Original Album Classics: Writer; Music; Rhymes & Reasons; Fantasy; Wrap Around Joy

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Tapestry: "Top Albums/CDs - Volume 15, No. 21". RPM. 1971-07-10. Archived from the original (PHP) on 2014-01-06 . Retrieved 2014-01-01. Carole King’s Tapestry album would become for a time, one of the biggest selling albums in popular music history. It was a record that contained new songs, but also presented fans with new versions of Carole King songs she had written in the 1960s for various artists. Carole King continued to release albums thought out the 1970s on a consistent basis. Her recorded output slowed down in the 1980s and 1990s. Her last album of new material, Love Makes the World Go Around,was released in 2001. Yet the bond with Mississippi, and Indianola in particular, would prove unbreakable. In 2005, Mississippi state House and Senate declared February 15, BB King Day. The man of the hour was overcome with emotion.

a b c d "Carole King Full Official Chart History". Official Charts. UK Albums Chart . Retrieved 2021-03-20. It’s in the old town, away from the neon and noise, where you can see the streets and buildings that have barely changed since BB busked on the corner of Church Street and Second Street. There’s a mural on the sidewalk, depicting his guitar ‘Lucille’, to mark the spot. On his second attempt, in 1948 (he’d followed his cousin Bukka White there two years previously, but returned home after 10 months), BB headed to Memphis, Tennessee, where ultimately he hook up with record label owners the Bihari brothers and began his gradual ascent to stardom.These days Szymcyzk is probably best known for his production work with the Eagles, including their epic Hotel California. He also worked with Joe Walsh, the J Geils Band, Johnny Winter and many many more. In the late 60s, however, he was a fresh pair of ears with some very good ideas. It was Szymcyzk who convinced BB to record with young musicians and not his touring band. At age four you started learning how to play the piano. Did you parents tell you that you were gifted? Wrap Around Joy sold half a million copies in its first year of release in 1974, and became the bestselling album in the country. Subsequent albums performed less well although King continued to record and collaborate with friends like James Taylor, David Crosby and Graham Nash, and resumed writing with her ex-husband, Gerry Goffin.

You’ve Got a Friend (live, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY) (feat. James Taylor) The Essential Carole KingWhile fellow blues icon Albert King went to the trouble to be born in Indianola, Mississippi, BB adopted the place as his home town; he actually took his first breath 20 miles up the road, on the Berclair cotton plantation near Itta Bena, a city in Leflore County, Mississippi, on September 16, 1925. Tapestry was one of the first records my mother and I bonded over. It was so meaningful to sing in unison with my mom to a guttural, honest account performed by a stranger to whom I felt so inexplicably connected: a friend, a sister, a mother, and somebody’s daughter, a low voice and an attitude. From that point onward, I carried her music and spirit with me. City Streets: "Top Albums/CDs - Volume 50, No. 4". RPM. 1989-05-22. Archived from the original (PHP) on 2014-01-06 . Retrieved 2014-01-01.

The astonishing success that greeted Tapestry is difficult to overstate. It was one of those very rare records that becomes transformed into a completely unavoidable social phenomenon, becoming certified diamond in America for sales of over ten million copies, with an estimated 22 million sold around the world to date. It stayed in the Billboard charts for more than 300 weeks, and scooped the Grammys for Album of the Year, Record of the Year (for ‘It’s Too Late’) and Song of the Year (for ‘You’ve Got A Friend’), representing the first time that a woman had won either of the latter two awards. Truly, Tapestry’s success was a trailblazer for female artists.

King sadly passed away on May 14, 2015 at the age of 89. He’s buried at his museum in his adopted home town of Indianola, 20 miles from where he was born 89 years earlier. Indeed, for all its energy of arrival, “Tapestry” actually marked the beginning of an unlikely second act for King, who at age 28 had left behind a life and career as half of a prolific Brill Building songwriting duo with her husband, Gerry Goffin, and had moved to L.A. with her two young daughters, Louise and Sherry. Here, nestled in the verdant hills above Hollywood, the woman who co-wrote the deathless “ Up on the Roof,” “ The Loco-Motion” and “ Will You Love Me Tomorrow” remade herself as a new kind of pop star: thoughtful, relatable, understated. The album’s iconic cover, showing wavy-haired King and her cat sitting contentedly by a window in her home on Wonderland Avenue, said it all.