So, composing for film then.
"I don't always speak right. But I always know what I'm talking about". lol.
"I don't always speak right. But I always know what I'm talking about". lol.
Carole King didn't think she was much of a singer, although she did have a medium size hit with "It Might As Well Rain Until September" in 1963. She really didn't make her own splash until she released her "Tapestry" album in '71.What I find surprising is that Carole King didn't release her own stuff back in those early days. Back then she was a hit writer for others. So many great hits came out of the Brill Building!
"On August 25, 1962, a diminutive, 17-year-old singer named Eva Narcissus Boyd scored her first and only #1 pop hit with “The Loco-Motion.”"
So I would have been about 12 I guess, but remember it on the radio.
Just as Neil Sedaka's Oh, Carol is about Carole King, Carole's own record, "Oh, Neil" is about him. To quote a phrase I heard Bill Champlin use, it "shipped double linoleum."What I find surprising is that Carole King didn't release her own stuff back in those early days. Back then she was a hit writer for others. So many great hits came out of the Brill Building!
Thank you Linda. I had mistakenly stated that Ed Cassidy was Randy's Father in law. My bad. Old memories.Just as Neil Sedaka's Oh, Carol is about Carole King, Carole's own record, "Oh, Neil" is about him. To quote a phrase I heard Bill Champlin use, it "shipped double linoleum."
Little Eva was Carole King's children's babysitter.
King's songs w/Goffin were recorded/or covered by Beatles, Drifters, Byrds, Monkees, Aretha, Chiffons, and Blood, Sweat & Tears, among others.
Check out Carole King's album Pearls-Songs of Goffin & King for her 1980 recordings of many of these hits:
https://www.discogs.com/master/201715-Carole-King-Pearls-Songs-Of-Goffin-And-King
Ed Cassidy, Spirit's drummer was Randy California's stepfather. Before Spirit, Ed had formed Rising Sons w/Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder. Met both Randy & Ed not long before Randy's untimely death.
I do have their concert at The Troubador!I feel the earth move, under my feet...
I remember when she and JT both had a lot of airplay on the radio back when.
Delete"On August 25, 1962, a diminutive, 17-year-old singer named Eva Narcissus Boyd scored her first and only #1 pop hit with “The Loco-Motion.”"
So I would have been about 12 I guess, but remember it on the radio.
Randy Wolfe was the guitarist and Randy Palmer was the bassist in Jimi’s band, Jimmy James and the Blue Flames. To avoid confusion Hendrix referred to each of them by their home state, making them “Randy California” and “Randy Texas,” respectively.Just as Neil Sedaka's Oh, Carol is about Carole King, Carole's own record, "Oh, Neil" is about him. To quote a phrase I heard Bill Champlin use, it "shipped double linoleum."
Little Eva was Carole King's children's babysitter.
King's songs w/Goffin were recorded/or covered by Beatles, Drifters, Byrds, Monkees, Aretha, Chiffons, and Blood, Sweat & Tears, among others.
Check out Carole King's album Pearls-Songs of Goffin & King for her 1980 recordings of many of these hits:
https://www.discogs.com/master/201715-Carole-King-Pearls-Songs-Of-Goffin-And-King
Ed Cassidy, Spirit's drummer was Randy California's stepfather. Before Spirit, Ed had formed Rising Sons w/Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder. Met both Randy & Ed not long before Randy's untimely death.
Were. Joe’s been married 5 times. I forget who the following is credited to:
Dylan wrote “Lay Lady Lay” about Barbra Streisand.No. It's on Dad Loves His Work album, and vinyl liner notes list background vocals J.D., but I heard it on the radio when it came out and I knew right away who it was. I always liked his voice. He was big friends with Graham Parsons and that whole group.
The JT one I loved the best was City Lights with his brother Livingston, and it was on Liv's album. You can't miss their brothers when you hear them sing separately. He's a music professor at Berkley in California and I sent him my album cover and I suggested that he should have a Taylor Family record with his bother Liv and his sister Kate. Unfortunatey his older brother Alex died from alcoholism many yeas ago and he had one album. If you close you eyes and imagine it you can hear a JT similarity.
The one that shocked me was Bob Dylan as the vocalist for Lay Lady Lay. Wow!
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