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While the landmark album Tapestry earned her superstar status, singer/songwriter
Carole King had already firmly established herself as one of pop music's most
gifted and successful composers, with work recorded by everyone from the Beatles
to Aretha Franklin. Born Carole Klein on February 9, 1942 in Brooklyn, New York,
she began playing piano at the age of four, and formed her first band, the vocal
quartet the Co-Sines, while in high school. A devotee of the composing team
of Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller (the duo behind numerous hits for Elvis Presley,
the Coasters and Ben E. King), she became a fixture at influential DJ Alan Freed's
local Rock 'N' Roll shows; while attending Queens College, she fell in with
budding songwriters Paul Simon and Neil Sedaka as well as Gerry Goffin, with
whom she forged a writing partnership.
In 1959, Sedaka scored a hit with "Oh! Carol," written in her honor;
Carole King cut an answer record, "Oh! Neil," but it stiffed. Carole
King and Goffin, who eventually married, began writing under publishers Don
Kirshner and Al Nevins in the famed pop songwriting house the Brill Building,
where they worked alongside the likes of Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman, Jeff Barry,
Ellie Greenwich and countless others. In 1961, Goffin and King scored their
first hit with the Shirelles' chart-topping "Will You Love Me Tomorrow;
" their next effort, Bobby Vee's "Take Good Care of My Baby,"
also hit Number One, as did "The Locomotion," recorded by their baby-sitter,
Little Eva. Together, the couple wrote over 100 chart hits in a vast range of
styles, including the Chiffons' "One Fine Day," the Monkees' "Pleasant
Valley Sunday," the Drifters' "Up on the Roof," the Cookies'
"Chains" (later covered by the Beatles), Aretha Franklin's "(You
Make Me Feel) Like a Natural Woman" and the Crystals' controversial "He
Hit Me (and It Felt like a Kiss)."
Carole King also continued her attempts to mount a solo career, but scored only
one hit, 1962's "It Might as Well Rain Until September." In the mid-1960s
she, Goffin and columnist Al Aronowitz founded their own short-lived label,
Tomorrow Records; Charles Larkey, the bassist for the Tomorrow group the Myddle
Class, eventually became King's second husband after her marriage to Goffin
dissolved. She and Larkey later moved to the West Coast, where in 1968 they
founded the City, a trio rounded out by New York musician Danny Kortchmar. The
City recorded one LP, Now That Everything's Been Said, but did not tour due
to King's stage fright; as a result, the album was a commercial failure, although
it did feature songs later popularized the Byrds' ("Wasn't Born to Follow"),
Blood, Sweat and Tears ("Hi-De-Ho") and James Taylor ("You've
Got a Friend").
Taylor and Carole King ultimately became close friends, and he encouraged her
to pursue a solo career. 1970's Writer proved a false start, but in 1971, she
released Tapestry, which stayed on the charts for over six years and was the
best-selling album of the era. A quiet, reflective work which proved seminal
in the development of the singer/songwriter genre, Tapestry also scored a pair
of hit singles, "So Far Away" and the chart-topping "It's Too
Late," whose flip-side, "I Feel the Earth Move," garnered major
airplay as well. 1971's Music also hit Number One, and generated the hit "Sweet
Seasons; " 1972's Rhymes and Reasons reached Number Two on the charts,
and 1974's Wrap Around Joy, which featured the hit "Jazzman," hit
the Number One spot.
In 1975, Carole King and Goffin reunited to write Thoroughbred, which also featured
contributions from James Taylor, David Crosby and Graham Nash. After 1977's
Simple Things, she mounted a tour with the backing group Navarro, and married
her frequent songwriting partner Rick Evers, who died a year later after a heroin
overdose. 1980's Pearls, a collection of performances of songs written during
her partnership with Goffin, was her last significant hit, and King soon moved
to a tiny mountain village in Idaho, where she became active in the environmental
movement. After 1983's Speeding Time, she took a six-year hiatus from recording
before releasing City Streets, which featured guest Eric Clapton. 1993's Colour
of Your Dreams included a cameo from Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash; a year later,
Carole King made her Broadway debut in the drama Bloodbrothers.
Carole King's first single, "The Class," showcased his skills as an
impressionist; while the record became a minor novelty hit, none of its immediate
follow-ups were successful. In 1960, however, he recorded "The Twist,"
a cover of a 1958 Hank Ballard & the Midnighters B-side; Checker's rendition
de-emphasized the original's overtly sexual overtones, focusing instead on the
song's happy-go-lucky charms. The single rocketed to number one during the autumn
of 1960, remaining on the charts for four months; some time after it dropped
off, it slowly returned to prominence, and in late 1961 it hit number one again;
the only record ever to enjoy two stays at the top more than a year apart. After
"The Twist" first made Checker a superstar, he returned to the top
in 1961 with "Do the Pony"; that same year, he also reached the Top
Ten with "Let's Twist Again," which assured the dance's passage from
novelty to institution.
In addition to 1961's "The Fly," Carole King’s other Top Ten
hits included three 1962 smashes: "Slow Twistin'," "Limbo Rock,"
and "Popeye the Hitchhiker." He even starred in a pair of feature
films, Twist Around the Clock and Don't Knock the Twist. In total, Checker notched
32 chart hits before the bubble burst in 1966; as interest in dance novelties
dwindled, he briefly turned to folk music, and became a regular on the nightclub
circuit. From the 1970s onward, he was a staple of oldies revival tours; in
1982, more than a decade after his last studio LP, he signed with MCA and issued
the disco-inspired The Change Has Come, scoring a pair of minor hits with the
singles "Running" and "Harder Than Diamond." In 1988, Checker
returned to the Top 40 for the first time in a quarter century when he appeared
on the Fat Boys' rap rendition of "The Twist," and Carole King continues
touring regularly.
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