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Entertainment ent 8-D The Galveston Baily News Sunday Morning, November 16, 1986 NEWS ON T.V., THEATER, MOVIES. 'Victorian radical' Tom Chapin has By MARY CAMPBELL AP Newsfeatures Writer Tom Chapin's new LP is "Let Me Back into Your Life" Fish Records, an acoustic music label in Chicago. "I look upon it," he on. Flying says, "as a departure and a return home at the same time. "It's a departure because I'm not chasing radio play.

I've come to the realization that the hit single is not realistic for the kind of finally music I'm writing and I shouldn't be wounded by that. "I have an audience who is very interested in what I do. So I did an album I really wanted to do myself and that people who come see me in concert willlove. "I believe in the song form, verse, chorus, exploring a feeling or moment or telling a story. My brother Steve and I produced it, with a lot of friends playing.

We look forward to a whole series of these. "If nobody had wanted this, I was about to put it out myself. I thought it was time to do a new album, time to clean out the attic and write some new songs. I finished recording it in May and it was like vistas opened up again. I got real excited about writing.

Now I've got a bunch of new things. "It seems to be a process I was never so aware of before. You write a song, sing it to yourself and your wife, find out how it ed live. You never complete the creative cycle until you record works performOne song on the album is "Small Business Blues" by Howard Bursen. Tom and Bonnie Chapin, who have two children in college and daughters 7 and 5, moved last year from Brooklyn Heights, N.Y., to Piermont, N.Y.

Bonnie Chapin, who had had a successful business in Brooklyn for 12 years, couldn't get a small business loan in Piermont. "That's why that song's on the record," Chapin says. "'They'll bail out Chrysler." There's a song, "Remember When the Music," by his late brother, Harry Chapin. "Our brother James, a history professor, calls us Victorian radicals," Chapin says. "We still believe the system work and yet we want to make it better.

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"The nice thing about being the age am (41) is I feel like I have a betters sense of how to affect things than lever had." The World Hunger Year Foundation, started by Harry Chapin, "is going great guns," Tom Chapin says. "It has been a lobbying, educational arm from the beginning. There are wonderful groups that Harry's idea was that you can affect American food policy. My infeed people. volvement now is fund raiser.

Peter, Paul and Mary raised $50,000 at a benefit this summer, on Long Island." Chapin hosts the weekly, two-hour "National Geographic Explorer" on TBS, cable TV. He says, "It's the best documentaries from around the world, environment, nature, exploration, interesting people. I'm tickled pink to be part of it. It's been 10 years since I had a regular TV That was "Make a Wish," for children, which ran Sunday mornings from 1971 to 1976. TOP VIDEOCASSETTES By The Associated Press The following are the most popular video next week's issue of Billboard Publications, Inc.

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