Don McLean Discography

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  American Pie
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  If I Only Had A Match
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  Legendary Songs of Don McLean
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  Love Tracks
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  Prime Time
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  Singin` the Blues
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  Solo
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  Solo Sic
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  Starry, Starry Night
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  Tapestry
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  The Best Of Don McLean
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  The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)
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  The Collection
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  The River Of Love
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  Velvet City
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  Very Best of American Pie
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  (What A) Wonderful World
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  Homeless Brother
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  Headroom
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  American Pie And Other Hits
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  Believers
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  Chain Lightning
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  Christmas
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  Christmas Dreams
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  Classics
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  Dominion
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  Don McLean
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  Don McLean - Greatest Hits Live
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  Don McLean Christmas
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  Don McLean Sings Marty Robbins
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  Don McLean Unsorted
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  Favorites And Rarities
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  For the Memories
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  Ghetto Stories
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  Greatest Hits Then And Now
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  Winter Wonderland

Related Artists

Songs By

Irving Berlin :: Joe Melson

Influenced By

Roy Orbison

Followers

Harrod & Funck

Similar Artists

Jim Croce :: Danny O`Keefe :: Fred Neil :: Jesse Colin Young

See also Biography Index (D) :: Filmography Index (D) :: Discography Index (D)

Don McLean (born to Elizabeth and Donald on October 2, 1945 in New Rochelle, New York) is an American singer-songwriter. He is most famous for his 1971 album American Pie, containing the renowned songs American Pie and Vincent. The McLean clan traces its roots to the Isle of Mull in the Scottish Hebrides. Both Don’s grandfather and father were named Donald McLean which sometimes led to confusion as Don was also christened Donald McLean. Don’s mother’s family, the Buccis, came from Abruzzi in southern Italy. They left Italy and settled in Port Chester, N.Y. at the end of the 19th century.

McLean recorded his first album, Tapestry, in 1969 in Berkeley, CA during the student riots. After being rejected by 34 labels the album was released by Mediarts and attracted good reviews but to little notice outside the folk community. McLean`s major break came when Mediarts was taken over by United Artists Records thus securing his second album, American Pie, the promotion of a major label. The album spawned two No. 1 hits in the title song and "Vincent." American Pie`s success made McLean an international star and renewed interest in his first album, which charted more than two years after its initial release. In 2007, the biography The Don McLean Story: Killing Us Softly With His Songs was published. Biographer Alan Howard conducted extensive interviews for this, the only book-length biography of the often reclusive McLean to date.