Sniper and Other Love Songs

Sniper & Other Love Songs
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 1972
Recorded1972
StudioElektra, Los Angeles, California
Length45:52
LabelElektra
ProducerFred Kewley
Harry Chapin chronology
Heads & Tales
(1972)
Sniper & Other Love Songs
(1972)
Short Stories
(1973)
Singles from Sniper and Other Love Songs
  1. "Sunday Morning Sunshine"
    Released: October 1972
  2. "A Better Place to Be"
    Released: October 1972
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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.