Tapestry  by Don McLean

Don McClean released Tapestry in 1970, which is the first album of the American folk singer. Tapestry was released in October 1970 by Mediarts Records. Although it initially achieved moderate commercial success, it was re-released in 1971 by United Artists after the enormous success of his next album, American Pie.

The album was produced by Jerry Corbitt (a member of the Youngbloods) and was recorded at Sierra Sound Laboratories in Berkeley, California during 1969 and 1970. The album had two singles, Castles In The Air, which gained success in 1981 when it was re-released in a different version, and And I Love You So, which was later covered by artists such as Elvis Presley and Perry Como, who made it a worldwide hit in 1973. Finally, the title track Tapestry with its ecological content served as an inspiration for the founding of the environmental organization Greenpeace (!)

Tapestry reached No. 111 on the Billboard chart.