Fun fact for anyone who doesn't know, Harry is singing about a real place. My mother is from Gloucester, Massachusetts, where Dogtown is located. I love Gloucester. I live in Las Vegas currently, but it's nice when I visit because I get to smell the ocean air, and sit outside and listen to the seagulls.
so tired of the silly folk song comments about H, cause all the know are Flowers or Taxi or Little Boy.. he was / is so much more.. Corey, Tanner, Better, Annie, Titanic, Rock, and on and on...
Nice song. I just wish he had talked about fishing for cod on the Grand Banks since this town never went whaling. They'd be gone for months at a time, and we lost thousands of men. Just not whaling.
I looked it up and there really was a dog town... there are still the remains of some of the buildings and stuff.. I think this would make a good movie.
I saw Harry Play this song LIVE..at Avery Fischer Hall in NYC..and I was blown away sine it was NOT part of his usual set..that was the only time I ever heard him play it live and I have never found any video of the song...I was told there is one klnown video of the song from a concert in Long Island...but ...where is it...
Miss Harry a lot. Met him a couple of times and he shows never disappointed and he walked the walk as far as his commitment to charity. He wrote some amazing stories and I was devastated when he was killed, I had tickets to see him at the Club Casino in Hampton beach the next night... My favorite song... "Mr. Tanner" although " A Better Place to Be' is great as well.
I saw him in concert in 76 at Vassar College. Got to be on stage with him and talk to him backstage. A gentle, warm man. One of my best childhood memories.
Saw Mr Chapin in Concert in Massachusetts,,, He was a Great. You Didn't have to pay to meet him, he came out and visited everyone. He talked To You/With You,,,not At You,,,,Great Musician an A Person.
R. Everett Fadden
I just saw a show about gloucester. On the edge of the harbor somebody put up a nice statue of glousester women waiting for the ships to arrive. I didn't see any dogs! lol