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1971 studio anthology past Carole King

Tapestry
A woman seated and holding a tapestry with a cat in front of her
Studio album by

Carole Rex
Released February x, 1971 (1971-02-ten)
Recorded Jan 1971
Studio A&M (Hollywood)
Genre
  • Soft rock[1]
  • popular[two]
Length 44:31
Label
  • Ode
  • A&M
Producer Lou Adler
Carole King chronology
Writer
(1970) 		Tapestry
(1971) 		Music
(1971)
Singles from Tapestry
  1. "It's Likewise Tardily"/"I Feel the Earth Movement"
    Released: April 1971
  2. "And so Far Away"/"Smackwater Jack"
    Released: March 1971

Tapestry is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Carole King, released in 1971 on Ode Records and produced by Lou Adler. Information technology received four Grammy Awards in 1972, including Album of the Year. The lead singles from the anthology—"It's Also Late" and "I Feel the Earth Move"—spent five weeks at number one on both the Billboard Hot 100[3] and Piece of cake Listening[4] charts.

Tapestry has been certified thirteen× Platinum past the Recording Industry Association of America in the US,[5] and has sold an estimated 25 1000000 copies worldwide,[6] making it one of the all-time-selling albums of all time. In 2000, it attained number 74 in Colin Larkin'southward All Fourth dimension Top 1000 Albums,[7] and in 2020, information technology was ranked number 25 on Rolling Stone 's listing of the 500 greatest albums of all time.[eight]

Production [edit]

King wrote or co-wrote all of the songs on the album, ii of which had already been hits for other artists such as Aretha Franklin's "(You Make Me Feel Similar) A Natural Woman" (in 1967), and The Shirelles' "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" (in 1960). Rex'southward ex-husband Gerry Goffin wrote the lyrics for three of the songs. James Taylor, who encouraged Rex to sing her ain songs and who as well played on Tapestry, had a number ane hit with "You lot've Got a Friend," subsequently in 1971. 2 songs were co-written with Toni Stern: "It'due south Too Belatedly" and "Where You Lead".

The album was recorded at A&K Recording Studios' Studio B during January 1971 with the support of Joni Mitchell and James Taylor, plus various experienced session musicians. Several of the musicians worked simultaneously on Taylor's Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon anthology.

The encompass photo was taken by A&M staff photographer Jim McCrary at King'due south Laurel Canyon habitation.[9] Information technology shows her sitting in a window frame, holding a tapestry that she'd mitt-stitched herself, with her cat Telemachus at her feet.[10]

Critical reception [edit]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic [eleven]
Christgau'due south Record Guide A–[12]
''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music [13]
The Bully Stone Discography 8/10[14]
Music Story [xiv]
MusicHound Rock 5/five[14]
Pitchfork 10/ten[15]
The Rolling Stone Anthology Guide [fourteen]
Uncut [16]

The anthology was met with widespread critical acclaim; Village Voice critic Robert Christgau felt that her voice, gratuitous of "technical decorum", would liberate female singers;[12] while Jon Landau in Rolling Rock felt that Male monarch was i of the most creative pop music figures and had created an album of "surpassing personal-intimacy and musical accomplishment".[17]

Awards [edit]

Along with existence selected Anthology of the Year, it also received Grammys for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, Record of the Year ("Information technology's Too Belatedly"), and Vocal of the Year ("Y'all've Got a Friend"), making King the kickoff solo female artist to win the Grammy Award for Record of the Year, and the commencement woman to win the Grammy Award for Song of the Year.

The album remained on the Billboard charts for 313 weeks (second only to Pink Floyd'due south 724 weeks with The Dark Side of the Moon).[xviii]

Grammy Awards nominations for Tapestry
Year Winner Category
1972 Tapestry Album of the Year
1972 "Information technology'southward As well Late" Record of the Yr
1972 "You've Got a Friend" Song of the Twelvemonth
1972 Tapestry All-time Pop Vocal Performance, Female

Commercial operation [edit]

Carole King's Tapestry is a triumph of mass culture. In less than 2 years it has sold well over v million copies, putting information technology in a class with the acknowledged albums of all time, and it is still on the charts … Such statistics are so overwhelming that they seem to transform a mere record into some sort of ineluctable cultural presence, and in a sense they exercise.

— Robert Christgau (Newsday, November 1972)[19]

Tapestry was a large commercial success. Information technology spent xv sequent weeks at number 1 on the U.s.a. Billboard 200.[20] [21] To date, Tapestry still holds the record for most consecutive weeks at number one past a female solo artist.[22] The album also spent nearly 6 years charting US Billboard 200 (318 weeks), in which she also spent 302 sequent weeks. For more than 40 years, Tapestry held the record for the longest charting album past a female solo creative person in the US until Adele's 21 bankrupt the record in 2017.[23] [24] [25]

Tapestry was also very successful beyond the world. In Canada, it spent 9 weeks at number-ane starting time July 3, 1971.[26] In the Britain, the anthology debuted at number thirty-two on Great britain Albums Chart simply eventually rosed to its peak at number four and went on to spent 136 weeks in the Top 100.[27] In its outset twelvemonth, Tapestry has reportedly sold over 7 1000000[28] and around 25 million copies worldwide, to date.[half dozen]

Cultural touch [edit]

Several songs from the album were recorded by other artists and became hits while the album was even so on the charts: James Taylor'south 1971 comprehend of "You've Got a Friend" hitting number one in the U.s.[29] and number iv in the United kingdom,[30] and Barbra Streisand's 1971 studio recording of "Where You Pb" reached number forty[31] while a live recording of a medley in which Streisand paired the song with the Sweet Inspirations hitting "Sweet Inspiration" reached number 37 the following year.[31]

Various artists combined to re-record all the original tracks for more than than one tribute anthology. The first, released in 1995 and entitled Tapestry Revisited: A Tribute to Carole Male monarch, was certified gold. The second, in 2003, was entitled A New Tapestry – Carole King Tribute. In 2010 Australian recording creative person Marcia Hines recorded a tribute album, Marcia Sings Tapestry.

"Her songs are like stories or sonic movies," observed Tori Amos. "Y'all want to walk into them. With 'I Feel the Earth Motility' or 'It'due south Besides Late', yous're right there."[32]

Tapestry frequently appears on critics' lists of the best albums.[xiv] In 2003, information technology ranked number 36 on Rolling Stone 'south 500 Greatest Albums of All Fourth dimension,[33] maintaining that rating in a 2012 revised list,[34] simply moving upwards to No. 25 in a 2020 update of the list.[8] The album was also listed by VH1 at number 39 on their list of 100 Greatest Albums,[35] and was 1 of 50 recordings chosen to exist added to the National Recording Registry.[36] Recordings added to the National Recording Registry are picked to exist preserved in the Library of Congress every bit they are "culturally, historically, or aesthetically important."[36] Based on such listings, Acclaimed Music ranks Tapestry as the 69th most acclaimed album in history.[fourteen]

In 2015, for its sixth and terminal season, American TV series Glee paid tribute to this anthology, aslope Alanis Morissette'due south Jagged Petty Pill, in its episode "Jagged Picayune Tapestry" ambulation Jan xvi, 2015. Five songs from this album is performed by various artists. 2 of them performed on its own, "Information technology's Too Belatedly" and "So Far Abroad", while the other 3 are used in a mashup with one of the songs from Jagged Little Pill. "I Feel the Earth Move" is mashed up with "Manus in My Pocket", "Will Y'all Honey Me Tomorrow?" with "Head Over Feet", and "You've Got a Friend" with "Y'all Learn". The episode was watched by 1.98 million viewers and received a 0.7/2 in the adult 18-49 demographic.[37]

In March 2016 it was announced that Carole Male monarch would perform the album alive in its entirety for the first fourth dimension at the British Summer Time Festival in Hyde Park, London on July 3, 2016.[38] The performance was released the next yr as Tapestry: Live at Hyde Park.[39]

Track listing [edit]

All songs written by Carole Rex except where noted.

Side i

  1. "I Feel the Earth Move" – 3:00
  2. "So Far Abroad" – 3:55
  3. "It's Too Late" (lyrics by Toni Stern) – 3:54
  4. "Home Over again" – 2:29
  5. "Cute" – iii:08
  6. "Way Over Yonder" – 4:49

Side two

  2. "You've Got a Friend" – 5:09
  3. "Where You Lead" (Male monarch, Stern) – iii:20
  4. "Will You Beloved Me Tomorrow?" (Gerry Goffin, King) – iv:thirteen
  5. "Smackwater Jack" (Goffin, Rex) – three:42
  6. "Tapestry" – 3:xv
  7. "(Yous Make Me Feel Similar) A Natural Woman" (Goffin, Male monarch, Jerry Wexler) – iii:59

1999 CD reissue

  2. "Out in the Common cold" (bonus track) – 2:44
  3. "Smackwater Jack" (Live in Boston, May 21, 1973) (bonus rails) – iii:21

2008 "Legacy Edition"

In 2008, Sony/BMG, Epic, and Ode released a two-disc "Legacy Edition". I disc is the original album remastered; the second disc is live performances of eleven of the 12 songs, recorded in 1973 at Boston; Columbia, Maryland; and Central Park, New York; and in 1976 at the San Francisco Opera Firm. "Where Y'all Lead" is the song not included on the alive disc.

Live disc track list

  1. "I Experience the Earth Move" – 4:17
  2. "And then Far Away" – 4:44
  3. "It's Besides Belatedly" – 5:06
  4. "Abode Again" – 3:33
  5. "Beautiful" – iii:39
  6. "Way Over Yonder" – 5:35
  7. "You've Got a Friend" – 6:00
  8. "Volition You Dearest Me Tomorrow?" – four:31
  9. "Smackwater Jack" – 4:xviii
  10. "Tapestry" – 4:13
  11. "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Adult female" – 5:eleven

Personnel [edit]

  • Carole King – pianoforte, keyboards, vocals, backing vocals
Additional musicians
  • Curtis Amy – flute; baritone, soprano and tenor saxophone; string quartet
  • David Campbell – cello, viola
  • Merry Clayton – backing vocals
  • Terry King – cello, tenor saxophone, string quartet
  • Danny "Kootch" Kortchmar – acoustic guitar, congas, electrical guitar, vocals
  • Russ Kunkel – drums
  • Charles "Charlie" Larkey – bass guitar, string bass, string quartet
  • Joni Mitchell – bankroll vocals on "Will You lot Dearest Me Tomorrow?"
  • Joel O'Brien – drums
  • Ralph Schuckett – electric piano
  • Barry Socher – violin, tenor saxophone, viola, cord quartet
  • Perry Steinberg – bass guitar, violin, tenor saxophone, string bass
  • James Taylor – acoustic guitar, backing vocals
  • Julia Tillman – backing vocals
Technical
  • Lou Adler – Tape producer
  • Vic Anesini – mastering
  • Chuck Beeson – blueprint
  • Hank Cicalo – engineering
  • Bob Irwin – production on 1999 re-release
  • Jessica Killorin – packaging manager
  • Jim McCrary – photography
  • Michael Putland – artwork[ clarification needed ]
  • Smay Vision – blueprint
  • Roland Immature – fine art direction

Charts [edit]

Sales and certifications [edit]

See besides [edit]

  • List of best-selling albums
  • List of best-selling albums by women

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External links [edit]

  • Tapestry at AllMusic. Retrieved March thirteen, 2017.

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