Sniper and Other Love Songs explained

Sniper & Other Love Songs
Type:studio
Artist:Harry Chapin
Cover:Harry_Chapin_-_Sniper_and_Other_Love_Songs.jpg
Released:October 1972
Recorded:1972
Studio:Elektra, Los Angeles, California
Length:45:52
Label:Elektra
Producer:Fred Kewley
Prev Title:Heads & Tales
Prev Year:1972
Next Title:Short Stories
Next Year:1973

Sniper and Other Love Songs is the second studio album by the American singer/songwriter Harry Chapin, released in 1972. The album's title song is a vaguely fictionalised account of Charles Whitman's shootings from the clocktower of the Main Building of the University of Texas at Austin in August 1966. In 2004 it was released as a double CD package with Heads & Tales featuring several previously unreleased out-takes.

The song "Circle" was a major hit for The New Seekers (released as "Circles") and became known as the Chapin Anthem. "Sunday Morning Sunshine" cracked the Billboard Hot 100. A live version of "A Better Place To Be" charted in 1976.

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