She recorded her first song at 16 in 1958, married and began writing songs fellow Queens College student Gerry Goffin in 1959, and with him scored her first No. 1 hit, "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" in early 1960. Over the next 8 years the team went on to write "The Loco-Motion", "One Fine Day", "Chains", "Up On The Roof", "I'm Into Something Good", "Natural Woman" more than two dozen other chart-toppers before they split up and she moved to Los Angeles. Then in 1971, at 29, she released her first solo-album, Tapestry, which introduced such classics as "You've Got A Friend", "I Feel The Earth Move", "So Far Away" and "It's Too Late", won 4 Grammys, held the #1 spot on the Billboard Top 100 for 15 weeks and remained on that chart for the next 6 years.
Lynnea Barry welcomes Vicki Brabham, Siri Vik, Hanna Foshay and company for an exploration of and tribute to the extraordinary first decade of the career of one of the most prolific musicians in the history of pop music, Carole King.
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| | Crying In The Rain (1962) Howard Greenfield (w) Carole King (m)
First recorded by The Everly Brothers |
| | Chains (1962) Gerry Goffin (w) Carole King (m)
First recorded by The Cookies |
| |  | The Loco-Motion (1962) Gerry Goffin (w) Carole King (m)
First recorded by Little Eva |
| |  | Up On The Roof (1962) Gerry Goffin (w) Carole King (m)
First recorded by The Drifters |
| | Oh! Carol (1959) Howard Greenfield, Neil Sedaka (w/m)
First recorded by Neil Sedaka |
| | Oh! Neil (1959) Gerry Goffin (w) Neil Sedaka (m) [parody of Oh! Carol] First recorded by Carole King |
| |  | One Fine Day (1963) Gerry Goffin (w) Carole King (m)
First recorded by The Chiffons |
| |  | Oh No Not My Baby (1964) Gerry Goffin (w) Carole King (m)
First recorded by Maxine Brown |
| | Goin’ Back (1966) Gerry Goffin (w) Carole King (m)
First recorded by Dusty Springfield |
| |  | A Natural Woman (1967) Gerry Goffin (w) Carole King (m)
First recorded by Aretha Franklin |
| |  | It's Too Late (1971) Tapestry Toni Stern (w) Carole King (m)
First recorded by Carole King |
| | | So Far Away (1971) Tapestry Carole King (w/m)
First recorded by Carole King |