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Post by rick on Apr 28, 2012 3:27:16 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 30, 2012 17:43:52 GMT -5
Very interesting. Tapestry was the "big" album nationwide at the time of my HS Graduation in 1971. We all celebrated our freedom by going to Hot Dog Beach graduation night and hopping the clubs on Dune Road where cuts of the album were played everywhere and sung by the lounge acts too. That album was a big deal! Got my very first case of poison ivy that night (probably because I gathered the nearest leaves on the dunes to make a pillow which turned out to be poison ivy leaves)....just one of my Carole King memories.
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Post by erik on Apr 30, 2012 20:50:35 GMT -5
Nowadays, I think it's easy, especially for today's music fans, to forget how big a deal Tapestry was, both in commercial and, even more importantly, artistic terms. An album nowdays can get to #1 in its first week of release by barely breaking the 100,000 barrier and everyone will cal that a big deal; but Tapestry was #1 for fifteen weeks in 1971, and has sold tens of millions. I'd match "I Feel The Earth Move", "It's Too Late" and "So Far Away" against all the other tripe on the radio any day of the week, and twice on Sunday.
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