🎵 Harry Chapin - Taxi REACTION
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I love this song and love that you checked it out but, you guys missed the story completely. He picked up a woman in his taxi and said she looked familiar, she looked at his taxi license (they are posted in taxis) and saw his name and they both realized that they were high school sweethearts, in the line "We learned about love in the back of the Dodge."
They went there separate ways because:
"You see she was gonna be an actress
And I was gonna learn to fly
She took off to find the footlights
And I took off to find the sky"
They hadn't seen each other in years. but:
"There was not much more for us to talk about
Whatever we had once was gone"
He could tell she wasn't happy in her suburban, married life:
She was gonna be an actress...
...
"And here, she's acting happy
Inside her handsome home"
And he's "flying in his taxi" because, "I go flying so high, when I'm stoned"
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Fkn word
I was gonna explain it, but you hit it.
"acting* happy... and he was "flying". but using pot to do it instead of becoming a pilot/flying plane. ...both got what they'd asked for or did they...LOVE THIS SONG.
Thank you,geesh.. not sure how this got missed if listening to it..But I guess it flew over their heads..Tk you again!! Dannie W ❣️❣️
You took the words right out of my mouth....
They used to be together when they were younger. They split to chase their dreams. Now she’s sad in her mansion and he’s stoned driving a cab.
There ya go..... See Brad? It's really NOT that complicated... 🤣 🤪 😂
Word.
Simple
All u gotta do is listen.
They're pissing me off. Kidnapped?? Die???
JHC. listen. It is what it is. Aged love story. Dreams. Those dreams not being reached. Their love very real, but long ago. IT IS WHAT IT IS.
Thank you. I was going nutty watching them posit what might happen.
@@zippymacadoo6336 it’s part of the entertainment.
They dated in HS and shared their dreams - her of being an actress, he of being a pilot. . . she's now "acting" happy and he's flying in his cab "getting stoned" - their dreams vs. life's realities . . .
The song was pretty direct, I dont know how they didnt get it.
@@saturnnet1627 , because they're young and don't get it yet.
How could they miss the point of such a pure and simple story? Wow, I'm stunned.
THEY ARE MINIONS
This was the song that brought attention to him in the early 70s. He went on to be one of the greatest story telling singer- songwriters of his era until his tragic death in the early 80s. . He was a philanthropist , donating a lot of his earnings to world hunger .. Still missed 40 years later.. Fine reaction as always..
It must be a Harry Chapin thing as they were totally clueless on Cat's In The Cradle too
I'm shocked! You two usually analyze the lyrics so well, even on the songs where the message is somewhat vague. This story is so well told and so obvious it's crazy that it slipped past you. Harry Chapin was one of the best story-tellers ever, so it makes me wonder if words have changed that much over multiple generations so as to lose their meaning!
Me Too!🤔😒
AGREED!!!!!
WOOOOSH! Right over their heads.
They failed big time on this one lol
@@claviclenotch1876 seriously
They used to be lovers when they were much younger. Split up to chase their dreams.
Just an FYI. Harry Chapin entered the US Air Force Academy with the Class of '64, but left soon after he entered. His biggest hit song, "Taxi," referenced his Academy time, as he sang he "was gonna learn to fly" and "took off to find the sky." During the 1975-1976 academic year, he returned to the Academy and played a very well-received concert.
Brad...who takes everything so literal...needs this most literal of songs explained. They are OLD LOVERS FOR GOD SAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You need to pay attention more to the lyrics - they were high school sweethearts.
And she said, "How are you, Harry?"
I said, "How are you, Sue?
Through the too many miles and the too little smiles
I still remember you"
It was somewhere in a fairy tale
I used to take her home in my car
We learned about love in the back of a Dodge
The lesson hadn't gone too far
he was driving his taxi-they were high school sweethearts who hadn't seen each other since way back them. she recognized him during the ride and they spent the ride remembering their past.
It's a song about regret and the passage of time. She was going to be an actress - and she's now acting happy. He was going to learn to fly - and he's now flying high as a stoner. Life didn't work out the way they'd anticipated.
Great story teller - saw him in concert with my brother and sister and like 2 days later, driving home from work I hear someone call into a radio station and ask "Can you play Taxi in memory of Harry Chapin" - I was stunned to learn he'd been killed in a car accident on the LIE. RIP
Yep. He was going to perform in his concert in Eisenhower Park in East Meadow, Long Island when he was killed. That's a few miles from my house. His vehicle was actually struck in Jericho. Very sad.
They have since named the theater in Eisenhower Park after him.
@@FallenHellscape Charity concert as he often did.
@@FallenHellscape They found a $20 bill stashed in his shirt.
@@drgoremd lol
This song reminds of Same Old Lang Syne by Dan Fogelberg. Two old lovers meet by chance, think of how it was and how neither's life turned out extactly like they expected.
The whole story line bursts out starting with the lyrics "How are you Harry?" I cannot understand missing it.
I guess you missed the part where they were former lovers. The huge tip was because she felt sorry for him
It was the part we he said "we learned about love in the back of the Dodge"
Listen again. They have a history. You guys.....
I remember passing the spot of his accident later in the day and an enormous amount of sadness took over at that moment. Great talent and great human.
At the start of the song he talks about how they were together a long time ago, learned about love in the back seat of a Dodge, etc. Then he sees her again for the first time in years and talks about how their lives went very differently. How did you miss that?
I can't listen to this without crying. He nails that nostalgic melancholy so deeply.
All I can do is shake my head.
Once again the song went right over your heads.
I stopped listening to them. I just happened across this video which I criticized in the comments long ago. They never responded. Now, I’m dipping back out. 😊
This is a 2 part song, the second part is called "the sequel" it completes the story of Harry and Sue...please check it out!!
2 different songs, ma'am.
I agree you should react to "Sequel" it's a beautiful story/song. This was so great!✌️
@@FallenHellscape yes but it does continue the story.
Thank you !
They didn't even understand this one, why ask them to listen to a sequel?
It's about unfulfilled lives. When they were together they had dreams, she was going to be an actress and he was going to learn to fly. They split to fulfill their dreams and never got there. She became an unhappy wife pretending to be happy and he became a taxi driver who gets stoned. He's saying they would have been better off together.
A sad story of lost love. Always makes me choke up.
It chokes me up that these 2 misinterpreted what happened in the song.
@@FallenHellscape Same for ME!! I am completely STUNNED that they totally didn't understand it! It's so darn simple, they lyrics are simple, and easy to follow!!
How could you not understand the lyrics?
They were high school sweethearts. "They learned about love in the back of a Dodge...". She wanted to be an actress when she grew up, he wanted to be a pilot/astronaut. They went there separate ways. She eventually did become an actress and now lives in a "hansom home" but he became a cab driver and is "flying" in his cab (and gettin' stoned). A sad story but one that's all to real for too many of us. Some of us reach our dreams, some of us barely reach reality...
Met him at a shopping mall in 1973. I was 7 years old and I still can recall his kindness to this day. True story.
Harry was the master of the long form story-telling song. I saw him sing this 3 times in person, in big and small venues. He told amazing stories in song to his loyal fans, the cello would add a dimension, and Big John Wallace would come in with the angelic falsetto. Blessed to have seen his live show. This one is a sad story of dreams that got away from young lovers who meet again in a taxi years later.
No, no, no! She looked familiar to him. She said "you must be mistaken." She finally realized who he was ("and she said, How are 'ya, Harry.") They were lovers in the past. A chance meeting. Come on, pay attention to the lyrics!
Yes!!!!
The sequel explains the relationship better- and in it's own way, is more poignant.
Probably my favorite Chapin song. RIP Harry.
No no it’s his long lost love. She gets in his cab and they recognize each other.
The song is intriguing because it is a tale of sadness and failure that is not where the person is left destitute but rather where their dreams have evaporated and they are left with far less in life. Most of our stories are about success but the stories of lost dreams and failed hopes are far more interesting because the challenge is what do we do with our lives now? Harry Chapin a national treasure because he used his music to do a deep dive into the more gritty parts of life. God bless him. What truly special talent and man.
You two are so clueless sometimes....don't you listen to the lyrics? This story is so straight forward and clear. He, Harry and the female cab fare were long lost lovers when they were very young and they went their separate ways had not seen each other in years and she just happened to get into his taxi. When they were young, idealistic and full of hope they both had dreams of what they wanted to be which never came true. He wanted to learn to fly and be a pilot and she wanted to become an actress. At the end of the song he sadly and sarcastically sings that they both gotten what they wanted, she is not happy married to a well to do rich guy but she is "acting" likes she is happy in her rich home and he never learned to fly and be a pilot but he is "flying" now as he gets stoned every night just driving around in his mediocre job as a taxi driver......a far cry from his dreams of being a pilot and flying an airplane.
I was born in CapeCod. We lived in Jersey but every summer we went to the Cape…My mom loved him & went with her best friend to see him on the Cape…She came home & said He kissed 💋 her cheek & she said I’m never washing that off my cheek…my mom was not someone who would say something like that…so it Always makes me smile to remember how much it really made her night & she wasn’t hush hush about it like most moms were back then including her! Its a sweet memory for me of my mama💕! Miss you mom!! ✌🏻☀️
"Taxi" was Chapin's first single. He had his taxi driver's license in New York City and worked as a driver for six months in Long Beach, New York. Sandy Chapin, who was married to Harry from 1968 until his death in 1981, told Songfacts the story: "He had been working in film, that was how he made his living. Harry's plan at the time was to make enough money in five or six months that he would not have to work for five or six months, and during which time he would write screenplays. And then, the money did run out and he went back to look for some work in film, but there wasn't anything available. He needed a job, he wanted to still to be able to write, so he applied for a cab license. And I was something like eight months pregnant. I felt very positive about it, because I thought, wow, it would be a great experience, because people in cabs will tell him stories, and he'll get all kinds of characters for songs. I think he was feeling pretty low about it, and wrote the song 'Taxi' with the idea that the people he had told his dreams - that he was gonna make a great film - were gonna get into the cab, and so he ended up being a cab driver after all the big talk. And one of whom would be the girlfriend that he had while he was at Cornell. Sue was a real person."
The song is set in San Francisco. Sandy Chapin explains: "The song was moved to the West Coast from the East Coast. His life, college and otherwise, his work, was all on the East Coast. Even his film work was on the East Coast, except for that one year in California when he was doing commercials.
When I would look through Harry's notebooks, I was amazed at how little editing there was. He would start jotting down ideas for a song or a story, and then decide later that because of the rhyming or the rhythm or whatever it was, that San Francisco would be a good place. He probably just came up with the line, 'It was raining hard in Frisco,' and went on from there. There were some notebooks where he jotted down 4 or 6 lines that he might come back to later and use. But there are other notebooks where he just sat down and wrote the song."
This song is about a cab driver who picks up a passenger who turns out to be his former lover. They broke up so she could be an actress and he could learn to fly. At the end, he realizes they both got their wish, as she acts like she is happy and he flies in his taxi by getting stoned. Eight years later, Chapin followed this up with another hit, appropriately titled "Sequel," which continued the chronicles of the former lovers Harry and Sue.
(Songfacts.com)
I saw Harry Chapin in New Hampshire at a small venue during the late 70’s. He was an amazing entertainer. I had tickets to see him a second time, but he was tragically killed in an auto accident the day before the show. Rest in peace Harry. He wasn’t addicted, he just smoked some good weed. She was a woman he dated when they were younger. He wanted to be a pilot and she wanted to act. The guy who sang in the background and played bass was named Wallace. Back in the day, $20 was a huge tip
Yes a truly poignant song! I also used to play 'Cats in the cradle' to my youngest son, he never forgot the song to this day now he has grown up into a man
everything Harry did was so original, we were blessed to have such a wonderful talent
Anyone remember Harry's brother Tom? He had a kids show in the early 70's " Make a Wish"! Wow, getting old! Lol
You're not alone. I remember it too.
It's a song about life and how even though you may get what you want it may not be the way you wanted it. Garth Brooks wrote a song on the same subject called "Unanswered Prayers"
How can you guys be so wrong, They're old lovers, she was gonna be an actor, and now she is an actor, pretending to be happy in a rich house..... He was going to be a pilot and fly, but now he flies driving a taxi while stoned
they are wrong all the time ...why they’re popular amazes me ....
@@salmuscles Give them a break. It's their first listen. They get many songs right too. I'm sure you haven't gotten the meaning of every song you've heard on first listen.
It is interesting hearing younger first timers' comments about the songs we grew up with. As with this song, their interpretations may be incorrect, but it makes us realize the other dimensions that these stories/songs have always had which were never explored by us over the decades we've listened to these favorites.
I love watching you guys, it cracks me up how you misinterpret the meaning of so many songs! 😄
Scary, huh?
You missed on this one Lex. They were sweethearts in school. She left for the big lights of the city and he stayed behind and got high and drove a cab. They met again this night and remembered what they had and left. The end.
John Wallace is the Bassist that sings the high backing vocals. Incredible range, he sings baritone on" 30k pounds of bananas " .
A fun Harry Chapin song you should consider!
I doubt Gene Sesky's family would call it fun, but Harry's irreverent storytelling makes the dark story entertaining. I grew up listening to 30,000 Pounds of Bananas, along with many other Harry Chapin tunes. I never gave a whole lot of thought to the lyrics. Learning years later that it was inspired by a true story, the song hits differently. Still great, though.
I was in college when this song was released. Until now, I always assumed it was a woman singing background vocals. John Wallace has amazing vocal skills.
@@chrissmalley83
It's been so long since I heard it I forgot it was a true story. Obviously there's no malice intended. A lot of people go in strange and sometimes humorous ways. He got a song written about him! Lol
A good friend's father got killed in a car crash with a Septic tank cleaners truck. He always says his dad would be the first to make a joke about it.
You really didn't listen to the words he knew her when they were younger early twenties Maybe broke up cuz she was going to be an actress and he was going to learn to fly and then he met her 15-20 years later and she didn't recognize him at first but then she did that's why she said how are you Harry they were X lovers
Thank you for listening to the greatest story telling singer ever....Mr. Harry Chapin.....and that is the great Big John Wallace singing the really
high part as only he could do. Big John had a five octave range.
You guys need to listen to this a few more times. They were once lovers. You missed the entire story.
That drives me nuts.
@@FallenHellscape It drives me nuts too, I am trying to figure out what they heck they were listening to, because it surely wasn't the lyrics that they could get things so incredibly wrong!
I knew they wouldn't get it. Lol 😆
Beautiful! They were old friends who went their separate ways and met up on a rainy night in Frisco.
I am surprised you guys did not get this. It is about as straight forward as they come. High School experimenters (think Night Moves) in sex. Probably a real couple. She got her dream and he is a wasted pot smoker, flying high.
On the afternoon of July 16, 1981, Chapin was driving on the Long Island Expressway en route to perform at a free benefit concert at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow, New York, that evening. At 12:27 PM, Chapin was fatally injured in a fiery traffic collision with a semi-trailer truck outside Jericho, New York.
’70s folk-rock troubadour Harry Chapin's “Taxi,” is the tale of a cabbie who picks up a fare, and then partway through the ride he and she both realize that they used to be lovers. Although the story told in the song is largely fictional, Chapin was inspired to write it by both a real-life woman and driving a taxi.
The former lover whose spirit he put into the song, Clare Alden MacIntyre-Ross, died on March 9, 2016. The romance of Harry and Clare gives his composition an interesting real-life backbone. The two met when they were summer camp counselors, and dated for two years after. She lived in the prosperous New York City suburb of Scarsdale, the daughter of the city’s onetime mayor, Malcolm MacIntyre, who also was the president of Eastern Air Lines and served as under secretary of the Air Force under President Eisenhower. Harry was a kid from a middle class family in Brooklyn that his girlfriend’s father did not fully approve of. He wouldn’t allow her to ride the subway, so she would take taxis to meet Chapin during their time together.
Fast forward to years later after Chapin has dropped out of his studies at the Air Force Academy and then Cornell University, and is working in film while also scuffling as a musical artist. He has driven a cab during lean work times, and had gone to get his license again. And thought about what it would be like if he were to pick up the frequently taxi-riding Clare. As songwriters do, Harry changed the setting to San Francisco and adjusted the characters to underscore the song’s point about how lost opportunities can haunt us.
Tom Chapin, Harry’s singer-songwriter brother, says, “I wouldn’t call Clare the love of his life, but she was certainly an early, formative love.” When Harry debuted the song on The Tonight Show in 1972, it prompted so many calls and telegrams from viewers that for the first time in the show’s history host Johnny Carson brought a performer back the very next night for an encore performance. The single eventually reached #24 and spent 16 weeks on the charts. Chapin took up his scenario and characters’ meeting again in his 1980 song “Sequel.”
Chapin was born on December 7, 1942, one year to the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He passed on July 16, 1981, at just 38 years old. In his brief but impactful life he co-founder World Hunger Year, which has become WhyHunger.org, to mobilize artists and their fans to raise funds, build awareness and spark action.
What???? That's what u got outta that???
Taxi... Cats in da cradle.... Damn u guys haven't a clue
Just to clarify, they knew each other romantically as kids. They each had a dream. For her it was to be an actress; for him, to fly. In a way they both got their dreams but not as they had envisioned them. She's acting but not on stage/film. Instead, she's acting happy in a bad life/marriage. He's flying, but not an airplane. He's flying by getting stoned. You guys swung and missed on this one.
Ironic, sad, and poignant. This song always gets to me. Harry had a unique gift to tap into the bittersweetness of hope and heartbreak. He was a giant.
love how ya'll mngd 2 turn an innocent tune into some weird stalker thing lol
Nope. It's about two lovers who had dreams when they were young only to have ( like most) of our dreams never come true. She married rich but ended up only " acting" happy. He wanted to be a pilot but ended up just a normal dude driving a taxi. Both failed at reaching their dreams.
Great song. More Harry Chapin please. Thanks
They were young lovers with dreams, but grew apart. She wanted to be an actress and he wanted to learn to fly … she was ACTING happy in her big home, and he was FLYING in his taxi getting stoned. Like many people life didn’t turn out the way we planned.
THEY KNEW EACH OTHER IN HIGH SCHOOL ! . . . . . How'd you miss that?
A beautiful story told in song of a love that once was.
Thumbs up for the classic song, thumbs down for what y'all thought y'all heard.
They called Harry Chapin "The Storyteller". He did a sequel to this song (called Sequel) about meeting the woman again and what had happened to them both since Taxi.
He was the bomb. Greatest storyteller ever.
Brad & Lex, you'll love his "Sequel"!! (The sequel to Taxi)
Haven't heard that in awhile💚
@ surlechapeau, I DON'T think they will understand what is going on in the Sequel, just like they TOTALLY misinterpreted "TAXI"
@@patticrichton1135 I agree! 🙂
he's singing in the first person, about a woman who got in his cab that looked familiar, and they both discovered that they know each other during the ride, because they dated back when they were teens/young adults, she left to try and become an actress, and he wanted to become a pilot, but now many years later, neither was successful, but she's now "acting" as the perfect housewife with a rich guy, and he's "flying" in his cab high on drugs
Listen again guys. You missed this one!!
He was her man a long time ago. Fast forward to present time she is miserable married to a rich man but ACTING happy and he never became a pilot just a stoner taxi driver. that is what the song is about. quite sad
lol...they were former lovers...A sequal is one u need to hear...Listen to the words folks
Omg. U guys r freaking me out. take it is for what it is. His telling it how it is.
Did u even listen??
Dreams that didn't come true... unfulfilled life... loneliness... brilliant life lessons from one of the truly great storytellers, gone too soon.
A masterpiece of storytelling Love you guys
Now listen to W.O.L.D. And Mister tanner by harry Chaplin so many great songs he left us too soon RIP great storyteller and wonderful person would stay after show to meet and greet everyone
Bill Peters nailed it. In an interview, Harry told how this was a "true story that never happened". He was not having any luck breaking into music and filed for a "hack"(taxi) license. He had a 'daydream' about picking up a fare he had known before. The day his license came in the mail he got his first 'paying' gig. It was framed, hung on the wall, and never used.
"Cats in the Cradle" was his biggest hit but I always liked "W-O-L-D".
Haven't heard this song in so long. Maybe it was this broadcast. He was an amazing story song writer and preformer. He died too young (38) in an auto accident in 1981.
They had a relationship when they were young. They parted and life went on. After many years they meet again and Harry ponders upon the path in life that they both had taken.
Right over their heads lol
Harry Chapin is a unique "Singer-Songwriter", in that he sings MOVIES, not just stories. "Cat's In The Cradle", "Sequel", "W.O.L.D.", each one creates a movie in your mind... R.I.P.,
I think you missed the part where they had actually dated in the past and had plans for the future. She wanted to be an actress and she is now acting, making believe she is happy. He wanted to be a pilot and fly high in the sky and now he is very high but there's no plane involved, just weed.
OMG !!! Please, listen to the lyrics, he tells you clearly. They recognized each other . They knew each other from school. He used to drive her home in his car and they learned about love in the back seat (the exact lyrics) . She wanted to be an actress and he a pilot. Then they didnt see each other until now. Now she's miserable with her life (She's acting happy , also in the lyrics) and he flies while he drives his taxi by getting stoned on grass . So, they were both failures. He didnt become a pilot and she's acting happy (because she's not, she's miserable with her life .
Wrong Lex, They were friends when younger she wanted to be an actor he wanted to fly a plane she became one, and he flys when he gets high but really he's driving a cab but flies when he gets stoned
Its a lost love. Life doesn't end up like we planned.
They were in love many years ago but split up because she wanted to be an actress and he a pilot. Now she is "acting happy" and he is "flying" by piloting his taxi while getting high. They both got what they asked for but it wasn't what they asked for.
Listen again, very carefully.
They were teenage lovers who went their own way but found each other later in life. He regretted not holding on to her. She was Acting like she was happy & he was Flying in his taxi .
She was an old girlfriend.
They were lovers in their youth then lost touch. She's now out in the rain, sad... They both got "what they wanted" -- she has to act happy though her rich life is lonely; and he's a "pilot," flying high in his taxi. He wasn't too proud to take the "pity money" tip & they both knew they'd never get together.... Can't believe you guys missed this one (it's all laid out in the 1st 2 verses)
I just don't think they were listening to the lyrics, at all. Their dead, he's kidnapping her, maybe he's a serial killer??!!! LOL I am trying to figure out HOW they got THOSE ideas from these lyrics!?
This guy won an Oscar for best documentary can't remember which year
How do you not understand what the song is about? 🤣
I can't believe you missed the entire story of this song.....maybe listed again......
I went to one of the first "Toys For Tots" concerts in Rochester, NY, and Harry Chapin was supposed to play, but his flight was snowed in in NYC, which was not surprising, since we had 2 feet of snow on the ground in Rochester and it was still snowing. A local jazz musician, Chuck Mangione ( a star in his own right), and his brother Gap played instead, for hours and hours. I never did get to see Chapin perform, as he was killed in an automobile accident in 1981. To this day I am still hit with a wave of sadness whenever I think about it, and whenever I hear this sad, brilliant song. 🙄
This song is about a cab driver who picks up a passenger who turns out to be his former lover. They broke up so she could be an actress and he could learn to fly. At the end, he realizes they both got their wish, as she acts like she is happy and he flies in his taxi by getting stoned. Eight years later, Chapin followed this up with another hit, appropriately titled "Sequel," which continued the chronicles of the former lovers Harry and Sue. Peace out.
You got it all wrong guys!Its a story about past lovers meeting each other again.She was gonna be an actress and i was gonna learn to fly.
Absolutely LOVE this song!
So she's acting "happy inside her handsome home, and me I'm flying in my taxi, taking tips and getting stoned". They'd both gotten what they asked for just not in the way they thought. It's not that he still wants to be with her. Oh, I just realized Bill Peters already explained!
This is one my favorite songs of all time
Words mean things - listen to the words - this is a self explanatory story. I have know Idea how you ended up in Idaho on a drive to Texas.
Nyuck nyuck nyuck…….
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Song is about a lost relationship and how things a perosn desires do not always end up exactly how theyt turn out.
Shallow Reaction. Missed the point by a country mile.
Wow, how can anyone misinterpret the story? It's so well spelled out.