Sniper & Other Love Songs | ||||
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Released | October 1972 | |||
Recorded | 1972 | |||
Studio | Elektra, Los Angeles, California | |||
Length | 45:52 | |||
Label | Elektra | |||
Producer | Fred Kewley | |||
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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.