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Don McLean discography

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Studio albums
  
20

Compilation albums
  
8

Live albums
  
3

Singles
  
16

Don McLean discography

The discography of American singer Don McLean consists of twenty studio albums, three live albums, eight compilation albums, and sixteen singles.

Contents

Studio albums

  • ATapestry did not chart in the UK until 1972 after the success of American Pie.
  • BChain Lightning also peaked at #3 on the RPM Country Albums chart in Canada.
  • CBotanic Gardens was recorded in 2014-15 but has not yet been published. McLean presents some of the tracks from this album at live concerts.

    • Singles

    Notes
  • AThe original version of "Castles in the Air" was included on the Tapestry album. In February 1971, it was released as the first single from the album and reached #40 on the Billboard Easy Listening / Adult Contemporary chart. After the success of the "American Pie" single, "Castles in the Air" was included as the B-side to its follow-up, "Vincent", and received enough radio airplay to reach the Hot 100 chart as a "flip". McLean's 1981 version of the song, a slower ballad version of the more mid to up-tempo version of the original, first appeared on his album Believers, and later replaced the original version on some copies of Tapestry.

    • References

    Don McLean discography Wikipedia
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