She recorded her first song at 16 in 1958, married and began writing songs fellow Queens College student Gerry Goffin in 1959, and with him scored her first No. 1 hit, "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" the year following, and over the next 8 years the team went on to write "The Loco-Motion", "One Fine Day", "Chains", "Up On The Roof", "I'm Into Something Good", "Natural Woman" more than two dozen other chart-toppers before they split up and she moved to Los Angeles. Then in 1971, at 29, she released her first solo-album, Tapesty, which introduced such classics as "You've Got A Friend", "I Feel The Earth Move", "So Far Away" and "It's Too Late", won 4 Grammys, held the #1 spot on the Billboard Top 100 for 15 weeks and remained on that chart for the next 6 years.
Lynnea Barry welcomes Vicki Brabham, Siri Vik, Hanna Foshay and company for an exploration of and tribute to the extraordinary first decade of the career of one of the most prolific female musicans in the history of pop music, Carole King.
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