''Story of a Life'' is the third posthumous compilation album released featuring

Harry Chapin Harold Forster Chapin (; December 7, 1942 – July 16, 1981) was an American singer-songwriter, philanthropist, and hunger activist best known for his folk rock and pop rock songs. He achieved worldwide success in the 1970s. Chapin, a Grammy ...

, released in 1999 (see

1999 in music This is a list of notable events in music that took place in 1999. Specific locations *1999 in British music * 1999 in Norwegian music * 1999 in South Korean music Specific genres * 1999 in classical music * 1999 in country music *1999 in La ...

). It was released as a box set containing 3 CDs and a 76-page booklet.

Track listing

Disc 1 (1:16:59): # "

Taxi A taxi, also known as a taxicab or simply a cab, is a type of vehicle for hire with a driver, used by a single passenger or small group of passengers, often for a non-shared ride. A taxicab conveys passengers between locations of their choice ...

" - 6:42 # "Someone Keeps Callin' My Name" - 2:53 # "Could You Put Your Light On, Please" - 4:30 # "Empty" - 2:58 # "Greyhound" - 5:39 # "Any Old Kind of Day" - 4:45 # "Sunday Morning Sunshine" - 3:50 # "

Sniper A sniper is a military/paramilitary marksman who engages targets from positions of concealment or at distances exceeding the target's detection capabilities. Snipers generally have specialized training and are equipped with high-precision r ...

" - 9:57 # " Better Place to Be" - 8:35 # "They Call Her Easy" - 4:03 # "

Mr. Tanner "Mr. Tanner" is a song by Harry Chapin from his 1973 album, ''Short Stories''. Big John Wallace plays Mr. Tanner by singing the chorus to "O Holy Night" in the background to the song's chorus. Story The song tells the story of Martin Tanner, a loc ...

" - 5:12 # "Mail Order Annie" - 4:54 # "

W*O*L*D "W.O.L.D." is a song written and performed by Harry Chapin. The song is about an aging disc jockey who travels the United States seeking happiness, which he believes he will find by following his passion for being a radio broadcaster, only to disco ...

" - 5:12 # "Old College Avenue" - 4:27 # "Circle" - 3:22 Disc 2 (1:18:07): # "Short Stories" - 4:35 # "

Cat's in the Cradle "Cat's in the Cradle" is a 1974 folk rock song by Harry Chapin from the album ''Verities & Balderdash''. The single topped the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in December 1974. As Chapin's only number-one song, it became the best known of his work an ...

" - 3:48 # "I Wanna Learn a Love Song" - 4:24 # "

30,000 Pounds of Bananas "30,000 Pounds Of Bananas," sometimes spelled "Thirty Thousand Pounds Of Bananas," is a folk rock song by Harry Chapin from his 1974 album, ''Verities & Balderdash.'' The song became more popular in its live extended recording from Chapin's 197 ...

(Live)" - 10:58 # "Shooting Star" - 4:06 # "What Made America Famous?" - 6:52 # "Vacancy" - 4:01 # "Dreams Go By" - 4:43 # "Tangled Up Puppet" - 3:42 # "The Rock" - 4:12 # "She is Always Seventeen" - 4:18 # "The Mayor of Candor Lied" - 8:21 # "Caroline" - 3:40 # "Laugh Man" - 3:35 # "Taxi (Live)" - 6:52 Disc 3 (1:18:26): # " Corey's Coming" - 5:38 # "If My Mary Were Here" - 3:26 # "Dance Band on the Titanic" - 5:11 # "Mismatch" - 4:55 # "I Wonder What Happened to Him" - 4:09 # "Dancin' Boy" - 3:52 # " Flowers Are Red (Live)" - 5:07 # "Poor Damned Fool" - 4:34 # "Jenny" - 4:47 # "I Wonder What Would Happen to This World" - 3:29 # "Old Folkie (Live)" - 5:02 # "Remember When the Music (Reprise)" - 3:56 # "God Babe, You've Been Good for Me" - 3:23 # "Story of a Life" - 5:21 # "November Rains" - 3:50 # "Sequel" - 6:40 # "Last Stand" - 5:06

Personnel

*Harry Chapin -

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

*Clair Marlo -

Producer Producer or producers may refer to: Occupations *Producer (agriculture), a farm operator *A stakeholder of economic production *Film producer, supervises the making of films **Executive producer, contributes to a film's budget and usually does not ...

arranger In music, an arrangement is a musical adaptation of an existing composition. Differences from the original composition may include reharmonization, melodic paraphrasing, orchestration, or formal development. Arranging differs from orches ...

synthesizer A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis and ...

Tom Chapin Tom Chapin (born March 13, 1945) is an American musician, entertainer, singer-songwriter, and storyteller. Chapin is known for the song " Happy Birthday", released in 1989 in his ''Moonboat'' album. It takes its melody from "Love Unspoken", a so ...

Grant Geissman Grant Geissman (born April 13, 1953) is an American jazz guitarist and Emmy Award, Emmy-nominated composer. He has recorded extensively for several Record label, labels since 1976 and played guitar on the theme for ''Monk (TV series), Monk'' and ...

*Jon Corbert -

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

Steve Chapin Stephen Chapin (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter. He is best known as the youngest of the four Chapin brothers, which include Harry Chapin and Tom Chapin and is son of drummer Jim Chapin and Elspeth Burke Chapin Hart, edit ...

*Pat Coil -

*Bill Lanphier -

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

* John Wallace -

*Howie Fields -

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

and

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

*M. B. Gordy -

and

*Doug Walker -

electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic gui ...

*Jon Corbert -

References

{{Authority control 1999 compilation albums Harry Chapin albums Compilation albums published posthumously Elektra Records compilation albums