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- 'Where You Lead' Carole King - Where You Lead, I Will Follow (from Welcome To My Living Room) Taken from... you guessed it, Tapestry, this was also a top 40 hit for Barbra Streisand in 1971.
- 'I Feel the Earth Move' CAROLE KING - I Feel The Earth Move (Live) Another classic from Tapestry, this song gave King a US number one hit in 1971. Critic Stewart Mason described the song as "the ultimate in hippie-chick eroticism" and that it "sounds like the unleashing of an entire generation of soft-spoken college girls' collective libidos".
- 'It Might As Well Rain Until September' It Might As Well Rain Until September CAROLE KING. Carole King and former husband Gerry Goffin wrote this song back in 1962 for Bobby Vee, but a demo version recorded by Carole herself gave her an early hit in the same year.
- 'Nightingale' Carole King - Nightingale (Official Audio) Carole brought in her young daughters Louise and Sherry Goffin as backing singers for this track.
- 'It's Too Late'
- 'I Feel The Earth Move'
- '(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman'
- 'Will You Love Me Tomorrow?'
- 'You've Got A Friend'
- 'The Loco-Motion'
- 'Up on The Roof'
- 'Jazzman'
- 'Beautiful'
- 'One Fine Day'
"It's Too Late" appeared on King's breakthrough solo album Tapestry (1971). She wrote the song's music and Toni Stern provided lyrics. As a double-sided single with "I Feel the Earth Move," in June 1971 "It's Too Late" provided King with her first No. 1 hit as a performer and songwriter. The song also received a Grammy Award in 1972 for record of t...
Along with "It's Too Late," King's "I Feel the Earth Move" reached No. 1 in the charts in 1971. King composed both the music and lyrics for this song. Though other artists have covered "I Feel the Earth Move," King's performance hasremained a crowd-pleaser for decades.
King and Goffin wrote "(You Make Me Feel Like) a Natural Woman" together. The iconic Aretha Franklin's 1967 version of this song climbed to No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1967. However, Franklin's standout performance didn't stop King from recording "A Natural Woman" for 1971's Tapestry. The song also inspired the title of King's 2012 autobiogra...
A 17-year-old King co-wrote "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?" with Goffin. In 1960, the Shirelles became the first Black all-female group to have a No. 1 hit with the tune. A decade later, King herself sang "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?" on Tapestry. "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?" is popular among artists; covers include Amy Winehouse's take in 2004 and Nor...
King wrote both the music and lyrics for "You've Got a Friend," which was included on Tapestry. James Taylor, a friend and musical collaborator, also recorded the song; his take topped the Billboard Hot 100 in July 1971. Though "You've Got a Friend" is a link between the two musicians, King didn't write the song specifically for Taylor. "He was in ...
In the wake of the popularity of "The Twist" (1960), King and Goffin wrote "The Loco-Motion." Little Eva took the catchy pop song to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1962. The next few decades saw "The Loco-Motion" reach new audiences: Grand Funk Railroad hit No. 1 again in 1974, followed by Australian pop star Kylie Minogue charting at No. 3 with...
King wrote the music and Goffin penned the lyrics for this song, which was performed by doo-wop group The Drifters in 1962. King released her own version on Writer, her 1970 debut solo album. Her friend Taylor also recorded the song in 1979, breaking into the Top 40. Other cover artists include Ike and Tina Turner on their 1973 album Let Me Touch Y...
King wrote "Jazzman" with Dave Palmer, and her performance of the song reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1974. Twenty years later, the animated television series The Simpsonsintroduced the tune to a new generation when Lisa Simpson played "Jazzman" following the death of the character of jazz musician Bleeding Gums Murphy.
"Beautiful" is another King solo composition that appeared on Tapestry. Streisand also covered the song for her album Barbra Joan Streisand (1971). The song provided the title for a musical about King's life: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, which ran on Broadway from 2014 to 2019.
"One Fine Day," which the girl group the Chiffons took to No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1963, was another collaboration between King and Goffin. King's own 1980 cover charted at No. 12. In 1997, the song provided the title for a movie that co-starred George Clooney and Michelle Pfeiffer. Natalie Merchant covered the song for the film's soundtra...
Sharing You. Show Me Girl. Smackwater Jack (song) So Far Away (Carole King song) So Much Love (Ben E. King song) Some Kind of Wonderful (The Drifters song) Some of Your Lovin'. Someone Who Believes in You. Star Collector.
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Carole King Klein [3] (born Carol Joan Klein; February 9, 1942) is an American singer-songwriter and musician who has been active since 1958. One of the most successful female songwriters of the latter half of the 20th century in the US, she wrote or co-wrote 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100. [4] She also wrote 61 hits that charted in the ...
Carole King covered Do You Hear What I Hear, I Got My Love to Keep Me Warm, Sleigh Ride, Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming and other songs. Carole King originally did Sleigh Ride, Do You Hear What I Hear, Child of Mine, (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman and other songs.
Apple Music Pop. Released in '71, Carole King's Tapestry was one of the most influential albums of its era, topping the chart 15 weeks in a row and defining the decade's singer/songwriter movement. Of course, King's legacy goes far beyond the songs she performed herself. She started out as a hitmaker for other artists, working out of the ...
