Climbing!
| Climbing! | ||||
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| Released | March 7, 1970 | |||
| Recorded | 1969–1970 | |||
| Studio | Record Plant, New York City | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 32:38 | |||
| Label | Windfall | |||
| Producer | Felix Pappalardi | |||
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Climbing! (also known as Mountain Climbing!) is the debut studio album by American hard rock band Mountain. The album was released on March 7, 1970, by Windfall Records. It peaked at No. 17 on the Billboard 200 chart, and spent 39 weeks on the chart.
The album 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".
The album was recorded at the Record Plant in New York City. Felix Pappalardi produced the album, while Bob d'Orleans engineered it.