She's already been inducted with ex-husband and onetime creative partner Gerry Goffin for songwriting, but she deserves to be in for her own achievements, too.
This is our new feature called ‘Obscure Song Monday.’ Each week we spotlight a song from the 70’s or 80’s that was a big hit on the charts, but over time, seemed to have been forgotten about.
Carole King's 2016 appearance at London's Hyde Park brought the acclaimed singer-songwriter back to the U.K. for the first time in nearly three decades.
Back in my college days, the album "Tapestry" by Carole King was required listening. She had written so many hits for other artists in the 1960s, and had so many of her own hits in the 70s, so where is she now?
You may not know his name, but you know his lyrics and many hits of the 1950s and 60s that he co-wrote with then wife, Carole King. Gerry Goffin who put words to such songs as "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?", "Up On The Roof" and many more, died on Thursday at age 75.
Legendary singer-songwriter Carole King will receive the 2013 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. James H. Billington, the Librarian of Congress, announced the award today (Dec. 13), saying King will travel to Washington to perform at the Library's Coolidge Auditorium next spring.