Don’t forget she wrote her first no 1 hit at 17 and had been writing songs for artists since 15. So by her mid Twenties she was a seasoned artist who’d written hits for many of the greats.❤
The sad part for me listening to the album is how soon you forget. I am priviledged to be the age that I was able to hear this album when first released. At that time I don't think I really understood how good this album was. We listened but many of us never realized how create this album was and the places it took you to. Unfortunately the late 60"s and the 70's there was a new age of rock that was starting to evolve out of the Haight ashbury area of San Francisco and Laurel Canyon. The volume of music that was being produced was mind blowing. It was coming at a rate that for me it was enjoyed but was never really processed or listened to in a way that you really understood how good the music was until you hear it on aple music. It strikes a chord and now you are driving isolated in your car music loud and you are bombarded by the genius of the artists from that era. It's sad looking back to my youth lying on my bedroom floor a speaker at each ear being blown away by whole lotta love and the music jumping from swirling from ear to ear. Listening to Tapastry it bring back the memories and makes me want to return to those days of vynl lying on the floor with my head phones and re listen to the grat music of the time and just appreciate how lucky we were to live through this musical evolution.
My son, who is 20 now, has always been an old soul in a lot of ways, including his taste in music, and by the age of 13, Tapestry was his top request when I drove him out-of-town to play soccer tourneys and matches; we'd always listen start to finish because no song falls short of being a gem.
Loving the week so far. I have just looked it up, she was 29 at the time Tapestry was released. Have always liked the album cover, I heard an interview with her that the cat actually photobombed the photo-shoot but they chose that image anyway.
Superb. It’s the first time I truly savoured listening to it rather than just enjoying it on the radio, and it’s sublime. What really caught me was that the production shows complete faith in the material. It was obviously clear to the producer (I haven’t looked up who it was) that the song needed no gimmicks but rather needed to be exposed for all to hear. The arrangement let it breathe and kudos to all the musicians playing for not taking that groove and trying to turn it into a showpiece for the band. So understated and masterful, with dynamics that never went too quiet nor too powerful, just organically followed the needs of the song. I don’t know who deserves the credits for the way it was executed but he/she/they must know that they knocked it out of the park.
One of my favourite Carole King songs, a great piece of songwriting. In answer to George's question, this was produced by Lou Adler, Hank Cicalo was the engineer and it was mastered by Vic Anesini. Crossing my fingers that you do I Feel The Earth Move sometime this week.
I largely ignored this album when it came out for reasons of 'cool' or whatever.....I recently bought it second hand at a great price thinking I should really own such an iconic album. Played it and realised just how much it took me back to those times and how happy it made me feel. Brilliant album!
@brianparsa7794 Brian... Many artists and record companies would request the demos she recorded and never returned them. They also pretty much "borrowed " her structure for their recording. So not only that but when you mentioned backing vocals..again others used kings example of how to put down a backing vocal for yourself.pretty cool what this musical genius did as a young kid/adult.
To write this album at age 28-29 is so far beyond incredible. It's an amazing album without thinking about her age at the time. It just takes on a new dimension knowing that.
@@mikeschenk4730Interesting question. Could be there's some connection between musical genius and emotional maturity in some people... since music works on us largely through our emotions. Hmmm.
There's a reason that this album was on the charts for 6 years, which is quite a feat. One of the first two albums I ever bought and the songs remain as remarkable now as they always were.
I did not include this in the notes for Alex and George -- my apologies, guys! -- but "It's Too Late" was a top-10 single on the pop charts in the U.S., Canada, Ireland, the UK, Australia and New Zealand. In addition, it won a Grammy Award for "Record of the Year" which was presented in early 1972.
A fantastically arranged song with Carole's then husband Charles Larkey on Bass and Danny "Kootch" Kortchmar supplying the licks from his guitar. The solo sax from the late Curtis Amy is a delight as is the accompanying electric piano from the late Ralph Schuckett who played with Todd Rundgren. It is interesting that the song is about the break-up of Toni Stern's relationship with James Taylor and there is also song written for James on this same album called 'You've Got a Friend', supposedly a response to James' 'Fire and Rain' song. Both Carole and James remain good friends and collaborate still. Carole had two further marriages and James married Carly Simon, Carole's contemporary at the time. Thank you for playing and commenting.
@@brianparsa7794 Sure, it would be a lovely thing to do, Brian. I'm a late 60's and early 70's listener however, my music is very eclectic, ranging from classical through to electronica. Coming from Australia I grew up with the Aussie bands that Alex and George have covered and even had AC/DC at our high school social (a bit pricey at $300 hee hee). I'll have to think it through but thanks for asking.
Alex, that sounds like a great TV show. It seems a little familiar, but putting that aside, any program where I would have a chance to have a really hot women on each of my arms for no particular reason sounds good. It's never happened for me before and each day I grow older the chances of that happening exponentially reduce. It's a sad realization, yet completely understandable. Back to the reason we are here; potentially, maybe, arguably, this was Carole King's biggest song ... was it her best song? I'm not completely sure about that either, but we still have some performances left to experience; so, let's see what comes next. This is great stuff. Thanks to the Thamesmen team for making it possible. And again, thankyou Brian for sharing such beautiful music. keep the good stuff coming.
Lost concentration the moment Alex mentioned "two very hot women"... and l felt the earth move under my feet 😉 Back to 'Tapestry'... once again, praise be to the 70's Gods. They don't write albums like that any more.
Lou Adler produced Tapestry and all her early solo albums. He also produced Cheech and Chong’s records and movies and then went on to do Rocky Horror 😂❤😂
I'll go out on a limb here... it is not just my opinion, your intros are too @#$%ing long. I realize you may well respond with, "It's our channel, we can do whatever we bloody well like" or something similar, and that's definitely true... but as a person who values MY TIME, and has hundreds of reactors to choose from (and ten or twenty reactors I love and watch regularly), I think I can say that's true, objectively. It's one thing to ramble, socialize and shoot the proverbial sh#t with one another for a minute, or even two before getting to the video reaction you ADVERTISED IN YOUR VIDEO TITLE, it's another thing to go on for 5 minutes or more before even STARTING a song (which is shorter than your intro, in many cases). Speaking just for myself after several videos, it's just not worth it. Your next response might be, "If you don't like it, that's your bloody problem, don't watch our videos", but before I crossed you off my list, I wanted to express that. I don't expect you (or anyone else) to read my mind, so if I don't tell you, how could you know?? I'm also pretty sure I'm not the only one who feels that way (though others aren't as blunt as I am... or maybe they're just nicer-I haven't read the comments yet 😉). I hope my feedback helps you get more views in the future, by not rambling quite so long about unrelated matters before getting to the song (which is after all what people are here for, along with your reaction to it). I don't claim to speak for everyone, but for those of us who watch many reaction videos per day, and enjoy them, an extra three minutes of personal banter between friends per video really adds up after a while... so it's hard to justify watching your videos compared to those of other reactors, who don't talk so much. When 10% of the dialogue is about the song, and the other 90% is other things, it's not really what I'm here for... though you seem like good guys, and I'm sure all the other matters are interesting to you. you can hang out with each other and shoot the breeze anytime... does it *have* to be during your reaction videos?? LOL 🤔I Now I'll admit that, being American, I don't always understand everything you're saying (whatever dialect that is), and that probably makes it more annoying as it sounds like gibberish at times... so there's that, also. I doubt most people in England have that problem, but if your videos are 70% talking, and 30% music, it matters to me. I thank you for considering this, and you seem like nice guys, but does everyone really want to listen to you laughing and joking with one another for several minutes about things that have nothing to do with the song or reaction, when it's hard to understand you on top of it?? It must have taken more out of me energetically to digest/translate your conversations than I realized, since I'm more annoyed than I'd expect to be after only three of your videos. It can't be because I'm hungry, since I just had dinner. I almost feel you owe me a few minutes of my life back, but not really (Caviat emptor). I don't think I slept enough last night... that might be it. 🤷♂ I suppose in future I can advance the video to the beginning of the song, and minimize my suffering, lol. Cheers and best wishes.
Thanks for taking the time to write this especially while feeling hungry😀! Absolutely appreciate your feedback and hence why we ask the question. Thing is Alex and I are genuinely good friends and we start recording with great intentions to get onto the music and then get side tracked! Promise it is not scripted or planned! Obviously you have choices out there and we do hope you stick around as not all videos we go on a wibble. Yes apologies for accents and slang but those we are stuck with! Hope to see you again soon✌️😀
@@TheThamesmen Thanks for the awesome and admirable response. I respect that a lot, and am more likely to watch more of your videos now!!! Though I'm hungry again... I have a fast metabolism, LOL. Of course cutting down on the dialogue slightly would be appreciated also. Honestly I think saving unrelated dialogues til AFTER the song (and reaction) might be a much better business plan for you. That way people can hear the reactions they came for, and stick around as long as they want afterwards if they enjoy the banter... or move on to the next video if they choose to. A lot of successful reactors seem to get into reactions quickly, and I think it's a winning formula. Otherwise one might feel like he was being held "captive" and forced to listen to unrelated conversation, to get to the reaction. Or just skip over the intro, which defeats the purpose of having it there, if we're not listening to it. Thanks again for your mature and respectful response, and seeing my point, I appreciate that. I sincerely hope my feedback helps your channel!! (I don't blame you for your accents either... not much you can do about that, except enunciate as well as possible and don't talk too fast. Every little bit helps, right?). Rock ON, Brothers!! 🙂
As a huge carole king fan looking at all the comments brought so much joy and I want to thank you so much ❤️ for this carole king week! Many comments talked about the "cats" involved playing on this masterpiece 👌. If you do another random king song or goffin/king week of the 60"s , there's a great/ awkward moment in the late sixties when king went to a Beatles show in NYC. Met the guys and it was very uncomfortable for king.years later she would bring up that moment to John Lennon and his response was priceless. Keep in mind McCartney and Lennon often quoted wanting to be the goffin/king for the uk!!!!
Don’t forget she wrote her first no 1 hit at 17 and had been writing songs for artists since 15. So by her mid Twenties she was a seasoned artist who’d written hits for many of the greats.❤
The sad part for me listening to the album is how soon you forget. I am priviledged to be the age that I was able to hear this album when first released. At that time I don't think I really understood how good this album was. We listened but many of us never realized how create this album was and the places it took you to. Unfortunately the late 60"s and the 70's there was a new age of rock that was starting to evolve out of the Haight ashbury area of San Francisco and Laurel Canyon. The volume of music that was being produced was mind blowing. It was coming at a rate that for me it was enjoyed but was never really processed or listened to in a way that you really understood how good the music was until you hear it on aple music. It strikes a chord and now you are driving isolated in your car music loud and you are bombarded by the genius of the artists from that era.
It's sad looking back to my youth lying on my bedroom floor a speaker at each ear being blown away by whole lotta love and the music jumping from swirling from ear to ear. Listening to Tapastry it bring back the memories and makes me want to return to those days of vynl lying on the floor with my head phones and re listen to the grat music of the time and just appreciate how lucky we were to live through this musical evolution.
Omg Rick. I went with you there. Headphones on. It’s not sad to look back. It’s joyful. See the album as a long old friend.
Yep, I think i agree. I need a music room with a turntable to to do this justice, just a sublime track.
My son, who is 20 now, has always been an old soul in a lot of ways, including his taste in music, and by the age of 13, Tapestry was his top request when I drove him out-of-town to play soccer tourneys and matches; we'd always listen start to finish because no song falls short of being a gem.
Thanks for reintroducing me to this album. It was one of my favourites and is now again.
Being 63yo it's hard to imagine a life not knowing every word of every song on that album.
Loving the week so far. I have just looked it up, she was 29 at the time Tapestry was released. Have always liked the album cover, I heard an interview with her that the cat actually photobombed the photo-shoot but they chose that image anyway.
That's really cool -- thank you for sharing that information!
Superb. It’s the first time I truly savoured listening to it rather than just enjoying it on the radio, and it’s sublime.
What really caught me was that the production shows complete faith in the material. It was obviously clear to the producer (I haven’t looked up who it was) that the song needed no gimmicks but rather needed to be exposed for all to hear. The arrangement let it breathe and kudos to all the musicians playing for not taking that groove and trying to turn it into a showpiece for the band. So understated and masterful, with dynamics that never went too quiet nor too powerful, just organically followed the needs of the song. I don’t know who deserves the credits for the way it was executed but he/she/they must know that they knocked it out of the park.
One of my favourite Carole King songs, a great piece of songwriting. In answer to George's question, this was produced by Lou Adler, Hank Cicalo was the engineer and it was mastered by Vic Anesini. Crossing my fingers that you do I Feel The Earth Move sometime this week.
Thank you Brian, I didn't know where to go to find information on the recording and mastering!
@@brianparsa7794 no worries, loving your week so far!
You might like Rodriguez as well, popular in South Africa and Australia but unknown in his native America
love it guys - You are incredible - agree magic. I had also not listened to that in for ever
I largely ignored this album when it came out for reasons of 'cool' or whatever.....I recently bought it second hand at a great price thinking I should really own such an iconic album. Played it and realised just how much it took me back to those times and how happy it made me feel. Brilliant album!
growing up in a family of 6 kids (3)x(3) this album was a staple on our turntable!
Great memories....
This was amazing. She puts melancholy and determination in her voice.
Hi Flo, glad that you liked the song! I believe that Carole's vocals were multi-tracked on this song, making her both lead plus the background voices.
@@brianparsa7794 the song’s an old friend. It’s been playing in my head all day.
@brianparsa7794
Brian...
Many artists and record companies would request the demos she recorded and never returned them. They also pretty much "borrowed " her structure for their recording. So not only that but when you mentioned backing vocals..again others used kings example of how to put down a backing vocal for yourself.pretty cool what this musical genius did as a young kid/adult.
this one is so "soul" in every shade this term can have. The all album is like a "concept album" about real life
To write this album at age 28-29 is so far beyond incredible. It's an amazing album without thinking about her age at the time. It just takes on a new dimension knowing that.
When you start studying music at 3, it's a lot more understandable... she had 25 years' experience by then.
@@Fred-gv3kh A fair point, but I'm not sure that imparts the emotional maturity she had.
@@mikeschenk4730Interesting question. Could be there's some connection between musical genius and emotional maturity in some people... since music works on us largely through our emotions. Hmmm.
There's a reason that this album was on the charts for 6 years, which is quite a feat. One of the first two albums I ever bought and the songs remain as remarkable now as they always were.
Most album collections back in the day had a copy of Tapestry.
Bring it back!
I did not include this in the notes for Alex and George -- my apologies, guys! -- but "It's Too Late" was a top-10 single on the pop charts in the U.S., Canada, Ireland, the UK, Australia and New Zealand. In addition, it won a Grammy Award for "Record of the Year" which was presented in early 1972.
Thanks Brian!!!
Tapestry is the perfect album
Along with Rumours.
It’s a little odd, but listening to Carole King makes me proud to be a woman.
ill echo what others are saying, we forgot how very good musically this was. and the songs. This was a huge hit in NZ when it cane out.
We did forget.
A fantastically arranged song with Carole's then husband Charles Larkey on Bass and Danny "Kootch" Kortchmar supplying the licks from his guitar. The solo sax from the late Curtis Amy is a delight as is the accompanying electric piano from
the late Ralph Schuckett who played with Todd Rundgren. It is interesting that the song is about the break-up of Toni Stern's relationship with James Taylor and there is also song written for James on this same album called 'You've Got a Friend', supposedly a response to James' 'Fire and Rain' song. Both Carole and James remain good friends and collaborate still. Carole had two further marriages and James married Carly Simon, Carole's contemporary at the time. Thank you for playing and commenting.
Thank you, Martin! I think that Alex and George and Chris would love details like those -- you should curate a week!
@@brianparsa7794 Sure, it would be a lovely thing to do, Brian. I'm a late 60's and early 70's listener however, my music is very eclectic, ranging from classical through to electronica. Coming from Australia I grew up with the Aussie bands that Alex and George have covered and even had AC/DC at our high school social (a bit pricey at $300 hee hee). I'll have to think it through but thanks for asking.
Many thanks!!!!
Alex, that sounds like a great TV show. It seems a little familiar, but putting that aside, any program where I would have a chance to have a really hot women on each of my arms for no particular reason sounds good. It's never happened for me before and each day I grow older the chances of that happening exponentially reduce. It's a sad realization, yet completely understandable.
Back to the reason we are here; potentially, maybe, arguably, this was Carole King's biggest song ... was it her best song? I'm not completely sure about that either, but we still have some performances left to experience; so, let's see what comes next.
This is great stuff. Thanks to the Thamesmen team for making it possible. And again, thankyou Brian for sharing such beautiful music.
keep the good stuff coming.
Thank you, Len!
Lost concentration the moment Alex mentioned "two very hot women"... and l felt the earth move under my feet 😉
Back to 'Tapestry'... once again, praise be to the 70's Gods. They don't write albums like that any more.
Justin, that was clever! You "felt the earth move under my feet," eh? Very nice!
Lou Adler produced Tapestry and all her early solo albums. He also produced Cheech and Chong’s records and movies and then went on to do Rocky Horror 😂❤😂
Ha ha. No way.
Rock Star Potter needs Ozzy Osbourne as the first guest. That would be totally brilliant.
Good call.
hey fella,s you need to see casey chambers cover of eminems lose yourself, its a masterpiece
I second that motion, brilliant!
I'll go out on a limb here... it is not just my opinion, your intros are too @#$%ing long. I realize you may well respond with, "It's our channel, we can do whatever we bloody well like" or something similar, and that's definitely true... but as a person who values MY TIME, and has hundreds of reactors to choose from (and ten or twenty reactors I love and watch regularly), I think I can say that's true, objectively. It's one thing to ramble, socialize and shoot the proverbial sh#t with one another for a minute, or even two before getting to the video reaction you ADVERTISED IN YOUR VIDEO TITLE, it's another thing to go on for 5 minutes or more before even STARTING a song (which is shorter than your intro, in many cases). Speaking just for myself after several videos, it's just not worth it.
Your next response might be, "If you don't like it, that's your bloody problem, don't watch our videos", but before I crossed you off my list, I wanted to express that. I don't expect you (or anyone else) to read my mind, so if I don't tell you, how could you know?? I'm also pretty sure I'm not the only one who feels that way (though others aren't as blunt as I am... or maybe they're just nicer-I haven't read the comments yet 😉). I hope my feedback helps you get more views in the future, by not rambling quite so long about unrelated matters before getting to the song (which is after all what people are here for, along with your reaction to it). I don't claim to speak for everyone, but for those of us who watch many reaction videos per day, and enjoy them, an extra three minutes of personal banter between friends per video really adds up after a while... so it's hard to justify watching your videos compared to those of other reactors, who don't talk so much. When 10% of the dialogue is about the song, and the other 90% is other things, it's not really what I'm here for... though you seem like good guys, and I'm sure all the other matters are interesting to you. you can hang out with each other and shoot the breeze anytime... does it *have* to be during your reaction videos?? LOL 🤔I
Now I'll admit that, being American, I don't always understand everything you're saying (whatever dialect that is), and that probably makes it more annoying as it sounds like gibberish at times... so there's that, also. I doubt most people in England have that problem, but if your videos are 70% talking, and 30% music, it matters to me. I thank you for considering this, and you seem like nice guys, but does everyone really want to listen to you laughing and joking with one another for several minutes about things that have nothing to do with the song or reaction, when it's hard to understand you on top of it?? It must have taken more out of me energetically to digest/translate your conversations than I realized, since I'm more annoyed than I'd expect to be after only three of your videos. It can't be because I'm hungry, since I just had dinner. I almost feel you owe me a few minutes of my life back, but not really (Caviat emptor). I don't think I slept enough last night... that might be it. 🤷♂ I suppose in future I can advance the video to the beginning of the song, and minimize my suffering, lol. Cheers and best wishes.
Thanks for taking the time to write this especially while feeling hungry😀! Absolutely appreciate your feedback and hence why we ask the question.
Thing is Alex and I are genuinely good friends and we start recording with great intentions to get onto the music and then get side tracked! Promise it is not scripted or planned!
Obviously you have choices out there and we do hope you stick around as not all videos we go on a wibble. Yes apologies for accents and slang but those we are stuck with!
Hope to see you again soon✌️😀
@@TheThamesmen Thanks for the awesome and admirable response. I respect that a lot, and am more likely to watch more of your videos now!!! Though I'm hungry again... I have a fast metabolism, LOL. Of course cutting down on the dialogue slightly would be appreciated also.
Honestly I think saving unrelated dialogues til AFTER the song (and reaction) might be a much better business plan for you. That way people can hear the reactions they came for, and stick around as long as they want afterwards if they enjoy the banter... or move on to the next video if they choose to.
A lot of successful reactors seem to get into reactions quickly, and I think it's a winning formula. Otherwise one might feel like he was being held "captive" and forced to listen to unrelated conversation, to get to the reaction. Or just skip over the intro, which defeats the purpose of having it there, if we're not listening to it.
Thanks again for your mature and respectful response, and seeing my point, I appreciate that. I sincerely hope my feedback helps your channel!! (I don't blame you for your accents either... not much you can do about that, except enunciate as well as possible and don't talk too fast. Every little bit helps, right?). Rock ON, Brothers!! 🙂
As a huge carole king fan looking at all the comments brought so much joy and I want to thank you so much ❤️ for this carole king week!
Many comments talked about the "cats" involved playing on this masterpiece 👌. If you do another random king song or goffin/king week of the 60"s , there's a great/ awkward moment in the late sixties when king went to a Beatles show in NYC. Met the guys and it was very uncomfortable for king.years later she would bring up that moment to John Lennon and his response was priceless. Keep in mind McCartney and Lennon often quoted wanting to be the goffin/king for the uk!!!!
Ooh interesting. Thanks for the support
Thank you for watching, listening, and reading the comments too!