Day: February 24, 2022

Carole King rules. Songs I forgot she wrote but probably you guys all know:

• I’m Into Something Good (Herman’s Hermits)
• Chains (Beatles)
• The Loco-Motion (Grand Funk Railroad)
• The Porpoise Song (Theme from “Head” The Monkees Movie)
• Up On The Roof (The Drifters)

I included the above because I enjoy the Scottish punk versions of things, and go Monkees of course. In describing Up On The Roof:

Appropriately enough, the song was born among the rat-race noise of a crowded city street. “Carole came up with the melody in the car – an a cappella melody,” …

A peaceful moment above the fray would have seemed like heaven to King – a young woman with two children and a demanding full-time job in a hit factory. The sophisticated arrangement was overseen in the studio by King herself, who was barely 20 years old at the time. “Carole used to hang in there with us tough,” Drifters member Charlie Thomas told Emerson. “She used to pound down. She wasn’t no hard woman – a girl, at her age. But she played the piano and it was amazing the songs she gave us.