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~ Carole King, Gerry Goffin
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  • Audio CD (8 Oct 2007)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Ace
  • ASIN: B000UX43Y6
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 45,127 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. He's In Town - Tokens (1)
2. Let Me Get Close To You - Davis, Skeeter
3. Halfway To Paradise - Orlando, Tony
4. Idol - Vee, Bobby
5. First And Last - Chiffons
6. Brand New Man - Wylie, Richard 'Popcorn'
7. Another Night With The Boys - Drifters (1)
8. Heaven Is Being With You - De Shannon, Jackie
9. I Didn't Have Any Summer Romance - Satisfactions
10. Love Eyes - Dache, Bertell
11. Don't Ever Change - Crickets (1)
12. I'll Love You For A While - Jackson, Jill
13. I Was There - Welch, Lenny
14. I Just Can't Say Goodbye - Rydell, Bobby
15. I Can't Hear You - Everett, Betty
16. Just A Little Girl - Loren, Donna
17. You're Just What I Was Looking For Today - Everly Brothers
18. Hey Everybody - King, Ramona
19. I Can't Make It Alone - Proby, P.J.
20. Some Of Your Lovin' - Honey Bees
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If you only know Carole King as the denim-bedecked balladeer behind the singer-songwriter landmark TAPESTRY, or King and one-time husband Gerry Goffin only as the hitmeisters behind the Monkees, et al., this collection will set you straight. While it includes some of the pair's biggest hits for others (the Animals' "Don't Bring Me Down", etc.) it fills out the picture, showing that Goffin and King ventured into country (Skeeter Davis's "Let Me Get Close to You"), as well as turning out tunes for everyone from a pre-"Yellow Ribbon" Tony Orlando to a post-"Lion Sleeps Tonight" Tokens.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Nice Goffin & King compilation of mostly unknown songs, 17 Oct 2007
By Ronald Van Scherpenzeel (Madrid, Spain) - See all my reviews
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Besides all the big hits this wonderful couple wrote in the early part
of the 60's and that form part of the teenage dreams we lived through
by then, they wrote a lot of other beautiful songs that never hit the
charts and whose interpreters were completely unknown. Almost 45 years
later we now know that there were singers like Richard Wylie, The
Satisfactions, Bertell Dache, Jill Jackson, Ramona King, The Honey Bees
and Dee Dee Warwick. As always is the case with ACE, the liner notes
are extensive and inform us about every detail of each song and its
interpreter. There are some real beauties that when you listen to them,
you just don't understand why this song was never a hit. The Chiffons
"The First and Last" is better than any of their biggest hits. The
completely unknown songs by famous artist such as Bobby Vee, Bobby
Rydell, The Drifters, The Crickets, The Righteous Brothers etc. make
you wonder why they never hit the TOP 100. Some of the songs of this
compilation written by Goffin & King have been produced by Phil Spector
and Jack Nitzsche. Is there anything better than this "cocktail" of
super writers and super producers?? The song by P.J. Proby is just
a sample of this explosive encounter! ACE does not only give you MUSIC
with capital letters but they also give you all the information you've
never had or read before. I can't give it 5 stars, however, because
there are some 5 songs that sound like "fillers up". It would have
been a wise idea to reduce this compilation to 20.

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Important addition to the catalogue, 11 Oct 2007
By Richard "Alice Collector" (Blackpool England) - See all my reviews
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John Lennon & Paul McCartney wanted to be Goffin & King but soon overtook them.
In fact Carole King had been making records since 1959 when she cut an answer version of Neil Sedaka's Oh Carol-which stands up well in its own right as a piece of cod country music.
Though Carole King would later become a superstar singer in her own right she found herself in the unque position of covering herself when the album Pearls was issued among a series of albums of her newer songs with other lyric writers.Though she was called a singer songwriter technically speaking she wasn't any more than Neil Sedaka or Elton John who interpreted other peoples' words.
A Cd has now been made available from Canada which gathers all her 50s and 60s solo recordings together up to Road to Nowhere from 1967 on her own short lived Tomorrow label/
Collecting Goggin & King and their various collaborations with others means over 1000 singles and album tracks,many hard to find even on CD.
With this collection you get a few of the obvious hits and many rareities.
My own favorite of their songs is Honey & Wine which like so many was well hidden and never realised its full potential so you found it via a few U K recordings which told you more about what the A & R manager brought back from the publishers if it was cheap enough and Honey & Wine had failed as a single by cabaret singer Fran Jefferies eventually ending up with the Back Porch Majority who were connected with the New Christy Minstrels.
The song obviously needed the Righteous Brothers.
One of Goffin & King's more throwaway songs was Show me girl-handed to Herman's Hermits as a demo by Carole King.As the original version of I'm into something good had failed it was covered in England by one Lady Lee who was associated with both Kenny Everett and Billy Fury.Her disc was played by Everett to Mickie Most who decided his new client Peter Noone could do more with it-there's no sentiment in rock'n'roll and the success of hermans hermits meant Goffin & King had a massive windfall.
However by the end of the 60s Goffin & King were no more they were divorced and she went to live on a commune where she wrote songs with Charles Larkey of the Fugs.An album credited to the City was the result and then came the A & M contract,the Writer album and the rest is history
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3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyed this one...., 12 Nov 2007
By Stephen Ormerod (UK) - See all my reviews
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Whilst I wont go into the same details as the other reviews, I did enjoy this CD. Its full of strong performances and is a worthwhile buy.....the liner notes are comprehensive.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Collection
I bought this only on the strenghth of Gerry Goffin & Carole King's known songwriting ability of other songs not on this set. Read more
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