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Yet the lyrics that Goffin would write for this song – powerfully delivered in performance by Aretha Franklin (and a few years later, also by Carole King) – continue to amaze critics to this day for Goffin’s ability to plumb the depths of female emotion. Goffin’s daughter for one, Sherry, herself a musician, would say on camera during a 2017 TV special, that lines from that song, such as – “When my soul was in the lost and found / You came along to claim it,” among others – were pretty amazing. Gerry Goffin had a gift that way. That's What I Like" – Christopher Brody Brown, James Fauntleroy, Philip Lawrence, Bruno Mars, Ray Charles McCullough II, Jeremy Reeves, Ray Romulus & Jonathan Yip (songwriters) (2017)
Stephen Holden, “The Pop Life …Songwriters Hall of Fame Inducts Nine Members,” New York Times, March 11, 1987, p. 24. James Taylor and Carole King Craft Season's Hottest Tour". Billboard. Archived from the original on September 20, 2014 . Retrieved April 19, 2014. Goffin died on June 19, 2014, in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 75. His death was announced by his wife, Michele. No cause was specified. He left behind a wife, one son, four daughters, and six grandchildren. [4] Tributes [ edit ] Carole King Fast Facts". CNN. June 14, 2019. Archived from the original on October 5, 2019 . Retrieved October 4, 2019.
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Vaziri, Aidin (August 15, 2004). "Pop Quiz: Carole King". SF Gate. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 . Retrieved December 30, 2015. Troubadours: The Rise of the Singer-Songwriter,” DVD and CD, from TV film aired on PBS ‘American Masters’ series. At college he met Carol Joan Klein, who had started writing songs under the name Carole King. They began collaborating on songwriting, with King writing the music and Goffin the lyrics, and began a relationship. When King became pregnant, they left college and married in August 1959 when he was 20 and she was 17. Goffin began working with a chemicals manufacturer, and wrote the lyrics for King's 1959 single "Oh Neil", an answer song to her friend Neil Sedaka's " Oh! Carol". Goffin added the words to the tune written by Sedaka and Howard Greenfield, who both worked under Don Kirshner at the Aldon music publishing company in Manhattan; the single's B-side, "A Very Special Boy", was a Goffin-King composition. [7] Although the record was not a hit, the couple both secured contracts to write songs professionally at Aldon. [3] [8]
Yet, within a year of this single reaching the U.S. Top 10, the Goffin-King partnership was over. Both Carole and Gerry would move to California, where their careers would take new turns.King attended Queens College, where she met Gerry Goffin, who was to become her songwriting partner. When she was 17, they married in a Jewish ceremony on Long Island in August 1959 after King became pregnant with her first daughter, Louise. [24] [25] They quit college and took day jobs, Goffin working as an assistant chemist and King as a secretary. [26] They wrote songs together in the evening. [27] King launched her Living Room Tour in July 2004 at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago. That show, along with shows at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles and the Cape Cod Melody Tent (Hyannis, Massachusetts), were recorded as The Living Room Tour in July 2005. The album sold 44,000 copies in its first week in the US, landing at 17 on the Billboard 200, her highest-charting album since 1977. The album also charted at 51 in Australia. It has sold 330,000 copies in the United States. [65] [66] [67] In August 2006 the album re-entered the Billboard 200 at 151. [68] The tour stopped in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. A DVD of the tour, called Welcome to My Living Room, was released in October 2007. [69] Troubadours – Carole King's Monumental Tapestry Album | American Masters | PBS". PBS. February 20, 2015. Archived from the original on February 20, 2015 . Retrieved April 3, 2018. Carole-King-Welcome-to-My-Living-Room – Cast, Crew, Director and Awards". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2012. Archived from the original on November 4, 2012 . Retrieved April 19, 2014. a b c d e f Yardley, William; Keepnews, Peter (June 19, 2014). "Gerry Goffin, Songwriter With Carole King, Dies at 75". The New York Times.
Goffin then masterfully captured the uncertainties of a new era of liberated women. His words portrayed a voice that was both self-assured and vulnerable: “I listened to it a few times,” Goffin told King’s biographer, Sheila Weller, “Then I put myself in the place of a woman — yes, it was sort of autobiographical. I thought: what would a girl sing to a guy if they made love that night?” Carole King – The Right Girl / Goin' Wild (Vinyl)". discogs.com. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013 . Retrieved March 18, 2013. beacon-theatre-new-york-city-ny". Brucebase. Archived from the original on July 27, 2020 . Retrieved May 3, 2020. Co-written with Howard Greenfield. Howard was a coworker of King and Goffin at Aldon Music. The song reached No. 6 in the US Pop Charts in 1962. Maxine Brown - 'Oh No Not My Baby' 1964Cathy Applefeld Olson, “Carole King, George Lucas & More Feted at 2015 Kennedy Center Honors,” Billboard.com, December 7, 2015. Carole King: Music was released in December 1971, certified gold on December 9, 1971. It entered the top ten at 8, and for many weeks Tapestry and Carole King: Music simultaneously occupied the top 10. The following week it rose to No.3 and finally to No.1 on January 1, 1972, staying there for three weeks. The album also spawned a top 10 hit, "Sweet Seasons" (US No.9 and AC No.2). Carole King: Music stayed on the Billboard pop album charts for 44 weeks and was eventually certified platinum.
Over the next several years, through the mid- and late 1960s, more hits came for Gerry Goffin and Carole King, including more No. 1 hits, and others charting in the Top Ten and Top 40. In all, between 1960 and 1968, the Goffin-King team would write more than 50 Top 40 hits together – among those not already mentioned: “Crying in the Rain,” “Some Kind of Wonderful,” “Take Good Care of My Baby,” “Pleasant Valley Sunday,” “Natural Woman,” and others. In any case, Goffin and King’s “Pleasant Valley Sunday” captured a bit of the critical vibe at the time for suburbia in the 1960s. The song stayed in the Top 40 for most of that summer and was also featured during the Monkees’ television series that year.
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The lyrics to this song describe how friends and family repeatedly warn the singer about a partner's infidelities. It has been covered by plenty of big names, including Dusty Springfield, Aretha Franklin, Cher, Linda Ronstadt and Merry Clayton. The Monkees - 'Pleasant Valley Sunday' 1967 Kenny Lynch (UK #10, 1962), Julie Grant (UK #33, 1963), Carole King ( in 1970), Laura Nyro ( in 1970),Tony Orlando and Dawn (1970) in album Candida, James Taylor ( in 1979, #28), Neil Diamond ( in 1993), Robson and Jerome (UK #1, 1995), Billy Joe Royal, Peter Cincotti Smooth" by Santana (Rodney Holmes, Tony Lindsay, Karl Perazzo, Raul Rekow, Benny Rietveld, Carlos Santana& Chester Thompson) featuring Rob Thomas (1999) A Celebration of Carole King And Her Music; Denver Post". Denver Post. December 5, 2012. Archived from the original on December 7, 2012 . Retrieved December 19, 2012. The Drifters' original recording of this song (co-written with Gerry Goffin) reached No. 32 on the US Billboard pop chart and No. 6 on the R&B chart. Covered by musicians such as Marvin Gaye (1968), Jay and the Americans (1970), Peter Cincotti (2004), Aled Jones (2007), and Michael Bublé (2010) in addition to Carole's own recording in 1971. Carole King - 'Where You Lead' 1970
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