Carole King's Tapestry

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Music, Arts, Society & Culture

4.3 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

It's been more than 50 years since Carole King's Tapestry was released to critical and cultural acclaim, and the record is still as impressive today as it was then. Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot revisit their classic album dissection of Carole King's Tapestry.

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Featured Songs:

Carole King, "It's Too Late," Tapestry, Ode, 1971

The Shirelles, "Will You Love Me Tomorrow," Tonight's the Night, Scepter, 1960

Little Eva, "The Loco-motion," The Loco-motion (Single), Dimension 1000, 1962

Bobby Vee, "Take Good Care of My Baby," Take Good Care of My Baby, Liberty, 1961

The Monkees, "Pleasant Valley Sunday," Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd., Colgems, 1967

Carole King, "It Might As Well Rain Until September," It Might As Well Rain Until September (Single), Dimension, 1962

The City, "Now That Everything's Been Said," Now That Everything's Been Said, Ode, 1968

Carole King, "No Easy Way Down," Writer, Ode, 1970

Carole King, "Beautiful," Tapestry, Ode, 1971

Carole King, "I Feel the Earth Move," Tapestry, Ode, 1971

Carole King, "You've Got a Friend," Tapestry, Ode, 1971

Carole King, "Tapestry," Tapestry, Ode, 1971

Carole King, "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman," Tapestry, Ode, 1971

Carole King and Louise Gioffin, "Where You Lead," Our Little Corner of the World: Music From Gilmore Girls, Rhino, 2002

Carole King, "Where You Lead," Tapestry, Ode, 1971

Carole King, "So Far Away," Tapestry, Ode, 1971

Carole King, "Will You Love Me Tomorrow," Tapestry, Ode, 1971

Carole King, "Way Over Yonder," Tapestry, Ode, 1971

Carole King, "Home Again," Tapestry, Ode, 1971

Carole King, "Smackwater Jack," Tapestry, Ode, 1971

James Taylor, "You've Got a Friend," Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon, Warner Bros., 1971

Carole King and James Taylor, "You've Got a Friend," Live At The Troubadour, Syzygy, 2010

Liz Phair, "Divorce Song (Girly-Sound Version)," The Girly-Sound Tapes, Matador, 2018

Lauryn Hill, "Everything Is Everything," The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Columbia, 1998

Tori Amos, "Cornflake Girl," Under the Pink, Atlantic, 1994

Caroline Rose, "Do You Think We'll Last Forever?," Superstar, New West, 2020

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0:00.0	Hey Sound Opinions listeners, if you support us on Patreon, you get to listen to our podcast,
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0:08.0	One, two, three, a quarto. Oh, You're listening to sound opinions and this week we're doing a classic album
0:33.4	Dyssection of Carol King's masterpiece, Tappestry.
0:37.6	I'm Jim De Regottis and I'm Greg Kott.
0:39.8	Let's jump right in.
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1:01.0	It's time to do a deep dive into Carol King's Tapestry, a classic album
1:05.4	dissection of this 1971 album that still is being handed down generation to
1:11.4	generation, you got to listen to this record because it was a life-changing
1:15.0	one in 1971 and it's still a life-changing one now for people who are coming to it for the first time.
1:21.1	We're going to dive into why that's true. At the center of it all, obviously
1:25.2	Carol King, born Carol Klein in New York in 1942 to a working-class family. She grew up in
1:31.0	Brooklyn. She was an advanced student, apparently very precocious, very talented. Something of a prodigy. You know, perfect pitch as a toddler. You know, playing piano as a kid. In the 50s, she went to Brooklyn High School, James Madison, where she formed her
1:44.9	first band, The Cosines. changed her name from Carol Klein to Carol King at that point.
1:51.2	She started writing songs with a guy named Paul Simon.
1:53.2	You ever heard of him?
1:54.2	Paul Simon.
1:55.2	Yeah, about $25 a session.
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