Talk:John Wallace (musician)

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This is a great musician. He helped Harry Chapin tell his story.

Wallace's influence on Harry Chapin's music

"Big John's" influence was an integral part of Chapin's songs, as the unsigned comment above says. He had a huge range in his singing voice, played bass guitar in his records and live performances and aside from being a close friend to Chapin, was very good at arrangements of his material. --Leahtwosaints (talk) 14:09, 16 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Actual biography?

Like so many Wikipedia articles about entertainment figures, this one contains not a whit of information about its subject's actual (non-entertainment) life: birth, parents, schooling, etc. This is a huge omission (and no, I don't know the facts or where to find them). --Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 19:32, 23 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Missing his early connection with Chapin?

This article implies that he met Chapin by answering an ad. However, the Harry Chapin article says this:

"Chapin's first formal introduction to music was while singing in the Brooklyn Boys Choir, where Chapin met "Big" John Wallace, a tenor with a five-octave range, who later became his bassist, backing vocalist, and his straight man onstage."

WikiAlto (talk) 21:16, 10 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Is John really the owner of a computer graphics company?

There's a "Wallace Graphics" company in Duluth, Georgia founded in 1987 by someone named "John Wallace". However, there is no evidence that this is the same John Wallace. In this same interview, John discusses his connection to Harry Chapin.
From: http://www.harrychapin.com/circle/winter04/wallace.htm

Circle!: Aside from appearing with the Steve Chapin Band, what are you doing professionally now?

Wallace: I've been working at a publishing company for six years as an art director. I do layout of editorial content and place ads for three periodicals. Autryld (talk) 13:01, 12 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I couldn't find any evidence for this, so I've removed it. Tobus (talk) 23:48, 22 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]