Side Projects & Rarities

Hitchhiker College Radio Hour Saga 1
Words And Music From The Lost Highway
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10Interview featuring "Never Had It So Good", "This Shirt", and an excerpt from "Read My Lips" - Mary Chapin Carpenter(8:25)

Corrected and reclassified 27/04/01


Hitchhiker College Radio Hour Saga 2
More Words And Music From The Lost Highway
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1Dialogue featuring "Never Had It So Good" - Mary Chapin Carpenter (5:45)
1Interview featuring "Ditty Ditty (All Night Long) and "Careless Love" (with Mary Chapin Carpenter) - The O'Kanes(6:29)
1Dialogue featuring "Quittin' Time" - Mary Chapin Carpenter (5:56)
2Hitchhiker Radio Saga 2 Promo - Mary Chapin Carpenter (0:60)

Track 1 is in excess of 55 minutes, with Mary Chapin Carpenter appearances occuring in the first half.
This disc is hosted by Mary Chapin Carpenter and features a unique "script" in which she hijacks the radio show.
Corrected and reclassified 27/04/01


Hitchhiker College Radio Hour Saga 3
various/ask3033.jpg cd Sony (Columbia) 1991 (US) ASK 3033 promo

1Hitchhiker College Radio Saga 3, program open Mary Chapin Carpenter Feature(7:40)

Stated Feature consists of "Dialogue, 'Down At The Twist And Shout'... 'extended' version available only on Hitchhiker Exampler 2" (which incidentally is the normal album version).
This disc is hosted by Mary Chapin Carpenter, Rosanne Cash, and Don Henry.
Corrected and reclassified 27/04/01


Christmastime In The City
cd circa1991 (US) promo

Christmastime In The City (3:18)

Promotional item given only to Washington DC radio stations.
Believed to exist only on CD although no original copies have been reported by collectors.


On Location : Conversation And Music By Mary Chapin Carpenter
One Hour Radio Special With Special Guests Joe Diffie And Don Schlitz
special/rh024.jpg cd Ron Huntsman Entertainment Marketing Inc. 1992 (US) RH024 promo
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1Segment A: Program introduction, childhood, relationships, early songwriting, the making of State Of The Heart, segment close
2Segment B: On location, pleasures of success, pressures of success, impact of videos on music, segment close
3Segment C: Songwriting, Don Schlitz, Schlitz on Carpenter, the making of Come On Come On, segment close
4Segment D: Joe Diffie, Carpenter on Diffie, philosophy of life, program close
5Music beds for promos
6Mary Chapin Carpenter program promos and liners
7CMT/Country Music Association Project Literacy PSA by Travis Tritt

A CMT Country radio promotional broadcast, October 1st-31st 1992. Over 50 minutes duration


90's Country - The Mary Chapin Carpenter Story
special/mccstory.jpg cd Westwood One Entertainment 1995 (US) promo
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1Seg 1 - Interview, "Never Had It So Good", Interview, "You Win Again", Commercials
2Seg 2 - Interview, "Right Now", Interview, "Down At The Twist And Shout", "I Feel Lucky", Commercials
3Seg 3 - Interview, "Not Too Much To Ask" (with Joe Diffie), Interview, "Passionate Kisses", Interview, "He Thinks He'll Keep Her", Commercials
4Seg 4 - Interview, "I Take My Chances", Interview, "Shut Up And Kiss Me", "Tender When I Want To Be", Commercials
5Seg 5 - Interview, "House Of Cards"
6Show Promo
7Artist Actualities
8Artist Actualities

Hosted by Randy Travis
This disc has seen multiple releases (in different years) with slight track (content and number) adjustments to reflect the changes in Mary Chapin's career. All variations known to the webmaster and site researchers contain similar/identical interview material.


Collection
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1Down At The Twist And Shout
2This Is Love
3He Thinks He'll keep Her
4When She's Gone
5Only A Dream
6This Shirt
7Shut Up And Kiss Me

Distributed through Target stores for a limited period in the US prior to the release of A Place In the World.
Appears to have been released for marketing purposes, though never as a main album.
All tracks are album cuts.


The Songs Of Mary Chapin Carpenter
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1 Why Walk When You Can Fly
2 Stones In The Road
3 I Take My Chances
4 I Feel Lucky
5 The Hard Way
6 He Thinks He'll Keep Her
7 Come On Come On
8 Where Time Stands Still
9 I Am A Town
10What You Didn't Say
11This Shirt
12What If We Went To Italy
13Shut Up And Kiss Me
14Down At The Twist And Shout
15Tender When I Want To Be
16The Better To Dream Of You
17A Place In The World
18Let Me Into Your Heart
19Sudden Gift Of Fate

Sleeve notes suggest that this was an industry promotional issue for use in broadcasting.
All tracks are album cuts.


Cassette Sampler
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1Hometown Girl
2This Shirt
3Down At The Twist & Shout
4I Feel Lucky
5Shut Up And Kiss Me
6Let Me Into Your Heart
7Keeping The Faith
8What If We Went To Italy

No release date on either the sleeve or physical cassette.
All tracks are album cuts.


American Rivers PSA's
americanriverspsas cd American Rivers (US) 1998 promo
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1 National (30s)
2 National (60s)
3 Hanford Reach (60s)
4 Missouri River (60s)
5 Pocomoke River (60s)
6 Kern River (60s)
7 Blackfoot River (60s)
8 Colorado River (60s)
9 Chattahoochee River(60s)
10Lower Snake River (60s)
11Apple River (60s)
12Pinto Creek (60s)
13Wolf River (60s)
14Potomac River (60s)
15Rogue River (60s)
16Taku River (60s)
17Crooked Creek (60s)
18Passaic River (60s)
19Mattaponi River (60s)
20Walla Walla River (60s)
21Uinta River (60s)
22Kansas River (60s)

Produced by American Rivers and mailed direct to radio stations for public service purposes.
Presented in double fold-out card packaging. Front cover opens to left, 2nd panel containing the CD (secured in two vertical slots - see Inside 2nd panel) opens to right.
Due to the method by which the CD is secured any example is likely to have creased packaging which exhibits damage at the ends of each slot (if it is still intact) and small marks on the CD playing surface.
No catalogue number. No release date on physical CD although packaging indicates 1998.
Tracks 1 and 2 are Public Service Announcements by Mary Chapin Carpenter (recorded over an instrumental sample of "A Place In The World").
Tracks 3-22 are edits of track 2.


Open-Ended Interview
Mary Chapin Carpenter takes on... Songwriting, Touring, Twisting & Shouting
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1The New Single, "Almost Home"
2The Making Of Party Doll And Other Favorites
3"Twist & Shout" At The Superdome
4Touring
5Songwriting
6Favorite Venues
7The Boys: Cal And Reilly
8Most Unique Gift

Promotional issue preceding release of Party Doll And Other Favorites.


Where Time Stands Still: A Special Collection
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1Superman
2The Moon And St. Christopher
3Come On Come On
4Where Time Stands Still
5A Place In The World

Limited edition sampler available exclusively through Borders stores in the US.
Track 1 previously unreleased. Tracks 2-5 are album cuts.


Time*Sex*Love* Open-Ended Interview
See - Time*Sex*Love*

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