She has won four Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. She has been inducted twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a performer and songwriter.She is the recipient of the 2013 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, the first woman to be so honored.She is also a 2015 Kennedy Center Honoree.
I really hope Britt checks out when she was honored at the Kennedy Center Honors, with a tribute by Aretha Franklin singing her song "Natural Woman". It is highly recommended, and she will be blown away by Aretha's performance and Carole's reaction. Even President Obama had to wipe away a tear.
@@robertsutton206 Those facts all seem to check out. And that's only a short list of the awards she has received throughout her career. Look it up if you are in doubt.
Carol wrote her first number 1 hit song, "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" at the age of 17, recorded by the Shirelles. In 1967 her song "Natural Woman" was immortalized by Aretha Franklin. Aretha sang it at the Kennedy Center Honorees show inducting Carol King in 2015. Aretha was fire that night.
She is a songwriter for many famous singers, and Tapestry is still one of my favorite albums out there. The whole album is a great masterful piece of work from her.
Britt,there are certain albums that have stood the test of time,Carol King Tapestry,AC/ DC Back in Black,Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon,Yes Fragile,Peter Frampton Frampton Comes Alive,Queen A Night at the Opera, The Beatles Abbey Road,Boston's first album,Rush 2112,....I'm sure we can add to the list...However,the Tapestry album is always on the list!
Carole King is all natural Not flashy ,Low Maintenance....and she aged gracefully with no hair dying or lifts...and she got more beautiful as the years went on!!!!!
This song was released in 71. And Carole King has never been a very flashy person. She usually performs(ed) in a tshirt and jeans. That’s kinda her style. She lets her music speak for itself.
Seems weird to see Carole King singing without playing her piano. This song was #1 for a while. The album it is from, Tapestry, is like 16X platinum, won Grammy for best album. You could probably find some duets or perfomances with James Taylor.
She was honored by the Kennedy Center, Britt. You must watch the part when Aretha comes out in her 70’s, with fur coat and hand bag and proceeds to blow down the house singing the hit that Carole wrote for her: Natural Woman!
Carole King is a talented singer and songwriter. She wrote the song Natural Woman which was a big hit for Aretha Franklin. Listen to It's Too Late, So Far Away and Smackwater Jack. If you get a chance watch Ms. Franklin sing Natural Woman at the Kennedy Center Honors when Carole King was honored. You will get chills from her performance.
Tapestry has been certified 14× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in the U.S.,and has sold an estimated 30 million copies worldwide,making it one of the best-selling albums of all time. In 2020, it ranked 25th on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Tapestry won four Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Record of the Year.
Carole was asked by legendary producer Jerry Wexler to write a song especially for Aretha Franklin. That song was "You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman." (her ex-husband Gerry Goffin wrote the lyrics) Decades later, Aretha sang it on The Kennedy Center Honors show that celebrated Carole's career.
Carole was just inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame alongside Tina Turner. This song went to #1 in June 1971. The album, Tapestry, that this song was from, sat on top of the Billboard album charts for 5 weeks. The album Tapestry has sold over 30 million copies worldwide and along with winning the grammy for Album of the Year it also won Grammys for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, Record of the Year ("It's Too Late"), and Song of the Year ("You've Got a Friend"), making King the first solo female artist to win the Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. Carole also wrote or co-wrote ALL of the songs on the album. Prior to becoming a performer and recording artist in her own right she was a paid songwriter in NYC for years along with her ex-husband until she became a performer on her own. She co-wrote Aretha Franklin's "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" and the girl group The Shirelles' song "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" (in 1960). In 2020, Tapestry was ranked #25 on Rolling Stones top 100 albums of all time.
Ah Britt, your charming naivety is overwhelming! Carole King is one of the top songwriters of all time, responsible for many of the greatest songs of the 60s. She can wear whatever she wants!
I love watching her when it's just her and a piano. She's always been very understated in her look; her soul is just from within. She's never really been flashy on the outside. She's written songs for other singers - - probably songs you've heard and didn't know were hers. It's 'feet'.
SMACKWATER JACK, ITS TOO LATE, WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME TOMORROW, and WHERE YOU LEAD are all great songs by Carole King. She is a true force of nature as an award winning songwriter. More, please. Keep going and enjoy
Please check out Carole singing "Up On The Roof", "So Far Awa" and "You've Got A Friend" with James Taylor. Carole, has written over 400 songs that have been recorded by over 1000 artists.
Through my childhood, teenage years, and college days, EVERY girl on the planet had Carole King's Tapestry album on her turntable. And rightfully so. What a treasure! She's pushing hard to be the first female member of the PDC.
So glad I was a teenager is the 70’s! Just wish I still had all my bell bottom pants and halter tops!!!!! Go take care of that baby! Big hugs baby from a grandma!
"Natural Woman" is another King/Goffin hit song. Aretha Franklin knocked that one out of the park. That Kennedy Ctr performance in 15' she did in dedication to Carole was epic !
I had this 45 record back in the 70’s. Of note, this song was actually the “B” side (typically the lesser know song of a record). The “A” side, was Its Too Late, one of her most famous songs. Both songs were on her Tapestry album. Arguably one of the top five albums of all time.
Carole King before going on her solo singing career was quite the songwriter. She wrote the harmony laden pop tune Pleasant Valley Sunday for the Monkees in the late 60s. You can hear Carole's demo of it on UA-cam. :))
She started as a song writer and wrote many hits for others before writing for herself. Her first album "Tapestry" is almost a greatest hits album because every song has eventually released and topped the charts
Her 1971 album titled Tapestry from which this song comes had a number of hits. The entire album was great but So Far Away and It's Too Late also charted highly.
Carol King is legend! She wrote songs for lots of people before she started performing. In fact, many people mistakenly thing songs are by the artist who sung them, not realizing that Carol wrote them. Tapestry is her legendary album. It's really full of smash hits.
I can't believe I just heard "the bee's knees"! Carole King's got a ton of soul and plays incredible piano. She wrote dozens of hits in the '60's and '70's that others got famous with then started her own performing career.
Britt, you need to check out when she was honored at the Kennedy Center Honors, with a tribute by Aretha Franklin singing her song "Natural Woman". It is highly recommended, and you will be blown away by Aretha's performance and Carole's reaction. Even President Obama had to wipe away a tear.
I read something a while ago that this song was playing on a radio station in the 70s in Los Angeles and their was an earthquake going on at the same time 😮 crazy coincidence.
Before she started recording her own songs, she was a songwriter who wrote many hits for other people, mostly in partnership with her husband Gerry Goffin. Among them "You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Women" that Aretha Franklin had a hit with.
first time i saw Carole King not on piano! Look up legend in the dictionary and you see Carole Kings picture! She wrote a huge number of tunes even Motown tunes! Her album Tapestry was one of the best selling albums of all time it went platinum 8 times,it won every Grammy when it came out!
The song always put a huge smile on my face when I was a little kid in grade school. For some reason I think of it back to back with The Carpenters, I'm On Top of the World.
You were correct, it’s “under my feet.” Carole King was our easy going , relaxed and immensely talented icon. I’m 74, and preferred soul and jazz music. I was so surprised that I loved her music, she’s very soulful and I love her jazzy touches. She and Carly Simon were two prolific female songwriters and both were/are great! I love your reactions and like you, I like live performances best.
Carole is a LEGEND!!! Her life story was made into a Broadway Musical. "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical". Check out every song she ever wrote for others and the ones she recorded herself.
Carole King is well known songwriter/pianist/ singer. She was never a flashy dresser. She is a down- to -earth woman thus the earthy tone of her outfit. Right for the song "I Feel The EARTH Move " 😁
Huge mega hit for Carole, who usually performs this seated at the piano and doing vocals. She and Carly Simon were extraordinary performers, although the latter had stage fright issues
"I Feel the Earth Move" is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Carole King, for her second studio album Tapestry. Additionally, the song is one half of the double A-sided single, the flip side of which was "It's Too Late". Together, both "I Feel the Earth Move" and "It's Too Late" became among the biggest mainstream pop hits of 1971.
I always remember this Carole King album, it makes me think of my mom in the kitchen cooking when I was real young, in the late 70's into the 80's, ah, nostalgia
Check out "It's too late", "So far away" and "You've got a friend." She has written so many songs for other people including "Natural Woman" recorded by Aretha Franklin. Carole is a legend!
One of our greatest songwriters. From James Taylor to her own album Tapestry, her music is classic. As a fun fact Slash one joined her on stage as he is a big fan.
This song is from 1971. The album cover is iconic. Look it up. It's torn jeans, a peasant blouse, and her sitting with her cat on the floor with a blanket. Everything that everyone has told you about her is true, plus there is a hit Broadway show about her life and music called "Beautiful". It's a great show. She wrote many hits of the 60's for other artists. Tapestry is her most famous album. My 6th-grade teacher used to play it in our classroom every day! One of the biggest selling albums of all time!
Carol King is the premier singer songwriter of the 70s. Ms. King wrote the sound of New York and the sound was raw and gritty. But you have to hear Aretha Franklin sing her songs because they have the same spirit with a different voice.
I've read that in the heyday of The Troubedor, which was an incubator for singer/songwriters in the Sixties and frequented by the glitterati of the music scene, whenever Carol sat at the piano and played, everybody left the bar and went to the stage to see what brilliant song she was working on. She was that well respected by her peers.
One of the great singer-songwriters, starting her career writing songs for other groups with her husband before becoming a huge star in her own right. She’s also a tremendous piano player. She IS the 70s! Her album Tapestry is one of the top-selling albums of all time. Legendary.
Some of the most iconic songs of the 60s (that is even sampled today) was written by Carol King. She's a very very talented woman. She started singing some of the music she was writing & put her "Tapestry" album out. If you haven't listened to it already, you should check it out.
The musical “Beautiful” is the story of Carole King and her music. It’s so very interesting. Even how music was written in the 60s/ 70s. Lots of common threads of the music industry weaving into it. Great history.
Carole King was one of several "Brill Building" married-couple songwriting teams with husband Jerry Goffin during the 1950s and early 60s. The "Brill Building" was a 9-to-2 "factory" of songwriters who wrote songs for other performers. Several Goffin-King hits were performed by "The Shirelles" -- "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" was probably Goffin-King's biggest hit. "The Beatles" covered two "Shirelles" hits on their "Please Please Me" LP.* _____ *Another "Brill Building" married songwriting "team" was Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil; Barry Mann himself had a solo hit with "Who Put the Bomp?" -- which was entirely and only commercial schlock, though it did have "words" in it palmed off as actual "lyrics" -- "Who put the bomp-shh-bomp-shh-bomp-shh-bomp --/ Who put the dit-di-dit-di-dit-di-dit-di-dit?". Probably the only song to dispense with actual lyrics and fill that void with what would normally have been background sounds. if you listen closely to "The Beatles" background singing, you'll find that it constantly changed throughout their career; and as I recall it changes with every verse in the song "Lovely Rita". I got and get the sense that they viewed the background singing of the day as insipid, gratuitous, and yet expected, and were slightly embarrassed indulging it. But they also made fun of it when Paul and George sing "Bop-Bop-Shoo-Wop!" backup on John's "Revolution". After Elvis was drafted, Little Richard left music for religiopreaching, Jerry Lee Lewis burned his career down by marrying his 14-year-old cousin, Chuck Berry went to jail for sex with a cross-racial (and state-line crossing) minor, and Buddy Holly, et al., were killed in a plane crash, "Brill Building" songwriters were almost singlehandedly responsible for reducing teen-oriented popular "music" to countless "different" dance songs. Until "The Beatles" hit and blew all that crap off the radio. _____ Carole King has an awful voice, especially because flat and totally lacking in dynamics and nuance. Fingernails on a chalk board. Her closest competition in that regard, and at the same time, was Carly Simon. That's how hollow at core the 1970s were for music: both were inexplicably popular and sold a lot of records under their own names.
Mz Aretha honored Mz Carole singing (You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman which Carole co-wrote, it's a glorious segment, Kennedy Center Honors. Tapestry was 1 of my 1st album purchases. It's "under my feet" 😊
For years she only wrote songs for other artists, but after her good friend James Taylor encouraged her, she began recording her own songs. She wrote and performed “You’ve Got a Friend” for him.
When she was first played on the radio her soul and voice made people think she was black. She is one of the greatest songwriters of all time. 'Tapestry' album is a must experience. "You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face and show the world all the love in your heart" Do yourself a favor and buy this album.
Probably the Greatest female song writer. Her career spans back to the 50s. She wrote some of Rock and Rolls earliest hit for many artists. She is an American Tresure. She has Grammy's too many to count and is a Kennedy Center Awards winner.
Carole was not a flashy dresser and performer. That is part of what made her so special. She seemed, real. She connected with real people, the music and your soul.
My best friend in High School bought me this album for my 16th birthday in ‘71 and the first album I ever owned of a female, as I was the common rock ‘n roller in the ‘60’s and early ‘70’s. The album was awesome and I just gave it to my daughter about six years ago, as she has a turntable!
I feel the Earth move under my feet I feel the sky tumbling down I feel my heart start to trembling Whenever you're around Such a great song! Really loved your reaction to it, Britt! Always fun when you get into a song and enjoy it. :)
Oh Carole. There is no honor you can give her that she doesnt already have except the one you just did - you like her and her music. That truly is all she really wants. The muted colors are due to the "earth mother/macrame" sort of vibe of the early 70s. As legendary as she is, you feel like she would be a totally relaxed person to sit on the porch and have tea with.
Why is Carole not playing the piano!??! It's like Elton John not behind one. Great classic jazz/pop tune! Sounds like Carole is DTF. 😀 Her real name is Carole Klein.
ikr? This is the first time I’ve ever seen a video where she wasn’t on the piano, it’s a bit of a shock. Even when she’s out of her comfort zone, though, this is a great song, and she did a great job with it.
What can I say about Carole King that hasn't already been said in the comments. She is a legendary singer/songwriter. Check out the *2015 Kennedy Center Honors Carole King. Her song, "Natural Woman" is sung by Aretha Franklin ( who immortalized it) in tribute to Carole. Aretha was in her 70's at the time, but knocked it out of the park!!! Its a must see to hear Aretha and to see how surprised and happy Carole was to see Aretha perform the song live. What an honor, indeed!
One of the TRULY GREAT American song writers. She penned dozens of hits, often taking little or no credit, even when she sang the lead, her name would often be missing. More great songs from her than can probably be mentioned in one post.
Carole may be an icon of the early 70's, but she and her music are timeless. She's also done the part of the soundtrack for the movie "A League of Their Own", which is so great. All the awards and accolades she has had are well deserved. When she was honored by the Kennedy Center, I literally had tears rolling down my cheeks.
Carole king wrote a song that would become an iconic recording for Queen Aretha Franklin (you make me feel like) A natural woman Her early career was solely as a songwriter because back then there was no such thing as a singer-songwriter. When all that changed, she recorded the iconic album, Tapestry. There isn’t a bad song on it. I’m sure you would save a few of them to your playlist. It’s Too Late, So Far Away, Natural Woman, You’ve got a Friend are my faves She dressed pretty much like an earth muffin, so I wouldn’t expect much from her on the fashion front
Carole King was a favorite of my sister's and I heard her songs playing and playing and playing every day. My sister and I didn't get along all that well and then with a tsunami of Carole King I didn't like Carole King when she was majorly big. Years later though I found that she was incredibly talented and went from disliking her to liking her very much.
Carole was a hit-writing machine....early on for other artists before she finally took up the challenge of performing her own stuff. Tapestry was a genre-defining release that doesn't let up - every track is as good or better than the previous one.
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She has won four Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. She has been inducted twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a performer and songwriter.She is the recipient of the 2013 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, the first woman to be so honored.She is also a 2015 Kennedy Center Honoree.
I really hope Britt checks out when she was honored at the Kennedy Center Honors, with a tribute by Aretha Franklin singing her song "Natural Woman". It is highly recommended, and she will be blown away by Aretha's performance and Carole's reaction. Even President Obama had to wipe away a tear.
Are you sure?
@@robertsutton206 Those facts all seem to check out. And that's only a short list of the awards she has received throughout her career. Look it up if you are in doubt.
Carol wrote her first number 1 hit song, "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" at the age of 17, recorded by the Shirelles. In 1967 her song "Natural Woman" was immortalized by Aretha Franklin. Aretha sang it at the Kennedy Center Honorees show inducting Carol King in 2015. Aretha was fire that night.
She is a songwriter for many famous singers, and Tapestry is still one of my favorite albums out there. The whole album is a great masterful piece of work from her.
Soooo many beautiful songs written by her!
Tapestry is still one of my go-to albums
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Britt,there are certain albums that have stood the test of time,Carol King Tapestry,AC/ DC Back in Black,Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon,Yes Fragile,Peter Frampton Frampton Comes Alive,Queen A Night at the Opera, The Beatles Abbey Road,Boston's first album,Rush 2112,....I'm sure we can add to the list...However,the Tapestry album is always on the list!
Love love love Carol King
Carole King is all natural Not flashy ,Low Maintenance....and she aged gracefully with no hair dying or lifts...and she got more beautiful as the years went on!!!!!
This song was released in 71. And Carole King has never been a very flashy person. She usually performs(ed) in a tshirt and jeans. That’s kinda her style. She lets her music speak for itself.
Seems weird to see Carole King singing without playing her piano. This song was #1 for a while. The album it is from, Tapestry, is like 16X platinum, won Grammy for best album. You could probably find some duets or perfomances with James Taylor.
That's why she looks so quirky. She's way different behind the piano!!
I love the versions even more, where Carol's playing the piano!
Carole King is a legend fr.
She and her husband wrote a lot of famous songs for the pop and soul girl groups of the 60s.
She was honored by the Kennedy Center, Britt. You must watch the part when Aretha comes out in her 70’s, with fur coat and hand bag and proceeds to blow down the house singing the hit that Carole wrote for her: Natural Woman!
I was thinking of that too. Incredible moment.
Agreed 👍
Carole King is a talented singer and songwriter. She wrote the song Natural Woman which was a big hit for Aretha Franklin. Listen to It's Too Late, So Far Away and Smackwater Jack. If you get a chance watch Ms. Franklin sing Natural Woman at the Kennedy Center Honors when Carole King was honored. You will get chills from her performance.
Tapestry has been certified 14× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in the U.S.,and has sold an estimated 30 million copies worldwide,making it one of the best-selling albums of all time.
In 2020, it ranked 25th on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Tapestry won four Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Record of the Year.
That's so awesome to know, what an accomplishment, I still have the album! Carol King is a national treasure!
She wrote “Natural Woman”. Yep. That one!
Carole was asked by legendary producer Jerry Wexler to write a song especially for Aretha Franklin. That song was "You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman." (her ex-husband Gerry Goffin wrote the lyrics) Decades later, Aretha sang it on The Kennedy Center Honors show that celebrated Carole's career.
You have to Watch Aretha "sangin" this song at the Kennedy Center, It is absolutely wonderous and thunderous.
@@steveperkins8748 Even President Obama had to wipe away a tear.
Carole is legend both as a performer and a song writer. Sooooo good. God I love the music of the 60s and 70s!! Have a great week!
Carole was just inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame alongside Tina Turner. This song went to #1 in June 1971. The album, Tapestry, that this song was from, sat on top of the Billboard album charts for 5 weeks. The album Tapestry has sold over 30 million copies worldwide and along with winning the grammy for Album of the Year it also won Grammys for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, Record of the Year ("It's Too Late"), and Song of the Year ("You've Got a Friend"), making King the first solo female artist to win the Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year.
Carole also wrote or co-wrote ALL of the songs on the album. Prior to becoming a performer and recording artist in her own right she was a paid songwriter in NYC for years along with her ex-husband until she became a performer on her own. She co-wrote Aretha Franklin's "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" and the girl group The Shirelles' song "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" (in 1960).
In 2020, Tapestry was ranked #25 on Rolling Stones top 100 albums of all time.
She’s such a prolific singer songwriter. Usually she plays her own piano, she worth way more reaction time. Check out “It’s too Late”
Considered one of the greatest songwriters of all time. She wrote for many great artists.
Ah Britt, your charming naivety is overwhelming! Carole King is one of the top songwriters of all time, responsible for many of the greatest songs of the 60s. She can wear whatever she wants!
I love watching her when it's just her and a piano. She's always been very understated in her look; her soul is just from within. She's never really been flashy on the outside. She's written songs for other singers - - probably songs you've heard and didn't know were hers. It's 'feet'.
SMACKWATER JACK,
ITS TOO LATE,
WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME TOMORROW,
and WHERE YOU LEAD are all great songs by Carole King. She is a true force of nature as an award winning songwriter. More, please. Keep going and enjoy
Please check out Carole singing "Up On The Roof", "So Far Awa" and "You've Got A Friend" with James Taylor. Carole, has written over 400 songs that have been recorded by over 1000 artists.
So Far Away was a good one for sure
Through my childhood, teenage years, and college days, EVERY girl on the planet had Carole King's Tapestry album on her turntable. And rightfully so. What a treasure!
She's pushing hard to be the first female member of the PDC.
Carole is a great human being. She is the brightest light in every room she enters.
My first album Carole king tapestry.So good
She is an American Treasure.....she's a Writing Machine
So glad I was a teenager is the 70’s! Just wish I still had all my bell bottom pants and halter tops!!!!! Go take care of that baby! Big hugs baby from a grandma!
When my late wife and I combined our record collections when we married in 1982, the only duplicate was Carol King's Tapestry.
"Natural Woman" is another King/Goffin hit song. Aretha Franklin knocked that one out of the park. That Kennedy Ctr performance in 15' she did in dedication to Carole was epic !
You should buy her album Tapestry. Amazing album. Yes get vinyl.
I had this 45 record back in the 70’s. Of note, this song was actually the “B” side (typically the lesser know song of a record). The “A” side, was Its Too Late, one of her most famous songs. Both songs were on her Tapestry album. Arguably one of the top five albums of all time.
Carole King before going on her solo singing career was quite the songwriter. She wrote the harmony laden pop tune Pleasant Valley Sunday for the Monkees in the late 60s. You can hear Carole's demo of it on UA-cam. :))
She started as a song writer and wrote many hits for others before writing for herself. Her first album "Tapestry" is almost a greatest hits album because every song has eventually released and topped the charts
Her 1971 album titled Tapestry from which this song comes had a number of hits. The entire album was great but So Far Away and It's Too Late also charted highly.
Carol King is legend! She wrote songs for lots of people before she started performing. In fact, many people mistakenly thing songs are by the artist who sung them, not realizing that Carol wrote them. Tapestry is her legendary album. It's really full of smash hits.
I can't believe I just heard "the bee's knees"! Carole King's got a ton of soul and plays incredible piano. She wrote dozens of hits in the '60's and '70's that others got famous with then started her own performing career.
Britt, you need to check out when she was honored at the Kennedy Center Honors, with a tribute by Aretha Franklin singing her song "Natural Woman". It is highly recommended, and you will be blown away by Aretha's performance and Carole's reaction. Even President Obama had to wipe away a tear.
I read something a while ago that this song was playing on a radio station in the 70s in Los Angeles and their was an earthquake going on at the same time 😮 crazy coincidence.
Britt....all the comments mention "Legend." This ain't no joke! SHE IS A FREAKIN LEGEND!!!
One of my all time favs, tapestry is one of the best selling albums with good reason try so far away the flute 🪈 at the end 🤌
Great reaction. A musical, Beautiful, the Carol King musical is all about her career (so far). It too has won awards here and abroad.
Before she started recording her own songs, she was a songwriter who wrote many hits for other people, mostly in partnership with her husband Gerry Goffin. Among them "You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Women" that Aretha Franklin had a hit with.
More excellent music from the 70's Can't go wrong with it. 👍
Carol is a legend there was a Broadway play about her a few years ago. The ladies of the 60s/70s love her!
first time i saw Carole King not on piano! Look up legend in the dictionary and you see Carole Kings picture! She wrote a huge number of tunes even Motown tunes! Her album Tapestry was one of the best selling albums of all time it went platinum 8 times,it won every Grammy when it came out!
Great song!
One of the greatest songwriters to have ever been born. Great musician too. Legendary (GOAT) recording artists have recorded her songs. Dive deep
The song always put a huge smile on my face when I was a little kid in grade school. For some reason I think of it back to back with The Carpenters, I'm On Top of the World.
You were correct, it’s “under my feet.” Carole King was our easy going , relaxed and immensely talented icon. I’m 74, and preferred soul and jazz music. I was so surprised that I loved her music, she’s very soulful and I love her jazzy touches. She and Carly Simon were two prolific female songwriters and both were/are great! I love your reactions and like you, I like live performances best.
Carol was the first ever girl , we could all identify and would love to be her. She was brilliant ,and seemed a great person.The album is perfect
Carol wrote so many dozens and dozen of hit songs for just about everybody in the 60s...a legend for sure!
Another one of those supersongs! 😊Feel good song!
Carole is a LEGEND!!! Her life story was made into a Broadway Musical. "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical". Check out every song she ever wrote for others and the ones she recorded herself.
She's considered one of the greatest writers of lyrics.
Carole King is well known songwriter/pianist/ singer. She was never a flashy dresser. She is a down- to -earth woman thus the earthy tone of her outfit. Right for the song "I Feel The EARTH Move " 😁
Huge mega hit for Carole, who usually performs this seated at the piano and doing vocals. She and Carly Simon were extraordinary performers, although the latter had stage fright issues
"I Feel the Earth Move" is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Carole King, for her second studio album Tapestry. Additionally, the song is one half of the double A-sided single, the flip side of which was "It's Too Late". Together, both "I Feel the Earth Move" and "It's Too Late" became among the biggest mainstream pop hits of 1971.
I always remember this Carole King album, it makes me think of my mom in the kitchen cooking when I was real young, in the late 70's into the 80's, ah, nostalgia
Carole King is one of my all-time favorite singer/songwriters.
Check out "It's too late", "So far away" and "You've got a friend." She has written so many songs for other people including "Natural Woman" recorded by Aretha Franklin. Carole is a legend!
One of our greatest songwriters. From James Taylor to her own album Tapestry, her music is classic. As a fun fact Slash one joined her on stage as he is a big fan.
This song is from 1971. The album cover is iconic. Look it up. It's torn jeans, a peasant blouse, and her sitting with her cat on the floor with a blanket. Everything that everyone has told you about her is true, plus there is a hit Broadway show about her life and music called "Beautiful". It's a great show. She wrote many hits of the 60's for other artists. Tapestry is her most famous album. My 6th-grade teacher used to play it in our classroom every day! One of the biggest selling albums of all time!
Unusual to see her up dancing, she's usually behind the piano playing her great music.
Carol King is the premier singer songwriter of the 70s. Ms. King wrote the sound of New York and the sound was raw and gritty. But you have to hear Aretha Franklin sing her songs because they have the same spirit with a different voice.
I've read that in the heyday of The Troubedor, which was an incubator for singer/songwriters in the Sixties and frequented by the glitterati of the music scene, whenever Carol sat at the piano and played, everybody left the bar and went to the stage to see what brilliant song she was working on. She was that well respected by her peers.
One of the great singer-songwriters, starting her career writing songs for other groups with her husband before becoming a huge star in her own right. She’s also a tremendous piano player.
She IS the 70s!
Her album Tapestry is one of the top-selling albums of all time. Legendary.
Some of the most iconic songs of the 60s (that is even sampled today) was written by Carol King. She's a very very talented woman. She started singing some of the music she was writing & put her "Tapestry" album out. If you haven't listened to it already, you should check it out.
Carol did a live show at the
Troubadour a few years ago…worth a watch
The musical “Beautiful” is the story of Carole King and her music. It’s so very interesting. Even how music was written in the 60s/ 70s. Lots of common threads of the music industry weaving into it. Great history.
I’m 1971 when I was 14, Carole King was my first love. She just didn’t know it. And all of these years later, I still feel the same.
One of the greats!! Love her music!!
Her catalog of Songs that she Has written for other people is Huge.
Carole King was one of several "Brill Building" married-couple songwriting teams with husband Jerry Goffin during the 1950s and early 60s. The "Brill Building" was a 9-to-2 "factory" of songwriters who wrote songs for other performers.
Several Goffin-King hits were performed by "The Shirelles" -- "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" was probably Goffin-King's biggest hit. "The Beatles" covered two "Shirelles" hits on their "Please Please Me" LP.*
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*Another "Brill Building" married songwriting "team" was Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil; Barry Mann himself had a solo hit with "Who Put the Bomp?" -- which was entirely and only commercial schlock, though it did have "words" in it palmed off as actual "lyrics" --
"Who put the bomp-shh-bomp-shh-bomp-shh-bomp --/
Who put the dit-di-dit-di-dit-di-dit-di-dit?".
Probably the only song to dispense with actual lyrics and fill that void with what would normally have been background sounds. if you listen closely to "The Beatles" background singing, you'll find that it constantly changed throughout their career; and as I recall it changes with every verse in the song "Lovely Rita". I got and get the sense that they viewed the background singing of the day as insipid, gratuitous, and yet expected, and were slightly embarrassed indulging it. But they also made fun of it when Paul and George sing "Bop-Bop-Shoo-Wop!" backup on John's "Revolution".
After Elvis was drafted, Little Richard left music for religiopreaching, Jerry Lee Lewis burned his career down by marrying his 14-year-old cousin, Chuck Berry went to jail for sex with a cross-racial (and state-line crossing) minor, and Buddy Holly, et al., were killed in a plane crash, "Brill Building" songwriters were almost singlehandedly responsible for reducing teen-oriented popular "music" to countless "different" dance songs. Until "The Beatles" hit and blew all that crap off the radio.
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Carole King has an awful voice, especially because flat and totally lacking in dynamics and nuance. Fingernails on a chalk board. Her closest competition in that regard, and at the same time, was Carly Simon. That's how hollow at core the 1970s were for music: both were inexplicably popular and sold a lot of records under their own names.
You should check out her Tapestry album it was big in the 1970's. She was a song writer par excellence.
Mz Aretha honored Mz Carole singing (You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman which Carole co-wrote, it's a glorious segment, Kennedy Center Honors.
Tapestry was 1 of my 1st album purchases.
It's "under my feet" 😊
Carole King writes such a variety of songs. For reflective songs on the same album you might like "So Far Away" and "You've Got a Friend".
For years she only wrote songs for other artists, but after her good friend James Taylor encouraged her, she began recording her own songs. She wrote and performed “You’ve Got a Friend” for him.
Carole King's album "Tapestry" is iconic. Just one fantastic song after another. She wrote most of those songs herself.
Her album 'Tapestry' came out in 1971 when I was almost 16. Every song is killer!!
Love her. She was a backup singer for James Taylor and he encouraged her to go out on her own.
When she was first played on the radio her soul and voice made people think she was black. She is one of the greatest songwriters of all time. 'Tapestry' album is a must experience. "You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face and show the world all the love in your heart" Do yourself a favor and buy this album.
Probably the Greatest female song writer. Her career spans back to the 50s. She wrote some of Rock and Rolls earliest hit for many artists. She is an American Tresure. She has Grammy's too many to count and is a Kennedy Center Awards winner.
I love the versions even more, where Carol's playing the piano!
Carole was not a flashy dresser and performer. That is part of what made her so special. She seemed, real. She connected with real people, the music and your soul.
My best friend in High School bought me this album for my 16th birthday in ‘71 and the first album I ever owned of a female, as I was the common rock ‘n roller in the ‘60’s and early ‘70’s. The album was awesome and I just gave it to my daughter about six years ago, as she has a turntable!
Carole is a legend. SO many great songs. Britt, listen to any track from her Tapestry cd. Really good stuff. Thanks for sharing this one. 🙂
I feel the Earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumbling down
I feel my heart start to trembling
Whenever you're around
Such a great song! Really loved your reaction to it, Britt! Always fun when you get into a song and enjoy it. :)
Oh Carole. There is no honor you can give her that she doesnt already have except the one you just did - you like her and her music. That truly is all she really wants. The muted colors are due to the "earth mother/macrame" sort of vibe of the early 70s. As legendary as she is, you feel like she would be a totally relaxed person to sit on the porch and have tea with.
Why is Carole not playing the piano!??! It's like Elton John not behind one. Great classic jazz/pop tune! Sounds like Carole is DTF. 😀 Her real name is Carole Klein.
ikr? This is the first time I’ve ever seen a video where she wasn’t on the piano, it’s a bit of a shock. Even when she’s out of her comfort zone, though, this is a great song, and she did a great job with it.
She is SO accomplished. There is even a Broadway musical called "Beautiful," based on her music and life. It's fantastic .
What can I say about Carole King that hasn't already been said in the comments. She is a legendary singer/songwriter.
Check out the *2015 Kennedy Center Honors Carole King. Her song, "Natural Woman" is sung by Aretha Franklin ( who immortalized it) in tribute to Carole. Aretha was in her 70's at the time, but knocked it out of the park!!! Its a must see to hear Aretha and to see how surprised and happy Carole was to see Aretha perform the song live. What an honor, indeed!
Carol usually plays the piano in her performances. She is great. Try "You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman" from the same album - Tapestry.
One of the TRULY GREAT American song writers. She penned dozens of hits, often taking little or no credit, even when she sang the lead, her name would often be missing. More great songs from her than can probably be mentioned in one post.
Carole may be an icon of the early 70's, but she and her music are timeless. She's also done the part of the soundtrack for the movie "A League of Their Own", which is so great. All the awards and accolades she has had are well deserved. When she was honored by the Kennedy Center, I literally had tears rolling down my cheeks.
Carole king wrote a song that would become an iconic recording for Queen Aretha Franklin (you make me feel like) A natural woman
Her early career was solely as a songwriter because back then there was no such thing as a singer-songwriter.
When all that changed, she recorded the iconic album, Tapestry. There isn’t a bad song on it. I’m sure you would save a few of them to your playlist.
It’s Too Late, So Far Away, Natural Woman, You’ve got a Friend are my faves
She dressed pretty much like an earth muffin, so I wouldn’t expect much from her on the fashion front
Carole King was a favorite of my sister's and I heard her songs playing and playing and playing every day. My sister and I didn't get along all that well and then with a tsunami of Carole King I didn't like Carole King when she was majorly big. Years later though I found that she was incredibly talented and went from disliking her to liking her very much.
great song and reaction. nobody can deny the power of Carole king. giving some Janice Joplin vibes here
Britt! Thank you. Legend. I bought this album in 1972 or 73. I might have said this before. But you are such a hippy 70's soul. Rock on!
Carole was a hit-writing machine....early on for other artists before she finally took up the challenge of performing her own stuff. Tapestry was a genre-defining release that doesn't let up - every track is as good or better than the previous one.
The entire album that this song is on is brilliant.
Hi Britt 👋. Another great song by Carole King is It's Too Late. Her album Tapestry is a classic.
Her album, Tapestry, was in the Billboard top 100 for album sales for 10 years. They don’t get any more classic than this.