CAROLE KING – TAPESTRY LP – Nr MINT A3/B4 UK 1971 ORIG TRANSLUCENT

Carole King – Tapestry
(Ode/A&M Records  1971  AMLS2025)
Matrix No’s: A3/B4 – UK Pressing

Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are some light surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality)

Sleeve in Very Good+ condition
– wear to edges/corners – creasing on bottom corners – small split in top spine edge – back cover has some discolouration marks along bottom

VINYL IS TRANSLUCENT RED
IF YOU HOLD THE VINYL UP TO A BRIGHT LIGHT YOU CAN SEE THE RED COLOUR

Carole King (born Carol Joan Klein, February 9, 1942) is an American composer and singer-songwriter. She is the most successful female songwriter of the latter half of the 20th century, having written or co-written 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1955 and 1999. King also wrote 61 hits that charted in the UK, making her the most successful female songwriter on the UK singles charts between 1952 and 2005.

King’s career began in the 1960s when she, along with her then husband Gerry Goffin, wrote more than two dozen chart hits for numerous artists, many of which have become standards. She has continued writing for other artists since then. King’s success as a performer in her own right did not come until the 1970s, when she sang her own songs, accompanying herself on the piano, in a series of albums and concerts. After experiencing commercial disappointment with her debut album Writer, King scored her breakthrough with the album Tapestry, which topped the U.S. album chart for 15 weeks in 1971 and remained on the charts for more than six years.

King has made 25 solo albums, the most successful being Tapestry, which held the record for most weeks at No. 1 by a female artist for more than 20 years. Her most recent non-compilation album was Live at the Troubadour in 2010, a collaboration with James Taylor that reached number 4 on the charts in its first week and has sold over 600,000 copies. Her records sales were estimated at more than 75 million copies worldwide.

She has won four Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for her songwriting. She is the recipient of the 2013 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, the first woman to be so honored. She is also a 2015 Kennedy Center Honoree.

Tapestry is a pop album by singer-songwriter Carole King, released in 1971 on Ode Records. It is one of the best-selling albums of all-time, with over 25 million copies sold worldwide In the U.S., it has been certified diamond by the RIAA with more than 10 million copies sold. It received four Grammy Awards in 1972, including Album of the Year. The lead single from the album, “It’s Too Late”/”I Feel The Earth Move” was number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for five weeks. In 2003, Tapestry was ranked number 36 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Track listing

All songs written by Carole King except where noted.

1. “I Feel the Earth Move” – 2:58
2. “So Far Away” – 3:55
3. “It’s Too Late” (lyrics by Toni Stern) – 3:53
4. “Home Again” – 2:29
5. “Beautiful” – 3:08
6. “Way Over Yonder” – 4:44
7. “You’ve Got a Friend” – 5:09
8. “Where You Lead” (lyrics by Toni Stern) – 3:20
9. “Will You Love Me Tomorrow?” (Gerry Goffin, King) – 4:12
10. “Smackwater Jack” (Goffin, King) – 3:41
11. “Tapestry” – 3:13
12. “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman” (Goffin, King, Jerry Wexler) – 3:49

Personnel

• Carole King – Piano, Keyboards, vocals, background vocals
• Curtis Amy – flute, baritone saxophone, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, string quartet
• Steve Barzyk – drums
• David Campbell – cello, viola
• Merry Clayton – background vocals
• Terry King – cello, tenor saxophone, string quartet
• Danny “Kootch” Kortchmar – acoustic guitar, conga, electric guitar, vocals
• Russ Kunkel – drums
• Charles “Charlie” Larkey – electric bass, string bass, string quartet
• Joni Mitchell – background vocals
• Joel O’Brien – drums
• Michael Pultand
• Ralph Schuckett – electric piano
• Barry Socher – violin, tenor saxophone, viola, string quartet
• Perry Steinberg – bass, violin, tenor saxophone, string bass
• “The Mitchell/Taylor Boy and Girl Choir” (Joni Mitchell and James Taylor) – background vocals
• James Taylor – acoustic guitar, granfalloon
• Julia Tillman – background vocals

Production

• Producer: Lou Adler
• Engineer: Hank Cicalo; 1971 LP was recorded in Studio B @ A&M Records
• A&R: Steven Berkowitz
• Mixing: Hank Cicalo
• Mastering: 1971 LP: Bernie Grundman @ A&M Mastering; Vic Anesini, Steve Hall
• Product manager: Jessica Sowin
• Project manager: Jessica Sowin
• Project director: Howard Frank
• Preparation: Bob Irwin
• Art direction: Roland Young
• Design: Chuck Beeson
• Photography: Jim McCrary
• Liner notes: James Taylor