“Tapestry” by Carole King

"Tapestry" is the song that gave Carole King's second album its name, and it's hers from the ground up: she wrote the words and music, sings it and plays the keyboards, with Lou Adler producing and Hank Cicalo engineering. Ode Records put the album out in early 1971.

The record around it is widely counted among the greatest ever made. Its lead single, "It's Too Late" backed with "I Feel the Earth Move", held number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for five weeks, and the album took four Grammys at the 1972 ceremony, Album of the Year among them. It has since been certified 14 times platinum, was welcomed by the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998, and five years later the National Recording Registry claimed it too.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.