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Verities & Balderdash by Harry Chapin
Verities & Balderdash is an album by Harry Chapin, released in 1974. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 12 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Cat's In The Cradle”, on 12 lists with a best position of #151.
Verities & Balderdash, Harry Chapin's fourth studio album, came out on Elektra in 1974 with Paul Leka producing, and the ads sold it as a set of stories only Harry could tell. That's fair: Chapin is less a singer than a narrator with a guitar, spinning plainspoken folk-pop yarns and pulling at the heartstrings without apology.
"Cat's in the Cradle" is the one that made him, his highest-charting single and number 38 on Billboard's year-end Hot 100 for 1974. "I Wanna Learn a Love Song" followed it to number 44 on the Hot 100 and number 7 on the adult contemporary chart, and "What Made America Famous?" went out to radio as a promotional 45. The album went gold on December 17, 1974.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Verities & Balderdash on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cat's In The Cradle | 12 | #151 | – | 1991–2026 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.