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Carol King is a talent. She also sang the Care Bears movie theme. I also like the Really Rosie soundtrack from the TV Special.
Carole is the greatest singer/songwriter of the entire 20th century and i'll argue that 'til my mouth falls off. She was my main inspiration to start playing piano.
As a young closeted gay man in the early seventies, this album had a tremendous influence on my life. I will always love Carole King.
The music is so much louder than your speaking voice. 🙁
This guy's voice is hard to handle. The way he extends the word at the end of every sentence is so grating. Time to get a new narrator.
Imagine the songs in the video being sung by the young Tod Rundgren and it fits very well. 😉
only love is real, morning sun
Carol King is such a great musican
You misspelled “polyphonic” in the logo shown onscreen. Otherwise it was a really inspiring video.
Look at that chart at 3 minutes in. Four Laurel Canyon acts in the top twelve!
The first album on loop in the household of my mother's. Totally can sing all of the songs in it. Carole King is simply the best.
My first wife LOVED "Tapestry". One night in '71 when we were doing some MDA, she made me play the album over and over and over again. I didn't mind because I loved the album also. ❤
THANK UUUUUUUUUUU THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE RECORDS OF ALL TIME AND I ONLY FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS RECORD IN 2020 SHOUT OUT CAROLE KING YOUR FAV ARTIST ARTIST'S
Just a brilliant, brilliant album…. It came out when I was 10, so I didn’t really appreciate it at the time. But as I aged and grew up, I came to “get” it. One of the greatest singer/songwriter albums of all time….
I love Carol King’s music I remember it from when I was a little girl. It’s just so beautiful pure and honest and spoke for a generation of women
Great examination of this amazing album and artist! I would’ve also added her song “Will You Still Love Me tomorrow?” in your vid here. She wrote it for The Shirelles, who did a fantastic job with it. Carole’s slow version on Tapestry is heartrendingly beautiful
poyphonic! 😜
It was said “If you don’t have Tapestry, then you don’t have a real record collection”. Still one of my favorites.🎼🌹🤗
Thank you
Insightful essay. Well done.
I think your feminist analysis stretches things. These are love songs, and yes they were written by a woman. That doesn't make it feminist. BTW I was a senior in high school when this came out and I wore it out playing it. James Taylor and Joni Mitchell were my muses as well. Jackson Browne and CSNY were also big favorites. At this time and in the following years, I experienced my female peers (I'm male) waking up to the feminist zeitgeist of that time. I can't remember any of the women I was friends or lovers with saying that Carole King's music spoke to their experience as women.
I think the singer-songwriter artists tapped into my generation in a big way because it wasn't just "Baby, baby, baby…" Art speaks to people in unique ways and no doubt songs written by a woman expressing a woman's point of view in a very deep and poetic way would resonate with female listeners. But I think Carole's music was very universal, hence the huge sales and long duration on the charts, as well as becoming a classic in later years.
What a flippin masterpiece that album is.
The very first album I owned. Thanks mom.
It's important to understand that in her partnership with her husband, she was the composer and he was the lyricist. Later for her own songs she did both. She was at first unsure of herself as a lyricist. But Tapestry proved her talent for both.
You're trying to make a legend out of a tin pan alley person and it might succeed because the propaganda behind the people in that group
Polyphonic is misspelled in your opening credit address.
I’m 62 yrs old and I’m still waiting for someone who doesn’t love and respect Carol King. I don’t think I will ever find that person. To me hands down she is the greatest female artist to ever write and record. The World is a better place with Carol in it
You gotta give it up to anyone that writes & performs there own music
I LOVE CAROLE KING. SHE SPEAKS TO ME❤❤❤❤❤❤
Tapestry will never be forgotten! It’s forever in our hearts & souls!❤❤❤❤❤❤
I always remember my mum harmonising with "it's too late," around the house. This along with Carly Simon and Tracey Chapman.
While I have vague memories of "I Feel the Earth Move" on the radio and liking the song as a teenager, I'd first heard all of Tapestry in, of all places, the middle of the Pacific Ocean when I was doing Sea Year when I thought I wanted to be a sailor at the turn of the century. When we were on the bridge, we'd often bring music to listen to, and the second mate had a copy. I was blown away. While it would take a few more years to find a copy (I even tried the Virgin Megastore and had to settle for a greatest hits compilation from the 1970s), even listening to it nearly a quarter of a century later, I can still feel the impact. Thanks for posting! The only thing that would have made this even more perfect was including "Smackwater Jack" in the review 😉
I got turned onto Tapestry back in the very early 2000s when I realised most of my favourite artists rated it very highly. I think because it's not one of the flashier, rock and roll 70s records it hasn't stayed in the Pop category, but most musical artists, in particular songwriters, today would probably still rate Tapestry as a top 10. Just one of the best albums ever recorded. No question.
Tapestry is an excellent album, this is coming from someone who is deeply immersed in Death Metal. I used to manage a record store in NYC and when the shop was full with female customers I would intentionally play this record and watch ALL OF THEM spring into life, LOL never failed! and because I like creepy things I couldn't help but notice the creepy RED EYES on the CD cover! Look closely and you will see them staring out of that dark room behind King.
Do the same for Lana Del Rey and 2010s music, her impact is omnipresent
I watch Rizwan's 'what are you listening to/what's your favorite music' videos and I've noticed this album brought up a lot by women and men too of gen x/ late boomers, so 40 to 60 years old ish. They adore this as a classic of their era
Outstanding artist!
Carole King was not just singing to women. I was a boy that grew up with her music. She spoke to everybody.
Great video, I'd like to suggest one about Laura Nyro as well! Incredible musician and life story.
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I don't think you can "churn out standards," in the sense that, by definition, a song can't be a standard until it's caught on enough — been performed enough and gained enough popularity — to be considered part of the canonical repertoire.
Hey buddy – typo on the opening web link. “poyphonic”
A little while ago, I went to Florence, Italy, and wandered into a flea market. There was this old man selling vinyl from a crate. Mostly uninteresting records, but there was Tapestry by Carole King in Good condition. Best 4$ (euros) ever spent.
Always considered it ironic that the lyrics to Natural Woman were written by a dude. Tapestry is a masterpiece. I consider Mitchell and Nyro above her but King was right there. Nyro, Mitchell, King and Sill were the Four Horsewomen of the musical baby boomers IMO.
Tapestry presented a Carole King who looked and sounded younger than her earlier incarnation and that was the point. So she was pivotal for that reason. For me the essential albums are Rhyms and Reasons and Fantasy.