Her Tapestry album from 1971 was one of the highest selling of all time. I have three copies. The entire album is filled with classics. I can second for Way Over Yonder!

@kathyandrews5217

10 ай бұрын

My husband and I have his and hers copies of Tapestry❤

@fasn8ed

10 ай бұрын

Way over yonder, wa's my favorite on that album.

@sunnystormy4973

10 ай бұрын

-#cheers-- !-

@pegmedlock4045

10 ай бұрын

I vote for Way Over Yonder!😊

@susanengland3919

10 ай бұрын

I agree, every song on the Tapestry album is amazing!

There's really only one word about Carol King, MAGIC!

There's nothing to say, is there? Legend and classic are not enough to describe what she brings. The piano playing is so beautiful.

@sunnystormy4973

10 ай бұрын

-ikr ?!-

This is why Carole King is in ALL the Halls of Fame. The Shirelles put it on the charts, but it was King who wrote the music. Please watch Aretha Franklin honor Ms. King at the Kennedy Center Honors with "(You Make Me Feel Like A Natural) Woman"

@angelayoung7594

10 ай бұрын

LOVED IT!!

@mamatay7

10 ай бұрын

Omg, Aretha's performance is one for the ages!!! And Carole's reaction to Aretha is a whole thing onto itself!!! 🤩

@twentyfiveyears5010

10 ай бұрын

I was a pre-teen when the Shirelles' version came out in 1960 and I thought it was just a typical song about a girl wanting her boyfriend to love her. I was well into my teens when Tapestry came out in 1971 and I understood the subtext. With songs like WAP these days, it is interesting to see how songwriters had to deal with/mask sexuality or sexual topics back in the day.

@jeanperry9527

10 ай бұрын

That was SOOO fine!

@johnnyd5285

9 ай бұрын

That is one historic video! Watched it many times.

Carole King wrote this with Gerry Goffin but it was originally recorded by The Shirelles. You should check out more of them like, baby it’s you, dedicated to the one I love, soldier boy, mama said. Also, the Brill Building where King and Goffin worked had a lot of songwriters who put out a lot of songs for a lot of artists of that day. And some like King became well known performers themselves.

@user-ph9wt3ue7c

10 ай бұрын

Lieber and Stroller also started at the Brill Building

@kevincarson7524

10 ай бұрын

Neil Diamond as well!

@giuliogrifi7739

10 ай бұрын

Gayle McCormick gave a great, great and soulfull rendition of the song "Baby It's You".....with a band called "SMITH" in 1969.

@oregonchick76

10 ай бұрын

Carole obviously does a beautiful job with her song, but I absolutely love The Shirelles version of this. It's got that great Motown girl group energy that makes it so fun.

@TheOriginalRick

10 ай бұрын

Not just that day, but for many decades previously.

She is such an amazing songwriter. For every hit of her own, there was a song that was a huge hit for another artist. For example, the Aretha Franklin mega hit "You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman."

@MrRondonmon

10 ай бұрын

I like her version better than Aretha's, then again I am huge into Jazz, and she is sultry on that version.

@jonsher7682

10 ай бұрын

While Carole King wrote the music to this stunningly beautiful and sad song, it was her husband, Gerry Goffin, who wrote the lyrics. The division of duties typical of the hits the couple wrote at a time when their success as songwriters was unrivalled but their marriage was often a struggle. That she sung HIS words with such emotion and authenticity shows how she understand his pain and doubts as they struggled to make their marriage work. They were married from 1959 and 1969 and had two daughters before getting divorced. They wrote this song a the beginning of their marriage and it was recorded in 1960 by the Shirelles and rose to #1 on billboard. King later recorded herself AFTER the divorce and released it as part of her Tapestry album. So the true sadness in the song is this: Gerry wrote it at a time of hope and doubt; Carol recorded it when all hope for their marriage was gone, knowing that the doubts Gerry felt at the beginning had sadly come true.

Carole King wrote " Pleasant Valley Sunday" for The Monkees. "Tapestry " is a classic spending over six years on the charts. featuring "You've Got A Friend" and "It's Too Late" .

@sourisvoleur4854

10 ай бұрын

The story is that she hated the guitar riff that Nesmith put on PVS, and the next time they met in the Brill Building she passed him by without speaking to him. Tapestry is in my top 5 albums. One of recorded music's perfect albums, every song is great, none are skippable.

@RusstheTroubadour

10 ай бұрын

I heard that she denied saying that. And was actually quite pleased with the redition by The Monkees.

@RobertJohnson-hq6jq

10 ай бұрын

As a matter of fact when she plays Pleasant Valley Sunday live she includes Mike Nesmith’s guitar riff from the Monkees version. Pull it up on You Tube.

@sourisvoleur4854

10 ай бұрын

@@RobertJohnson-hq6jq So she got over it. Good!

@sourisvoleur4854

10 ай бұрын

@@RusstheTroubadour That really does make more sense. At the time she was a professional songwriter, and you don't last long in that profession if you get snippy about how people render your songs.

The story is that when The Beatles came to America, the person they wanted to meet was Carole King….Like so many other musicians, they had covered her songs …. She has so many great ones - one I highly recommend that you check out is Jazzman

@SpuzzyLargo

10 ай бұрын

Right! Lennon and McCartney aspired to be the next Goffin-King songwriting team.

@softshallow7435

10 ай бұрын

this is a cover.

@lala_sparkles8035

10 ай бұрын

@@softshallow7435 Carole wrote it with Gerry Goffin

@softshallow7435

10 ай бұрын

@@lala_sparkles8035 o.k they wrote it for The Shirelles (1961). She covered it in her style.

@lala_sparkles8035

10 ай бұрын

@@softshallow7435 1960

Ironically, her friend James Taylor had to convince her to sing her own songs publically and to record herself singing on the famous album 'Tapestry". Her career was established as a songwriter for many other singers for a long time before she began singing her own songs herself.

A few years back if you had asked Jay to name a female singer songwriter who plays piano you may have faced a blank stare. Look at y'all now! So proud of how far you've both come. Love what you do. Smile accomplished!

Hard to imagine she wrote songs for more than a decade before she was convinced by James Taylor that we needed to hear them from from her herself.

I’m so happy y’all love her. Her album Tapestry came out when I was a teen. I would put on my headphones and chill out to her gorgeous voice. In my mind I sounded like her.

Jay & Amber, you'll love her "Jazzman", "Sweet Seasons" and many more!!! This song was a huge hit for the Shirelles. Written by Goffin/King!! edit- Gerry Goffin was the lyricist of the Goffin/King songs, although Carole certainly had some input. They were husband and wife for 8 years.

@RedBud315

10 ай бұрын

I think they wrote this one when they were like 16 years old.

@sunnystormy4973

10 ай бұрын

-amazing !-

@sanzoftatooine

10 ай бұрын

Yes! Jazzman please!

@user-xz9nv1hf7f

10 ай бұрын

"Jazzman" is one of my favorites....and the saxophone is fantastic!!!

@mikerichards67

10 ай бұрын

For two different sides of Ms. King give Jazzman a listen to,title says it all and then for her true storytelling listen to Smackwater Jack,a must for true Carole King fans.

She wrote many top ten hits back in the 60's that other people sang. Carol wrote over 400 songs recorded by over a thousand people.

PRICELESS TREASURE!!! Just could listen to her for HOURS!!! It's like having a friend come sit in your living room and SING TO YOU!! She hit ALL our SOULS!! So Lovely!!! GREAT PICK, AMBER!!! GLAD ya'll like HER MUSIC!!! Just SO GREAT!!! ❤❤❤❤❤

This song was a big hit for the girl group the Shirelles about a decade before Carole King made this recording. The Shirelles' version is very upbeat so you can dance to it. (I'd recommend you listen to it for the sake of comparison.) When King recorded it on her own, she slowed down the tempo and made it more like a ballad.

Amber you’re on fire today! 3 absolutely fabulous female performances. Thanks

Christina Aguilera - Ain't No Other Man - Candy Man (Both Great Horns !!) Also - Lady Marmalad Annie Lenox (Eurythmics) - Would I Lie to You - I Need a Man - Thorn in My Side Gwen Stefanie - It's My Life - What You Waiting For - Don't Speak Shikira - When ever Where ever - Objection Tango Head Pins - Don't it Make You Feel (like Dancing) - Turn it Loud - Just One More Time Toronto - Your Daddy Don't Know - Start Telling the Truth

The Shirelles more upbeat version, which was the first recorded release of Carole and Gerry Goffin's song, was the first all-girl African American group to get a No. 1 hit on the Billboard charts. Carole's version is so tender and yearning. Another fantastic cover is by Roberta Flack, which will also break your heart.

Carole King is so special. Her song "Beautiful" makes me think of your tag line about making people smile. Give it a listen.

She’s just SO GOOD. You can see the emotion just flow through her when she plays. No matter the song, I always feel moved. ❤

Paul & Paula - Hey Paula (1963) 4K The Dave Clark Five - Because (1964) 4K The Archies - Sugar, Sugar (1969) 4K Brian Hyland - Sealed With A Kiss (1962) 4K The Cyrkle - Red Rubber Ball (1966) 4K Ricky Nelson - Travelin' Man (1961) 4K Small Faces - Itchycoo Park (1967) 4K Dusty Springfield - I Only Wanna Be With You (1963) 4K We Five - You Were on My Mind (1965) 4K Petula Clark - Downtown (1964) 4K The Lemon Pipers - Green Tambourine (1967) 4K. (You'll see the guy that sang "Black Betty" years later in this band, Bill Barnett wearing the glasses) Millie Small - My Boy Lollipop (1964) 4K The Honeycombs - Have I The Right? (1964) 4K The Yardbirds - Heart Full Of Soul (1968) 4K (features a very young Jimmy Page on guitar) Dixie Cups - Chapel Of Love (1964) 4K The Marvelettes - Please Mr. Postman (1961) 4K The Dave Clark Five - Because (1964) 4K Bobby Vee - Take Good Care Of My Baby (1961) 4K

I love “So Far Away”! It’s a kind of sad song but thoughtful….just beautiful!

The musical Beautiful is based on her life and career. It's definitely worth seeing for a retrospective of the breadth of her talent

I believe you are missing out when you close your eyes because you are missing out on witnessing a God-given talent and getting personal enrichment from it. Not enough can be said about this 1971 BBC concert, it will change your life. :)

I know you guys are big Bee Gees fans so you should check out their version of this great song Carole wrote...so many great song and artist who performs them that she wrote..

The Bee Gees did a beautiful cover of this on a tribute album for Carol King. There is a live version of the recording session. It’s wonderful. I think you would love it.

I wanted to be her when I was 8. As an old woman now I realize the vulnerability in her songs. Just an amazing songwriter. And I could sing to her songs and actually sound pretty good. Haha

I can't get enough of hearing her songs from Tapestry! Carole King didn't intend to sing in public. James Taylor encouraged her to sing her songs.

Some of my favorite Folk/Pop/Soft Rock singers. Carole King, Carly Simon, Helen Reddy, Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins ... I can't forget Anne Murray.

This song was written by Carole King but made famous in a 1960 recording by the Shirelles.

Carole wrote this with her husband Gerry Goffin, but the original 1960 recording was by The Shirelles. You should check out their version. And they had lots of other great songs.

The Tapestry album! I listened to it over and over again in my bedroom on my little portable record player. So much so that Mom finally called up to me, "Honey, could you play something else?"

I was born in ‘73, a year or two after “Tapestry” was released. My mom loved Carol King, so I literally grew up with her music. These songs always bring me back to my early childhood with my Mom. I can see it and feel it as if I were still a 3 or 4 yr old little girl. I can feel my Mom’s presence when I hear them. I used several of Carol King’s songs on my Mom’s memorial service playlist, along with Cat Stevens, Jim Croce, James Taylor, etc. She passed away in October 2014 of lung cancer. Her name was Sandy. I’m so glad to have such wonderful music to help me feel close to her even now. I love you Mom, and I miss you terribly.

As a female songwriter from the 70s, Carole is the King! No one comes close.

You should watch Aretha Franklin sing Carole’s song Natural Woman. It was live at the Kennedy Center honoring Carole King. Watching her reaction in the audience adds to the performance.

Love Carole King! Her beautifully resonant voice, piano playing and amazing lyrics - beautiful! Now you need to listen to this same song performed by the Bee Gees - one of the few covers they actually did of someone else's music! You'll just love it! They give it a different flavour as only the Bee Gees can but it's absolutely amazing. I listen to their version all the time - like Jay, I'm a huge Bee Gees fan - but my favourite is Mo! 😋😁❤️

The piano interplaying with the words, rhyme, and phrasing. "I'd like to know... that your love .... is love I can ... be sure of." How she ends piano phases quickly for emphasis for what's coming next.

I love her album “Tapestry “ is amazing! I absolutely love it❤️

@nancy9891

10 ай бұрын

Such a great album. To think she has written some giants. “Natural Woman” sung by the late, great Aretha Franklin. This one by the Shirelles in the 60s. She has a soulful sound that never fails ❤ Thanks Amber for three great choices today!

Beautiful, a legend! The Bee Gees covered this one also. ❤

A live TV performance of her doing 'Jazzman' is really uplifting and joyous. As you said, with Carole King you don't get some glossed over fluff, you get the real thing. Love her. Great upload.

The Bee Gees recorded a version of this for Tapestry Revisited: A Tribute to Carole King, she said it was her favorite cover off the album. And there is a great video of them in the studio recording it.

Carole King wrote this song for the Shirelles back in the early 60s and they had a huge hit with it,you should check it out!

Carole (with her ex-husband/songwriting partner Gerry Goffin) started her career writing so many great songs for other artists. She was part of a "hit factory" team of songwriters based in a New York location called The Brill Building. One of her immortal songs is "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", which Aretha Franklin hit a home run with. When Carole became a performer herself, she tried to concentrate on new material, but she couldn't help occasionally going back to the classics she'd written for other artists, like "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow". Did you know that The Beatles' first album Please Please Me has a Carole King song on it? Yep, the tune "Chains" is a Goffin/King composition.

I remember years ago seeing her on some late-night talk show program, perhaps Letterman. This song came up in conversation. She joked that this was the "original will you still respect me in the morning song."

Her song Way Over Yonder is truly amazing ✨

Carole King is a goddess of the music world. A true legend!

She and James Taylor do a goosebump inducing live duet. WATCH IT!!!!!

I stupidly didn't like her much in my youth when maybe I could have seen her in concert. Now...absolutely ADORE her.

She wrote this 11 years before she recorded it. It was most famously recorded by The Shirelles in 1960. Another version to check out.

It's amazing how many of her songs fill the soundtrack of my generation. Truly one of the most gifted song writers ever!

It's like Carole King is in a room with you and she's singing to you.

I love the original by The Shirelles but man Carole King's version feels so powerful and personal. Such a great song

@lisah8438

10 ай бұрын

Well Carole King wrote it. That is why it was personal.

Carole King is a massive talent. However, it's often forgotten that many of her most memorable hits were co-written with her former husband, Gerry Goffin. Goffin wrote the lyrics for this song. King wrote the music. The song was written for and recorded by The Shirelles.

Amber nails it again. I hate to admit as a jazz and rock guy, my 1971 “Tapestry” album has been played as much as anything else.

The Shirelles performing "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow", released originally in 1961. It reached #1 in the US Billboard Hot 100, #1 in the US Cash Box Top 100, #2 in the US Billboard R&B chart, #3 in the UK Singles Chart, and #4 in New Zealand. "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" is a song about the singer wondering what will happen the day after an encounter with her man. It was initially disliked by Shirelles lead singer Shirley Alston, who thought it was too "Country and Western" for the group. However, producer Luther Dixon convinced her they could do it in their style, and asked songwriters Gerry Goffin and Carole King if they could add strings and turn it into an uptempo song, which they did. The song's lyrics met with some resistance from radio stations, but it still went on to become a huge hit, selling over a million copies. Goffin and King were a husband and wife songwriting team who worked for Don Kirshner's Aldon music. Kirshner assigned them to write a follow-up song to "Tonight's The Night" for The Shirelles. King came up with the music, and Goffin quickly came up with the lyrics. Kirshner loved the song, and decided to use it to get in the door at Columbia Records. However, Columbia's label head Mitch Miller declined the offer. The song was eventually offered to The Shirelles, where it was intended all along. The Shirelles were a four-girl group from Passaic, New Jersey. "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" was produced by Luther Dixon.

There is a Tribute album done for Carole and the BeeGees did this song for the Album. They did an amazing job and there is a video.

Carol King co-wrote this song but she didn't record it herself until 1971. A female group called the Shirelles made the first recording released in 1960 and it was very successful as it reached number.

Thank you Amber & Jay. Your reaction to this beautiful artist captured the true essence of Carole King. Her lyrics are very intimate and personal which is why she was such a great songwriter and performer. Thanks again for your heartfelt reaction.

Love hearing Carol King. Her voice is like hug for your soul. I'd love to hear some Bonnie Raitt on FF.

She wrote this song for the Shirelles who had a number 1 hit with it in 1961. You should check them out.

I've never heard this version. Only the Shirelles who first released it in 1960, 11 years before Carole. But Carole wrote it.

This speaks of the heartbreak of so many trusting hearts. Tapestry of life! ❤

Guys!! there is a great story about Carlole King you won´t believe but it is totally true. During her Junior High she dated a guy that wrote a song because of her. The name of the song is "Oh Carol" and that guy was Neil Sedaka. Check it out some day please. And by the way, thank you for the great job you do listening and taking about the great 60´s-80´s era. I my self was born in the 50´s but I grew up listening to all the songs you put in your program and this bring up great memories. Saludos from Hermosillo, México.

Such a great song and performance. Music by Carole and lyrics by Gerry Goffen. This song was also recorded by The Shirelles and also Roberta Flack. Carole is such a brilliant musician.

A bunch of stars did a tribute album to Carol King. The Bee Fees did this song. Carol King said it was the best version she's heard.

She was honored at the Kennedy Centers Honors several years back, and Miss Aretha Franklin sang Carole King's "Natural Woman." It is a MUST see! Fantastic singer-songwriter honored by the woman who made Carole's song HER VERY OWN. No one can do it like Aretha Franklin, and I think even Carole King would acknowledge that.

@susiesunshine4982

10 ай бұрын

And Carole's reaction is so heartwarming. Aretha was spectacular.

The Tapestry album is a masterpiece, with no fillers.

Carole King is a legend. Period. Full Stop.

I saw them to her biography on Broadway. The woman that played her was absolutely phenomenal, and it was amazing to see all she she had done as a songwriter for all the top performers of the time and how she evolves into a performer herself. If ever on Broadway again everyone needs to check it out. It’s breathtaking.

Amber, you delivered one of the most inciteful definitions of '70s Singer-Songwriter music.

a great hit from the early 70's is Johnny Nash - "I Can See Clearly Now "

Carole King must be considered one of the greatest composers in pop/rock history together with legends like Lennon, McCartney, Stevie Wonder, Dylan etc.

She wrote this one with Gerry Goffin before they got divorced. It was their first song recorded by the Shirelles and went to #1. They wrote so many songs in the 60s: Take Good Care Of My Baby, The Loco-motion, Up On The Roof, One Fine Day, I'm Into Something Good, A Natural Woman and Hi-de-Ho. They wrote six Monkees songs including Take A Giant Step, Sometime In The Morning, Pleasant Valley Sunday and Sweet Young Thing (with Michael Nesmith). They even wrote Don't Bring Me Down that The Animals recorded. For another song with just Carole and her piano listen to the title track from Tapestry. Others you should check out are Smackwater Jack, Sweet Seasons, Been To Canaan and Jazzman. So much more to go.

Really should try the shirelles version. So good

I’m 75 and I’m amazed that you recognize her talent. Will you love me tomorrow came out when I was 15! She wasn’t much older when she wrote it!

What Amber said. This performance is so moving. Carole is a master artist totally in control of her craft.

I love artists who can sing and simultaneousdly play their own accompaniment on piano or guitar.

carole king and celine dion you are the reason such a duet

HEY guys Carol King did co-wrote this song it was a big hit for the cherelles a number one song on Billboard pop singles chart in early 1961 Amber I have an artist that you and Jay have never reacted to her name is Melissa Manchester her two biggest hits were Midnight Blue from 1976 and You should hear how she talks about you and Yvonne Elliman she did a remake of a song called Hello Stranger and a number one song If I can't have you (written by Barry Gibb yes that Barry Gibb) from 1978 keep up the great work guys.

Her album Tapestry is a National treasure.

Carole King began her career as a songwriter with her partner Gerry Goffin who wrote the words. She became a singer songwriter later. Although it is on her album Tapestry, it is an older song from that earlier period, originally a hit for the Shirelles in 1960. Astonishing to think of a man writing those intimate lyrics from a woman's perspective.

Carol Kings “Jazzman” should be your next reaction. Killer saxophone!! 👍

I’ve never heard her do this song. Oh my God! I have chills!!!

Ms King is a wonderful singer/song writer with so much talent. You should get her performing with other greats on the DIVAS special . Also maybe look at Delta Goodrem singing ENOUGH . This Australian lady has been through much with cancer when she was just starting out then had surgery few years ago and ended up with nerve damage and had to learn to talk again after. She is a somg writer and has a magnificent voice. This song to me speaks about how people can look at her and think you have had an easy life with being so beautiful and talented yet you don't know what people are really going through.

When you hear an artist perform a song all alone, no musicians or backup singers, and make it sound unreal...THAT is a superstar!

Carole King. Brilliant songwriter, singer. I grew up in 60s 70s listening to her music. Yes, i had that Tapestry Album inwore out on my record player.

Many Carole King songs strike an emotional chord and take me back to memories of young love and heartache. I swear every girl I dated in the early 70's had the Tapestry album and were in love with Carole King. I was more into Led Zeppelin, the Stones and other rock bands and thought King was too slow and feely feely for my liking. Thankfully I came to appreciate her so much more as I got older and now her songs send me into a dream of nostalgic memories.

Some have NO idea of her huge catalog...she's written huge hit songs for some of the biggest entertainers!!! She's one unsung musician!! She been in the business since the late 50's early 60's. Such a great lady!

Live is good but the studio version with sweet baby James singing back up and playing some fantastic guitar is amazeballs.

I LOVE the Bee Gee’s remake of this amazing song! It’s a must listen! It’s later Bee Gee’s, I think mid 90’s, but they sound just as amazing as their songs decades before!

Love carol king! Can never hhave enough! I’m wondering why you haven’t done any Sarah McLaughlin? So much piano and voice!! Love you guys!

Another fine example of the art of Carole King.

This song is from the album Tapestry, which is a classic ♥. You've Got a Friend and It's too Late are my favourite tracks, but every track is fab ♥. I bought the album three times because my first two copies were stolen by other Carole King fans 😂. Tapestry remains the only album I had to buy more than once. Carole's a fabulous songwriter. I'm pretty sure she wrote Last Train to Clarksville recorded by The Monkees and the song It Might as Well Rain until September, another classic, which she also sung.

Every girl in our college dorm that year owned (and sang along to) this greatest album of our times back then!

The Bee Gees did a salute to her singing this song, it's awesome.

She’s written so many songs for so many people and had so many hits from all of them!!

Carole King and James Taylor did a wonderful concert together at the Troubadour a few years ago for Public Television you should check out.❤

You 2 need to see “Beautiful”, the play about how she started. Also, at the same BBC concert she sings “So Far Away” with James Taylor on guitar.

This song was a hit for Motown in the 60's. If either one of you remember the Gilmore Girls on TV in the early 2000's, Carole King sang the theme song!