Daly, Sean. "Carole King: Her music, her life, her daughter". KSFR. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 . Retrieved December 30, 2015. Made famous by Dusty Springfield, the song perfectly describes the loss of innocence when becoming an adult, and hoping to recapture an essence of youth. David Crosby lost his place in band the Byrds after criticising their decision to record the song. It has been covered by Freddie Mercury, The Pretenders, Bon Jovi, Phil Collins and Diana Ross among many others. The Shirelles - “Will You Love Me Tomorrow” 1960

Rosanna" by Toto ( David Hungate, Bobby Kimball, Steve Lukather, David Paich, Jeff Porcaro& Steve Porcaro) (1982) Then the string players arrived,” she would later recount in her book. “The first time I heard the cellos play the rhythmic figure at the beginning of ‘Will You Love Me Tomorrow,’ I was euphoric. Some composers literally hear the sounds in their head as they write; I had to wait until a session to hear what I wrote. As the musicians began to play the parts I had written for ‘Will You Love Me Tomorrow,’ I became giddy with excitement. I was 18.” Yet the lyrics that Goffin would write for this song – powerfully delivered in performance by Aretha Franklin (and a few years later, also by Carole King) – continue to amaze critics to this day for Goffin’s ability to plumb the depths of female emotion. Goffin’s daughter for one, Sherry, herself a musician, would say on camera during a 2017 TV special, that lines from that song, such as – “When my soul was in the lost and found / You came along to claim it,” among others – were pretty amazing. Gerry Goffin had a gift that way. The Carpenters recorded King's " It's Going to Take Some Time" in 1972, and reached number 12 on the Billboard charts.

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The lyrics consist of a man asking a young woman to get away from him, so that he will not be tempted to cheat on his girlfriend and kiss her. Control yourself, please. Later recorded in the 70s by Donny Osmond. The Drifters - 'Some Kind of Wonderful' 1961 King, Carole (January 26, 2017). "Why I'm Just Now Re-Releasing A Song I First Wrote In 1982". Huffington Post. Archived from the original on January 26, 2017 . Retrieved January 26, 2017. The Vernons Girls (UK #47, 1962), The Chiffons (in 1963), Emerson Lake & Powell (instrumental), Grand Funk Railroad ( in 1974, #1), Carole King ( in 1980), Dave Stewart with Barbara Gaskin (UK #70, 1986), Kylie Minogue ( in 1988, #3, UK #2), Tina Turner, Dwight Yoakam. Originally published as "Loco Motion". A Natural Woman". Carole King. Archived from the original on April 5, 2012 . Retrieved March 28, 2012.

King's major success began in the 1960s when she and her first husband, Gerry Goffin, wrote more than two dozen chart hits, many of which have become standards, for numerous artists. She has continued writing for other artists since then. King's success as a performer in her own right did not come until the 1970s, when she sang her own songs, accompanying herself on the piano, in a series of albums and concerts. After experiencing commercial disappointment with her debut album Writer, King scored her breakthrough with the album Tapestry, which topped the U.S. album chart for 15 weeks in 1971 and remained on the charts for more than six years. [7] Her song " Now and Forever" was in the opening credits to the 1992 film A League of Their Own, and was nominated for a Grammy Award. [30] Colour of Your Dreams was released in 1993 and featured an appearance by Slash. It was about then that Don Kirshner at Aldon Music in Manhattan hired them both to write songs professionally. Carole’s friend, Neil Sedaka, had worked there as well. Yandoli, Krystie Lee (November 24, 2016). "The Full Story Behind How The "Gilmore Girls" Theme Song Came To Be". BuzzFeed. Archived from the original on October 5, 2017 . Retrieved October 5, 2017. Gerry Goffin was married to Carole King between 1959 and 1969; they had two daughters, singer-songwriter Louise Goffin and Sherry Goffin Kondor. [4] Goffin also had a daughter, Dawn, with Jeanie Reavis ( Earl-Jean McCrea). He married Barbara Behling in the early 1970s and had a son, Jesse Dean Goffin, in 1976. They divorced later that decade. Goffin then married songwriter Ellen Minasian in the 1980s and had one daughter, Lauren, in 1984. [12] [13] Following their divorce, he married actress Michele Conaway (the sister of actor Jeff Conaway) in 1995. [14] [15] Death [ edit ]

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Carole King – Thoroughbred 1976 Album and Tour". Waddywachtelinfo.com. Archived from the original on June 17, 2014 . Retrieved April 19, 2014. James Taylor and Carole King Craft Season's Hottest Tour". Billboard. Archived from the original on September 20, 2014 . Retrieved April 19, 2014. Carole King: The Library Of Congress Gershwin Prize In Performance At The White House". KPBS Public Media. May 23, 2013. Archived from the original on October 5, 2019 . Retrieved October 5, 2019. As Gerry would later explain in a Vanity Fair interview: “I wanted to be a hippie—grew my hair long—and Carole did it modestly… And then I started taking LSD and mescaline. And Carole and I began to grow apart because she felt that she had to say things herself. She had to be her own lyricist.” Perone, James E. (2006). The Words and Music of Carole King. Greenwood Publishing Group. p.22. ISBN 9780275990275. Archived from the original on December 7, 2016 . Retrieved February 6, 2011.

a b Inc, Nielsen Business Media (April 13, 1996). "Billboard". Nielsen Business Media, Inc. – via Google Books. {{ cite web}}: |last= has generic name ( help) Meredith Blake, "Gerry Goffin, songwriting partner of Carole King, dies at 75", LA Times, June 19, 2014. Retrieved June 22, 2014 Yahoo Music – Exclusive New Music and Music Videos". New.music.yahoo.com. April 20, 2011 . Retrieved April 19, 2014. Over the next several years, through the mid- and late 1960s, more hits came for Gerry Goffin and Carole King, including more No. 1 hits, and others charting in the Top Ten and Top 40. In all, between 1960 and 1968, the Goffin-King team would write more than 50 Top 40 hits together – among those not already mentioned: “Crying in the Rain,” “Some Kind of Wonderful,” “Take Good Care of My Baby,” “Pleasant Valley Sunday,” “Natural Woman,” and others.

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Carole King established her solo career in 1971 with her hit album Tapestry, but in the lead up to this she had already written hits for artists such as The Shirelles, Aretha Franklin, The Monkees, The Drifters and more. To celebrate her music and 'Beautiful - The Carole King Musical'currently in London, we've put together a list of 19 popular songs you probably didn't know were hers. Bobby Vee - 'Take Good Care Of My Baby' 1961