Posted on 04/10/2022 6:27:07 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Words and music by Carole King and Toni Stern on 'Tapestry'
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I didn't eat my whole hamburger, and mom said, "if you want dessert, you have to eat the rest of meat(hamburger)"
From the soundtrack of one of my favorite movies, Fandango. One of many greats on that soundtrack.
“How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat?”?
An uneaten hamburger. Good description of this song.
Well she’s only 80.
Leftys with platinum healthcare live forever....
Great, great, song from a groundbreaking album. To me, it evokes that time when the country was transitioning from the 1960’s to the 70’s. At the time, I myself was going from my childhood to my early teens.
The only song of hers I liked, but I don’t want to hear it any more. I hate her screeching on So Far Away.
Toni Stern told author Sheila Weller that she wrote the lyrics in a single day, after her love affair with James Taylor ended.[6][7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Too_Late_(Carole_King_song)
It's Too Late--Chuck Willis & His Band (1956)
“Doesn’t anyone stay in one place anymore?”
Carole King - So Far Away (BBC In Concert, February 10, 1971)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBMGovfHccI&t=64s
Going Wild--Carole King (1958)
“To me, it evokes that time when the country was transitioning from the 1960’s to the 70’s.”
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Music scene trending away from wild psychedelia to the softer singer-songwriter era.
I remember the Grammys from 1972. King won three Grammys that year: one for this song, one for the album Tapestry, and one for “You’ve Got A Friend.” She was unable to attend the awards ceremony because she was about to give birth, but when the third award was announced, the presenter said, “It’s triplets!”
Beautiful lyrics for anyone that’s every had a love affair go south.
My sister was Roomies with Carole’s Granddaughter when they were in college. My sister got to spend a holiday weekend with the Granddaughter and her family...with ‘Grandma Carole’ playing and singing for everyone one evening.
A great memory for my sister, for sure.
Classic! I still use this song with my students to illustrate the sound of the Fender Stratocaster-unmistakable!
She is known as the Carole King of the 1970s who was an artist in her own right and well deserved.
But I think of her more generally as a composer. Here are just some of the songs she wrote early on before her solo career. Carole wrote the music and Goffin wrote the lyrics. Not bad.
“Chains” (later recorded by the Beatles)
“The Loco-Motion”
“Will You Love Me Tomorrow” Shirelles
“Keep Your Hands off My Baby”
“Take Good Care of My Baby” Bobby Vee
“Up on the Roof” Drifters
“I’m into Something Good” Earl-Jean / Herman’s Hermits)
“One Fine Day” the Chiffons
“Don’t bring me down” the Animals
“Pleasant Valley Sunday” the Monkees
Carole King.
Never understood the attraction. Silly, stupid, shallow, self-centered person, silly, stupid, shallow, self-centered songs.
Roger Waters is a dope, but who can deny the music? Neil young: total goofball, but what a talent!
With Carole you get everything bad in one ugly-ass package.
For goodness’ sake if it wasn’t Carly Simon’s parents’ money backing James Taylor, his covers would never have made her almost famous.
She’s no friend of mine, anyway.
Pink Floyd 1979, and god I don't know how they stole that quote.
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