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.