The Gold Medal Collection

The Gold Medal Collection
Compilation album by Harry Chapin
Released	September 13, 1988
Genre	Folk rock
Length	2:20:13
Label	Elektra
Producer	Sandy Chapin & Charles J. Sanders
Harry Chapin chronology
Remember When the Music (1987) The Gold Medal Collection (1988) The Last Protest Singer (1998)

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Allmusic	[1]

The Gold Medal Collection is a 1988 two-CD compilation album featuring various songs and interviews by singer-songwriter Harry Chapin. It was released by Elektra Records to commemorate Chapin for being posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for his humanitarian work and campaigns to end hunger. ^[2] The album has been certified platinum by the RIAA and has sold over 1 million copies.

Track listing

Disc 1 (1:08:22):

1. "Taxi" - 6:44 (From the album Heads & Tales )
2. "Sunday Morning Sunshine" - 3:30 (From the album Sniper and Other Love Songs )
3. "Old College Avenue" - 4:25 (From the album Short Stories )
4. "Dirty Old Man" - 1:25 (From The Tonight Show , NBC, December 20, 1977)
5. "I Wanna Learn a Love Song" - 4:19 (From the album Verities and Balderdash )
6. "Cat's in the Cradle" - 3:44 (From the album Verities and Balderdash)
7. "Tangled Up Puppet" - 3:42 (From the album Portrait Gallery )
8. "Dancing Boy" - 3:40 (From the album Living Room Suite )
9. "Thanksgiving Hunger Drives" - 0:47 (From a speech before the Michigan League on World Hunger Year, April 1, 1980)
10. "Flowers Are Red" (Live) - 5:01 (From the album Legends of the Lost and Found )
11. "She Sings Songs Without Words" - 3:31 (From the album Verities and Balderdash)
12. "Shooting Star" - 4:02 (From the album Verities and Balderdash)
13. "Winter Song" - 2:30 (From the album Sniper and Other Love Songs)
14. "Story of a Life" - 5:15 (From the album Sequel )
15. "Commitment and Pete Seeger" - 1:47 (From an interview with Bill Ayres WPLJ Radio, New York City, November, 1980)
16. "There Only Was One Choice" - 14:00 (From the album Dance Band on the Titanic )

Disc 2 (1:11:51):

1. "A Better Place to Be" - 7:35 (From the album Sniper and Other Love Songs)
2. "Mail Order Annie" - 4:52 (From the album Short Stories)
3. "Performing" - 0:30 (From an interview on Winnipeg Today, VPW-TV Winnipeg, March 27, 1981)
4. "W*O*L*D" (Live) - 4:46 (From the album Greatest Stories Live )
5. "Mr. Tanner" (Live) - 4:45 (From the album Greatest Stories Live)
6. "Corey's Coming" - 5:38 (From the album On the Road to Kingdom Come )
7. "A Child Is Born" - 0:30 (From a speech before the Michigan League on World Hunger Year, April 1, 1980)
8. "Sniper" - 9:50 (From the album Sniper and Other Love Songs)
9. "Calluses" - 0:41 (From Harry Chapin on Hunger)
10. "The Rock" - 4:15 (From the album Portrait Gallery)
11. "Dance Band on the Titanic" - 5:11 (From the album Dance Band on the Titanic)
12. "I Wonder What Would Happen to This World" - 3:28 (From the album Living Room Suite)
13. "Sequel" - 6:35 (From the album Sequel)
14. "My Grandfather" - 1:45 (From a speech before the ACUAA, December 22, '80
15. "Remember When the Music (Reprise)" - 3:50 (From the album Sequel)
16. "Circle" (Live) - 7:30 (Broadcast on WNEW-FM Live from the Bottom Line, New York City, 1981)

References

1. Allmusic review
2. Harry Chapin: The Gold Medal Collection, album notes, Elektra/Asylum Records, 1988.