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.Harry Chapin: The Gold Medal Collection, album notes, Elektra/Asylum Records, 1988. The album has been certified platinum by the RIAA and has sold over 1 million copies.
Track listing Disc 1 (1:08:22): "Taxi" - 6:44 (From the album Heads & Tales) "Sunday Morning Sunshine" - 3:30 (From the album Sniper and Other Love Songs) "Old College Avenue" - 4:25 (From the album Short Stories) "Dirty Old Man" - 1:25 (From The Tonight Show, NBC, December 20, 1977) "I Wanna Learn a Love Song" - 4:19 (From the album Verities and Balderdash) "Cat's in the Cradle" - 3:44 (From the album Verities and Balderdash) "Tangled Up Puppet" - 3:42 (From the album Portrait Gallery) "Dancing Boy" - 3:40 (From the album Living Room Suite) "Thanksgiving Hunger Drives" - 0:47 (From a speech before the Michigan League on World Hunger Year, April 1, 1980) "Flowers Are Red" (Live) - 5:01 (From the album Legends of the Lost and Found) "She Sings Songs Without Words" - 3:31 (From the album Verities and Balderdash) "Shooting Star" - 4:02 (From the album Verities and Balderdash) "Winter Song" - 2:30 (From the album Sniper and Other Love Songs) "Story of a Life" - 5:15 (From the album Sequel) "Commitment and Pete Seeger" - 1:47 (From an interview with Bill Ayres WPLJ Radio, New York City, November, 1980) "There Only Was One Choice" - 14:00 (From the album Dance Band on the Titanic) Disc 2 (1:11:51): "A Better Place to Be" - 7:35 (From the album Sniper and Other Love Songs) "Mail Order Annie" - 4:52 (From the album Short Stories) "Performing" - 0:30 (From an interview on Winnipeg Today, VPW-TV Winnipeg, March 27, 1981) "W*O*L*D" (Live) - 4:46 (From the album Greatest Stories Live) "Mr. Tanner" (Live) - 4:45 (From the album Greatest Stories Live) "Corey's Coming" - 5:38 (From the album On the Road to Kingdom Come) "A Child Is Born" - 0:30 (From a speech before the Michigan League on World Hunger Year, April 1, 1980) "Sniper" - 9:50 (From the album Sniper and Other Love Songs) "Calluses" - 0:41 (From Harry Chapin on Hunger) "The Rock" - 4:15 (From the album Portrait Gallery) "Dance Band on the Titanic" - 5:11 (From the album Dance Band on the Titanic) "I Wonder What Would Happen to This World" - 3:28 (From the album Living Room Suite) "Sequel" - 6:35 (From the album Sequel) "My Grandfather" - 1:45 (From a speech before the ACUAA, December 22, '80) "Remember When the Music (Reprise)" - 3:50 (From the album Sequel) "Circle" (Live) - 7:30 (Broadcast on WNEW-FM Live from the Bottom Line, New York City, 1981)
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