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Being a photographer's son I grew up watching my father processing photos into sepia. It is the reddish-brown colour associated particularly with monochrome photographs of the
19th and early 20th centuries. As a young boy I already recognized that sepia photos could exhude reminiscing more than black and white photos.
Tapestry was released in 1971. It was the year I entered college at age 16. It was a small house we were renting in the city and although I've sang with a band, I didn't
want the radio playing while I was studying but the radio played in the kitchen anyway. I'd stop when I heard "So Far Away." I was struggling for a career.
What was so far away then?
Forty-five years onward and I'm sitting in my work station on a dark rainy afternoon. Tweaking Tapestry was next in my plan. I sorrily remembered Tapestry
was not in our family album collection. Back in the band I've been requested to sing "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow." That was a girlie song,
I said to myself. But I still remember it to this day.
I have two cats in the house myself. I've also aspired to be a songwriter. But things have settled down now.
All I can do is reminisce. And sepia is not so far away.
The cover photograph was taken by A&M staff photographer Jim McCrary at
King's Laurel Canyon home. It shows her sitting in a window frame, holding
a tapestry she hand-stitched herself with her cat Telemachus at her feet. More
No. 36, Rolling Stone, The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time; No. 55, Rate Your Music, The 100 Greatest Albums of All Time;
No. 69, Billboard, The 300 Best-Selling Albums of All Time; No. 74, The Virgin All-Time Album Top 1000.
Photo by Jim McCrary. Album produced by Lou Adler. Ode 1971.
The Los Angeles Times recently featured the obituary of Jim McCrary, the famous rock photographer who passed away on April 29 (2012) at the age of 72.
Being a photographer's son I grew up watching my father processing photos into sepia. It is the reddish-brown colour associated particularly with monochrome photographs of the
19th and early 20th centuries. As a young boy I already recognized that sepia photos could exhude reminiscing more than black and white photos.
Tapestry was released in 1971. It was the year I entered college at age 16. It was a small house we were renting in the city and although I've sang with a band, I didn't
want the radio playing while I was studying but the radio played in the kitchen anyway. I'd stop when I heard "So Far Away." I was struggling for a career.
What was so far away then?
Forty-five years onward and I'm sitting in my work station on a dark rainy afternoon. Tweaking Tapestry was next in my plan. I sorrily remembered Tapestry
was not in our family album collection. Back in the band I've been requested to sing "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow." That was a girlie song,
I said to myself. But I still remember it to this day.
I have two cats in the house myself. I've also aspired to be a songwriter. But things have settled down now.
All I can do is reminisce. And sepia is not so far away.
The cover photograph was taken by A&M staff photographer Jim McCrary at
King's Laurel Canyon home. It shows her sitting in a window frame, holding
a tapestry she hand-stitched herself with her cat Telemachus at her feet. More
No. 36, Rolling Stone, The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time; No. 55, Rate Your Music, The 100 Greatest Albums of All Time;
No. 69, Billboard, The 300 Best-Selling Albums of All Time; No. 74, The Virgin All-Time Album Top 1000.
Photo by Jim McCrary. Album produced by Lou Adler. Ode 1971.
The Los Angeles Times recently featured the obituary of Jim McCrary, the famous rock photographer who passed away on April 29 (2012) at the age of 72.
McCrary shot over 300 album covers for A&M Records, and was instrumental in including a tabby on the cover of Carole King's acclaimed 1971 album,
Tapestry. In the opening paragraph of the obit, we learn the real story behind the classic cover that almost never came to be:
"Photographer Jim McCrary was on the verge of shooting one of his most famous images when he stopped to ask singer Carole King if the cat sleeping
across the room could be part of the tableau. He remembered the results of a Kodak survey that found "after children, the most popular thing
people photographed was their own cats," he later said. "I saw a cat, and I wanted to get something good."
"When King assured him that her pet was docile, he carried the tabby and its pillow to the window ledge and into the frame. By the third click
of his camera, the cat had slipped away but McCrary had what he needed: a picture of both the barefoot songstress and her whiskered
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Tapestry without Telemachus could not make it.
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(A) I Feel the Earth Move - So Far Away - It's Too Late - Home Again - Beautiful - Way Over Yonder
(B) You've Got a Friend - Where You Lead - Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow - Smackwater Jack - Tapestry - (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
"So Far Away" Carole King live with James Taylor from Tornike Ivanishvili on YouTube.
