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She got a job, she wasn’t home when we came back from school, she didn’t drag us to mass on Sundays any more, she stopped wearing a bra, and she stopped loving our father. She’s clever in the good way – queen of internal rhyme – and I love how her melodies reinforce the tone of the lyrics. Arguably Carole King’s most popular song (and the competition is fierce). When you write a song it’s almost mystical. Carole King performing in London in 1970. She played piano on my Sweet Baby James album while working on the songs for her own Tapestry. It is a shock to admit that I could have been cognisant of an event that occurred 50 years ago, but my summer of 1971 memories are quite vivid. I didn’t have to live in the city to understand how much it meant to have a place to call your own, to feel how hard life is after working all day and looking up at the stars and finding a smile in your heart. Carole King on songwriting in the age of Trump: 'I am the honest opposition', Beyond Tapestry: five more Carole King albums to investigate, Carole King's Tapestry feels like a comfort blanket, until you hear the anxiety within it, Carole King performing in 1972, the year after Tapestry was released. Carole King - Tapestry 180g 45RPM 2LP Box Set $125.00. The earth was moving under my feet and the sky was tumbling down. The landscape is internal, not external. Somewhere in there are the seeds that blow all the way to New Jersey, and plant themselves into young Bruce Springsteen who, like me and Chuck E and Junior Lee, invited Wendy, Kitty, and all the others Up on the Roof. Vanilla Fudge - Vanilla Fudge 180g 45RPM Mono 2LP $49.99. In 1990 the duo was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and in 2002 Carole was honored with the prestigious Johnny Mercer Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame. I’ve said it before, but Carole and I found we spoke the same language. I reconnected with King’s music when I was in high school. My father told me about the album when I was about 18, and it shook me to the core. With Carole King, matters of personality and the adoration of the star are set aside. James Taylor brought her to the attention of the wider world when he asked her to open for him in 1971. James Taylor, Roberta Flack, Tori Amos, Joan Armatrading, Rufus Wainwright and more on the 70s masterpiece, Last modified on Fri 12 Feb 2021 09.44 GMT. My friend and fellow Aquarian Carole King has shaped our musical landscape with the songs that she wrote that touch each of us in such deeply personal ways. Janis Joplin - Pearl 180g 45RPM 2LP Box Set $125.00. She had no time for the stuff the rest of us in Laurel Canyon were up to. They idolised Gloria Steinem, read Susan Sontag and dressed like Jane Fonda. In a first for a female writer/artist, Tapestry spawned four GRAMMY Awards® — Record, Song and Album Of The Year as well as Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female honors for Carole. The sum of the song was greater than the words themselves: “Hustling crowd”, “tired and beat”, “right smack dab” – phrases that could become dated, but never did because the sentiment was so kind. Our special 50th Anniversary Bundle, which includes limited edition items exclusive to the Official Carole King Online Store. And after we had laughed and cried during the playing of the album, we were both very sure that in Carole King we had both found a new friend for life. Sold Out. Vanilla Fudge - Vanilla Fudge Mono SACD $29.99. Donny [Hathaway] and I loved the songs on Tapestry and worked out our arrangement of You’ve Got a Friend in a way that expressed how we felt about what it means to help each other through the best and the worst of times. Our mum also loved James Taylor and Joni Mitchell, who played and sang on it, so it was on in the car a lot. Why that supposed movement didn’t begin with Bob Dylan or even Woody Guthrie or Robert Johnson beats me – maybe they were still “folk”. The Home of Live Music. I would have just turned 18 when Tapestry came out, when I was really being influenced by singers and songwriters. To me, she was a port in the storm, a good and serious person with an astonishing gift, and, of course, a friend. Tapestry is a bundle of emotions, and she doesn’t sound like anybody else. Tapestry was the most important record of its time. You can imagine her making you a sandwich after the crazy hippies stole your stuff. Audiences were amazed by her deep musical catalog, and captivated by her life story. Up on the Roof, recorded by the Drifters, never grew old on my record player. It feels as if the words just come out and it can be months or even years later you realise: “That’s what was happening.” I’d love to know who those songs are about. Carole King’s “Tapestry” continues to weave its own spell 50 years after the landmark album was released on Feb. 10, 1971. It may sound trivial, but that was the most “me” I’d ever seen on a record cover, and maybe opened up the possibility that a person could be humble and modest and human rather than superhuman, and be a triumphant musician. The dozens of chart hits Goffin & King wrote during this period have become part of music legend, including “Take Good Care Of My Baby” (Bobby Vee, 1961), “The Loco-Motion” (Little Eva, 1962), “Up On The Roof” (The Drifters, 1962), “Chains” (The Cookies, 1962; The Beatles, 1963), “One Fine Day” (The Chiffons, 1963), “Hey Girl” (Freddie Scott, 1963), “I’m Into Something Good” (Herman’s Hermits, 1964), “Just Once In My Life” (with Phil Spector for The Righteous Brothers, 1965), and “Don’t Bring Me Down” (The Animals, 1966). In addition to her continuously evolving musical career, Carole, who has lived on an Idaho ranch since the early ’80s, is actively involved with environmental organizations in support of wilderness preservation. I’ll be honest that the song of hers I’ve heard the most is Where You Lead as the Gilmore Girls theme – the version she sings with her daughter. I got into the album as a teenager in California where I was longing for a bygone era that only existed in record covers: the Doors at the Whiskey-a-Go-Go or whatever. Canberra Theatre Centre is Canberra’s premier performing arts venue to the people of Canberra and surrounding regions. She’s not pulling any punches: it’s a great lesson in how to be yourself and be successful. Our mum was from Philly on the east coast, so it was always in my mind that Carole was also a Jewish east-coast girl. Carole received the Kennedy Center Honors in 2015. It was the safest place a kid standing in the shadow of city life could find, on top of the world listening to the stars. Our collaboration, our extended musical conversation over the next three or four years was really something wonderful. 1 by This is my home. She was able to remain a good parent and – especially now I’m a father – she has always been a role model for me. She has a crystal-clear voice, and a way of expressing perfect longing and melancholy like no one else. Cole was the daughter of American singer and jazz pianist Nat The tribute performance included James Taylor, and a show-stopping performance of “(You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman” by the incomparable Aretha Franklin that brought President Barack Obama to tears. It’s sort of a musical Rosetta stone, and a huge testament to what an incredible interpreter of the human experience she was, and continues to be. I love Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow. That woman on the cover of Tapestry evoked a calm and peaceful soul. I’ll never forget watching her tribute at the Kennedy Center in 2015 on TV, when Aretha Franklin sang Natural Woman and she stood up from her seat of honour and sang along, arms in the air. It was a record my mom used to listen to a lot on the weekends when she could clean the house. She looked like an educated woman who took care of her life. A skilled craftswoman, Ms King wrought something durable with Tapestry that has not outworn its usefulness. Certainly she would have her adventures, dramatic emotional switchbacks, in years to come. Many have tried to imitate Carole’s sound, and great artists like Aretha Franklin have interpreted her work because her songs are timeless, limitless and, in a way, defy genre. It overcame whatever current trend would render it passé and continues to sell year after year. The song was co-written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin, with input from Atlantic producer Jerry Wexler.Written for Franklin, the record was a big hit reaching number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100, and became one of her signature songs. Carole's 1971 solo album, Tapestry, took her to the pinnacle. Blood, Sweat & Tears - Blood, Sweat & Tears 180g 45RPM 2LP Box Set $125.00. The show became the hit of the season and won a GRAMMY® for Best Musical Theater Album and two Tony awards. One of the best albums, ever, by one of the best songwriters, ever. I had to get past the fact that I wasn’t going to sound like Linda Ronstadt or Joni Mitchell or Carole King, but from Carole I learned that you can accept your own voice and work within your limitations, which was liberating. I also have to mention the cat on the cover. Tapestry was one of the first records my mother and I bonded over. Even though she made Tapestry in LA, she’s very New York. It has themes of self-discovery. She’s the nice motherly side of it. And he's been one of Merry Clayton's closest friends since 1969. Carole and Gerry delivered a Valentine that day, one the whole world opened year after year. To date, more than 400 of her compositions have been recorded by more than 1,000 artists, resulting in 100 hit singles. You can hear clearly the subtle twists and turns of the chord progressions, the nuanced choices in harmony. I used to just sit and stare at it. She keeps it simple, but that’s what makes it universal. It was for me a time of deep introspection and this song expressed a vulnerability that each of us experiences in the course of finding and embracing love. She was meditating a lot. But, if it means anything, Carole King deserves to be thought of as its epitome. Consequently, the types of records that Tapestry made it possible to make and sell in large numbers – records that are vulnerable, confessional, sung and played by the person who wrote the songs and “classic” in sound and sentiment – often feel emotionally supercharged, where Tapestry feels plain-spoken and easy. He produced Carole King's "Tapestry." In 1987 Carole was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and, a year later, Goffin and King were awarded the National Academy of Songwriters’ Lifetime Achievement Award. It was so meaningful to sing in unison with my mom to a guttural, honest account performed by a stranger to whom I felt so inexplicably connected: a friend, a sister, a mother, and somebody’s daughter, a low voice and an attitude. Carole King performing in London in 1970. Tapestry is part of the American songbook. Her new friends were young single women. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1995 Cassette release of "Tapestry Revisited: A Tribute To Carole King" on Discogs. Carole wrote “Will You Love Me Tomorrow” for the Shirelles with then-husband Gerry Goffin. Instead, she sings it slowly and plaintively, with no flattering reverb, making the answer to the title, heartbreakingly, “Probably not”. I won’t qualify it by saying female, songwriter or any of that. My parents’ marriage was in pieces – my mother had thrown it against the kitchen wall in an effort to shatter the mould of her postwar, Catholic-American girl-self. She wrote from a genre she had been part of creating, the rock’n’roll of soul. The show can be watched on YouTube or the company website anytime after the show’s 7 p.m. Saturday debut. James Taylor and Joni Mitchell in 1970 recording backing vocals on Tapestry. And without exception, they all listened to the ladies of the canyon, that trinity of confessional singer-songwriters: Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon and Carole King. They can’t, because I don’t think the people who might attempt to do so have ever totally reckoned with the kind of magic she was working on that album. They don’t make records like Carole King’s Tapestry any more. Tapestry is the ultimate in terms of doing what you want artistically and just surviving as a human being in the record business. "You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" is a 1967 single released by American soul singer Aretha Franklin on the Atlantic label. Carole King’s “Tapestry” Earns 13x Platinum Certification In United States. The Troubadour shows also inspired the Morgan Neville-directed feature-length documentary Troubadours: Carole King/James Taylor & The Rise Of The Singer-Songwriter, and premiered on PBS’ American Masters in 2011 shortly after being released on DVD. The singer-songwriter genre was named around 1970, give or take, and was said to apply to me and, among others Joni Mitchell, Cat Stevens and Jackson Browne. It became one of the blueprints that I measured smart pop music by. I’m not wearing a bunch of makeup. In 1967 Goffin and King’s “Natural Woman” was immortalized by Aretha Franklin. In 1960 Carole made her solo debut with a song called “Baby Sittin’” and, two years later, her demo of “It Might As Well Rain Until September” made the Top 25 in the United States, climbing all the way to No. Once she left the songwriting world and started writing for herself, it got less straightforward and more personal. I can relate to her musical sensibility – being classically trained like I was, but writing pop songs and singing these very deep things. Sold Out. Folk rock had long dominated the FM airwaves when music began to make a move back to the fundamentals of songwriting: the three-minute song, the chorus sung thrice, the bridge – an endangered passage from one end of the song to the other. Her 12 songs have been ringing clear and true for 50 years. It was almost as if Mother Earth herself was singing to us. King, producer Lou Adler and Taylor in Los Angeles during sessions for Tapestry in 1970. We all understand when she mourns constancy and asks: “Doesn’t anybody stay in one place any more?” We know how people shift, how they change, how they go away, and oftentimes leave us longing. The original Shirelles version of Will You Love Me Tomorrow, arguably the best song of the 60s, is so clearly a masterpiece that King’s own version could never compete with it. When I was coming up with a concept for the album cover of our latest record, Always Tomorrow, I used the cover of Tapestry as a big reference point. Carole King made this incredible transformation from Brill Building songwriter to performer, but she didn’t go crazy or self-destruct. I narrowed it down to the two Carole King songs and was given the choice of show choir or madrigals. I was happy to hear songs again coming from Cat Stevens, James Taylor and Carole King. Carole King established her solo career in 1971, but in the lead up to this she had already written hits for many artists. 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. It’s this musician saying: “Here I am. The song stuck with me – I included it in my repertoire at [pub] Mr Henry’s on Capitol Hill and later recorded it for my album Quiet Fire. Even in its saddest moments, Carole’s voice can lift my spirits and move mountains. She had her family and her songs. Is it wrong to pine for songs of such quality? It is so simple, yet it says so much. More productions are planned around the world. I think female artists are great at just letting it all show. Two years later, Goffin and King received the Trustees Award from The Recording Academy®. Tapestry was inducted into the GRAMMY Hall Of Fame® in 1998. One of Australia's finest leading ladies, ESTHER HANNAFORD, joined by an all-star band to celebrate 50 years of Carole King’s landmark album, Tapestry. Everything she sings is deeply felt. In 2012 Carole received the BMI Icon Award and an Honorary Doctorate from Berklee College of Music. I knew I wanted it to be shot on film, and I wanted it to showcase a window in my home at the time. She’d written a lot of hits for other people, but the message of Tapestry is that once you drop the artifice and be yourself, that’s when the voice rings true. Those vocal harmonies at the end of It’s Too Late and the bridge on Beautiful! I wrote these songs, and I’m not perfect.” It was the opposite of what was being sold at that time. I always leaned toward rock in the classical world. On January 12, 2014, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical opened on Broadway. Carole’s songs made me want to sing her melodies and her harmonies and I felt closer to her while finding my path as a singer even at that young age. The bridge is just insane. And we brought this out in one another, I believe. In a first for a female writer/artist, Tapestry spawned four GRAMMY Awards® — Record, Song and Album Of The Year as well as Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female honors for Carole. In the same month, Carole was honored as MusiCares Person Of The Year and a special gala was held at the Los Angeles Convention Center in which several of today’s most popular artists, including Lady Gaga, Alicia Keys, and Kacey Musgraves, performed many of her classics. Tapestry is a very California-sounding record and has something of that Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young getting-back-to-nature side, but without any of the theatrics. Tapestry is exactly that: a sonic tapestry of some of the greatest songwriting and a masterclass in blending the roots of folk, soul, rock and blues while never feeling forced. When I listened to Tapestry from my mom’s CD collection, I was young enough that it didn’t register as good or bad – it just defined what music sounded like to me, and it’s still a foundation of how I understand songwriting. I’ve heard that song so many times, but a few weeks ago it came on the radio when I was driving, and I was totally stunned. I was just seven, but I could feel the seismic changes of the times: they were shaking the foundations of my home. Sold Out. Ralph was a member of the original lineup of Todd Rundgren's '70s prog-rock band Todd Rundgren's Utopia, and was featured on the group's 1974 self-titled debut and 1975's Another Live. From that point onward, I carried her music and spirit with me. 8–9 May 2021 SECOND SHOW ADDED! It signalled the country and the people’s desire to have a simple and beautiful song to sing. Since writing her first number 1 hit “Will You Love Me Tomorrow” at the tender age of 17, Carole King has arguably become the most celebrated and iconic singer/songwriter of all time. With more than 25 million units sold worldwide, Tapestry remained the best-selling album by a female artist for a quarter century, and Carole went on to amass three other platinum and eight gold albums. Youtube Give to English NOTICE: The University of Iowa Center for Advancement is an operational name for the State University of Iowa Foundation, an independent, Iowa nonprofit corporation organized as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, publicly supported charitable entity working to advance the University of Iowa. It was a brimful cup of intoxicating freedom, and it was the souring aftertaste of all that headiness. I’d been deep into her songs – Up on the Roof, Natural Woman, Crying in the Rain – for a decade before Danny Kortchmar introduced us in Los Angeles in 1970. Carole's many late-career achievements include a 50th anniversary Troubadour reunion run with James Taylor that became the RIAA gold- certified Live At The Troubadour, inspiring the pair’s 60-concert Troubadour Reunion world tour in 2010. She set the stage for other singer-songwriters who came along after her, because there wasn’t a market yet and the industry didn’t know what to do with us. I would dance around the living room “helping” her and singing along to I Feel the Earth Move – even though I really didn’t know the lyrics at all, I knew the melody and I knew I loved it. He started the Monterey Pop Festival that ended up launching the careers of Jimi Hendrix and The Who - on and on and on. It showed the way in which a woman can pursue her own career, have a family and achieve happiness. I first heard the Shirelles’ version of Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow when I was working as a school teacher in Washington DC. She started writing by herself, about herself – that is to say, from her own life. To mark the anniversary, Variety turned to a group that … She was really living all that hippy stuff – vegetarianism, hippy skirts – and I think that’s why it resonated. Fifty years later, Tapestry remains undaunted and timeless as it is reflected in the voices of women who discover the songs as if they were just written last year. She’d worked with great songwriters and artists, and knew all the great recording engineers and session players, and was able to channel everything she’d learned in her own way. 3 on the British chart. The three songs on my list to audition with were: You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away by the Beatles and I Feel the Earth Move and Natural Woman by Carole King. I recommend it. Her hit You’ve Got a Friend was written for Gerry, who had mental illness, to let him know that even though she may not be by his side, she was always on his side. Released on February 10, 1971, Tapestry immediately hit #1 on the Billboard chart and remained there for 15 consecutive weeks. It’s witty and spicy. Sales Data + Streaming Data =GREATEST OF ALL TIME BILLBOARD 200 ALBUMS BY WOMEN Explore Carole’s Career Through The Years, Follow Carole on Twitter »Like Carole on Facebook ». She was probably in some mental-spiritual prime, and then when she realised what fame entailed she was like: “No way.” She cared more about her personal life. Tapestry was around our house when I was growing up, but I connected with it more when I moved to California because it’s the blueprint for anybody who’s starting off in songwriting in LA. She left behind an established, hugely successful career as a Brill Building [era] tunesmith, with her husband and lyricist, Gerry Goffin, and went west, on her own, with two young daughters. Preorder. Songs allowed to shine through as they are, unadorned and utterly remarkable. And it honestly looks the way the album feels: cool, relaxed, cosy and somewhat dark. Our final album cover changed over time, but the photo on the back is a bit of a homage to Tapestry. In 1971, a cool teenage babysitter put the new album Tapestry on the stereo, and, at seven years old, my mind was blown. Carole’s focus was her family: [children] Louise and Sherry, and imminently, Levi and Molly. I think you could make a pretty good case that Carole King and Gerry Goffin were the best popular songwriters of the last half of the 20th century. The radical thing about Tapestry is its refusal to be iconic. It came out of her so strong, so fierce and fresh. Commenting has been disabled at this time but you can still, for the stuff the rest of us in Laurel Canyon. But the truth is I had been listening to her most of my life, through the voices of the many women and men who recorded her music. But in those days, she seemed to watch the dancers with a kind, wry detachment. She’d write these amazing, emotive songs and sing them in an almost optimistic or carefree voice. Easy enough to remember, haunting enough to want to remember, that is the mark of a great song – and great songwriter. I was about to audition for choir. An outtake from the Tapestry cover shoot. She was a woman, and she wrote amazing songs – so you’d learn by listening to It’s Too Late or whatever, over and over. King in Lou Adler’s office holding the four Grammys she won for Tapestry in 1971. She’s been the recipient of a number of esteemed awards and honors, and remained active in the public’s eye with musical and literary work. I’ve always been really drawn to that album cover. A songwriter I’d known all my life, without knowing her. It was a big change for Carole to leave New York for LA. In 2015 it opened on London’s West End, garnering 2 Olivier Awards. 1. Carole published her memoir, A Natural Woman, in 2012, which debuted on The New York Times best-seller list at no. 1. But why this down-to-earth, subtle take on Natural Woman, on that song by James Taylor? Listening to that album with my mom always made me feel really special because I could tell how much she loved it. I also got to see the Broadway show about her, which was wonderful, and really made me realise how special and rare it is to write one song that will carry on a life that is bigger and longer than any human could hope for. To say Tapestry was part of the soundtrack of my childhood would be a woeful understatement. Period. They don’t make records like Carole King’s Tapestry any more. So Far Away is really complex. More Coverage Latest Tweets None of us singer-songwriters were known for our voices, and we had to get past that. Ouch! The past five years have been among the busiest and most successful of Carole's career. The record before it [1970’s Writer] hadn’t performed that well, so she had it in her head that this one had to be great. Carole's 1971 solo album, Tapestry, took her to the pinnacle. I love that book Girls Like Us, a trio of biographies of Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon and Carole King and the story behind Tapestry. Feb 5, 2021, ... SƠN TÙNG M-TP’s “MUỘN RỒI MÀ SAO CÒN” Earns #1 On Global YouTube Music Videos Chart. Photograph: Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns MC Taylor, Hiss Golden Messenger. Tapestry is performed and produced without pretence. In my 30s, watching her musical on Broadway, I was overwhelmed with feelings of gratitude for her story. She’s also the master of sentimentality, nostalgia and homesickness but delivered without any syrup. Among Schuckett's credits are a number of Carole King's early solo albums, including her landmark 1971 chart-topper Tapestry. I had that experience the first time I heard Carole sing You’ve Got a Friend from the stage of the Troubadour: “Oh yeah, that one.” Incredible that this song didn’t always exist. And yet, so immediately accessible, so familiar: you knew these songs already. As someone who makes music that shares at least some kind of DNA with King’s iconic album, I can attest that making a record as compelling as Tapestry requires the mastery of a language that Carole King invented. While she was recording Tapestry, James Taylor recorded King’s “You’ve Got A Friend,” taking the song all the way to No. I first heard of Carole King when I was about 16. Photograph: Michael Putland/Getty Images, 'It shook me to my core': 50 years of Carole King's Tapestry. Not just that we were both musicians but as if we shared a common ear, a parallel musical/emotional path. She is first a working woman. How many hours have I spent sitting on the couch with my mom harmonising to that song? To this day, whenever I listen to it, I vividly can remember those Saturday mornings in the house I grew up in. That is a delicate balance that I strive for in my own life every day. Carole King was an inspiration. And then that awakening: holy shit, Carole King wrote all those songs? So clearly in her own voice. Tapestry is as good a meeting point as you get between popular and some sort of underground feel. It was a handful of songs and simple contradictions that were all truths. She made this amazing milestone in music without having to sacrifice her soul to do it. The cover of Tapestry has the same welcoming atmosphere of the record. I’d heard plenty of those songs on oldies radio growing up. The following year brought her The Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award, and she became the first woman to be awarded The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, presented by President Barack Obama at an all-star White House gala. Tapestry was a little confusing to me when I first heard it as a full album, maybe in my early 20s. It was realising the price of striking out alone was growing weary of the world and craving the same ties that had made us feel so bound-up. This album has been one of my constants during quarantine. Tapestry’s success roots us to our musical history. Palais Theatre, St. Kilda Melborne Australia. Tapestry 50th Anniversary Limited Edition Bundle Our special 50th Anniversary Bundle, which includes limited edition items exclusive to the Official Carole King Online Store.
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