Don McLean (album)
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Don McLean is an album by American
United States
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 singer-songwriter Don McLean
Don McLean
Donald "Don" McLean is an American singer-songwriter. He is most famous for the 1971 album American Pie, containing the renowned songs "American Pie" and "Vincent".-Musical roots:...

, released in 1972, peaking at number 23 on the Billboard 200
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 chart. It was reissued by BGO Records in 1996.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Don McLean
Don McLean
Donald "Don" McLean is an American singer-songwriter. He is most famous for the 1971 album American Pie, containing the renowned songs "American Pie" and "Vincent".-Musical roots:...

, except where indicated.
  1. "Dreidel"
  2. "Bronco Bill's Lament"
  3. "Oh, My What a Shame"
  4. "If We Try"
  5. "The More You Pay"
  6. "Narcisissima"
  7. "Falling Through Time"
  8. "On the Amazon" (Vivian Ellis
    Vivian Ellis
    Vivian Ellis was an English musical comedy composer best known for the song "Spread a Little Happiness" and the theme "Coronation Scot".-Life and work:...

    , Clifford Grey
    Clifford Grey
    Clifford Grey was an English songwriter, actor, librettist and Olympic medalist. His birth name was Percival Davis, and he was also known as Clifford Gray, Tippi Gray, Tippi Grey, Tippy Gray and Tippy Grey.As a writer, Grey contributed prolifically to West End and Broadway shows, as librettist and...

    )
  9. "Birthday Song"
  10. "The Pride Parade"

Personnel

  • Don McLean - guitar, vocals
  • Warren Bernhardt
    Warren Bernhardt
    Warren Bernhardt is a noted pianist in jazz, pop and classical music.His father was a pianist, leading him to have early childhood exposure to piano, and he learned some rudiments of keyboarding from his friends. At five his parents moved to New York City where he began studying seriously under...

     - piano
  • Dick Hyman
    Dick Hyman
    Richard “Dick” Hyman is an American jazz pianist/keyboardist and composer, best-known for his versatility with jazz piano styles. Over a 50 year career, he has functioned as pianist, organist, arranger, music director, and, increasingly, as composer...

     - piano
  • Ralph MacDonald
    Ralph MacDonald
    Ralph MacDonald is an American percussionist and song-writer. He joined Harry Belafonte's band at age 17. He wrote the Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway song "Where is the Love" with songwriting partner William Salter. Probably his best-known composition is the Grover Washington, Jr...

     - percussion, conga
  • Ed Trickett - dulcimer
  • Don Brooks - harmonica
  • Howard "Buzz" Feiten
    Buzz Feiten
    Howard "Buzz" Feiten is a North American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and session musician.He is best known as a lead and rhythm electric guitarist, and for having patented a unique, scientifically designed tuning system which re-configures its stringboard / neck for more accurate tonality...

     - guitar
  • Neil Larsen - piano
  • Tony Levin
    Tony Levin
    Tony Levin is an American progressive rock musician, specializing in bass guitar, Chapman stick and upright bass ....

     - bass
  • Chris Parker - drums
  • George Ricci - cello
  • Bob Rothstein - bass, vocals
  • Russ Savakus
    Russ Savakus
    Russ Savakus is an American session bass player , violinist and singer. Savakus has recorded with numerous artists in and around the 1960s folk and folk-rock movement in New York...

    - bass, violin, vocals
  • West Forty Fourth Street Rhythm and Noise Choir - chorus
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