McLean recorded his first album, Tapestry, in 1969 in Berkeley, California during the student riots.

Other songs written by McLean for the album included “ Dreidel ” ( number 21 on the Billboard chart ) and “ If We Try ” ( number 58 ), which was subsequently recorded by Olivia Newton-John.

*" Castles in the Air ", which McLean recorded twice.

Another hit song associated with McLean ( though never recorded by him ) is " Killing Me Softly with His Song ", which was written about McLean after Lori Lieberman, also a singer / songwriter, saw him singing his composition " Empty Chairs " in concert.

Gordon was a saxophonist for the L. A. production of the Jack Gelber play The Connection in 1960, replacing Jackie McLean who performed and recorded the Freddie Redd score in New York City.

As a young man McLean also recorded with Gene Ammons, Charles Mingus on the seminal Pithecanthropus Erectus, George Wallington, and as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers.

McLean was a heroin addict throughout his early career, and the resulting loss of his New York City cabaret card forced him to undertake a large number of recording dates ; consequently, he produced an extensive body of recorded work in the 1950s and 1960s.

McLean recorded with dozens of well-known musicians and had a gift for spotting talent.

René has performed and recorded as a leader and featured sideman with the crème de la crème of Black Musical tradition, to name a few — Jackie McLean, the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band, Lionel Hampton-All Stars, Tito Puente Orchestra, Horace Silver, Woody Shaw, Dr. Bill Taylor, Baba Olatunji, Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba, Abbey Lincoln, Dexter Gordon, James Moody, Yusef Lateef, Jaco Pastorius, Jerry Gonzales ' Forte Apache Band, Hamza El Din, as well as in collaboration with premier poet-activist Amiri Baraka ( Leroi Jones ).

In 1955, he recorded with Jackie McLean and Mal Waldron.

Other band leaders Mitchell recorded with include Lou Donaldson, Grant Green, Philly Joe Jones, Jackie McLean, Hank Mobley, Johnny Griffin, Al Cohn, Dexter Gordon and Jimmy Smith.

Dorham recorded frequently throughout the sixties for Blue Note and Prestige Records, as leader and as sideman for Henderson, Jackie McLean, Cedar Walton, Andrew Hill, Milt Jackson and others.

During the 1950s and 1960s, Smith recorded with some of the great jazz musicians of the day such as Kenny Burrell, George Benson, Grant Green, Stanley Turrentine, Lee Morgan, Lou Donaldson, Tina Brooks, Jackie McLean, Grady Tate and Donald Bailey.

Recorded a year before the Ruby sessions, Doughty and bass player Sebastian Steinberg recorded the tune at the avant-garde jazz club The Knitting Factory during the daytime, when the club was closed, with club soundperson James McLean.

The song has been recorded by many artists, including Don McLean.

He began his musical career after World War II, and played and recorded with Art Blakey, Charlie Parker, Oscar Pettiford, Kai Winding, Miles Davis, Jackie McLean, Curtis Fuller, Terry Gibbs, Clark Terry, Blue Mitchell, and Supersax.

Brooks recorded five sessions of his own for Blue Note ( including one jointly with McLean ).

He recorded with Scandinavian jazz musicians, and with Bob Brookmeyer, Eddie " Lockjaw " Davis, Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon, Johnny Griffin, Jackie McLean, and Ben Webster.

He recorded with many other prominent jazz musicians, including Kenny Clarke, Sonny Criss, Jackie McLean, Pierre Michelot and Archie Shepp.

From 1953 he recorded in New York as a leader and as a sideman with Sonny Rollins, Lou Donaldson, Clifford Brown, and Jackie McLean, but moved to Los Angeles in 1957 after losing his cabaret card in New York City for drug use.

He played or recorded with many prominent jazz musicians, including Cannonball Adderley, Stanley Turrentine, Bobby Hutcherson, Freddie Hubbard, Harold Land, Jackie McLean, Archie Shepp, and McCoy Tyner.

A popular sideman, he also recorded with Miles Davis, Hank Mobley, Donald Byrd, Sonny Clark, Dexter Gordon, Herbie Hancock, Joe Henderson, Jackie McLean, and Stanley Turrentine.

He has played and recorded with a long list of jazz greats including Jackie McLean, Art Blakey, Chick Corea, Freddie Hubbard and The New Jazz Composers Octet, Benny Golson's New Jazztet, One for All ( Eric Alexander, Jim Rotondi, David Hazeltine, John Webber, Joe Farnsworth ), Hank Jones, Cecil Payne, Horace Silver, Cedar Walton, Harold Mabern, Larry Willis, Eddie Henderson, The Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Star Big Band ( featuring Slide Hampton, James Moody, Jimmy Heath, Roy Hargrove ), Avishai Cohen, Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, and Michael Weiss, among many others.

During this time McLean wrote songs that would appear on his first album, Tapestry.

American Pies success made McLean an international star and piqued interest in his first album, which charted more than two years after its initial release.

& A. McLean announced that they would publish the first thirty-six essays as a bound volume ; that volume was released on March 2 and was titled The Federalist.

The first truly successful container shipping company dates to April 26, 1956, when American trucking entrepreneur McLean put 58 containers aboard a refitted tanker ship, the, and sailed them from Newark to Houston.

Postmaster General John McLean was the first to call it the Post Office Department rather than just the " Post Office.

Ms. McLean wore it to a " brilliant reception " in February 1912 when it was reported that it was the first time it had been worn in public since it had " changed owners.

*" Evidence " ( Tara McLean song ), a song by Tara MacLean, from her album Silence, first released in 1995

The first leveraged buyout may have been the purchase by McLean Industries, Inc. of Pan-Atlantic Steamship Company in January 1955 and Waterman Steamship Corporation in May 1955.

At the May convention, Indiana first supported John McLean, but fell in behind John Bell on the second ballot.

With the game tied 3 – 3 in the first overtime, goaltender Kirk McLean made what became known thereafter as " The Save ", sliding across the crease feet-first and stacking his pads on the goal line to stop Robert Reichel on a one-timer pass from Theoren Fleury.

It was named for John A. McLean, a prominent citizen and the first mayor of Bismarck, North Dakota.

In 1821, Colonel Francis McLean built the first textile mill in what is now Rockville in partnership with George and Allyn Kellogg and Ralph Talcott, next to a spot known as " the Rock " with capital of $ 16, 000.

Mettawa's first mayor was James Getz ; subsequent mayors included Ed Fitzsimons, Julius Abler, and Barry McLean.

It was, he wrote, " The only crossing of railroads likely to be made within McLean County within four or five years, and persons can easily ascertain that the connection of the two roads will be effected by the first of November or December.

The first structures within the limits of the new town were two little half-sod and half-board dugouts which served as depot, freight house, and shelter for railroad section hands ; this is one of the very few mentions of sod houses in McLean County.

McLean was laid out when the Alton and Springfield Railroad, soon to become the Alton Railroad, was first built through McLean County.

The first residents of McLean were the brothers G. L.

The first leveraged buyout may have been the purchase by McLean Industries, Inc. of Pan-Atlantic Steamship Company in January 1955 and Waterman Steamship Corporation in May 1955 Under the terms of that transaction, McLean borrowed $ 42 million and raised an additional $ 7 million through an issue of preferred stock.

Although he lived and worked in Calgary, his first cabinet was composed mostly of southern members ( McLean represented Lethbridge District, Marshall represented Olds, and Mitchell would soon be elected in Medicine Hat ), so Sifton had Archibald Campbell resign his Vermilion seat and sought election there.

He also respects the tough-talking, cigar-chomping Colonel " Bear " Berrineau ( based on Thomas Nugent " The Boo " Courvoisie, a former Commandant at The Citadel ) who asks the senior cadet McLean to look out for the Institute's first black cadet, Tom Pearce.

Wilson's " Good Time Charlie " image was first exposed to the public in a Washington Post editorial by Kathleen McLean in 1978.