Three Song Stories

Episode 404 - Jen Chapin


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Jen Chapin was born and raised in New York in Huntington, Long Island - the daughter of Harry and Sandy Chapin. Over the years has produced a bunch of albums of her own music, including Open Wide, Linger, Ready, and Reckoning. She also put out a tribute album called ReVisions: Songs of Stevie Wonder. Recently she’s been performing with the J.Chapes Jazz Band which includes her husband, jazz bassist Stephan Crump.

Over the decades she’s served on the board of directors for WhyHunger, that’s the nonprofit co-founded by Harry Chapin in 1975.

Jen is also a high school history teacher in Brooklyn, New York


SONG 1: “The Ocean” by Led Zeppelin from their 1973 album The Song Remains the Same.

https://youtu.be/H8bVaTW6UCU?si=H9gF8Qka2ENganiV

SONG 2: “I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever)” by Stevie Wonder from his album Talking Book released in 1972. https://youtu.be/VfDZNwJ3jVU?si=o2U3ySrqE0XChFuY

SONG 3: “Teach Me Tonight” by Nancy Wilson released in 1960...it was the first song on her album Something Wonderful.  https://youtu.be/OF7pxY9KXsg?si=Jk-U7tZQexcJdblt



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