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Carole King (born February 9, 1942) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. Her most active years as a singer were during the first half of the 1970s, but her success as a songwriter spans a considerably longer period of over four decades since the early 1960s.

King has won four Grammy Awards and has been inducted into both the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for her songwriting, along with long-time partner Gerry Goffin.

Born Carol Klein in 1942 in Brooklyn, New York to a Jewish household, King started out playing the piano, then moved on to singing, forming a vocal quartet called the Co-Sines at James Madison High School.

She attended Queens College, where she was a classmate of Neil Sedaka and inspired Sedaka’s first big hit,

Oh! Carol, to which she later wrote and recorded a tongue-in-cheek response, Oh! Neil. Along with Sedaka and Goffin, King also befriended Paul Simon at the same college.

The Goffin-King partnership
Goffin and King soon formed a songwriting partnership, eventually married, and had two daughters, Louise Goffin and Sherry Goffin Kondor, both of whom have also become singers. Working for Aldon Music in the Brill Building, where chart-topping hits were churned out during the 1960s, the Goffin-King partnership first hit it big with

Will You Love Me Tomorrow. Recorded by The Shirelles, the song topped the charts in 1961. It was later covered by Dusty Springfield, Little Eva, Roberta Flack, Laura Branigan, The Four Seasons, and King herself.

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Top Tracks

1	It's Too Late full track	1,202
2	So Far Away full track	742
3	I Feel the Earth Move full track	689
4	You've Got a Friend full track	614
5	Where You Lead full track	516
6	Home Again full track	452
7	Beautiful full track	421
8	Will You Love Me Tomorrow? full track	364
9	Way Over Yonder full track	308
10	Smackwater Jack full track	303
11	Tapestry full track	278
12	(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman full track	199
13	Jazzman full track	110
14	It Might as Well Rain Until September	85
15	Sweet Seasons full track	78

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crownanchor wrote:
Sunday morning

Beautiful lady...........superb talent!:)

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strangelyn wrote:
last month

i love her<3 she is the most respect SSW.

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googoobox20 wrote:
last month

"so far away" is one of the most painful songz eva.

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last month

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edsimmons wrote:
May 2009

so much soul

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script-ending wrote:
May 2009

i love her <3

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mutexplosion wrote:
May 2009

I love Carole King but admittedly have only listened to Tapestry. Not sure what to check out next...any thoughts?

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May 2009

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the_yin wrote:
April 2009

just danced to I feel the earth move and it felt great.

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gerard1016 wrote:
April 2009

just got the tapestry cd ,outstanding

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Confessions87 wrote:
April 2009

Wow, great performances on Jools Holland tonight.

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christhepostman wrote:
April 2009

just rediscovered carole king

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chocolatemamba wrote:
March 2009

what CU2005 said...

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CU2005 wrote:
March 2009

Tapestry is like the greatest hits collection most artists work their entire career to develop.

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limecure87 wrote:
March 2009

GOOD GOD, how I wish I could go back to 1971 and do her.

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scientist4u wrote:
February 2009

for my new friend xx

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scientist4u wrote:
February 2009

woderful lady who writes amazing songs

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dududavila wrote:
February 2009

It's too late =~

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thesexninja wrote:
February 2009

I love hard rock, but this girl just takes me away with her voice, about the only thing my wife and i will listen to together. Pop artists can't sing like this lady these days

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crispa1970 wrote:
February 2009

Carole King is all kinds of awesomeness. Love her, love her, love her.

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