Tom Chapin was born on March 13,1945 and is an American musician, entertainer, singer-songwriter, and storyteller.
10 Facts About Tom Chapin
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Tom Chapin attended State University of New York at Plattsburgh where he played basketball and baseball.
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Tom Chapin is a member of the school's 1000 Point Club in basketball and is a 1986 inductee of the Plattsburgh State Athletic Hall of Fame.
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From 1971 to 1976, Tom Chapin hosted Make a Wish, an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning Sunday-morning children's TV series broadcast on ABC.
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Tom Chapin occasionally appears in Harry Chapin tribute concerts.
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Tom Chapin has appeared in the Broadway production Pump Boys and Dinettes, among others.
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Tom Chapin has branched in to the storytelling festival circuit and in 2007 was a Featured New Voices Teller at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee.
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Tom Chapin is married to Bonnie Chapin, former wife of film director Wes Craven and sister of Wallace Smith Broecker.
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Tom Chapin's album with John Forster titled Broadsides: A Miscellany of Musical Opinion is a collection of socially conscious songs written for Morning Edition; Forster was nominated for a Grammy for his work producing Chapin's 1998 album In My Hometown.
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Tom Chapin continues support of WhyHunger, a nonprofit organization cofounded by his brother Harry Tom Chapin.