Carole King and Hal David: More Than Beautiful

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🗓️ 4 July 2016

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

While listening to this episode, we dare you to NOT sing out loud. Carole King and Hal David were each one half of a legendary songwriting duo, and each responsible for many of the greatest songs of the 1960’s and 70’s (too many to start mentioning here, but we packed as many as we could into the podcast). If you like a medley, you’re in the right place. Carole King worked with (and was married to) Gerry Goffin. Hal David worked with Burt Bacharach. They all worked in New York City’s Brill Building early in their careers, surrounded by record label execs, music publishers, radio promoters, and pianos. Lots and lots of pianos. The impact they had on music in the second half of the 20th century is undisputed. (c ) American Academy of Achievement 2016

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0:00.0	Madame, this child is gifted, and I heard that enough that I started to believe it.
0:08.6	If you have the opportunity, not a perfect opportunity, and you don't take it, you may never have another job.
0:15.0	It all was so clear. It was just like the picture started to form itself.
0:19.6	There was no way in which a lie could prevail over the truth, darkness over light, death over life.
0:27.0	Every day I wake up and decide. Today I'm going to love my life.
0:34.0	Decide.
0:39.0	My advice is if they don't break your leg once when you go in that place stay out of there. And then along come these differential experiences that you don't look for, you don't plan for,
0:46.3	but boy you better not miss them.
0:49.7	This is what it takes a podcast about passion, vision, and perseverance from the Academy of
0:59.4	Achievement.
1:00.4	I'm Alice Winkler. Just three days after the massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, 60 of Broadway's biggest
1:08.8	stars came together at a recording studio, and I'm talking about Lynn Menwell Miranda, Sarah Jessica Parker, Nathan
1:16.6	Lane, Edina Menzel, Sean Hayes, they came together to record a song in support of the devastated LGBT community of Orlando.
1:28.0	And this is the song they chose. Now is love sweet love. It's the only thing that there's just too little love.
1:51.5	What the world needs now was a massive 1960s hit. The lyrics were written by
1:57.2	Hal David, the music by Bert Bacharach. Five decades later the song's power to move people obviously still holds.
2:06.0	We don't need another mountain.
2:09.0	There are mountains and hillsides enough to climb.
2:16.4	There are oceans and rivers.
2:20.4	Enough to cross.
2:22.4	Enough to laugh, enough to laugh, till the end of the time.
2:27.0	What the world needs?
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