Carole King - 1971-02-10 - London, UK (SBD)

Carole King 

1971-02-10

BBC in Concert

BBC Televison Centre 

London, UK 

FM Broadcast

320 kbps

Artwork Included

01. I Feel The Earth Move 

02. (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman 

03. talk 

04. So Far Away 

05. talk 

06. It's Too Late 

07. talk 

08. Smackwater Jack

09. talk 

10. Way Over Yonder 

11. Will You Love Me Tomorrow 

12. Up On The Roof

Note: with James Taylor on songs 4 to 12

Carole King - 1971-02-10 - London, UK (SBD)

On February 10, 1971, 54 years ago today, Carole King, who had spent years writing top ten hits for other people with her ex-husband, Gerry Goffin, released her 2nd solo album, entitled Tapestry, and the rest as they say is history. The disc went to #1 on the charts, and stayed there for 15 consecutive weeks, which is still a record for an album by a female artist.  Tapestry spawned two #1 singles for King, I Feel The Eart Move and It's Too Late, while James Taylor, who played on the album, went to the top of the charts with a cover of You've Got A Fried. The disc received 4 Grammy Awards, including album of the year. In addition, King became first solo female artist to win the Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and  Song of the Year. Tapestry has sold over 25 million copies worldwide, spent 313 weeks on the Billboard charts (2nd only to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon) and in 2020, was ranked as the 25th greatest album of all time by Rolling Stone magazine. This FM broadcast captures Carole on the same day Tapestry was released, playing as  set of song from that soon to be historic disc in London for the BBC.  By the way, I highly recommend seeing the musical Beautiful which tells King's story from her days writing songs with Goffin (and their friends, the song writing duo of Barry Mann and Cythia Weil) up through the release of Tapestry.  It's a wonderful retrospective of not just her early carreer, but the amazing music that emanated from the Brill Building in New York in the 1960s. Note: with thanks to Albums That Should Exist for the original files.