[2] It takes its melody from "Love Unspoken", a song featured in the opera The Merry Widow by Franz Lehar.

Chapin is a member of the school's 1000 Point Club [4] in basketball and is a 1986 inductee of the Plattsburgh State Athletic Hall of Fame.

[6] From 1971 to 1976, Chapin hosted Make a Wish, an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning Sunday-morning children's TV series broadcast on ABC.

In April 2008, Chapin appeared at the New York State United Teachers' Convention, where he sang his song "Not on the Test" for delegates in support of the importance of arts and music education in the age of No Child Left Behind.

His album with John Forster titled Broadsides: A Miscellany of Musical Opinion is a collection of socially conscious songs written for Morning Edition; Forster was nominated for a Grammy for his work producing Chapin's 1998 album In My Hometown.