| Climbing! | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Mountain |
| Cover: | Mountainclimbing1970.jpg |
| Recorded: | 1969–1970 |
| Studio: | Record Plant, New York City |
| Length: | 32:38 |
| Label: | Windfall |
| Producer: | Felix Pappalardi |
| Next Title: | Nantucket Sleighride |
| Next Year: | 1971 |
Climbing! (also known as Mountain Climbing!) is the debut studio album by American hard rock band Mountain. It was released on March 7, 1970, by Windfall Records.
In 1969, Leslie West recorded his debut solo album, titled Mountain, with Felix Pappalardi on bass and drummer Norman Smart.[1] Smart was replaced by Corky Laing on drums and percussion, and keyboardist Steve Knight was added to form the classic Mountain lineup, with Pappalardi as producer.
Windfall Records released Climbing! on March 7, 1970,[2] and it reached number 17 on the American Billboard Top Albums chart.[1] It included the group's best-known song, "Mississippi Queen", which became a hit, and "Never in My Life", which was regularly aired on contemporary FM radio. Both were sung by West, while Pappalardi supplied the vocal on another radio favorite, "Theme for an Imaginary Western".[1]
Matthew Greenwald, in a review for AllMusic, gave the album four and a half out of five stars. In (1981), Robert Christgau wrote:
On the 2003 Legacy Recordings CD, a live version of "For Yasgur's Farm" was added as a bonus track.
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