CAROLE KING – MUSIC LP – Nr MINT A1/B1 UK 1971

Carole King – Music
(A&M/Ode Records  1971  AMLH67013)
Matrix No’s: A1/B1 – UK Pressing

Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are some light surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality)

Gatefold Sleeve in Excellent+/Nr MINT condition
– some wear to edges
Lyric Booklet is perfect apart from some marks on the back in the left side corners

Carole King (born Carol Joan Klein, February 9, 1942) is an American composer and singer-songwriter.

King’s career began in the 1960s when she, along with her then husband Gerry Goffin, wrote more than two dozen chart hits for numerous artists, many of which have become standards. She has continued writing for other artists since then. King’s success as a performer in her own right did not come until the 1970s, when she sang her own songs, accompanying herself on the piano, in a series of albums and concerts. After experiencing commercial disappointment with her debut album Writer, King scored her breakthrough with the album Tapestry, which topped the U.S. album chart for 15 weeks in 1971 and remained on the charts for more than six years.

In 2000 Billboard pop music researcher Joel Whitburn named King the most successful female songwriter of 1955–99 because she wrote or co-wrote 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100. King wrote 61 hits that charted in the UK. In 2005 music historian Stuart Devoy found her the most successful female songwriter on the UK singles charts 1952–2005.

King has made 25 solo albums, the most successful being Tapestry, which held the record for most weeks at No. 1 by a female artist for more than 20 years. Her most recent non-compilation album was Live at the Troubadour in 2010, a collaboration with James Taylor that reached number 4 on the charts in its first week and has sold over 600,000 copies. Her records sales were estimated at more than 75 million copies worldwide.

She has won four Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for her songwriting. She is the recipient of the 2013 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, the first woman to be so honored. She is also a 2015 Kennedy Center Honoree.

Music is the third album by American singer-songwriter Carole King. It is a continuation of the style laid down in Tapestry. The album was released in December 1971 and quickly rose to the top of the charts. It features songs such as “It’s Going to Take Some Time” (US No. 12 by The Carpenters), “Sweet Seasons,” a No. 9 hit for Carole King, and “Brother, Brother”.

Carole King: Music experienced immediate success and was certified gold on December 9, 1971, days after release. It was certified platinum on July 17, 1995.

Music entered the top ten at No. 8, becoming the first of many weeks both Tapestry and Carole King: Music would occupy the top ten simultaneously. The album hit No. 1 on New Year’s Day 1972 and stayed there for three consecutive weeks.

King plays the piano and celeste on many tracks.

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 – piano, electric piano, electric celeste, backing vocals
• Ralph Schuckett – organ, electric piano, electric celeste
• Danny “Kootch” Kortchmar – acoustic and electric guitars, backing vocals
• James Taylor – acoustic guitar, backing vocals
• Charles Larkey – electric and acoustic bass guitar
• Joel O’Brien, Russ Kunkel – drums
• Ms. Bobbye Hall – congas, bongos, tambourine
• Teresa Calderon – congas
• Curtis Amy – tenor saxophone, electric flute
• Oscar Brashear – flugelhorn
• William Green, William Collette, Ernest Watts, Plas Johnson, Mike Altschul – woodwind, flute and saxophone
• Abigale Haness – backing vocals
• Merry Clayton – backing vocals

Production

• Producer: Lou Adler
• Engineers: Hank Cicalo
• Assistant Engineer: Norm Kinney
• Art Direction: Roland Young
• Design: Chuck Beeson
• Photography: Jim McCrary