glory you will write your story of a life."


    • (Inv Dan) Daniel Drew - Ithaca, New York, USA
  • Handle: Inv. Dan
  • Real Name: Daniel Drew
  • eMail Address: dan_c_drew@yahoo.com
  • Location: Ithaca, New York - But thank God I moved to Virginia.
  • Phone: 703-566-4030
  • Age/Born: 47 - (February 7, 1953)
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Just married (3rd time, but I got it right this time) to Marcia. I introduced her to Harry and she enjoys him almost as much as I do.
  • Children: 5 children between the two of us. 2 boys, 3 girls - all grown up, or think they are!
  • Notes: I was first introduced to Harry at the Vineyard in college town in Ithaca NY (Harry went to Cornell.) I have loved his music since and the only thing I will ever regret when I die is that I did not get to see a Harry concert.
  • Favorite Song: "The Mayor Of Candor Lied"
  • Favorite Quote: I loved listening to Harry talk about his Grandfather.


    • (Marwei) Mark Weinberg - Thornhill, Ontario, Canada
  • Handle: Marwei
  • Real Name: Mark Weinberg
  • eMail Address: marwei@sympatico.ca
  • Location: Thornhill Ontario, just slightly north of Toronto.
  • Phone: 905-764-3344
  • Born: August 26, 1954
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Robyn is my wife.
  • Children: Scott and Alana
  • Notes: I was very young. The year was 1970. A friend of mine pulled my out of High Holiday services and told me that I had to hear this guy playing at the Riverboat in downtown Toronto. The Riverboat was a folk/coffee club. It was a trio. Harry blew me away. I bought my first Chapin album that night. "The Chapin Brothers". I've been there ever since. Look for me in the fourth row, 5th seat to the left in the Hamiton video.
  • Favorite Song: "Better Place to Be", "Sniper", "Dogtown"
  • Favorite Quote: "I know I'm going nowhere, and anywhere's a better place to be."


    • (MartyAcks) Marty Acks - Downers Grove, Illinois, USA
  • Handle: martyacks
  • Real Name: Marty Acks
  • eMail Address: martyacks@mediaone.net
  • Location: 5217 Fairmount Avenue,Downers Grove, Illinois 60515 USA
  • Phone: 630-969-2878
  • Home Page: http://members.home.net/martyacks/chapin.htm
  • Born: April 22, 1957
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Carine
  • Children: Brian
  • Notes: My first date with my wife was a Harry Chapin beneift concert at the University of Illinois in 1976. Fan since I saw him on Carson in 1972 or so.
  • Favorite Song: "Better Place to Be" and "Taxi". Honorable mentions include: "Circle", "Barefoot Boy", the entire "Heads and Tales" album, "Short Stories", "Last Stand", "Stranger with the Melodies", "If My Mary Were Here", "We Were Three", "Corey's Comin'", "Remember When the Music", "Mismatch", "Somethin's Brewin' in Gainsville", "Jubilation"
  • Favorite Quote: Too many to list, plus they are based on my mood.


    • (Scott in Illinois) Scott Ramseyer - Kankakee, Illinois, USA
    Scott Ramseyer
  • Handle: Scott in Illinois ( I say it this way because even though I have lived here for 13 years, I still consider my self from Michigan)
  • Real Name: Scott Ramseyer
  • eMail Address: SRamseyer@colint.com
  • Location: On the Kankakee River, Kankakee, Illinois USA
  • Phone: 815-929-9905
  • Age/Born: 35 - October 8, 1965
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Chris Ramseyer (One of our newer Chapin fans)
  • Children: Chapin Allen Ramseyer (April 1st, 1999), Tanner Andrew Ramseyer (April 6th, 2000) (I know, they are close in age, but I waited a long time to get started.)
  • Notes: Harry lives on in each of us. He's greatly missed, but never forgotten.
  • Favorite Song: My favorite song(s) change weekly. This week it is "What Made America Famous"
  • Favorite Quote: "Most times when it's said and done there's justice to this life..."


    • (jeannie) Jeannie McKeever - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • Handle: jeannie
  • Real Name: Jean McKeever
  • eMail Address: music12cat@yahoo.ca
  • Location: 269 Gerrard Street East, Toronto, ON M5A 2G3 Canada
  • Phone: 416-604-5807
  • Born: December 12, 1956
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Single
  • Notes: I suffer from dysthymia and I was in the hospital waiting to go to breakfast when the tv news announcer said that Harry Chapin had died the day before. I felt a bullet shoot straight into my heart and the next thing I know I was on suicide watch. That was extreme by the staff, it was just that I'd "died" too -- Harry was a point of unity and laughter and faith in humanity. I cried and cried all day. I still do ache for him. Gone too soon.
  • Favorite Song: "Mr. Tanner"
  • Favorite Quote: "Harry it sucks", well he had to teach it to us!


    • Mary Lou Unangst - Harmony, New Jersey, USA
  • Real Name: Mary Lou Unangst
  • eMail Address: unangst@enter.net
  • Location: Harmony, New Jersey, USA
  • Born: October 1, 1953
  • Spouse/Significant Other: None
  • Notes: I first heard Harry in 1972 on the car radio. His voice really got to me but I missed the announcer telling who it was. I heard Taxi again later and have been a fan ever since. I went to every concert near NJ or PA and managed to see quite a few.
  • Favorite Song: I like "Taxi", but especially like "Sequel"
  • Favorite Quote: "It's got to be the going, not the getting there, that's good."


    • (GermanGamer) Timothy Rose - Boone, Iowa, USA
    Timothy Rose
  • Handle: "GermanGamer" or "Twonkbot" (both taken from my passion for collecting board games!)
  • Real Name: Timothy Rose
  • eMail Address: trose@opencominc.com
  • Location: Boone, Iowa, USA
  • Born: February 8, 1960
  • Spouse/Significant Other: None at present (The Chapin music they can put up with...it's ME that's the challenge!!!! )
  • Children: None
  • Notes: I've been a fan since I heard "Mr. Tanner" on the radio in 1976... on the way to a High School music competition, no less!! Did lousy at the competition, but had a blast!! Thanks, Harry!!!!!
  • Favorite Song: "Mr. Tanner", "Shooting Star" (thanks, Henry!), "When I Look Up"
  • Favorite Quote: "...and the excitement continues to build!!!!"


    • (piper781) Rod O'Brien - Foxtrap, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland, Canada
    Ron O'Brien
  • Handle: Piper781
  • Real Name: Rod O'Brien
  • eMail Address: rod_obrien@hotmail.com
  • Location: Foxtrap, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland, Canada
  • Phone: 709-834-3210
  • Age/Born: 30 - October 18, 1970
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Janice
  • Children: Jessica
  • Notes: I was in grade 12 (1989) when I first listened to Harry, and the haven't stopped listening to him since. But the sad thing was he was already dead before I got a chance to see him live and in person. I have one of his live concerts and most of his CD's (some are really hard to collect from where I am.) I went and seen Harry's Brothers with Big John Wallace perform at Oven's Park, Nova Scotia a couple of years ago. It was a great concert, a must go and see if you can find the time in August.
  • Favorite Song: "Remember When The Music", "A Better Place to Be", "Mr. Tanner", "The Mayor of Candor Lied"
  • Favorite Quote: "Onwards and Upwards together."


    • (kayleigh) Dan Garrison - Jackson, Michigan, USA
    Darleen & Dan
  • Handle: kayleigh
  • Real Name: Dan Garrison
  • eMail Address: winniethepoohfan1@msn.com
  • Location: 163 W. Clark St. Jackson, Michigan 49203
  • Home Page: http://www.iloverugrats.com
  • Age/Born: 32 - October 28, 1968
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Darleen Married almost 9 years, and she STILL puts up with me :)
  • Children: Ashley who is 15-1/2 and Kayleigh who is 6-1/2
  • Notes: Smile, it's free.
  • Favorite Song: The Live Version of Bananas from The Bottom Line Concert. Other favorite song is Kayleigh from Marillion.
  • Favorite Quote: Twinkies Baby...It's all about the Twinkies.


    • (donald.barton) Donald Barton - Grovedale, Victoria, Australia
  • Handle: donald.barton
  • Real Name: Don Barton
  • eMail Address: donald.barton@tft.csiro.au
  • Location: 33 Greenville Drive, Grovedale, Victoria, Australia 3216
  • Phone: +61-3-52411675
  • Age/Born: 54 - August 10, 1948 (It's old but better than the alternative)
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Sandy She is not into Harry at all but tolerates my obsession.
  • Children: Emma, who is 20 and Abbie, who is 18.
  • Notes: I heard "Cat's in the Cradle" then I bought Verities and Balderdash. Hooked! Have been an avid fan ever since.
  • Favorite Song: "Cat's in the Cradle", "Shooting Star", "Bluesman", "The Rock", "Odd Job Man", "Sequel"
  • Favorite Quote: "She would hold him in her body, 'til he once again could fly"


    • (colin) Colin Gerrard - Canterbury, Kent, England
    Colin Gerrard
  • Handle: Colin
  • Real Name: Colin Gerrard
  • eMail Address: colin@cgerrard.freeserve.co.uk
  • Location: Canterbury, Kent, England
  • Home Page: http://www.cgerrard.freeserve.co.uk
  • Age/Born: I crept past 50 last month.
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Sally Who puts up with my Chapin music, videos, and of course e-mail, but got a kiss from Harry at a London concert.
  • Children: Lindsay (16) and Kathryn (12) ardent fans of Westlife - have been occasionally heard furtively singing Circle and Flowers Are Red
  • Notes: First heard Could You Put Your Light on Please on an Elektra sampler, then W.O.L.D. hooked me and I bought all the albums. I saw him three times in London and found him even better live than on disc.
  • Favorite Song: Impossible question and the answer changes constantly, but probably Mr. Tanner gets my vote, although the group has encouraged me to revisit There Was Only One Choice, which is rising fast up my chart as is the Last Stand newly released version.
  • Favorite Quote: "Sometimes I get this crazy dream that I just take of in my car, but you can travel on ten thousand miles and still stay where you are"


    • (ubo) George Ubertaccio - Madison, New Jersey, USA
  • Handle: UBO
  • Real Name: George Ubertaccio
  • eMail Address: SGTUBO@aol.com
  • Location: Madison, New Jersey, USA
  • Phone: 973-822-8050
  • Age/Born: 45 (December 1955)
  • Spouse/Significant Other: LuAnne She has shared 23 of my 30 years of Harry.
  • Children: 2 sons 14 & 12
  • Notes: 30 years ago my brother played Harry's 1st album. Could You Put Your Light On Please was my 1st Harry song I ever heard (1st on the album) heck that makes me feel old. I had been to seven concerts over the years and like fine wine Harry just got better with time! I once sang Taxi on stage with Harry (along with about 25 others), I saw the Broadway show The Night That Made America Famous. I have every recording that C. Jason Dermer (of the Harry Chapin Foundation) has produced as fund raisers to preserve his music. And I attended Remembering Harry Chapin at the George St. Playhouse (I sat behind Doug Smith).
  • Favorite Song: What Made America Famous and Story Of A Life
  • Favorite Quote: "I can see it clear out to the end and I whisper to her now again because she shared my life. For more than all the ghosts of glory, she makes up the story, she's the only story ...of my life."


    • (squeakered) Debbie Boden - Brooklyn, New York, USA
  • Handle: Squeakered
  • Real Name: Debbie Boden
  • eMail Address: MyCoreysComing@aol.com
  • Location: Brooklyn, New York, USA
  • Age/Born: July 25, 1982 (I'm a young'yun!)
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Isn't worth mentioning :P Heh...
  • Children: 2 ferrets, 2 turtles, 1 guinea pig
  • Notes: Mom used to play his music all of the time. Soon I bought my own CDs, own books, and began my own collection. Last week I got a lot of Chapin stuff through eBay mailed to me - Mom said it was so kind of me to get all of these things for her. I laughed and said that I had bought it for me, but I can share.
  • Favorite Song: Corey's Coming and A Better Place To Be
  • Favorite Quote: "Sometimes I get this crazy dream that I just take off in my car, but you can travel on ten thousand miles and still stay where you are."


    • (munchie) Emily Schanker - Gainsville, Florida, USA
  • Handle: munchie
  • Real Name: Emily Schanker
  • eMail Address: munchiethe6th@yahoo.com
  • Location: University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida USA
  • Age/Born: September 16, 1982
  • Spouse/Significant Other: None
  • Children: None
  • Notes: As you might have guessed, I am not old enough to have been able to see Harry live. I really wish I could have had that opportunity. My dad first introduced Harry's music to me at a young age. The first song I remember hearing of his was Flower's Are Red. This song had a big influence on me, I am not a comformist, and I never paint my flowers just green and red. Most people my age have never heard of Harry, but I try to enlighten them. Though his music isn't always uplifting, it is still very meaningful. I think Harry was a great person, and I consider him a true hero.
  • Favorite Song: Flowers Are Red, 30,000 lbs. of Bananas, Tangled Up Puppet, There Only Was One Choice (I have memorized all 14 minutes), and Any Old Kind of Day
  • Favorite Quote: "But there still must be a way to have our children say: There are so many colors in the rainbow, so many colors in the morning sun, so many colors in a flower, and I see every one."


    • (TaterMouse) John Morgan - Queens, New York, USA
    John Morgan
  • Handle: TaterMouse
  • Real Name: John Morgan
  • eMail Address: John@customstaffing.com or TaterMouse@yahoo.com
  • Location: Queens, New York, USA (but my heart's in Ohio where I grew up)
  • Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/TaterMouse
  • Age/Born: November 5, 1970
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Lenarose
  • Children: One Stepson: Anthony
  • Notes: A long time ago a very special person introduced me to Harry. It took me a few years to really discover him, but when I did... I was profoundly affected for the rest of my life.
  • Favorite Song: There Only Was One Choice, Paint A Picture Of Yourself (Michael)
  • Favorite Quote: "Good dreams don't come cheap, you have to pay for them. If you just dream when you're asleep, there is no way for them to come alive, to survive..."


    • (ahava) Sarah A. Kramer - New Jersey, USA
    Sarah Kramer
  • Handle: Ahava
  • Real Name: Sarah A. Kramer
  • eMail Address: ahava1999@hotmail.com
  • Location: For the moment, New Jersey, but mailing is in Delaware
  • Phone: Dorm Room: 856-614-4118 (It'll change after April)
  • Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/lonelyahava
  • Age/Born: July 24, 1981
  • Spouse/Significant Other: My fiance, Jim
  • Children: None yet, thank God.
  • Notes: My mom got me started listening to harry when I was really little and 4-H just continued the tradition.
  • Favorite Song: She Is Always Seventeen
  • Favorite Quote: "He was the sun burning bright and brittle, and she was the moon shining back his light a little...she could make them holy."


    • (anglejon) John Foster - Near Liverpool, England
  • Handle: AngelJon
  • Real Name: John Foster
  • eMail Address: JohnF41x@aol.com
  • Location: Near Liverpool England
  • Age/Born: May 1958
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Pauline
  • Children: CJ (Christopher John)
  • Notes: Fellow Radio Caroline presenter lent me a tape once...hooked ever since.
  • Favorite Song: Circle


    • (lycanjs) Stephanie Lycan - Temporarily in the Netherlands
  • Handle: lycanjs
  • Real Name: Stephanie Lycan
  • eMail Address: lycanjs@hotmail.com
  • Location: Temporarily in the Netherlands
  • Phone: Dorm Room: Too expensive to use much ... we pay for all local calls as well as long distance.
  • Age/Born: May 4, 1969
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Jeff, and I turned him into a Chapin fan!
  • Children: 3 boys: Michael, Steven, and Christopher, 1 girl: Alyssa
  • Notes: My father turned my onto Harry at a very young age. That is almost all we listened to. I don't think I knew anyone else except for maybe John Denver. And now our family loves both Tom and Harry.
  • Favorite Song: Circle We read this at my oldest son's blessing which was done just hours after my grandfathers funeral. Talk about a tear jerker! That's what life's all about!
  • Favorite Quote: "I have this funny feeling; that we'll all be together again."


    • (narcan1) Roger Tewson - Alberta Canada
    Roger Tewson
  • Handle: narcan1
  • Real Name: Roger Tewson
  • eMail Address: rst19@hotmail.com Please identify when sending email as I do not open bulk emailings.
  • Location: Alberta Canada
  • Home Page: http://msnhomepages.talkcity.com/NonProfitBlvd/narcan1/
  • Age/Born: July 3, 1966
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Recenty divorced, and found my real true life partner. Corinna. Extremely happy. Corinna loves Harry's Music, and we sing, and cry together listening to a great artist.
  • Children: Two dogs, Spanky, and Alexis the SAR dog. One cat, Sparkles. Children Kristen, Ryan, Logan, Amanda, Rachelle, Cassandra, Kandace.
  • Notes: My dad used to drive us crazy as kids listenning to Harry's Music. But I think it had the effect he wanted it to have, because when I was about 15 dad told us when Harry came to Vancouver we were going to see him. I was excited, then saddened to learn that he was killed before I could ever see him live. I have been a huge fan of Harry's for a long time.
  • Favorite Song: There Only Was One Choice, Dancing Boy, Flowers Are Red, Sequel
  • Favorite Quote: "They're applauding at my shadow Long after I am gone..." Harry its true, its been twenty years and I'm still applauding!


    • (zeke1921) Billy Marsden, Jr. - Methuen, Massachusetts, USA
    Billy Marsden, Jr.
  • Handle: zeke1921
  • Real Name: Billy Marsden, Jr.
  • eMail Address: zekejunior@aol.com
  • Location: Methuen, Massachusetts, USA
  • Phone: I don't have one yet still have one of 'em telegraph things up here in the boonies near the NH border :)
  • Home Page: http://hometown.aol.com/zekejunior/myhomepage/index.html
  • Age/Born: March 6, 1972 (Rumor had it my Dad was more thrilled about my mom getting him "Heads and Tales" for his birthday, EVEN THOUGH I was born on HIS birthday!!!!) Don't worry, it was just a joke I later found out :)
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Engaged April 15th 2003...soon to be married May 15th 2004 to Tracy.
  • Notes: I got into Harry thanks to my folks Zeke and Peachie. Who as some might know, were friends of Harry and the band. I also listen to Rush, Journey, Styx, Dire Straits, Triumph/Rik Emmett
  • Favorite Song: Stranger With The Melodies, and I have to also say They Named an Engine After Me by Steve Chapin since he wrote it about my Dad :)
  • Favorite Quote: "That's when I said, 'You sound like what's-his-name. He said, 'That's who I am. But you can't wrap a name around you boy, 'Cause it really don't mean a damn.'"


    • (macca) Brian McNally - Ridgewood, Western Australia
  • Handle: macca
  • Real Name: Brian McNally
  • eMail Address: vicpom@one.net.au
  • Location: 21 Hinchinbrook Ave, Ridgewood, Western Australia 6030
  • Phone: 08 9304 4020
  • Age/Born: April 30, 1950
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Babs, my wife of 20 years
  • Children: Grownup Stepkids, 2 dogs; 1 a maltese the other a Jack Russel with attitude!!
  • Notes: The first time I heard Harry was I think W*O*L*D early 70s. My biggest regret was not taking the chance in the late 70s to see Harry in London.
  • Favorite Song: Story Of A Life and Circle
  • Favorite Quote: Is from when Harry was talking about is grandfather, and says "There's good tired and bad tired..."


    • (djanderson) Doug Anderson - Hutchinson, Minnesota, USA
  • Handle: djanderson
  • Real Name: Doug Anderson
  • eMail Address: my2cntswrth@hotmail.com
  • Location: Hutchinson, Minnesota, USA (a transplanted New Englander.)
  • Home Page: http://www.angelfire.com/zine/chattels/index.html
  • Age/Born: February 16, 1958
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Brenda, a relatively new Harry fan.
  • Children: 2 boys, Chris and Ethan
  • Notes: First experienced Harry in person 1976, University of Bridgeport CT
  • Favorite Song: Mr. Tanner and Story Of A Life
  • Favorite Quote: "Music was his life, it was not his livelihood.......he did not know how well he sang, it just made him whole."


    • (curtisruder) Curtis A. Ruder - Tallahassee, Florida, USA
    Katie Ruder
  • Handle: curtisruder
  • Real Name: Curtis A. Ruder
  • eMail Address: Curtisruder@aud.state.fl.us
  • Location: Tallahassee, Florida, USA
  • Phone: 850-224-0271
  • Age/Born: July 27, 1972
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Becky We have been dating/married for almost seven years now, and though she had never heard of Harry when we started dating, she too became a big fan and then I knew it could be forever.
  • Children: Katie Our daughter whose first music coming home from the hospital was a Harry CD ("Flowers are Red" was playing.) As the cutest member of the family, she is pictured.
  • Notes: My mother was a Harry Chapin fan, and so I grew up listening to his music. As a child I enjoyed the fun and silly songs. My ninth birthday present was tickets to a Harry concert later in the fall. About two hours after the party, we heard on the radio that he had died in a car accident the day before. My junior year of high school, we went to a play at the University of Texas which was the Lies and Legends that rekindled my love for his music, which has shaped so much of my maturing in college.
  • Favorite Song: Depends on the day, but I love Stranger With The Melody, Corey's Coming, The Rock, and Dreams Go By.
  • Favorite Quote: I debated for a week after finding this web site, but finally have decided upon the ironical: "A tame and toothless tabby can't produce a lion's roar."


    • (corrie) Corrie McGibney - Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
    Corrie McGibney
  • Handle: Corrie
  • Real Name: Corrie McGibney
  • eMail Address: Corrie40@aol.com
  • Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
  • Age/Born: December 27, 1959
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Mark He likes Harry, but he loves the blues!
  • Children: His: Margo, 14, Haley, 11, Mackinley, 7 Mine: Tyler, 13, Riley, 9 and Foster son: Brian, 8. Riley is the only Harry fan! (and therefore, my best bud!)
  • Favorite Song: Always faves: Old College Avenue, Winter Song, Story of a Life, Tangled Up Puppet, There Was Only One Choice. New faves: Remember When the Music, Sequel, Mr. Tanner, Corey's Coming. All time fave: Circle
  • Favorite Quote: "And in the time of having you..."


    • (mrtanner71) Gerry Buldak - Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • Handle: MrTanner71
  • Real Name: Gerry Buldak
  • eMail Address: parsifal71@msn.com
  • Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • Age/Born: August 16, 1971
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Tracey I'm doing my best to get her hooked. :)
  • Children: None
  • Favorite Song: There Only Was One Choice, Mercenaries, Mr. Tanner, Stranger With The Melodies, and Remember When The Music (Reprise).
  • Favorite Quote: "It's that good tired, ironically enough, can be a day that you lost. But you don't even have to tell yourself 'cause you knew you fought your battles, you chased your dreams, you lived your days. And when you hit the hay at night, you settle easy. You sleep the sleep of the just and you can say, 'Take me away'..."


    • (mick) Jeff Green - New South Whales, Australia
  • Handle: mick
  • Real Name: Jeff Green
  • eMail Address: Teegee@start.com.au
  • Location: Cessnock near Newcastle part of Hunter Valley in New South Wales state of Australia...
  • Age/Born: March 26, 1966
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Time for music and a partner, gotta be jokin' right?
  • Children: None that I have been made aware of legally, financially, or otherwise!
  • Notes: Can't exactly "remember when the music" of Harry took hold but first song would have been "Cats in the Cradle" around late seventies/early eighties.
  • Favorite Song: Cat's In The Cradle, Better Place To Be and all the interview and concert snippets of Harry having a word or two.
  • Favorite Quote: "I have painted and painted and I am good tired, and they can take me away." (Harry on Grandfather)


    • (phoenix_fawkes) Janet McCluskey - Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
    Janet McCluskey
  • Handle: phoenix_fawkes
  • Real Name: Janet McCluskey
  • eMail Address: phoenix_fawkes@yahoo.com
  • Location: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
  • Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/phoenix_fawkes/MainPage.html
  • Age/Born: December 1962
  • Spouse/Significant Other: My first husband was the one who introduced me to Harry. Current hubby is Jamie and he puts up with my rather eclectic taste in music remarkably well.
  • Children: 2 girls, 14 and 11 years old
  • Notes: Was introduced to Harry's music in 1980, quickly became a huge fan... never saw him in concert unfortunately. Certain songs still bring a lump to my throat and tears to my eyes, even after having heard them hundreds of times.
  • Favorite Song: Tangled Up Puppet, Corey's Coming, Flowers Are Red, Stranger With The Melodies... Really just love too many to mention.
  • Favorite Quote: "I gave her the music son, she gave me the words.... You see, a song don't have much meaning when it don't have nothing to say."


    • (fivejsman) Thomas Scott Lauer - Dallas, Texas, USA
  • Handle: fivejsman
  • Real Name: Thomas Scott Lauer
  • eMail Address: fivejsman@bigfoot.com
  • Location: Dallas, Texas, USA
  • Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/ttarblauer
  • Age/Born: October 8, 1957
  • Spouse/Significant Other: My lovely wife Christina, who has put up with all that I am and still wants more. Go figure!?
  • Children: I have a "Jenny" named Ashley (8 yrs.) and 2 little "Dancin' Boys" named Robbie and Brady. They make me a "Tangled Up Puppet."
  • Notes: This is where I say something Harry-ish. Well, I've been to see him many times, miss him a whole lot more than I miss my ex. I still listen to him sing daily from the many CDs. (I wonder if he and my ex could switch places??? oh well.)
  • Favorite Song: Oh Jeesh...All of them! Mainly: Sandy, Jenny, Tangled Up Puppet, Someone Keeps Calling My Name, You figure out W.H.Y. (It is all about the kids and the woman behind the man!)
  • Favorite Quote: The one true Harry quote and not just a song verse...I say it all the time: "Keep the change!" may it help fight the big fight.


    • (daveu) David Underwood - Sterling, Virgina, USA
  • Handle: daveu
  • Real Name: David Underwood (Daddy Davie)
  • eMail Address: daveu@2gt.com
  • Location: Sterling, Virgina, USA
  • Home Page: http://2gt.com
  • Age/Born: July 2, 1960
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Joleen Michalowicz (Mommy Davey)
  • Children: Michael David (Mikey Davey) and Stephen David (Stevie Davey)
  • Notes: I got GSL when I was a wee lad of 16 and wore it out listening to 'Better Place' over and over. I really related to it and how maybe anywhere might be a better place to be. I found it interesting that someone could musically (and emotionally) describe an early morning barroom and the people that one might meet in one. (Having been in one too many myself, I could really relate.) I also tuned in on the plight of the characters, especially the emptiness and loneliness and how that came through in the music especially the 'crying'/sadness of the cello. The whole work, story and music is a true masterpiece. The last three cello notes still tear me up almost every time I hear in (what probably about 25,000 times now!) For some reason, I use this song especially to get in touch with my feelings when I have some life stuff going on. Thank God for Harry because for a few years I was a lost soul and he may have been my only connection to some semblance of the reality of feelings and emotions.

    I was a Harry fan for life after my first concert when I met him. This was one of the most (if not the most) significant/memorable moments of my childhood. Harry was a great man. It's funny how we never really realize it until the 'great men' are no longer with us.

  • Favorite Song: A Better Place To Be and Corey's Coming
  • Favorite Quote: Line d'jour: "Time, time, time goes too fast."


    • (btrplc2b) Kathy Lange - Richmond, Virgina, USA
  • Handle: btrplc2b (or Kath52)
  • Real Name: Kathy Lange
  • eMail Address: Btrplc2b@aol.com
  • Location: Richmond, Virgina, USA
  • Home Page: http://2gt.com
  • Age/Born: 49....wishing 50 was further away. Born February 29, 1952. So in leap years, I'm not quite a teen!
  • Spouse/Significant Other: John Who confirmed once and for all that he's not a fan when on the way into a Gordon Lightfoot concert asked "So, who are we going to see that Harry Chaplin guy"?
  • Children: Riana (17) and Katy (almost 15). Unfortunately, also not fans, but they do love "The Waitress Song"!
  • Notes: Fell in love with Harry and his music at the first concert I attended in the late 70's in Norfolk, VA. My hometown is Huntington and my Mom (now 73) worked for Harry's answering service. She remembers his late night calls to check his messages and most vividly remembers calls from Robert Redford and Kenny Rogers the night Harry died.
  • Favorite Song: A Better Place To Be and Story Of A Life
  • Favorite Quote: "I wish that I were beautiful, or that you were halfway blind..."


    • (phredsmom) Koni Roach - Upper Midwest, USA
  • Handle: phredsmom
  • Real Name: Koni Roach
  • eMail Address: koniroach@voyager.net
  • Location: Upper Midwest, USA
  • Age/Born: 37
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Dane
  • Children: Husband Dane and two cats named Laverne and Shirley.
  • Notes: My brother introduced me to Harry's music when I was in junior high school.
  • Favorite Song: Taxi and Mr. Tanner
  • Favorite Quote: "Our love is like a circle, lets go round one more time."


    • (ljhickok) Linda Hickok - Belle Plaine, KS, USA
  • Handle: ljhickok
  • Real Name: Linda Hickok
  • eMail Address: ljhickok@aol.com
  • Location: Belle Plaine, KS, although my mailing address is P.O. Box 175, Mulvane, KS 67110
  • Phone: 620-488-2860 (work, but I work out of my house)
  • Age/Born: 7/1/1958
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Cort Anderson (still not a Harry convert - he thinks I should learn to like music from people who are still alive!)
  • Children: Sweet Thang and Wild Thang - my feline babies (and business associates).
  • Notes: I have liked Harry since about 6th grade - my older sister had bought Heads and Tales and listened to Taxi all the time, but I liked Dogtown better. She thought I was weird (she still does). I saved my money from cleaning houses, bought a record player, bought Short Stories, and a fan was born. Saw Harry live 3 times, usually in the cheap seats, and lining up for a kiss with all the other women! I still have my ticket stubs and T-shirts from each concert. Along the way, I convinced my college roommate and sister-in-law that Harry was great. Now I am a Tom Chapin fan! (kissed him, too - just Steve to go!) Tom comes to Winfield, KS every year for the bluegrass festival.
  • Favorite Song: A toss up between Mr. Tanner, Old College Avenue, and Tangled Up Puppet.
  • Favorite Quote: "He sang from his heart, and he sang from his soul. He did not know how well he sang, it just made him whole." along with "when you sing from the inside, you hope that something shows"


    • (the_brew) Chris Brewer, Orlando, FL, USA
  • Handle: the_brew
  • Real Name: Chris Brewer
  • eMail Address: cbrewer@darden.com
  • Location: Orlando, FL
  • Home Page: www.anhonesttune.com (The Southern Journal of Jam - roots music mag which I edit)
  • Age/Born: December 1, 1971
  • Spouse/Significant Other: My girl, Gretchen
  • Notes: I was introduced to Harry by my parents in the late 70's. Was able to attend two concerts in that time frame, and hold those memories, as well as the enjoyment of his music since as one of the wonderful ones of my childhood. Listening to Mr. Tanner still brings tears to my eyes to this day.
  • Favorite Song: Mr. Tanner, A Better Place To Be, Corey's Coming, W.O.L.D
  • Favorite Quote: "Music was his life, it was not his livelihood. But it made him feel so happy, it made him feel so good. And he sang from his heart, and he sang from his soul. He did not know how well he sang, it just made him whole."


    • (donna_taylor) Donna Taylor, Humboldt, AZ, USA
  • Handle: donna_taylor
  • Real Name: Donna Taylor
  • eMail Address: dl4727@aol.com
  • Location: Humboldt, Arizona (close to Prescott) still don't know?...one hour north of Phoenix.
  • Phone: 928-632-1277
  • Age/Born: June 30, 1947
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Larry , married 32 years he'll be 75 near end of July. We both discoved Harry at the same time late one nght on a local radio station in San Francisco. Of all his songs, it was 30,000 lbs of Bananas
  • Children: we have 2 girls together both big fans of Harry since they were introduced to him. They've been to all the same concerts as us. They love Circle Of the 16 grandchildren 1 of them is Crazy over Harry's music, especially Flowers are Red!
  • Notes: We were blessed to hear Harry sing at four different occasions each with a different atmophere, one at Shoreline amphitheater hugh crowd, twice at a little hole in the wall in San Francisco which was really cool, little table two feet from the stage. The last time was at Stanford University, he was all by himself, we were laid back on blankets enjoying Harry at his finest. in fact, we cut our Hawaiian vacation short by two days just to make it back in time to see him. I brought him a Hawaiian lei, he wore it. Got my poetry book signed and got that kiss at Shoreline.
  • Favorite Song: Favorite song; Much too difficult... "I Want To Learn a Love Song", "30,000 Pounds of Bananas", the entire Harry Chapin "Greatest Stories Live", which I have on eight track, cassette and CD.
  • Favorite Quote: "...no clear cut beginnings and so far no dead-ends" Why? Harry was so full of love and life and with this being so close to the anniversary of his so untimely and undeserved death he had no idea what lied before him. To anyone out there, being on the West Coast I don't get any info into whats happened to the rest of his family, Sandy and his kids?? Or Tom and Steve, Big John??? Would love to hear from someone.


    • (rveets) Rob DeVitis, Chester Springs, PA, USA
  • Handle: rveets
  • Real Name: Rob DeVitis
  • eMail Address: rveets@aol.com
  • Location: Chester Springs, PA
  • Phone: 610-687-3490
  • Home Page: www.rememberingharrychapin.com
  • Age/Born: April 4, 1962
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Jenny
  • Children: 3 girls, including twins.
  • Notes: My good friend John McMenamin turned me into a Harry fan. It is a pleasure to play guitar with John, my friend John Gebhart and the Chapin Band for a good cause (World Hunger Year). I have a feeling that getting Harry's old band mates John Wallace, Howie Fields and Yvonne Cable together again was not a coincidence. Harry has his hand in it for sure and I thank him and John for letting me be a part of it.
  • Favorite Song: Favorite song; "Mercenaries", "Shooting Star", "Tangled Up Puppet", "Mr. Tanner"
  • Favorite Quote: "Don't you know that you don't need to grow up all alone."


    • (hsnydick) Harry Nydick, Collingswood, NJ, USA
  • Handle: hsnydick
  • Real Name: Harry Nydick
  • eMail Address: hsnydick@yahoo.com
  • Location: 52 E.Coulter Ave., Collingswood, NJ 08108 (accross the river from philadelphia, PA)
  • Phone: 856-833-1512
  • Age/Born: January 10, 1944 Just thirteen months younger than Harry would be had he lived. Though I think young, unless I'm mistaken, this makes me the chronologically oldest so far in this directory.
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Betsy Fiancee since 1987, but that's another story. Not a Chapin fan, but I love her anyway, in spite of this--her only major--character flaw.
  • Children: Corey Born before the song, and now married. I have photos--taken in August, 1980 when Corey was six years old--of Harry Chapin and Corey together. Unfortunately, I don't have a scanner--people say they look more alike than Corey and I do.
  • Notes: I, briefly, studied guitar/music, but played guitar like a butcher. At Harry's prompting, I wrote a few songs. The first, about Harry himself, was entitled "The Man Who sings Stories." One of the highlights of my life occurred 2 weeks after I finished writing it. Harry appeared at the Academy of Music, in Philadelphia, PA, in November, 1980. Following the concert, as usual, he autographed and sold items, primarily for W.H.Y. When he was finshed, he sat (lounged) on a marble staircase in the lobby, while my brother (John) played the song on guitar and I sang it for Harry and a small group of remaining fans. When we finished, the fans applauded as Harry jumped to his feet, pumped his right arm in the air, and let out with the loudest, strongest "Well all right" I ever heard from him. What a trip!
  • Favorite Song: Too many to list. Just a few are "Better Place to Be", "There Only was One Choice", "Road to Kingdom Come", "Six-string Orchestra" and everything on "The Last Protest Singer" CD.
  • Favorite Quote: Again, too many. One is the combo from the Sequel album--"Sometimes you can't find what you're feelin' till all the words run out"--from Sequel--and "Sometimes words can serve me well; sometimes words can go to hell" (from Story of a Life)".


    • (leonie) Leonie Marshall, Manchester, England
  • Handle: leonie
  • Real Name: Leonie Marshall
  • eMail Address: stropulosis@ntlworld.com
  • Location: Manchester, England
  • Age/Born: 55 - August 22, 1947
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Yes I have one - but I tend to keep 'my' music (eg. Harry Chapin, Muse, Capercaillie, Saxon, Magnum, Leonard Cohen, My Dying Bride, Pitchshifter) to myself, thus (thankfully) minimising my own exposure to the wilder excesses of Soft Machine, Weather Report and the like.
  • Children: Son Whom died in 1988. His habit was to refer to any record he or I bought which wasn't 'metal', as 'an aberration'.
  • Notes: I'm bonkers and proud of it.
  • Favorite Song: "Corey's Coming"
  • Favorite Quote: "Reality is only just a word."


    • (brian) Brian Stainthorpe, Corrimal, Wollongong, NSW Australia
    Brian Stainthorpe
  • Handle: brian
  • Real Name: Brian Stainthorpe
  • eMail Address: stainthorpe@bigpond.com
  • Location: Corrimal, Wollongong, NSW Australia
  • Phone: 61-2-42849139
  • Age/Born: April 16, 1934
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Ann for over 40 years
  • Children: 3 Girls and 8 Grandchildren
  • Notes: English migrants to Australia 1968. Introduced to Harry's music 1990, slowly building collection.
  • Favorite Song: Depends on my mood
  • Favorite Quote: "My enemy is hopelessness" and "Let time go lightly"


    • (jeff) Jeff Gross, Harrison, NJ, USA
  • Handle: jeff
  • Real Name: Jeff Gross
  • eMail Address: jeff@infinitesign.com
  • Location: Harrison, NJ USA
  • Phone: 973-649-9950 (work)
  • Age/Born: 54
  • Spouse/Significant Other: None, except for touring dates
  • Children: None
  • Notes: Touring Manager/Lighting Designer from 1973 - 1980 for Harry Chapin
  • Favorite Song: "Greyhound" "Winter Song"
  • Favorite Quote: "It's got to be the going, not the getting there that's good..."


    • (thegoodreverend) Mike Hosch, Chino, CA, USA
  • Handle: thegoodreverend
  • Real Name: Mark Alan Hosch
  • eMail Address: pastor_mah@hotmail.com
  • Location: Chino, California (home of the potent dairy farms!!!)
  • Age/Born: I'm 18, and was born on April 26, 1985
  • Spouse/Significant Other: My best friend, Chad, who has been my buddy for five years (and has put up with my ranting and ravings about Chapin music for five years as well!)
  • Children: None
  • Notes: First heard Harry's music when my dad played Greatest Stories Live on our loud speakers at home. At first, I thought it was another long-haired hippy freak, but once I actually listened to the songs, I liked the guy. I currently have Heads & Tales, Sniper & Other Love Songs, Verities & Balderdash, Greatest Stories Live, Last Protest Singer, and Gold Medal Collection. Slowly but surely, I'll eventually have all of his recordings.
  • Favorite Song: So many are excellent, but if I chose the best of the best, it would be: Same Sad Singer, Last of the Protest Singers, I Wonder What Would Happen To This World, Circle, There Only Was One Choice, and Remember When The Music.
  • Favorite Quote: "Should I just play some rock-n-roll? 'Cause nobody really gives a d--n? I say that's not good enough. There's enough of that kind of stuff."


    • (chapin) Chapin Shearer, West Lafayette, IN, USA
    Chapin Shearer
  • Handle: chapin
  • Real Name: Chapin Shearer
  • eMail Address: chapin_s4312@hotmail.com
  • Location: Purdue University ~ West Lafayette, IN (home is Elizabethtown, KY, though)
  • Phone: 270-312-3283 (cell)
  • Home Page: www.chicagocubs.com
  • Age/Born: September 11, 1985 ~ almost legal!
  • Spouse/Significant Other: boyfriend of one year ~ Matt
  • Children: None
  • Notes: My dad was a high school biology teacher and he didn't want his daughter having any of the "common names", and he and my mom were both hippies, and in love with Harry ~ hence my name. Loved his music since I could answer to my name!
  • Favorite Song: Flowers Are Red, The Rock, and 30,000 Pounds Of Bananas
  • Favorite Quote: "And there still must be a way to have our children say ~ There are so many colors in the rainbow, so many colors in the morning sun, so many colors in the flower, and I see every one."


    • (smilingwoman) Roberta Lovejoy, Omaha, NE, USA
    Roberta Lovejoy
  • Handle: smilingwoman
  • Real Name: Roberta Lovejoy
  • eMail Address: smilingwoman3@yahoo.com
  • Location: Omaha, NE
  • Age/Born: April 19, 1957
  • Spouse/Significant Other: None at the moment, but looking.
  • Children: None
  • Notes: If it wasn't for my friend Steve Gibbons, I wouldn't have known anything about Harry Chapin, like what a great performer he was, what a great songwriter, and what a great humanitarian he was.
  • Favorite Song: Remember When The Music, Dance Band On The Titanic, Sniper and Mail Order Annie
  • Favorite Quote: "...and we believed in dreams and so we'd sing."


    • (jhyrsky) Juha M. Hyrsky, Turku, Southwestern Finland
    Juha Hyrsky
  • Handle: JHyrsky
  • Real Name: Juha M. Hyrsky
  • eMail Address: jhyrsky@tkukoulu.fi
  • Location: Turku, Southwestern Finland
  • Age/Born: February 3, 1958
  • Home Page: www.tkukoulu.fi/~jhyrsky/
  • Spouse/Significant Other: My wife Kirsi. She appreciates my taste a lot. Thanks for these 23 years, my love!
  • Children: Three beautiful daughters: Hanna 15 years, Leena 12 years and Liisa 10 years
  • Notes: Short Stories was chosen the album of the week on the Finnish Broadcasting Corporation some time in the early 70s. Actually it was Mr. Tanner who got me hooked, and Mail Order Annie, too. It was the legendary Heikki "Hector" Harma, the grand old man of Finnish rock who introduced Harry and Hector`s cover version of Six-String Ochestra in Finnish is just far out...
  • Favorite Song: I Wonder What Would Happen To This World, Mail Order Annie, Mr. Tanner, Shooting Star
  • Favorite Quote: As far as emotions are concerned: "...never mind your crying. Your tears are sweet rain in my empty life." As far as your whole life is concerned: "...in the final analysis, commitment is, irrespective of whether you win or not, something that truly makes your life more worth while." (Commitment and Pete Seeger)


    • (benlovejoyuk) Ben Lovejoy, London England
    Ben Lovejoy
  • Handle: benlovejoyuk
  • Real Name: Ben Lovejoy
  • eMail Address: ben@benlovejoy.com
  • Location: London, England
  • Age/Born: 41
  • Home Page: www.benlovejoy.com/harry/
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Birgit, a woman who shares a remarkable number of my tastes.
  • Children: Just Say No! A cat and two sportscars are all the kids I need.
  • Notes: I was introduced to Harry when I was 14, by a friend of my father, who lent me two of his LPs. I sat up listening to them until about four in the morning, and couldn't believe that he was singing about things I had thought were unique to me because nobody talked about them. His songs have formed a soundtrack to my life ever since, and Harry will always be the friend I never met.
  • Favorite Song: Impossible! I'll go as far as favourite album: Heads & Tales.
  • Favorite Quote: "All I've got is time. Nothing else is mine. All I want is you, and one more tomorrow [...] I've had my share of heartaches, misfortune and mistakes. Occasionally this life has left me battered. But I can't blame no-one else. 'Cos what I've done to myself is the only kind of history that matters."


    • (notniuq83) Kuinton Raj, Los Angeles, CA USA
  • Handle: notniuq83 It's Quinton backwards...Genius :D)
  • Real Name: Kuinton Raj
  • eMail Address: kuinton@yahoo.com
  • Location: Los Angeles, CA USA (in the San Fernando Valley...which is twenty minutes from everywhere...including the SUN...i.e. It's pretty hot here all the time)
  • Age/Born: 20, October 15, 1983
  • Home Page: profiles.yahoo.com/notniuq83
  • Spouse/Significant Other: N/A
  • Children: N/A
  • Notes: I first heard the song Cat's in the Cradle. I always thought it was by Guns N' Roses. But I found out recently it wasn't. I recieved a link to Chapin Music and I really got into his music... (You don't have to remind me about this never-ending huge fragment of a sentence.)
  • Favorite Song: Cat's In The Cradle made me cry. But I love Jenny (which is the perfect love song, I think.)
  • Favorite Quote: I'm not that well educated about Harry, but I do know he was an social activist, and I was touched by Tom Chapin's quote about passing the music on... "For the good times and the high times, Through the suffering and pain; It's the song of generations singing in my veins. I still hear that old time music of good friends now long gone. I am here tonight to pass the music on." - Tom Chapin


    • (teredunham) Tere Dunham, Billerica, MA USA
    Tere Dunham
    Steve Chapin, Tom Chapin, John Wallace, Clark Wallace
    Tere Dunham, Shayna Dunham , Abigail Chapin , Johnathan Chapin
  • Handle: teredunham
  • Real Name: Tere Dunham
  • eMail Address: teredunham@yahoo.com
  • Location: Billerica, MA USA
  • Phone: 978-663-5110
  • Age/Born: 45, July 13, 1958
  • Home Page: www.geocities.com/teredunham/My_page.html
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Scott After 23 yrs of marrige , He still puts up with me being a Harry Chapin Fan : )
  • Children: Derek, Amanda & Shayna
  • Notes: I have been a Harry Chapin fan for 32 yrs. I have LOVED Harry's music from the age of 14 when I first heard Taxi played on the radio, bought Heads & Tales and was immediately "HOOKED" although Taxi was the "Hit" song on the album Any Old Kind Of Day and Dogtown quickly became my favorites at the time. Needless to say I subsequently bought each new album as it came out. Harry Chapin was/is my source of comfort, dedication and inspiration to be the person I am today.
  • Favorite Song:All of them!
  • Favorite Quote: "Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, And truely it seems that we are never SO ALIVE as when we involve ourselves with other people."


    • (NJKewlDewd) John Scocco Jr., Clifton, NJ USA
    John Scocco Jr.
  • Handle: NJKewlDewd
  • Real Name: John Scocco Jr.
  • eMail Address: JScoccojr@yahoo.com
  • Location: Clifton, NJ USA
  • Age/Born: January 1972
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Looking!
  • Children: Two nephews, I’m not ready for my own...
  • Notes: Harry fan since late 80’s when a wonderful HS English professor named Jack Casey played one of his albums for our class. Sadly, Jack also left our world much too soon.
  • Favorite Song: Geesh, that’s a tough one! So many of them! Flowers Are Red, Circle, Better Place To Be.
  • Favorite Quote: "Lovin' someone is a better way to be..."


    • (alzarius1) Brian Schmid, Horsham, PA USA
  • Handle: alzarius1
  • Real Name: Brian Schmidt
  • eMail Address: alzarius@comcast.net
  • Location: Horsham, PA USA
  • Phone: 267-261-4934
  • Age/Born: December 31, 1968
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Antoinnette (Unfortunately, she is not a fan of MOST of the music that I listen to, including Harry.)
  • Children: 9 yr old twins - Tyler & Skye; 1.5 yr old toddler - Colin
  • Notes: Technically a Chapin fan for life (I remember thoroughly enjoying Cats and Taxi as a child whenever they came on the radio), but I didn't become a full-blown fan until I picked up a copy of the Harry Chapin Anthology (1982/1983?), shortly followed by Greatest Stories Live. GSL sealed the deal for me, and I probably combed the record shops for every HC album over the week that followed! I also distinctly remember watching the Hamilton, Ontario concert on PBS with my parents, but I can't remember if it was before, or after Harry "took off for the sky". Nothing could budge me from my pirch in front of that TV until the concert was over. My musical journey took some wild side roads, and some crazy turns over the next few years, but when Harry's albums started to appear on CD, I dove right back in, and have never gone too long without some Harry ever since. Imagine my pleasure when Last Protest Singer came out. "A NEW HARRY CHAPIN ALBUM!!!!" I was in heaven. Thankfully, that was not it for "new" Chapin music. Two "new"songs on the Sequel CD...those fun spoken intros on Gold Metal Collection...Onward and Upwards...The Night That Made America Famous...Songwriter...and now I'm enjoying the many wonderful concerts that other fans have so kind to provide to me! It is so wonderful that there always seems to be something "new" around the corner.
  • Favorite Quote: There are so many lines from Harry's songs that lift me up and make me glad to be alive, but I think my favorite would have to be "...Daddy...daddy...daddy, please....I'm ready to dream again..." (All the wonders of the world come from the mouths of babes.)


    • (Chazam3663) Sam, Barrington, RI USA
  • Handle: Chazam3663
  • Real Name: Sam
  • eMail Address: Chazam3663@aol.com
  • Location: Barrington, RI USA
  • Phone: 401-247-1909
  • Age/Born: 14
  • Spouse/Significant Other: I wish.
  • Children: None
  • Favorite Song: Sniper, She Is Always Seventeen
  • Favorite Quote: "And he sang from his heart, and he sang from his soul. He did not know how well he sang. It just made him whole."


    • (Garlean) Gary M. Leonard, The Swamps of Culloden Moor, Scottland
    Gary Leonard
  • Handle: The Garleon, Garleon Dray
  • Real Name: Gary M. Leonard
  • eMail Address: thegarleon@hotmail.com or gary@leonardg.fsnet.co.uk
  • Location: The Swamps of Culloden Moor,The Highlands of Scotland.(near Dagobah)
  • Age/Born: 600 tears old or 26/04/1975 (I just feel 600)
  • Home Page: garleon.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/
  • Spouse/Significant Other: Shona. Who has put up with me, music and Star Wars for a long time.
  • Children: Matthew 18/06/03. His name was taken from my middle name. I have a poor memory, what can I say.
  • Notes: As you probably guessed, I'm a huge Star Wars fan. But when it comes to music there was only one choice. I first heard Harry on a late nite radio show by a guy called Bob Harris (check out www.bbc.co.uk/radio2). Bob plays some fantastic music and got me into songs where the words are more than just lines that rhyme (Diane Warren, Don Mclean, etc). Cat's In The Cradle blew me away. When I finally managed to track down Greatest Stories Live I played it nonstop, and still do. I'm trying to get a copy of every song Harry recorded, that is my labour of love. I'll admit it, I love a good story. Harry has a song for every mood and occassion. There has been many evenings when Gary, Jack and Harry have got together for some loooooong conversations. By the way that's Gary Leonard, Jack Daniels and Harry Chapin.
  • Favorite Song: That's a difficult one. If I was pushed I'd probably say Story Of A Life, or Cat's In The Cradle, then again there is always 30,000...
  • Favorite Quote: "Sometimes words can serve me well and sometimes words can go to hell." Or the whole speach from Harry's Grandfather on the Gold Medal Collection about "Good tired and Bad tired".


    • (Esyla) Sarah Shay - Near Seattle USA
    Sarah Shay
  • Handle: Esyla
  • Real Name: Sarah Shay
  • eMail Address: sarah@angrychick.net
  • Location: Near Seattle
  • Age/Born: August 8, 1982
  • Home Page: www.angrychick.net
  • Spouse/Significant Other: My hetero-lifemate and best friend is Corey Marie, who renewed my childhood love of Harry's music when we became roommates in 2002. I'm honored to have shared quarters with someone named after one of Harry's songs. :)
  • Notes: Cats In The Cradle was a standard campfire song at the summer camp I attended for years as a kid, and was my first Harry song. When my dad found out about that, he lent me his copy of the Gold Medal Collection. The rest is history. :)
  • Favorite Quote: Harry's entire speech about the nature of performing, as featured on the Gold Medal Collection. It's something that's been very important to me my whole life.

    • Last update: 27Dec2004