Though they [88], After relocating to Idaho in 1977, King became involved in environmental issues. Born in Brooklyn, Goffin met King when they were students at Queens College, according to a biography on the Songwriters Hall of Fame website. Consent Settings, Copyright 2023 Contactmusic.com Ltd, all rights reserved. Carole writes: In 1962, the lyricist (and my then-husband) Gerry Goffin and I were driving up the Garden State Parkway when we heard Dionne Warwick's recor HOME CATEGORIES He left a wife, one son, four daughters, and six grandchildren. Carole King Inductee 1942 Born 1987 Inducted One of the most successful female songwriters of 20th century * Carole King was also the 2002 recipient of The Johnny Mercer Award, the SHOF's highest honor Carole King was born Carole Klein to Jewish parents in Brooklyn, New York on February 9, 1942. Charles and Carole divorced in 1976. [77] Following the Boston Marathon bombing, she performed in Boston with James Taylor to help victims of the bombing. They married in 1959. tone and the vernacular of their audience's inner experiences with uncanny accuracy. not far from King's parents' apartment. Family (1) Trivia (18) During the spring semester of her freshman year, King was introduced to 1 by a female artist for more than 20 years. British Invasion had begun. 86 in the UK. Goffin began working with a chemicals manufacturer, and wrote the lyrics for King's 1959 single "Oh Neil", an answer song to her friend Neil Sedaka's "Oh! In the show, he has an affair with a character named Janelle Woods, a singer whom Goffin and King work with . She also called King's performing "all spunk and exuberance. After his divorce from King, Goffin garnered an Academy Award nomination with Michael Masser for the theme to the 1975 film Mahogany for Diana Ross. [11], Goffin and his wife Michele attended opening night of the musical "Beautiful" which depicted his marriage with Carol King. A musical version of King's life and career debuted in pre-Broadway tryouts in September 2013, in San Francisco, titled Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. It entered The New York Times best seller list at No.6.[71][72]. King has made 25 solo albums, the most successful being Tapestry, which held the record for most weeks at No. We will try to find the right answer to this particular crossword clue. He was 75. TAKE GOOD CARE OF MY BABY. The album appeared on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list at number 36. Though it also alleges Goffin's womanizing and mental instability were causes of the breakup, he happily attended the opening of the musical. Carole King is the devoted mom of her four kids, Louise, Sherry, Molly and Levi. label and put them in charge of Dimension Records. Gerry Goffin, the lyricist whose work with songwriting partner (and wife at the time) Carole King yielded some of pop music's most enduring hits, has died of natural causes at his L.A.. This page was last edited on 1 March 2023, at 00:56. Despite its Gold-certified record status, Simple Things was named "The Worst Album of 1977" by Rolling Stone magazine. (Image: GETTY) . Together with King, he wrote such classics as The Loco-Motion, Will You Love Me Tomorrow and Up on the Roof.. Their story served as the basis for the musical Beautiful: The Carole King Story, which garnered seven Tony nominations this year and won two, including Best Actress for Jessie Muellers portrayal of King. [25] King moved to Laurel Canyon in Los Angeles with her two daughters and reactivated her recording career by forming "The City", a music trio consisting of Charles Larkey, her future husband, on bass; Danny Kortchmar on guitar and vocals; and King on piano and vocals. Carole King Klein (born Carol Joan Klein; February 9, 1942) is an American singer, . [17]:10 King's mother dropped out of college to run the household; her father also quit college and briefly took a job as a radio announcer. It was a major commercial success, with King playing to some of the largest audiences of her career. They formed The City and welcomed two children, leading the pair to adjust to their lives as a blended family of six. He is survived by his five children and his wife. That show, along with shows at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles and the Cape Cod Melody Tent (Hyannis, Massachusetts), were recorded as The Living Room Tour in July 2005. [39] King recorded a few follow-up singles in the wake of "September", but none of them sold much, and her already sporadic recording career was entirely abandoned (albeit temporarily) by 1966. Gerry Goffin (born February 11, 1942, Queens N.Y.); Carole King (born February 9, 1942); married each other in the early 1960s; children: one daughter, Louise. Goffin and King formed one of the most successful songwriting partnerships of the period, with hit songs including: "Take Good Care of My Baby" (a hit for Bobby Vee), "Halfway to Paradise" (Tony Orlando, Billy Fury), "The Loco-Motion" (Little Eva, and later Grand Funk Railroad and Kylie Minogue), "Go Away Little Girl" (Steve Lawrence, and later Donny Osmond), "Don't Say Nothin' Bad (About My Baby)" (the Cookies), "It Might as Well Rain Until September" (Carole King), "One Fine Day" (the Chiffons), "Up on the Roof" (the Drifters and later James Taylor), "I'm into Something Good" (Herman's Hermits, but recorded first by Earl-Jean McCrea under the name Earl-Jean), "Don't Bring Me Down" (the Animals), "Oh No Not My Baby" (Maxine Brown, and later Rod Stewart), "Goin' Back" (Dusty Springfield, The Byrds), "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" (Aretha Franklin), and "Pleasant Valley Sunday" (the Monkees). When King became pregnant, they left college and married in August 1959 when he was 20 and she was 17. Carole King (born February 9, 1942) is a Grammy Award-winning American singer and songwriter. of Screen Gems mediocre rooster while taking care of Kirshner's clients. In her recent biography and a follow-up interview, singer/songwriter Carol King has revealed that her late husband, composer Rick Evers, used to beat her during their year-long marriage. In the 1980s and 90s, he co-wrote Tonight I Celebrate My Love, a duet recorded by Peabo Bryson and Roberta Flack, and the Whitney Houston mega-hit Savin All My Love for You.. Kirshner responded to the changing times with a renewed faith in simple Sorenson, Caroles fourth husband, stayed out of the spotlight for most of their marriage. [11] She is the recipient of the 2013 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, the first woman to be so honored. He was 75. They moved into a cabin in Idaho and transitioned to life outside of the busy city. Halevy. Goffin, who died at his Los Angeles home June 19, at 75, never achieved his ex-wife's . He is survived by his wife, Michele Goffin, five children and six grandchildren. Widely regarded as a highly significant and influential musician, King is the most successful female songwriter of the latter half of the 20th century in the US, having written or co-written 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100. 1959 King became pregnant with the pair marrying in August, then moving into a The couple performed in the rock group The City and released one album together, years before they married. [76] King also did an Australian tour in February 2013. By Eric Kelsey and Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Gerry Goffin, the lyricist who co-wrote some of the biggest hit songs of the 1960s with his former wife and longtime collaborator Carole . We want to hear it. The couple married in 1959 and shared two kids between them. [38] King and Goffin were also the songwriting team behind Don Kirshner's Dimension Records, which produced songs including "Chains" (later recorded by the Beatles), "The Loco-Motion", "Keep Your Hands off My Baby" (both for their babysitter Little Eva), and "It Might as Well Rain Until September" which King recorded herself in 1962 her first success, which charted at 22 in the US and 3 in the UK (where it was her all time greatest hit). The show ends just as King is enjoying fame for her groundbreaking solo album Tapestry. The album received a Grammy nomination for Best Traditional Pop Album. 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Her body of work reflects the spirit of the Gershwin Prize with its originality, longevity and diversity of appeal. Gerry Goffin, a prolific and multi-dimensional lyricist who with his then-wife and collaborator Carole King wrote such hits as Will You Love Me Tomorrow and The Loco-Motion, died early Thursday at his home in Los Angeles. In 1973, King performed a free concert in New York City's Central Park with 100,000 attending.[51]. "[3] According to King's memoir, Goffin suffered from mental illness following ingestion of LSD, eventually undergoing treatment with lithium and electroshock therapy, and was diagnosed with manic depression. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), Out for a Swim! They divorced later that decade. Did you encounter any technical issues? Goffin was born in Brooklyn in 1939. The pair met at a party thrown by Don Henley and fell in love quickly. good that often the producer only had to copy them with the proper instrumentation to have Goffin added the words to the tune written by Sedaka and Howard Greenfield, who both worked under Don Kirshner at the Aldon music publishing company in Manhattan; the single's B-side, "A Very Special Boy", was a Goffin-King composition. In the summer of The touring band featured players from that original band: Russ Kunkel, Leland Sklar, and Danny Kortchmar. Carole King & Louise Goffin: October 2002: Carole King: Will You Love Me Tomorrow: Carole King: February 10, 1971: The Shirelles: Will You Love Me Tomorrow: Gerry Goffin, a hit songwriter and former husband of Carole King, died early Thursday. In 2010 King and James Taylor staged their Troubadour Reunion Tour together, recalling the first time they played at The Troubadour, West Hollywood in 1970. The Mandalorian Season Three Gets Off to a Disappointing Start . The Jazzman singer released her first solo album in 1970, just as she married her second husband. Both albums included "You've Got a Friend", which was a number 1 hit for Taylor; King said in a 1972 interview that she "didn't write it with James or anybody really specifically in mind. An all-star roster of artists paid tribute to King on the 1995 album Tapestry Revisited: A Tribute to Carole King. [17]:10 With the economy struggling, he then took a more secure job as a firefighter. 2023 The Hollywood Reporter, LLC. The Goffin-King love affair is the subject of the Tony Award-nominated musical Beautiful: The Carole King Musicalon Broadway. Rick Evers, Charles Larkey and Gerry Goffin . Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis leading to a rock and roll romance. 7:22 AM EDT, Fri June 20, 2014, biography on the Songwriters Hall of Fame website. [12] She is also a 2015 Kennedy Center Honoree. Carole did not get married again after her fourth marriage and has instead kept her romantic life rather private. By her senior year Klein had released To help sell her songs, King played piano and drums, Simon guitar and After her split from Gerry, Carole and Charles moved in together in Los Angeles. Lyricist Gerry Goffin, whose songwriting partnership in the early 1960s with then-wife Carole King yielded some of the most indelible hits of the era, died Thursday at home in Los Angeles,. All Rights reserved. Flatbush basement apartment. They enjoyed it so much that they decided to take the band on the road for 2010. The Where You Lead singer was married four times and, The songwriters became known as one of musics dynamic duos behind hits like Take Good Care Of My Baby, The Loco-Motion and (You Make Me Feel Like) a Natural Woman. Carole gave birth to their first daughter, Louise, in 1960. She formed a band called the Co-Sines, changed her name from Carol Klein to Carole King, and made demo records with her friend Paul Simon for $25 a session. They were divorced with King moving to California where she started a group Their first child together, daughter Molly, was born in 1971 and their son, Levi, followed in 1974. After his split with King, with whom he had two daughters, he continued to write tunes including Whitney Houstons 1986 hit Saving All My Love For You., He earned an Oscar nomination for the theme song from 1975 film Mahogany, a tune he wrote with Micahel Masser, and a Golden Globe nod for Gladys Knight and the Pips So Sad the Song from the 1976 movie Pipe Dreams., Gerry Goffin was my first love, King said in a statement. since had written together, when King found her solo niche, the Goffin & King team had 'And eventually it came to be a boy-and-girl relationship. [Bridge . 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Ready for Tolkien Battle, How the Landscape of Native-Led Stories Has Changed Between Avatars: Were Flexing Our Sovereignty, The Definitive Voice of Entertainment News. A spokeswoman for the show said the cast would dedicate Thursday night's performance to Goffin. About Carole King. It also debuted on Billboards Top Independent Albums chart and Top Internet Albums chart at No. [102] Previews on Broadway began on November 21, 2013, at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, with the official opening on January 12, 2014. He is survived by his fourth wife, Michele Goffin, and his five children. [17]:10, They married in 1937 during the last years of the Great Depression. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Along with King, Goffin was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990. Gerry Goffin, a prolific and multi-dimensional lyricist who with his then-wife and songwriting partner Carole King wrote such hits as "Will You Love Me . Goffin was born in Brooklyn in 1939 and was working as an assistant chemist when he met King at Queens College. Trending has made tremendous contributions to the rock genre over the course of her 60-year career. The first, released in April 2010, The Essential Carole King, was a compilation album of King's work and artists covering her songs. In 2000, King was asked to record a version of her hit song "Where You Lead" as the theme song for the show Gilmore Girls. [57] She performed a new song, "Love Makes the World", which became a title track for her studio album in autumn 2001 on her own label, Rockingale, distributed by Koch Records. After his marriage to Carole ended in 1968, Gerry continued to write for big-name artists like Whitney Houston and Rod Stewart and the Academy Award-winning theme from the film Mahogany. Closer Weekly is part of the a360media Entertainment Group.Copyright a360media 2023. Goffin continued co-writing songs, including I've Got to Use My Imagination recorded by Gladys Knight and the Pips, and It's Not the Spotlight, recorded by Rod Stewart. Later they would move to 2635 Brown Street in Sheepshead Bay She is a music artist and composer, known for A League of Their Own (1992), You've Got Mail (1998) and Gilmore Girls (2000). Beautiful - The Carole King Musical tells the inspiring true story of King's remarkable rise to stardom as part of the hit songwriting team with her husband Gerry Goffin and going on to become one of the most successful singer, songwriter and musicians in popular music . [61][62][63] In August 2006 the album re-entered the Billboard 200 at 151. Soon she Much of her early success was thanks in part to collaborations with her first husband, Gerry Goffin. But when James heard it he really liked it and wanted to record it".[47]. NPR . On their first U.S. tour meeting them was a priority. 1 hits. 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