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title: The Turning Of The Tide
text: Editorial Reviews The Turning Of The Tide by Tom Chapin Editorial Reviews The Turning Of The Tide by Tom Chapin

title: Mother Earth
text: Editorial Reviews Product Description Mother Earth by Tom Chapin Review Mother Earth is a truly inspiring collection of intelligent, socially and planetarily conscious songs which also happen to be great fun. --Dirty Linen Editorial Reviews Product Description Mother Earth by Tom Chapin Review Mother Earth is a truly inspiring collection of intelligent, socially and planetarily conscious songs which also happen to be great fun. --Dirty Linen

title: Family Tree
text: Editorial Reviews Product Description Family Tree is Tom Chapin's groundbreaking first family recording. Includes the now-classic title track Family Tree , as well as This Pretty Planet played on the Space Shuttle Discovery to wake the astronauts. The album also features guest vocalist Judy Collins . The album is a winner of a Parents' Choice Award and also named a Notable Children's Recording by the American Library Association. Review ...expands knowledge, stretches the imagination, tickles the funnybone and effortlessly inspires audience participation. --The Washington Post Its funny, its touching, its hip. Its music children fall in love with the first time they hear it, and its music adults can still enjoy even after the kids have played it 700 times. Musically excellent, lyrically delightful ... perfect for classrooms, family listening or as a gift for that special child. --Heartsong Review Editorial Reviews Product Description Family Tree is Tom Chapin's groundbreaking first family recording. Includes the now-classic title track Family Tree , as well as This Pretty Planet played on the Space Shuttle Discovery to wake the astronauts. The album also features guest vocalist Judy Collins . The album is a winner of a Parents' Choice Award and also named a Notable Children's Recording by the American Library Association. Review ...expands knowledge, stretches the imagination, tickles the funnybone and effortlessly inspires audience participation. --The Washington Post Its funny, its touching, its hip. Its music children fall in love with the first time they hear it, and its music adults can still enjoy even after the kids have played it 700 times. Musically excellent, lyrically delightful ... perfect for classrooms, family listening or as a gift for that special child. --Heartsong Review

title: In My Hometown
text: Editorial Reviews Amazon.com Harry Chapin's younger brother Tom never made the elder's commercial splash, but his recordings for kids are doing wonders for parents. Chapin's seventh children's recording, In My Hometown , is unapologetically excellent at several musical levels. Simplicity in melody here never cheats the rich instrumentation or complex, polystylistic composition. In the profusion of styles are lively mariachis, bouncing ragtime, funny ska, and, of course, plenty of dyed-in-the-wool folk. And for all the musical variety, none of the songs shoots above kids' heads. Like his brother, Tom Chapin writes narrative songs, many of them turning on witty repetitions that perk kids' ears up--and still strike adults as worth hearing. If you peruse Chapin's musician list, you'll also find some marquee talent, such as jazz trumpeter Lew Soloff, uilleann pipes maestro Jerry O'Sullivan, and former Blues Brother Blue Lou Marini on alto sax. --Andrew Bartlett Review Here's a town worth a long visit. All sunshine and effervescent life, these new songs, presented in a variety of upbeat rhythms, take listeners on a bubbly, clever tour of the people, places and daily happenings in an offbeat, fictional town, where the comical "Dog Rules" features a doo-wop canine chorus and "Gerti's Birdseed Diner" caters to a varied, feathered clientele. In "A Mozart Duet" the composer pops up to give a frustrated young piano player some advice. "Goosetown Halloween" is a giggle, with cartoony-spooky rhythms and lyrics that tell a tall tale about what happens at the fire department's annual trick-or-treat party. "Boogie Woogie Chase" is an energetic "follow the leader" song. You'll find an unusually active "Homemade Lemonade" stand and "Da Baby Sitter" is very unusual indeed: Harry the Hat, who makes kids an offer they can't refuse--and wouldn't if they could. Chapin gets serious, too, and the results are equally involving. "Muhheakunnuk," is a moving tribute to a river "that flows both ways," and to its lessons of its troubled past that resonate in the present. "Our Next-Door Neighbor, The Moon" and "It Feels Like Home" are the album's soulful, horizon-expanding wrap-ups. A 1998 Parents' Choice® Gold Award. Reviewed by Lynne Heffley, Parents' Choice® 1998 -- From Parents' Choice® Editorial Reviews Amazon.com Harry Chapin's younger brother Tom never made the elder's commercial splash, but his recordings for kids are doing wonders for parents. Chapin's seventh children's recording, In My Hometown , is unapologetically excellent at several musical levels. Simplicity in melody here never cheats the rich instrumentation or complex, polystylistic composition. In the profusion of styles are lively mariachis, bouncing ragtime, funny ska, and, of course, plenty of dyed-in-the-wool folk. And for all the musical variety, none of the songs shoots above kids' heads. Like his brother, Tom Chapin writes narrative songs, many of them turning on witty repetitions that perk kids' ears up--and still strike adults as worth hearing. If you peruse Chapin's musician list, you'll also find some marquee talent, such as jazz trumpeter Lew Soloff, uilleann pipes maestro Jerry O'Sullivan, and former Blues Brother Blue Lou Marini on alto sax. --Andrew Bartlett Review Here's a town worth a long visit. All sunshine and effervescent life, these new songs, presented in a variety of upbeat rhythms, take listeners on a bubbly, clever tour of the people, places and daily happenings in an offbeat, fictional town, where the comical "Dog Rules" features a doo-wop canine chorus and "Gerti's Birdseed Diner" caters to a varied, feathered clientele. In "A Mozart Duet" the composer pops up to give a frustrated young piano player some advice. "Goosetown Halloween" is a giggle, with cartoony-spooky rhythms and lyrics that tell a tall tale about what happens at the fire department's annual trick-or-treat party. "Boogie Woogie Chase" is an energetic "follow the leader" song. You'll find an unusually active "Homemade Lemonade" stand and "Da Baby Sitter" is very unusual indeed: Harry the Hat, who makes kids an offer they can't refuse--and wouldn't if they could. Chapin gets serious, too, and the results are equally involving. "Muhheakunnuk," is a moving tribute to a river "that flows both ways," and to its lessons of its troubled past that resonate in the present. "Our Next-Door Neighbor, The Moon" and "It Feels Like Home" are the album's soulful, horizon-expanding wrap-ups. A 1998 Parents' Choice® Gold Award. Reviewed by Lynne Heffley, Parents' Choice® 1998 -- From Parents' Choice®

title: Doing Our Job: John McCutcheon and Tom Chapin Live
text: Editorial Reviews Product Description This live recording captures all the good humor, energy and musical insight of these two Grammy nominated musicians. What it also captures is that rare instance of two powerful solo performers able to truly become an ensemble. With two versatile sidemen, a dozen great new songs, and a handful of seasoned chestnuts McCutcheon and Chapin serve up a generous helping of folk music old and new. Whether putting an entirely new spin on a Woody Guthrie classic, celebrating old love, delivering a wild send-up of today's news or a haunting song from death row, these two veterans prove over and over again why they have earned the acclaim of audiences around the country and the world. Amazon.com Both seasoned troubadours, Tom Chapin (Harry's brother) and Virginia banjo and dulcimer player John McCutcheon have done many shows together in recent years. Two of those shows were taped last December and edited into Doing Our Job . Rather than reprise their best known songs, the duo unveils a dozen new compositions as well as new arrangements of Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie numbers. McCutcheon's title song was inspired by Cal Ripken Jr. and his "I Don't Care" is a Tom Paxton-like satire on celebrity. Chapin cowrote two songs with Si Kahn about honoring the past. The results are sometimes too earnest and cheerful for their own good, but saxophonist Bobby Read and bassist Michael Mark flesh out the sound. --Geoffrey Himes Editorial Reviews Product Description This live recording captures all the good humor, energy and musical insight of these two Grammy nominated musicians. What it also captures is that rare instance of two powerful solo performers able to truly become an ensemble. With two versatile sidemen, a dozen great new songs, and a handful of seasoned chestnuts McCutcheon and Chapin serve up a generous helping of folk music old and new. Whether putting an entirely new spin on a Woody Guthrie classic, celebrating old love, delivering a wild send-up of today's news or a haunting song from death row, these two veterans prove over and over again why they have earned the acclaim of audiences around the country and the world. Amazon.com Both seasoned troubadours, Tom Chapin (Harry's brother) and Virginia banjo and dulcimer player John McCutcheon have done many shows together in recent years. Two of those shows were taped last December and edited into Doing Our Job . Rather than reprise their best known songs, the duo unveils a dozen new compositions as well as new arrangements of Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie numbers. McCutcheon's title song was inspired by Cal Ripken Jr. and his "I Don't Care" is a Tom Paxton-like satire on celebrity. Chapin cowrote two songs with Si Kahn about honoring the past. The results are sometimes too earnest and cheerful for their own good, but saxophonist Bobby Read and bassist Michael Mark flesh out the sound. --Geoffrey Himes

title: The Best of Tom Chapin - Family Favorites Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords