Carole King - Wrap Around Joy ( 1974 )

 

Track listing

All tracks are written by Carole King and David Palmer.

Side one

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Nightingale"	3:36
2.	"Change in Mind, Change of Heart"	4:39
3.	"Jazzman"	3:43
4.	"You Go Your Way, I'll Go Mine"	3:32
5.	"You're Something New"	2:53
6.	"We Are All in This Together"	4:02

Side two

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Wrap Around Joy"	2:56
2.	"You Gentle Me"	3:46
3.	"My Lovin' Eyes"	3:06
4.	"Sweet Adonis"	3:21
5.	"A Night This Side of Dying"	2:57
6.	"The Best Is Yet to Come"	3:30
Total length:		42:06

Personnel

• Carole King - piano, vocals, backing vocals
• Tom Scott - saxophone on "Jazzman"
• Susan Ranney - bass
• Andy Newmark - drums
• Louise Goffin and Sherry Goffin - backing vocals on "Nightingale"
• Mike Altschul - horn
• George Bohanon - trombone
• Mari Tsumura - violin
• Denyse Buffum - viola
• Thomas Buffum - violin
• The David Campbell String Section - strings on "We Are All in This Together"
• The Eddie Kendricks Singers - vocals on "We Are All in This Together"
• Gene Coe - horn
• Maurice Dicterow - violin
• Richard Feves - bass
• Chuck Findley - trumpet
• Frederick Seykora - cello
• Abigale Haness - backing vocals
• Jim Horn - saxophone on "Wrap Around Joy"
• Dick "Slyde" Hyde - trombone
• Danny Kortchmar - guitar, vocals
• Charles Larkey - bass
• Gordon Marron Strings - violin
• Dan Neufeld - viola
• Andy Newmark - drums
• Dean Parks - guitar
• Paul Polivinick - viola
• Jay Rosen - violin
• Sheldon Sanov - violin
• Haim Shtrum - violin
• Jeff Solow - cello
• Lya Stern - violin
• Polly Sweeney - violin
• Ernie Watts - horn
• Richard Kaufman - violin
• Nina Deveritch - cello
• Bobby Dubow - violin
• Gottfried Hoogeveen - cello
• Dan Newfeld - viola
• Fred Jackson, Jr. - horn

Carole King - Fantasy ( 1973 )

 

Track listing

All tracks are written by Carole King.

Side one

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Fantasy Beginning"	1:02
2.	"You've Been Around Too Long"	3:42
3.	"Being at War With Each Other"	3:26
4.	"Directions"	3:58
5.	"That's How Things Go Down"	3:01
6.	"Weekdays"	2:44

Side two

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Haywood"	4:46
2.	"A Quiet Place to Live"	1:55
3.	"Welfare Symphony"	3:47
4.	"You Light Up My Life"	3:13
5.	"Corazón"	4:05
6.	"Believe in Humanity"	3:19
7.	"Fantasy End"	1:25
Total length:		40:30

Personnel

• Carole King - vocals, piano, backing vocals, string and horn arrangements
• David T. Walker - guitar
• Charles Larkey - bass guitar, double bass
• Susan Ranney - double bass
• Harvey Mason - drums, vibraphone
• Ms. Bobbye Hall - congas, bongas
• Eddie Kendricks - backing vocals
• Tom Scott, Curtis Amy, Ernie Watts, Mike Altschul - saxophone
• Chuck Findley, Ollie Mitchell, Al Aarons - trumpet, flugelhorn
• George Bohanon - trombone, euphonium, trombone arrangements
• Charles Loper, Dick "Slyde" Hyde - trombone
• Ken Yerke, Barry Socher, Sheldon Sanov, Haim Shtrum, Kathleen Lenski, Miwako Watanabe, Glenn Dicterow, Polly Sweeney, Robert Lipsett, Gordon Marron - violin
• Denyse Buffum, David Campbell, Alan DeVeritch, Paul Polivnick - viola
• Jeffrey Solow, Judy Perett, Denis Brott, Dennis Karmazyn - cello

Carole King - Rymes & Reasons ( 1972 )

 

Track listing

All songs by Carole King unless otherwise noted.

Side one

1. "Come Down Easy" – 3:06 (King, Toni Stern)
2. "My My She Cries" – 2:19 (King, Stern)
3. "Peace in the Valley" – 3:23 (King, Stern)
4. "Feeling Sad Tonight" – 3:13 (King, Stern)
5. "The First Day in August" – 2:50 (King, Charles Larkey)
6. "Bitter with the Sweet" – 2:29

Side two

7. "Goodbye Don't Mean I'm Gone" – 3:34
8. "Stand Behind Me" – 2:29
9. "Gotta Get Through Another Day" – 2:35
10. "I Think I Can Hear You" – 3:26
11. "Ferguson Road" – 2:40 (Gerry Goffin, King)
12. "Been to Canaan" – 3:38

Personnel

• Carole King – vocals, piano, keyboards
• Charles Larkey – bass guitar
• Harvey Mason – drums
• Bobbye Hall – percussion
• Danny Kortchmar – electric guitar
• David T. Walker – electric guitar
• Red Rhodes – steel guitar
• Harry "Sweets" Edison – flugelhorn, trumpet
• Robert "Bobby" Bryant – flugelhorn, trumpet
• George Bohanon – trombone
• Ernie Watts – flute

String Section:
Conducted and arranged by David Campbell and Norman Kurban

• David Campbell and Carole S. Mukogawa – viola
• Terry King and Nathaniel Rosen – cellos
• Charles Larkey – string bass
• Barry Socher, Eliot Chapo, Marcy E. Dicterow, Gorden H. Marron, Sheldon Sanov 
• and Polly Sweeney – violin

Carole King - Music ( 1971 )

 

Track listing

All songs written by Carole King, except where noted.

Side one

1. "Brother, Brother" – 3:00
2. "It's Going to Take Some Time" (King, Toni Stern) – 3:35
3. "Sweet Seasons" (King, Stern) – 3:15
4. "Some Kind of Wonderful" (King, Gerry Goffin) – 3:07
5. "Surely" – 4:58
6. "Carry Your Load" – 2:52

Side two

7. "Music" – 3:50
8. "Song of Long Ago" – 2:44
9. "Brighter" – 2:46
10. "Growing Away from Me" – 3:03
11. "Too Much Rain" (King, Stern) – 3:35
12. "Back to California" – 3:23

Personnel

• Carole King – vocals, piano, electric piano, electric celeste, backing vocals
• Ralph Schuckett – organ on "Sweet Seasons" and "Surely", electric piano on "Back to California", electric celeste on "Growing Away from Me"
• Danny Kortchmar – acoustic and electric guitars, backing vocals
• James Taylor – acoustic guitar on "Some Kind of Wonderful", "Song of Long Ago" and "Too Much Rain", backing vocals on "Some Kind of Wonderful"
• Charles Larkey – electric and acoustic bass guitar
• Joel O'Brien – drums
• Russ Kunkel – drums on "Back to California"
• Ms. Bobbye Hall – congas, bongos, tambourine
• Teresa Calderon – congas on "Brother, Brother"
• Curtis Amy – tenor saxophone on "Brother, Brother", Sweet Seasons" and "Music", flute on "Surely"
• Oscar Brashear – flugelhorn on "Sweet Seasons" and "Carry Your Load"
• William Green – woodwind, flute, saxophone
• William Collette – woodwind, flute, saxophone
• Ernest Watts – woodwind, flute, saxophone
• Plas Johnson – woodwind, flute, saxophone
• Mike Altschul – woodwind, flute, saxophone
• Abigale Haness – backing vocals
• Merry Clayton – backing vocals

Carole King - Tapestry ( 1971 )

 

Track listing

All songs written by Carole King except where noted.

Side 1

1. "I Feel the Earth Move" – 3:00
2. "So Far Away" – 3:55
3. "It's Too Late" (lyrics by Toni Stern) – 3:54
4. "Home Again" – 2:29
5. "Beautiful" – 3:08
6. "Way Over Yonder" – 4:49

Side 2

7. "You've Got a Friend" – 5:09
8. "Where You Lead" (King, Stern) – 3:20
9. "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?" (Gerry Goffin, King) – 4:13
10. "Smackwater Jack" (Goffin, King) – 3:42
11. "Tapestry" – 3:15
12. "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" (Goffin, King, Jerry Wexler) – 3:59

Personnel

• Carole King – piano, keyboards, vocals, backing vocals

Additional musicians

• Curtis Amy – flute; baritone, soprano and tenor saxophone; string quartet
• David Campbell – cello, viola
• Merry Clayton – backing vocals
• Terry King – cello, tenor saxophone, string quartet
• Danny Kortchmar – acoustic guitar, conga, electric guitar, vocals
• Russ Kunkel – drums
• Charles "Charlie" Larkey – bass guitar, string bass, string quartet
• Joni Mitchell – backing vocals
• Joel O'Brien – drums
• Ralph Schuckett – electric piano
• Barry Socher – violin, tenor saxophone, viola, string quartet
• Perry Steinberg – bass guitar, violin, tenor saxophone, string bass
• James Taylor – acoustic guitar, backing vocals
• Julia Tillman – backing vocals

Carole King - Writer ( 1970 )

 

Track listing

All songs written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King; lyrics for "Raspberry Jam" and "What Have You Got to Lose" by Toni Stern.

Side one

1. "Spaceship Races" – 3:09
2. "No Easy Way Down" – 4:36
3. "Child of Mine" – 4:05
4. "Goin' Back" – 3:20
5. "To Love" – 3:39
6. "What Have You Got to Lose" – 3:33

Side two

1. "Eventually" – 5:01
2. "Raspberry Jam" – 4:35
3. "Can't You Be Real" – 3:00
4. "I Can't Hear You No More" – 2:46
5. "Sweet Sweetheart" – 2:46
6. "Up on the Roof" – 3:37

Personnel

• Carole King – piano, vocals, backing vocals, arrangements
• Ralph Schuckett – organ
• John Fischbach – Moog synthesizer
• James Taylor – acoustic guitar, backing vocals
• Danny Kortchmar – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, conga
• Charles Larkey – Fender bass
• Joel O'Brien – drums, percussion, vibes
• Abigale Haness, Delores Hall – backing vocals