McLean, Don

Vinyl Records and Rare LPs:

	American Pie Used - LP - UAS 5535 Orange Clouds Label 2nd Issue With Small RCA R-133322 Music Club Stamp On Label And Back Cover. Original Jackets With Original Catalog Numbers Were Used With An RCA Stamp On The Rear Jacket. Shrink Wrap Intact. LP Appears Glossy, Unplayed. An Iconic Album With Iconic Cover Photo. Small Top Center Seam Crack, Hence Price. more
	American Pie Used - LP - UAS-5535 Very Hard To Find 1971 Heavy Vinyl Original Brown Label With Original Custom Brown Printed Inner Sleeve. First Original Copy We Have Seen In Several Years. more
	American Pie New - LP - UAS 5535 First Factory Sealed 1971 Original We Have Seen In Over 10 Years. more
	American Pie Used - LP - UAS 5535 1971 Brown Label Original Still In Shrink Wrap With The Original Custom Inner Sleeve. Also Has The Scarce Oval "American Pie" Hype Sticker On The Shrink Wrap. Appears Unplayed. more
	American Pie New - LP - LN510037 Sealed 1980 All Analogue Reissue Of This Iconic Album (Pre-Bar Code). more
	American Pie Audiophile - LP - SVLP 238 Rare 2000 180gm HQ Reissue Of An All-Time Classic. Appears Glossy, Unplayed. First Copy We Have Had In Stock. more
	American Pie Audiophile - LP - SVLP 238 Sealed, Rare 2000 180gm HQ Reissue Of An All-Time Classic. First Copy We Have Had In Stock. Has The Original UK Price Tag On The Outer Sleeve. more
	American Pie New - LP - SR007 Sealed, Rare "Pirate" Copy Of His Greatest Album. more
	American Pie New - LP - B0024312-01 Sealed Latest Run Of The 2016 Reissue From Capitol Records. "Don Mclean's Second Album, American Pie, Which Was His First To Gain Recognition After The Negligible Initial Sales Of 1970's Tapestry, Is Necessarily Dominated By Its Title Track, A Lengthy, Allegorical History Of Rock & Roll, Because It Became An Unlikely Hit, Topping The Singles Chart And Putting The Lp At Number One As Well. "American Pie" Has Remained As Much A Cultural Touchstone As A Song, Sung By Everyone From Garth Brooks To Madonna, Its Title Borrowed For A Pair Of Smutty Teen Comedies, While The Record Itself Has Earned A Registered Three-million Plays On U.s. Radio Stations. There May Not Be Much More To Note About It, Then, Except Perhaps That Even Without A Crib Sheet To Identify Who's Who, The Song Can Still Be Enjoyed For Its Engaging Melody And Singable Chorus, Which May Have More To Do With Its Success Than Anything Else. Of Course, The Album Also Included "Vincent," Mclean's Paean To Van Gogh, Which Has Been Played Two-million Times. Nothing Else On The Album Is As Effective As The Hits, But The Other Eight Original Songs Range From Sensitive Fare Like "Till Tomorrow" To The Sarcastic, Uptempo "Everybody Loves Me, Baby." American Pie -- The Album -- Is Very Much A Record Of Its Time; It Is Imbued With The Vague Depression Of The Early '70s That Infected The Population And Found Expression In The Works Of Singer/songwriters. "American Pie" -- The Song -- Is Really A Criticism Of What Happened In Popular Music In The '60s, And "Vincent" Sympathizes With Van Gogh's Suicide As A Sane Comment On An Insane World. "Crossroads" And "Empty Chairs" Are Personal Reflections Full Of Regret And Despondency, With The Love Song "Winterwood" Providing The Only Respite. In The Album's Second Half, The Songs Get More Portentous, Tracing Society's Ills Into War And Spiritual Troubles In "The Grave" And "Sister Fatima." The Songs Are Made All The More Poignant By The Stately Folk-pop Arrangements And Mclean's Clear, Direct Tenor. It Was That Voice, Equally Effective On Remakes Of Pop Oldies, That Was His Salvation When He Proved Unable To Match The Songwriting Standard Set On Tapestry And This Collection. But Then, The Album Has An Overall Elegiac Quality That Makes It Sound Like A Final Statement. After All, If The Music Has Died, What Else Is There To Say?". AMG Review By William Ruhlmann. more
	Believers New - LP - BKL1-7762 Sealed 1981 Original With Custom Song Sticker On The Shrink Wrap. Small Saw Cut. more
	Chain Lightning New - LP - BXL1-7756 Sealed 1978 Original With Custom Song Hype Sticker On Shrink. more
	Chain Lightning New - LP - BXL1-7756 Sealed 1978 Original. Saw Cut. more
	Dominion Used - LP - DOM 82 1982 UK Only 2LP Gatefold Original Recorded Live At The Dominion Theatre, London. Both LPs Appear Unplayed. Only The 2nd Copy We Have Ever Had In Stock. more
	Don McLean New - LP - UAS 5651 Sealed 1972 Textured Cover Original. Perhaps His Most Underrated Album Features Such Great Songs As "Bronco Bill's Lament", " Narcisissma", "Oh My What A Shame". A Little-Known Gem Of An Album. Small Cut Corner. more
	Don McLean Used - LP - UAS 5651 1972 Textured Cover Original With Custom Inner Sleeve. LP Appears Unplayed. Perhaps His Most Underrated Album Features Such Great Songs As "Bronco Bill's Lament", "Narcisissma", "Oh My What A Shame". A Little-Known Gem Of An Album. Recommended. more
	Don McLean New - LP - UAS-5651 Sealed 1972 Textured Cover Original. Unable To Confirm Pressing Info. Perhaps His Most Underrated Album Features Such Great Songs As "Bronco Bill's Lament", "Narcisissma", "Oh My What A Shame". A Little-Known Gem Of An Album. Small, Clean Cut Out Hole. Recommended. more
	Don McLean New - LP - UAS 5651 Sealed 1972 Textured Cover Original. Perhaps His Most Underrated Album Features Such Great Songs As "Bronco Bill's Lament", "Narcisissma", "Oh My What A Shame". A Little-Known Gem Of An Album. Minor Cover Imperfections, NM. more
	Greatest Hits-Then & Now New - LP - ST 17255 Sealed, Hard To Find 1987 Vinyl, Clean COH. Features Newly Recorded Versions Of His Classics. more
	Homeless Brother New - LP - UA-LA315-G Sealed 1974 Original. Small CC. Custom Sticker Over Shrink Wrap. “After Taking An Album Off As A Songwriter With The All-Covers Collection Playin' Favourites In 1973, Don Mclean Returned To Providing Most Of The Compositions On His Fifth LP Homeless Brother In 1974. It Was An Ambitious Work, Which He Signaled By A Sleeve Note On The Back Cover In Which He Described "The Vision Of This Album...Growing Within...." That Vision, Or Concept, Seemed To Be Embodied In The Title And Corresponding Album Cover, A Painting Of A Hobo Inside A Boxcar. And, Indeed, In Song After Song, Notably The Title Track, Which Found Mclean Being Accompanied By His Mentor, Pete Seeger, On Background Vocals, There Were References To Hoboes And Hoboing. But There Was Also An Entirely Different Concept At Work On Homeless Brother. That Concept Was Also Suggested In The Original Packaging, Which Was A Glossy Gatefold LP Cover, The Actual Album Sleeve Containing Both The Lyrics And Lengthy Lists Of High-Priced Studio Musicians Including Horn And String Sections Working At The Behest Of Producer Joel Dorn. All This Suggested A Major Recording Effort And A Big Release With The Big Sales Such A Release Was Intended To Garner. That May Help Explain The Album's Curious Commercial Fate. United Artists Records Released The Attractive Love Song "La La Love You" As A Single, But Failed To Break It, And The LP Foundered On The Charts. Then, Months Later, A Second Single, The Infectious 1930s-Styled "Wonderful Baby" (A Song Written For Fred Astaire, Who Recorded It, With Some Deceptively Childlike Lyrics That Turned Out To Be Somewhat Caustic Upon Close Examination) Was Put Out On 45 And Proceeded To Top The Billboard Easy Listening Chart, Much Too Late To Do Any Good To The Album On Which It Originated.” William Ruhlmann, AMG. more
	Homeless Brother New - LP - UA-LA315-G Sealed 1974 Original With Custom Sticker On The Shrink Wrap. “After Taking An Album Off As A Songwriter With The All-Covers Collection Playin' Favourites In 1973, Don Mclean Returned To Providing Most Of The Compositions On His Fifth LP Homeless Brother In 1974. It Was An Ambitious Work, Which He Signaled By A Sleeve Note On The Back Cover In Which He Described "The Vision Of This Album...Growing Within...." That Vision, Or Concept, Seemed To Be Embodied In The Title And Corresponding Album Cover, A Painting Of A Hobo Inside A Boxcar. And, Indeed, In Song After Song, Notably The Title Track, Which Found Mclean Being Accompanied By His Mentor, Pete Seeger, On Background Vocals, There Were References To Hoboes And Hoboing. But There Was Also An Entirely Different Concept At Work On Homeless Brother. That Concept Was Also Suggested In The Original Packaging, Which Was A Glossy Gatefold LP Cover, The Actual Album Sleeve Containing Both The Lyrics And Lengthy Lists Of High-Priced Studio Musicians Including Horn And String Sections Working At The Behest Of Producer Joel Dorn. All This Suggested A Major Recording Effort And A Big Release With The Big Sales Such A Release Was Intended To Garner. That May Help Explain The Album's Curious Commercial Fate. United Artists Records Released The Attractive Love Song "La La Love You" As A Single, But Failed To Break It, And The LP Foundered On The Charts. Then, Months Later, A Second Single, The Infectious 1930s-Styled "Wonderful Baby" (A Song Written For Fred Astaire, Who Recorded It, With Some Deceptively Childlike Lyrics That Turned Out To Be Somewhat Caustic Upon Close Examination) Was Put Out On 45 And Proceeded To Top The Billboard Easy Listening Chart, Much Too Late To Do Any Good To The Album On Which It Originated.” William Ruhlmann, AMG. more
	Love Tracks Used - LP - C1 48080 1988 Original With Clean Cut Out Hole. Vinyl Appears Glossy, Unplayed. Light Seam Rubbing. more
	Playin' Favorites New - LP - UA-LA161-F Sealed 1973 Heavy Vinyl Original. Pristine Copy. more
	Prime Time New - LP - AB 4149 Sealed 1977 Original With Cut Corner. more
	RCA Special Radio Series Vol. VII New - LP - DJL1-3933 Sealed 1981 Promo Only Original. Features Interview Segments Plus Tracks From 'Chain Lightning" Album. Rare! more
	Solo Used - LP - A 652 H2 Hard To Find 2 LP Retrospective With Live European Performances Not On Any Other Record. more
	Tapestry New - LP - UAS 5522 Sealed 1971 2nd Issue Of His Classic 1970 First LP, Custom Plastic Hype Sticker On Shrink, Cut Corner. "It Took The Success Of Don McLean's Second Album, American Pie, To Stimulate Interest In His Debut Record, Tapestry. But Once The New Fans Looked, They Found That The Album Contained The Same High Level Of Pop-Folk Songwriting, If In A Somewhat Less Epic Form. "Castles In The Air" Became A Hit, And The Album Also Contained Mclean's Version Of His Song "And I Love You So," Which Perry Como Successfully Covered In 1973." William Ruhlmann, AMG. more
	Tapestry Used - LP - 41-4 Hard To Find 1971 Original. Appears Unplayed. more
	Tapestry New - LP - UAS 5522 Sealed 1971 2nd Issue Of His Classic 1970 First LP, CC. "It Took The Success Of Don Mclean's Second Album, American Pie, To Stimulate Interest In His Debut Record, Tapestry. But Once The New Fans Looked, They Found That The Album Contained The Same High Level Of Pop-Folk Songwriting, If In A Somewhat Less Epic Form. "Castles In The Air" Became A Hit, And The Album Also Contained Mclean's Version Of His Song "And I Love You So," Which Perry Como Successfully Covered In 1973." William Ruhlmann, AMG. more
	Tapestry New - LP - LN 10157 Sealed All Analogue 3rd Issue Of His Classic 1970 Debut Album. "It Took The Success Of Don Mclean's Second Album, American Pie, To Stimulate Interest In His Debut Record, Tapestry. But Once The New Fans Looked, They Found That The Album Contained The Same High Level Of Pop-Folk Songwriting, If In A Somewhat Less Epic Form. "Castles In The Air" Became A Hit, And The Album Also Contained Mclean's Version Of His Song "And I Love You So," Which Perry Como Successfully Covered In 1973." William Ruhlmann, AMG. more
	Very Best Of Don McLean Used - LP - UAG 30314 Mint 1980 UK Compilation Autgraphed By Don In Red Pen On The Front Cover: "For Carla-Your Dad Took This Picture! Sincerely Don McLean." more