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    Don McLean Concert Performaces

    Hyde Park, London

    Don McLean's free concert with an audience of 80,000. This is one of the great moments of Don McLean's career.
    Title   Hits
    Vincent (Starry Starry Night) Two songs here. Can you name the song that leads into Vincent? 60937
    Homeless Brother 12648

    Orchard Theatre, Dartford, England

    Don McLean accompanied by Tony Migliore on keyboards and grand piano. Good sound quality with some minor interference.
    Title   Hits
    Vincent 33667
    American Pie 33361
    Love in my Heart 6525
    And I Love You So 11166
    The Very Thought of You 6315
    Headroom 5192
    La La Love You 5679
    Can't Blame the Wreck on the Train 5706
    What Will The World Be Like 5592
    Winterwood 6676
    It's Just the Sun 6175

    Royal Albert Hall, London

    Some fans consider Don McLean's concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London in 1973 to be his greatest ever. Here you can listen to a few songs from that show and remember the Don McLean 'solo' concert experience. This page requires the latest version of the free Real Player. None of the material has been released on record or CD.
    Title   Hits
    Winterwood 6445
    Mountains of Mourne Beautiful version, but listen for Don's mistake. 9388
    Great Big Man & Respectable Two songs joined together here. 5933
    Babylon Don McLean is joined by an audience of 5000 in this version of the song originally released on the American Pie album. 9413
    American Pie 18902

    Live In Ireland

    The 'Live in Ireland' CD was recorded in the 1980s but has never been released. The track listing is: 1. Tulsa Time 5:20.
    2. Everyday 2:11
    3. Winterwood 3:28
    4. Dreidel 5:27
    5. Mountains of Mourne 5:03
    6. And I Love You So 4:59
    7. Molly Malone 2:52. 8. American Pie 8:43
    9. Johnny MacAldoo 1:52
    10. Pat Works Upon the Railway 3:37
    11. This Little Light of Mine 5:22
    The album was remastered on 17 September 1997 at Chelsea Recording Studios, Nashville. It is hoped that the CD will appear as part of a Don McLean box set at some point in the future. We are very grateful to Don McLean for allowing us to broadcast portions of this CD. Three songs currently available, but we will add one or two more.
    Title   Hits
    This Little Light of Mine 6645
    Molly Malone 6513
    Pat Works Upon the Railway 5274

    Live in New York City

    This is a fine concert performance recorded in New York City in 1982 featuring band and the Jordanaires.

    Title   Hits
    Vincent (Starry Starry Night) The song Don wrote after readin a book about Vincent Van Gogh 169938
    Tapestry The song that inspired the creation of Greenpeace 7424
    Castles in the Air In the style of the Believers album version 9114
    Jerusalem Concert version of the Believers album track 5671
    Orphans of Wealth Great version of this song from Don's first album 5592
    Building my Body / Wonderful Baby Two songs 5085

    Royal Festival Hall, London

    The Royal Festival Hall in London England is one of Don McLean's most favourite venues. This recording features Don McLean with rock band. The sound quality is moderate. True rarities include Don's version of 'Blue Suede Shoes' and the singalong 'The People are Scratching'. Sound Only.
    Title   Hits
    Blue Suede Shoes Don McLean's version of the Elvis Presley classic. Exceptionally rare performance - this version is previously unreleased. 6918
    American Pie 18742
    Jerusalem 5149
    Crying in the Chapel 5584
    Vincent (Starry Starry Night) 9953
    And I Love You So Classic performance 8139
    The People are Scratching A classic Don McLean sing-along. Also features Don McLean chatting about President Reagan. 6421
    Genesis (In the Beginning) 5830
    Homeless Brother 5173
    Left for Dead on the Road of Love 5011
    La La Love You 4948
    If We Try 5628
    Winterwood 7988
    It's Just the Sun 5373

    Recorded music submitted by Don McLean fans

    This section contains files that fans have provided. Over time we hope to build up a collection of streaming audio of fans playing some of their favourite Don McLean songs. You can upload your own efforts by selecting 'Upoload' from the menu and following the simple instructions.
    Title   Hits
    Interview with Don McLean - 1972 This isn't a sound file but a PDF of an excellent interview with Don McLean in a 1972 edition of Guitar Player magazine. 2650
    Mountains Of Mourne mp3 3039
    Interview with Don McLean - 1980 This isn't a sound file but a PDF of an excellent interview with Don McLean in a 1980 edition of Guitar magazine. 2595
    Empty Chairs mp3 3262
    Castles in the Air mp3 3485
    Vincent (Starry Starry Night) Vincent by Ryan Heenan 12097
    American Pie (A cappella:-) This is my A cappella tribute to one of the greatest songwriters ever. 8666
    American pie Very short version. 10197
    Every Day Is A Miracle Only the die hard fans are familiar with this one! 3813
    Castles In The Air A great Don song.. 5344
    And I Love You So 6478
    Vincent It is quite a nice song that I tried 3 months to learn it. My guitar with capo on the 1st fret sounds good. hah My email address:sunie2001@hotmail.com I am a Chinese, willing to make friends oversea who likes Mclean 9734
    American Pie I'm 18 and this my first attempt at a real recording. This is my rendition of American Pie. It's a rather over the top rendition and I go as high as Michael Jakson at some points. This is a very unique rendition and I hope everyone enjoys it! 13459
    If We Try I play it for thirty years already and it's so beautiful and so hard to get it really good. But if I try - and keep trying... Hope you like it. 5469
    Winter Has Me In Its Grip Fine song, nice guitarchords and beautiful melody. But again, not easy to perform! Hope you still like my effort. (No I'm not from Spain, I'm from Holland) 3890
    Castles in the Air I'm probably the only non-guitarist in here so it was a real challenge to come up with a decent version of this song. I used Cubase SX3 and Virtual Guitarist to record this most beautiful song. I hope you all like my interpretation. Thanks. 6359
    Bronco Bill's Lament I always used to like this song. 4946
    Vincent I really love the song, that's y I recorded it. Hope u'll like it, too. 11045
    Georgie's Song This is obviously not a Don McLean song, it's mine! Uploaded with permission and some pressure! Written for my daughter, Georgina, every father should be able to identify with this.......I hope. 7983
    And I Love You So Don makes it sound easy, but I found this song really hard to sing! Where's everyone gone? Have you all jumped ship and not told me? Is it me?? Hello?? 11857
    Vincent Hi Dejay, Cookie and Jim, mind if I join you? 22459
    Empty Chairs by Dejay Empty Chairs by Dejay 9138
    Orphans Of Wealth by Cookie Orphans Of Wealth by Cookie 6660
    Birthday Song - test by Jim Monaghan I''m trying to see how/if this works. Not all the chords are correct...I''ll upload a better version later. Eventually, we''ll be able to do "Don McLean guitar lessons" on here. OK...the good news...I figured out how to do this. The bad news...I need better recording equipment @ home to pull this off right! 9309
    Circus song Circus Song by Dejay 6918
    Oh My What A Shame Oh My What A Shame by Cookie 7084
    Magdalene Lane Magdalene Lane by Cookie 7059
    Homeless brother Homeless brother by Dejay 7127
    Castles in the air Castles in the air 11729

    Hard Rock Cafe, Manchester

    Recorded in the 1970s at the Hard Rock Cafe, Manchester, UK, listen here to some classic tracks sung 'solo'. Very grateful to Brian Catchpole for supplying these tracks.
    Title   Hits
    Bronco Bill's Lament Live in Concert 5521
    Wonderful Baby From the Homeless Brother album. 5464
    Respectable From the Tapestry album. 4813
    Birthday Song From the 1972 Don McLean album. 6237

    Rarities

    Various rare concert performances and studio recordings.
    Title   Hits
    Well Alright iN CONCERT 1984 5301
    East Virginia Blues In concert 1984 4923
    The Bells of Rhymney In concert in 1984. 4944
    L'Affaire D'Amour Performed here in concert in 1984, this song is also a hard to find Don McLean studio recording. 5970
    The Cat Came Back Recorded in concert in the UK in the 1980s. This children's song also features on Don's new album 'You've Got to Share' available from http://www.don-mclean.com/info.htm 5865
    Flight of Dragons Don McLean recorded this song for the film 'Flight of Dragons' in the early 1980s. 7608
    Don McLean 'Till Tomorrow' video, 1971 Here is a little snippet from the rare 'Till Tomorrow' video. It shows the infamous bomb scare that Martin Maguire describes on his Belfast page: "During the song one of the theatre staff walks onstage, says something to Don and then takes the mike to ask the audience to check around them and under their seats for suspicious packages (ie a bomb scare). The audience seem bemused by it all, whilst the guy on stage insists that it is serious and not a joke. Minutes later, Don returns, continues the song from where he left off and receives rapturous applause." 6900