Carole King Pop Hit artist and Jewish Name Changer

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Still another "Phone-book"  Ashkenazi NY-Jew.  I heard this music through out most of my life, like elevator music, and for some reason I always thought Carole King was Black/Afro-American until I saw her picture a few years ago.  But it is just another Hippie 60's Jew trying to act "Black". --CSR

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Carole Klein aka "King"

Early life

Born Carol Joan Klein[6] (she added the "e" to her first name) in 1942 to a Jewish family in Manhattan, New York City, King grew up in Brooklyn. She learned the piano, then began singing with a vocal quartet called the Co-Sines at James Madison High School. As a teenager dreaming of having a successful entertainment career, she decided to give herself a new last name (but only for her stage name), stumbling upon "King" in a telephone directory.    She attended Queens College, where she was a classmate (and girlfriend) of Neil Sedaka and inspired Sedaka's second hit, "Oh! Carol". She responded with "Oh! Neil". At Queens College, she befriended Paul Simon and Gerry Goffin.[7] She later married Goffin and they had two daughters.

Partnership with Gerry Goffin


Goffin and King formed a songwriting partnership for Aldon Music at 1650 Broadway in New York. Their first success was "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", recorded by The Shirelles. It topped the American charts in 1961, becoming the first No.1 hit by a girl group. It was later recorded by Linda Ronstadt, Ben E. King, Dusty Springfield, Laura Branigan, Little Eva, Roberta Flack, The Four Seasons, Bryan Ferry, Dave Mason, Dionne Warwick, and Melanie Safka as well as by King herself, and Amy Winehouse.

While dating Goffin in high school, King became pregnant at the age of 17. Upon coming to her parents with the news of her pregnancy, they decided it was best for King and Goffin to get married as soon as possible. On August 30, 1959, Goffin and then 17-year-old King married in a Jewish ceremony on Long Island. King gave birth to Louise Goffin shortly afterwards and would eventually go on to have another child, Sherry Goffin. Both Louise and Sherry are musicians.[8]

In 1965, Goffin and King wrote a theme song for Sidney Sheldon's television series, I Dream of Jeannie, but an instrumental by Hugo Montenegro was used instead. Goffin and King's 1967 song, "Pleasant Valley Sunday", a No. 3 for The Monkees, was inspired by their move to suburban West Orange, New Jersey.[9] Goffin and King also wrote "Porpoise Song (Theme from Head)" for Head, the Monkees' film. (King also co-wrote "As We Go Along" with Toni Stern for the same film soundtrack.)

Goffin and King divorced in 1968 but Carole consulted Goffin on music she was writing. King lost touch with Goffin because of his declining mental health and the effect it had on their children.[8]

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Frank Schiffman, owner of a number of musical venues in New York's Harlem area, "was a ruthless competitor who would do anything, including take advantage of his black employees and exploit the great black artists who worked for him, in order to increase his profits and beat down the opposition." [COOPER, p. 44] "Remember [Black singer] Little Eva Boyd?" asks Ralph Cooper, "She worked as a babysitter for two Tin Pan Alley [Jewish] rock and roll writers, Carole King and Gerry Goffen. They wrote a song called 'Loco-Motion' and they asked her to sing it ... Now [1990] she lives in North Carolina, where her people are from. She's a working mother on welfare. She works in a barbeque kitchen as a cook." [COOPER, p. 196]

In 1992, Bill McKibben noted an interesting piece of music trivia that he had heard about on television:

"Neil Sedaka went to the same high school as Neil Diamond and Barbara Streisand, and while he was there he wrote a song about a girl called Carole Klein who went on to become Carole King and of course had several number one records." [MCKIBBEN, p. 20] The author doesn't mention it, but, rather curiously, aside from the fact that they all became famous pop singers, they were also all Jewish. In fact, in the early 1960s, Don Kirschner and partner Al Nevins had a company called Aldon Music as a kind of last outpost of the seminal Tin Pan Alley complex at the so-called "Brill Building" in New York City. Their hirees (mainly song writers at that time) were virtually all Jewish, including Carole King, Gerry Goffin, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weill, Neil Diamond, Neil Sedaka, and Howard Greenflens. Later came Phil Spector, Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman, Burt Bacharach, Hal David, Jerry Leiber, and Mike Stoller. [SCHEURER, T., p. 90] Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry, notes Rich Wiseman, were "one of the hottest songwriter teams in pop." [WISEMAN, p. 31]

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Ten Carole King Songs You Don't Know As Hers

From Herman's Hermits to Lisa Simpson, these were actually covers
By Marc Tracy|May 10, 2012 9:54 AM|14comments



Carole King on the cover of Tapestry.(Amazon)

The release last month of Carole King's memoir, A Natural Woman, and the death of Maurice Sendak, with whom King collaborated, have inspired this list. While King is undoubtedly one of the greatest songwriters of the second half of the 20th century, she is arguably the most underrated. Her tunes (for which she tended to write the music; the lyrics would be written by her first husband, Gerry Goffin, or by later collaborators, including Sendak), whether Motown-style or not, fall into one of three categories: ones she wrote but never recorded; ones she wrote and recorded but which not many people heard, or heard her versions of; and ones on Tapestry. If you're my age, ask your parents about Tapestry.

Songs on this list, however, are not on Tapestry (with one exception). They are instead the best Carole King songs that you may not have known are, in fact, Carole King songs.

10: "Take Good Care of My Baby," Bobby Vee—from 1961, but almost feels pre-'60s.

9: "Jazzman," Lisa Simpson—this actually was originally recorded by King, in 1974, but I guarantee you more people know it as Lisa's eulogy for Bleeding Gums Murphy.

8: "Another Pleasant Valley Sunday," the Monkees—what, you thought the Monkees wrote their own stuff?

7: "Don't Say Nothing Bad About My Baby," The Cookies—yes, a Jewish lady from Brooklyn wrote this, really.



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6: "One Fine Day," The Chiffons—ditto.

5: "Don't Bring Me Down," The Animals—exactly the sort of tune you wouldn't think she wrote!

4: "You've Got a Friend"—yes, it's on Tapestry, but the version by her friend James Taylor is so definitive. And he was no songwriting slouch.

3: "I'm Into Something Good," Herman's Hermits—something about the blues progression here feels so typically her, in much the same way that the next song's does.

2: "The Loco-Motion," Little Eva—you think you can hear King singing this song in her voice; but she didn't until 1980.

1: "Up on the Roof"—quite simply one of the great songs. The James Taylor version is wonderful, too. And is there a track more subtly yet quintessentially New York?

Okay and here is her doing "I Feel the Earth Move."


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[Christopher Marlowe]

Yes. I just listened to that whole video and I have to say that Carole King is a very talented song writer and singer. Those are great songs and that was a great little show they did on the BBC once upon a time.