It was a move that would ultimately save Chapin hundreds of thousands of dollars over the term of his contract and set a precedent for other musicians.

American Motors ( AMC ) was so convinced "... that the rotary engine will play an important role as a powerplant for cars and trucks of the future ...", according to Chairman Roy D. Chapin Jr., that the smallest U. S. automaker signed an agreement in February 1973, after a year's negotiations, to build Wankels for both passenger cars and Jeeps, as well as the right to sell any rotary engines it produces to other companies.

He signed such acts as The Doors, Queen ( US only ), Love, Carly Simon, The Stooges, Harry Chapin, and Bread to Elektra and discovered folk singer Judy Collins.

It was especially noted that the birth and death of some notable persons coincided with separate appearances of the comet, such as with writers Mark Twain ( who correctly speculated that he'd " go out with the comet " in 1910 ) and Eudora Welty, to whose life Mary Chapin Carpenter dedicated the song Halley Came to Jackson.

Probably the most important legacy of the Italian rule-according to historians like Chapin Metz-is the political creation of " Libya " with the unification of Tripolitania, Cyrenaica and Fezzan in 1934, done by Governor Italo Balbo.

They were supervised by Ford's overseer Chapin, who saved Northup from a lynching after he fought with Tibeats.

They resided in Manhattan with their two daughters: Cecilia ( born 1990 ), who currently attends the University of Pennsylvania, and Josephine ( born 1993 ), who attended The Chapin School, and plans to attend Harvard University in the fall of 2012.

In February 2007, Proper Records reissued her live album Ring Them Bells ( 1995 ), which featured duets with artists ranging from Dar Williams and Mimi Fariña to the Indigo Girls and Mary Chapin Carpenter.

She wrote some songs on the album with other people, including Mary Chapin Carpenter, Ailee Willis, Nicky Holland, Tom Gray, Hugh Masekela and The Hooters.

In addition to playing piano and Hammond organ with the Heartbreakers, Tench is also known as a skilled session musician, having recorded with dozens of notable artists, including Johnny Cash, U2, Elisa, Stevie Nicks, Lucinda Williams, Sam Phillips, You Am I, Susanna Hoffs, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, The Rolling Stones, Don Henley, John Prine, Ringo Starr, John Fogerty, Elvis Costello, Bonnie Raitt, Sheryl Crow, Waylon Jennings, Paul Westerberg, X, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Carlene Carter, The dB's, Alanis Morissette, The Ramones, The Screaming Trees, The Tragically Hip, The Divinyls, The Goo Goo Dolls, Green Day, The Cult, The Jayhawks, Dave Rawlings, Fiona Apple, Lone Justice, Sean Watkins, New Found Glory, Tift Merritt, Peter Case, Neil Diamond, Ryan Adams and Powderfinger, Naughty Sweeties City of Glass, as well as many others.

The Brant post office, with ZIP code 48614, opened March 17, 1884, The office serves the western portions of Brant Township as well as most of Marion Township, and small areas of Chapin Township to the south of Marion and Hamilton Township to the west of Marion in Gratiot County.

* Olney Corners is an unincorporated community within the township at Ridge and Warren Roads with coordinates of at the border with Chapin Township, Saginaw County.

* Chapin Field ( 1B8 ) – An airport near the south town line with two intersecting grass strip runways.

It was here that Chapin met " Big " John Wallace, a tenor with a five-octave range, who later became his bassist, backing vocalist, and his straight man onstage.

Following an unsuccessful early album made with his brothers, Tom Chapin and Steve Chapin, Chapin's debut album was Heads & Tales ( 1972, # 60 ), which was a success thanks to the single " Taxi " (# 24 ).

According to Chapin's biography Taxi: The Harry Chapin Story by Peter M. Coan, Chapin had agreed in principle to sign with Elektra Records on the grounds that a smaller record label would give greater personal attention to his work.

Verities & Balderdash ( 1974, # 4 ), released soon after, was much more successful, bolstered by the chart-topping hit single " Cat's in the Cradle ", based upon a poem by his wife ; Sandra Chapin had written the poem inspired by her first husband's relationship with his father and a country song she heard on the radio.

A minor deal with Casablanca Records fell through, and Chapin settled on a simple one-album deal with Boardwalk Records.

Chapin donated an estimated third of his paid concerts to charitable causes, often performing alone with his guitar to reduce costs.

* Anthology of Harry Chapin ( 1985, Elektra )

* VH1 Behind the Music: The Harry Chapin Collection ( 2001, Elektra )

A variety of definitions exist: F. Stuart Chapin and coauthors define it as " the application of ecological science to resource management to promote long-term sustainability of ecosystems and the delivery of essential ecosystem goods and services ", while Norman Christensen and coauthors defined it as " management driven by explicit goals, executed by policies, protocols, and practices, and made adaptable by monitoring and research based on our best understanding of the ecological interactions and processes necessary to sustain ecosystem structure and function " and Peter Brussard and colleagues defined it as " managing areas at various scales in such a way that ecosystem services and biological resources are preserved while appropriate human use and options for livelihood are sustained ".

Chapin reminded Tibeats of his debt to Ford of $ 400 for the purchase of Northup.

The CPK record produced by the Chapin Brothers for Parker Brothers ' music went Gold and Platinum.

In the early ( pre-1930 ) parts of the last century, the coastal areas of northernmost South Carolina were used mostly as farming sites ( the real estate monolith now known as Burroughs and Chapin for decades was named “ Myrtle Beach Farms ”).

** Arnold Cardillo ( producer ), Rory Young ( engineer ) & Tom Chapin for Mama Don't Allow

McJohn was replaced by Andy Chapin on Hour of the Wolf in 1975, though McJohn appeared in artwork for the single to Caroline ( Are You Ready ) and claims that his keyboard work can be heard on many of the album's tracks.

Harry Forster Chapin ( December 7, 1942 – July 16, 1981 ) was an American singer-songwriter best known for his folk rock songs including " Taxi ", " W * O * L * D ", and the # 1 hit " Cat's in the Cradle ".

In 1987, Chapin was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for his humanitarian work.

Chapin graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School in 1960, and was among the five inductees in the school's Alumni Hall Of Fame for the year 2000.

Chapin later gave great credit to WMEX-Boston radio personality Jim Connors for being the DJ who " discovered " this single, and pushing the airplay of this song among fellow radio programmers in the U. S.

Chapin's follow-up album, Sniper and Other Love Songs ( 1972, # 160 ), was less successful despite containing the Chapin anthem " Circle " ( a big European hit for The New Seekers ).

Additionally, Chapin wrote the music and lyrics for Cotton Patch Gospel, a musical by Tom Key and Russell Treyz based on Clarence Jordan's book The Cotton Patch Version of Matthew and John.

Chapin met Sandy Cashmore ( née Gaston ), a New York socialite nine years his senior, in 1966, after she called him asking for music lessons.

As for his religious views, Chapin was " an agnostic, if not an atheist ".

On Thursday, July 16, 1981, just after noon, Chapin was driving in the left lane on the Long Island Expressway at about 65 mph on the way to perform at a free concert scheduled for later that evening at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow, New York.

Chapin was taken by police helicopter to a hospital, where ten doctors tried for 30 minutes to revive him.

A spokesman for the Nassau County Medical Center said Chapin had suffered a heart attack and " died of cardiac arrest ", but there was no way of knowing whether it occurred before or after the accident.

Even though Chapin was driving without a license, his driver's license having previously been revoked for a long string of traffic violations, his widow Sandy won a $ 12 million decision in a negligence lawsuit against Supermarkets General, the owners of the truck.

On December 7, 1987, on what would have been his 45th birthday, Chapin was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for his campaigning on social issues, particularly his highlighting of hunger around the world and in the United States.

** Tom Chapin for There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly

** Mary Chapin Carpenter for " Shut Up and Kiss Me "