Carole King had already written an enormous amount of pop classics by the time she began her solo career in earnest in the late '60s. With her second album, Tapestry, King...
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Dan Heilman wrote "On Pearls King reprises the early-'60s pop gems she wrote with Gerry Goffin, with fine results." There is just a fraction of their phenomenal work...
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A surprising release, this captures King at the absolute height of her fame--singing all of Tapestry's hits and much more. Special extended appearances by James...
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This 17-song set was recorded on June 18, 1971, just as Tapestry was topping the charts and making King a superstar. Featuring most of Tapestry and a few songs from Writer...
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Carole King brought the fledgling singer/songwriter phenomenon to the masses with Tapestry, one of the most successful albums in pop music history. A remarkably expressive...
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This one's a puzzler. You'd figure that an album called The Early Years by Carole King would present recordings that King made in the early '60s when she was better known as...
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Carole King: Super Hits delivers 10 of her best-known songs in a budget-priced collection. A live version of "I Feel the Earth Move," "Nightingale," "Sweet Seasons," "Only...
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King's swift follow-up to Tapestry was sorely lacking is comparable material, but "Sweet Seasons" managed to find its way into Billboard's top...
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After years as one of the most prolific and successful songwriters in pop music, Carole King emerged in the '70s with Tapestry, an album that catapulted her to the forefront...
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Really Rosie 1/1/1975, Yahoo! Music, Dave DiMartino
Due to its availability on videotape, this soundtrack to an animated TV special is probably receiving more home airplay than...
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On her second follow-up to Tapestry and third new album in less than two years, King turned entirely to new compositions, most of them co-written with Toni Stern, rather...
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King's finest work, and one of the best-selling albums of all time. Contains "It's Too Late," "I Feel The Earth Move," and "So Far Away"--and was played on every college...
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This three-pack collects some of Carole King's finest moments from the '70s: her thoughtful, playful Really Rosie, the soundtrack to Maurice Sendak's 1975 animated TV...
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Speeding Time 1/1/1983, Yahoo! Music, Dave DiMartino
King's first album since Tapestry to fail to enter the album charts at all upon its release. For good reason,...
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Carole King was reunited with Lou Adler -- the man responsible for her legendary Ode albums, including Tapestry and Music -- for this disappointing experiment in digital...
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More upbeat and rockin' than her last couple of efforts, Wrap Around Joy contains much of the jazz-tinged rock King was becoming known for. Here, she found chart action with...
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By no means her most popular effort, this set, which preceded the best-selling Tapestry, contains fascinating versions of some of King's very best songs--including "Goin'...
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Writer is the most underrated of all of Carole King's original albums, in that it was completely ignored when it came out in 1971 and didn't really start to sell until...
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City Streets 4/4/1989, Yahoo! Music, Dave DiMartino
Guest stars like Eric Clapton, Branford Marsalis and drummer Max Weinberg couldn't rescue this otherwise dreary album, King's first recording in several...
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The success of "Now and Forever," which was used as the opening-credits music for the summer 1992 film A League of Their Own, seems to have earned Carole King another shot...
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Well put-together and very smoothly flowing, this is one of King's unsung classics--one which got a surprising amount of crossover radio interest at the time, oddly enough....
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Even in 1973, Carole King's landmark Tapestry album was still high on the charts. Fantasy was the first album to break the immediately recognizable, cozy sound set by Writer...
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This album was always sort of a joke among King's serious fans, containing 12 songs drawn from six albums, and liner notes that fail even to acknowledge the existence of...
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In Concert was the first of Carole King's live albums to appear, actually preceding the release of the 1971 Carnegie Hall concert. The two couldn't be more different....
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Pearls: Songs of Goffin and King and Time Gone By are an ideal pair of Carole King albums to put on the same CD -- the former looks like a compilation but was actually...
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Bouncing around smaller indie labels in the '90s after a few failed albums on majors, Carole King rebounded with this self-released 2001 disc on her own Rockingale (an...
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With Collection, Sony repackages three of Carole King's finest 1970s recordings, for sale in one budget-priced box. Chief among them is the classic Tapestry, one of the...
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This three-pack collects some of Carole King's finest moments from the '70s: her thoughtful, playful Really Rosie, the soundtrack to Maurice Sendak's 1975 animated TV...
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Carole King has co-written more great songs than almost anyone. On her Living Room Tour of 2004 she ran through some of her favorites, old and new, in a very intimate manner...
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Carole King brought the fledgling singer/songwriter phenomenon to the masses with Tapestry, one of the most successful albums in pop music history. A remarkably expressive...
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This is a handy double-CD set from England, containing Carole King's third and fifth solo albums, which originally appeared on Ode Records in America and A&M Records and...
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Thanks to James Taylor for encouraging Carole King to pursue a solo singing career after successful songwriting careers in New York with husband Gerry Goffin and Los Angeles...
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The soundtrack to a television special originating from the pen of author Maurice Sendak, Really Rosie is that rare children's album with the wit and intelligence to capture...
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In 2002, Sony International released Wrap Around Joy/Thoroughbred, which contained two complete albums -- Wrap Around Joy (1974, originally released on Epic) and...
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