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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. I would have just turned 18 when Tapestry came out, when I was really being influenced by singers and songwriters. Carole King was an inspiration. She was a woman, and she wrote amazing songs – so you’d learn by listening to It’s Too Late or whatever, over and over. She set the stage for other singer-songwriters who came along after her, because there wasn’t a market yet and the industry didn’t know what to do with us. 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.Tapestry' at 50: How Carole King 'bet on herself' to record a singer-songwriter classic". Los Angeles Times. 2021-02-04 . Retrieved 2022-03-22. Tom Waits’ third studio album, Small Change, had everybody wondering, “Does Tom Waits need a hug?” Waits had become a little too comfortable with life on the road and admitted later on that he had been drinking too much. The jazz influence present in his previous albums did not waiver with this album, but the lyrics became much more dark and depressing. “The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)” is a disheartening, speech-slurred bar tune describing what seems to be wrong with the world but blaming it all on everything that isn’t the cause of the problem. Nothing seems to be going right for Waits in this album. If Waits’ first albums were the upbeat side of jazz, Small Change proved that he understood that it can also express heartbreak and pain. — Clint Alwahab Martika’s version was a top 10 hit in the United Kingdom, Australia (where it actually peaked at number 2) and Austria. It also replicated the same feat in New Zealand and Ireland. Medley: “Take Good Care of My Baby/”It Might As Well Rain Until September”/”Go Away Little Girl”/”I’m into Something Good”/”Hey Girl”/”One Fine Day”/”Will You Love Me Tomorrow” (Goffin, King) – 8:39

Tapestry is part of the American songbook. I heard those songs even before I knew who she was. I love that book Girls Like Us, a trio of biographies of Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon and Carole King and the story behind Tapestry. The record before it [1970’s Writer] hadn’t performed that well, so she had it in her head that this one had to be great. She was meditating a lot. She was probably in some mental-spiritual prime, and then when she realised what fame entailed she was like: “No way.” She cared more about her personal life. These days, Indianola is like any other small Mississippi town. There’s a main thoroughfare where you’ll see clumps of fast-food joints set apart by Mexican cantinas, gas stations and supermarkets. 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.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. Of course, the smart money says it’s okay to love both of those records; why choose just one when both are so good? Along with BB’s 1956 album Singing The Blues, 65’s Live At The Regal and, of course, Completely Well, Indianola Mississippi Seeds is an album that everyone should experience. I also have to mention the cat on the cover. It may sound trivial, but that was the most “me” I’d ever seen on a record cover, and maybe opened up the possibility that a person could be humble and modest and human rather than superhuman, and be a triumphant musician. Bethany Cosentino, Best Coast The concert took place two years after King released one of the definitive albums of the 1970s or indeed any decade, the timeless Tapestry, and as her new album was demonstrating her determination to move her music ever forward. The early part of the show exudes the intimacy that made Tapestry such an evocative album to countless millions of record buyers. After spending most of the 1960s writing hits for other artists, Carole King started a solo career at the dawn of the 1970s. Her 1971 second studio album, Tapestry, became her breakout work as a phenomenal commercial and critical success. This multiple Grammy Award winning album features a dozen tunes written on piano, mostly new, but also a few classics from King’s hit-making days in the sixties. And those hit-making days continued as two singles from the album topped the pop charts.