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Carole King
Carole King Klein is an American singer-songwriter and musician renowned for her extensive contributions to popular music. She wrote or co-wrote 118 songs that charted on the Billboard Hot 100 during the latter half of the 20th century and 61 songs that reached the UK charts, establishing her as the most successful female songwriter on the UK singles charts from 1962 to 2005.
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entertainment · American singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1942) · singer-songwriter · musician · actor · singer · composer · pianist · television actor · film actor · voice actor · recording artist · also Carole King, Carol Joan Klein, King
Born 9 February 1942 · Q217787
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Missing you the way I do You know I'd like to see more of you But it's all I can do to be a mother My baby's in one hand, I've a pen in the other You know my love is always there for the taking And goodbye don't mean I'm gone "Goodbye Don't Mean I'm Gone" #ckdeepcuts
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2026· 14 entries
“Carole at the ranch, 1992. 📷 @kurtmarkus_”
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“Missing you the way I do You know I'd like to see more of you But it's all I can do to be a mother My baby's in one hand, I've a pen in the other You know my love is always there for the taking And goodbye don't mean I'm gone "Goodbye Don't Mean I'm Gone" #ckdeepcuts”
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““My baby's in one hand, I've a pen in the other”. Carole in the studio - recording strings with Norman Kurban & David Campbell (aka Beck’s dad) for Rhymes & Reasons, 1972. 📷Jim McCrary, courtesy Lou Adler/Ode Records”
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“Remembering my friend David Crosby on his birthday. L 📷 Ira Resnick R 📷 photographer unknown (tag yourself)”
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“Carole in Idaho, 2011. 📷 @elissa_kline”
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““Let everyone debate the true reality, I'd rather see the world the way it used to be" "Goin' Back" was first released as a single by Dusty Springfield in 1966, and has been recorded by The Byrds, Marianne Faithfull, Freddie Mercury, Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, Phil Collins, and King herself.”
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“I had begun making up songs when I was three. Perched precariously on Brooklyn and Manhattan telephone books atop the piano bench, I improvised words and melodies at the top of my lungs while my little fingers pounded out a rudimentary accompaniment on the piano. (Continued in comments)”
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“"(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" Live at the Oakland Coliseum, 1972”
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“Roy Reynolds, an artist from eastern Idaho, had previously been a cowboy and an alcoholic, but by the time I met him he had quit drinking and had bought an Appaloosa colt to celebrate his sobriety. (Cont'd in comments)”
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“It's #internationalcatday 🐈⬛ 📸Tapestry Cover shoot: Jim McCrary 📸Baby Telemachus: Louise Goffin”
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Published video “Carole King Tapestry: Live in Hyde Park (Concert Film)”.
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Published video “Carole King Tapestry: Live In Hyde Park (Official Trailer)”.
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Public attention spiked: 13,370 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.4× the usual 3,015, with 2 article edits.
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2025· 1 entry
Published video “Carole King - City Streets featuring Eric Clapton”.
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2024· 2 entries
Published video “Carole King - So Far Away”.
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Published video “Audience Participation on "You've Got A Friend" Margaret River, Western Australia Feb 2013”.
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2023· 2 entries
Published video “Carole King - Home Again (Live From Central Park, New York City, May 26, 1973)”.
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Published video “Carole King - Home Again Live From Central Park, New York City, May 26, 1973 (Official Trailer)”.
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2022· 3 entries
Released album “Ten Songs for you”.
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The Guardian: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical review – hits, heartache and rollerskates
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Released album “Home Again”.
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2021· 8 entries
Released album “Crying in the Rain”.
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The Guardian: Joni Mitchell’s Blue: my favourite song – by James Taylor, Carole King, Graham Nash, David Crosby and more
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Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2021).
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Published video “Carole King - People In The Room (Toni Stern Speaks About Tapestry)”.
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Published video “Carole King - Beautiful (Official Audio)”.
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Published video “Carole King - Child of Mine (Official Audio)”.
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The Guardian: Beyond Tapestry: five more Carole King albums to investigate
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The Guardian: 'It shook me to my core': 50 years of Carole King's Tapestry
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2019· 3 entries
Released album “Breaking Up”.
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Released album “Sweet Seasons”.
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Released album “Live at Montreux 1973”.
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2018· 3 entries
The Guardian: Carole King on songwriting in the age of Trump: 'I am the honest opposition'
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The Guardian: I was wary of writing the Carole King musical, but she opened herself up completely | Douglas McGrath
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Released album “Carole King (live in Tokyo)”.
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2017· 5 entries
The Guardian: Beautiful review – Carole King musical a hit thanks to star's earth-moving performance
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The Guardian: Carole King releases new version of One Small Voice in protest against Trump
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King marched in the 2017 Women's March in Stanley, Idaho, carrying a sign that said "One Small Voice
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Released album “Original Album Classics”.
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Released album “The Real... Carole King”.
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2016· 6 entries
The Guardian: How London has a friend in Carole King | Letters
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The Guardian: Carole King at BST review – beautiful Tapestry performance finds a 50,000-strong backing choir
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The Guardian: Carole King's Tapestry feels like a comfort blanket, until you hear the anxiety within it
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The Guardian: Carole King in Hyde Park will be like Taylor Swift for an older generation
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The Guardian: Carole King to perform Tapestry in its entirety for the first time – in London
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King was the headline performer at the British Summer Time Festival held in Hyde Park, London, on July 3, 2016, playing all of Tapestry live for the first time
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2015· 5 entries
Was honored as a Kennedy Center Honoree
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Released album “Playlist: The Very Best of Carole King”.
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Awarded Kennedy Center Honors (2015).
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Released album “Simply the best”.
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Released album “A Beautiful Collection”.
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2014· 3 entries
Performed at a Democratic fundraiser at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, attended by Vice President Joe Biden
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Awarded MusiCares Person of the Year (2014).
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Released album “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical”.
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2013· 7 entries
At the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, with the official opening on January 12, 2014
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Awarded Gershwin Prize (2013).
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Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2013).
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With the President presenting the prize and reading the citation
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King was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
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Campaigned with US Representative Ed Markey, the Democratic nominee to succeed Kerry in a special election
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Released album “In Intimate Performance”.
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2012· 4 entries
King received the 2,486th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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Released album “The Legendary Demos”.
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Released album “Live in London, 1975”.
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Was given the benefit concert 'Painted Turtle – a celebration of Carole King'
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2011· 3 entries
Released album “A Holiday Carole”.
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Awarded Johnny Mercer Award (2011).
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Released album “Troubadours: The Rise of the Singer-Songwriter”.
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2010· 3 entries
Released album “The Essential Carole King”.
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Released album “Live at the Troubadour”.
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King and James Taylor staged their Troubadour Reunion Tour together, recalling the first time they played at The Troubadour, West Hollywood in 1970
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2008· 2 entries
Released album “100 Minutes With Carole King”.
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King appeared on the March 18 episode of The Colbert Report, touching on her politics again
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2007· 2 entries
Released album “The Best of Carole King”.
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Released album “Welcome to My Living Room”.
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2006· 1 entry
Released album “Up on the Roof”.
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2005· 2 entries
Released album “The Living Room Tour”.
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Released album “Collections”.
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2004· 5 entries
Released album “2004-08-06: The Pier, Seattle, WA, USA”.
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Made a short speech and sang at the Democratic National Convention about two hours before Kerry made his acceptance speech for the Democratic nomination for president
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Awarded Grammy Trustees Award (2004).
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Released album “The Collection – Presenting 3 Original Album Classics”.
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Goffin and King were awarded the Grammy Trustees Award
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2003· 2 entries
Began campaigning for John Kerry, performing in private homes for caucus delegates during the Democratic primaries
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Released album “Perfil )”.
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2002· 2 entries
Released album “Writer, Rhymes & Reasons”.
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King was given the "Johnny Mercer Award" by the Songwriters Hall of Fame
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2001· 4 entries
Released album “Love Makes The World”.
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Released album “Brill Building Sessions & More”.
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King appeared in a television ad for the Gap with her daughter
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King composed a song for All About Chemistry album by Semisonic, with the band's frontman Dan Wilson
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2000· 4 entries
Released album “Natural Woman: The Very Best of Carole King”.
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Released album “Carole King Super Hits”.
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King was asked to record a version of her hit song "Where You Lead" as the theme song for the show Gilmore Girls
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Released album “Jazzman”.
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1999· 2 entries
Released album “Hardrock Cafe”.
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Released album “The Early Years”.
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1998· 4 entries
Released album “Premium Best”.
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King wrote and performed "Anyone at All" for the film You've Got Mail, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan
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Released album “One Fine Day”.
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Released album “Goin' Back”.
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1997· 2 entries
King wrote and recorded backing vocals on "The Reason" for Celine Dion on her album Let's Talk About Love
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Released album “Breaking up Is Hard to Do”.
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1996· 3 entries
Released album “The Carnegie Hall Concert: June 18, 1971”.
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Appeared in Brighton Beach Memoirs in Ireland, directed by Peter Sheridan
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A film very loosely based on King's life, Grace of My Heart, was written and directed by Allison Anders
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1995· 4 entries
Released album “Hits and Rarities From the Sixties”.
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Released album “The Right Girl”.
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Released album “Roses for Carole”.
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Released album “Carol Anne King, Vol. 1”.
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1994· 5 entries
Released album “Carole King”.
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Released album “A Natural Woman: The Ode Collection, 1968–1976”.
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Released album “In Concert”.
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Released album “Time Gone By”.
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Released album “Pearls / Time Gone By”.
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1993· 2 entries
Released album “Colour of Your Dreams”.
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Reaching number 35 on the AC Chart the next year
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1990· 2 entries
Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1990).
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King was inducted, along with Goffin, into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the non-performer category for her songwriting achievements
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1989· 3 entries
Released album “City Streets”.
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With her version of "I Feel the Earth Move"
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Returned to Capitol Records and recorded City Streets, with Eric Clapton on two tracks and Branford Marsalis on one
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1988· 2 entries
Starred in the off-Broadway production A Minor Incident
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Goffin and King received the National Academy of Songwriters Lifetime Achievement Award
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1987· 1 entry
Goffin and King were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame
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1985· 2 entries
Wrote and performed "Care-A-Lot", the theme to The Care Bears Movie, and she wrote and performed "Home Is In Your Heart"
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Scored and performed (with David Sanborn) the soundtrack to the Martin Ritt-directed film Murphy's Romance
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1984· 2 entries
Journalist Catherine Foster of The Christian Science Monitor dubbed King "a Queen of Rock"
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Starred alongside Tatum O'Neal, Hoyt Axton, Alex Karras, and John Lithgow in the Faerie Tale Theatre episode Goldilocks and the Three Bears
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1983· 3 entries
Released album “Speeding Time”.
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Which was a reunion with Tapestry-era producer Lou Adler
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Released album “Carole King: One to One”.
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1982· 3 entries
Released album “One to One”.
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“The song is the center; the song is the key. If you don't have a good song you don't have anything by my value.”
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“I'm a songwriter first, have always been, and probably always will be. Making the demo is a natural product of writing a song; after that, I'm happy to hear other people do it in other ways.”
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1980· 1 entry
Released album “Pearls: Songs of Goffin and King”.
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1979· 1 entry
Released album “Touch the Sky”.
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1978· 2 entries
Released album “Welcome Home”.
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Released album “Her Greatest Hits: Songs of Long Ago”.
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1977· 3 entries
Released album “Simple Things”.
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King became involved in environmental issues
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King collaborated with another songwriter, Rick Evers, on Simple Things, the first release with a new label distributed by Capitol Records
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1976· 1 entry
To sing "The Loco-Motion" with King for the night's final encore
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1975· 5 entries
Appeared (credited under her married name, Carole Larkey) on The Mary Tyler Moore Show in the episode "Anyone Who Hates Kids and Dogs"
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When she was the speaking and singing voice of the title character in Really Rosie, an animated TV special based on the works of Maurice Sendak
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Released album “Thoroughbred”.
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Released album “Really Rosie”.
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King scored and recorded songs for the children's animated TV production of Maurice Sendak's Really Rosie, released as an album by the same name, with lyrics by Sendak
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1974· 1 entry
Released album “Wrap Around Joy”.
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1973· 2 entries
Released ep “Corazon”.
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Released album “Fantasy”.
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1972· 4 entries
Released ep “Sweet Seasons”.
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Released album “Rhymes & Reasons”.
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With "Where You Lead" twice—by itself and as part of a live medley with "Sweet Inspiration"
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And reached number 12 on the Billboard charts
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1971· 6 entries
Released album “Music”.
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Released album “Tapestry: Live in Hyde Park”.
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Released album “Tapestry”.
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And a Top 40 hit for Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway that same year
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Released ep “Demasiado Tarde = It's Too Late”.
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(number 62); the second was "I Can't Hear You No More" in 1976, combined with "Music Is My Life" to reach number 29
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1970· 2 entries
Released album “Writer”.
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For Lou Adler's Ode label, with Taylor playing acoustic guitar and providing backing vocals
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1963· 1 entry
Released album “The Dimension Dolls”.
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1958· 1 entry
Which she wrote and sang to an arrangement by Don Costa
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1942· 2 entries
Born 1942-02-09.
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In Manhattan, New York City, to Jewish parents Eugenia (née Cammer), a teacher, and Sidney N
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1937· 1 entry
During the last years of the Great Depression
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1936· 1 entry
At Brooklyn College, where her father was a chemistry major and her mother was an English and drama major
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