Carole King – Rhymes & Reasons
(Ode Records 1972 ODE77016)
Matrix No’s: A1/B1 – UK Pressing
Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality)
Textured Gatefold Sleeve & Inner Sleeve in Nr MINT condition
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.
Rhymes & Reasons is a 1972 album by American singer-songwriter Carole King. The album features a single “Been to Canaan”, which topped the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart and peaked at No. 24 on the Pop chart. The album itself also became a hit, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart.
Track listing
All songs by Carole King unless otherwise noted.
- Side one
- “Come Down Easy” – 3:06 (King, Toni Stern)
- “My My She Cries” – 2:19 (King, Stern)
- “Peace in the Valley” – 3:23 (King, Stern)
- “Feeling Sad Tonight” – 3:13 (King, Stern)
- “The First Day in August” – 2:50 (King, Charles Larkey)
- “Bitter with the Sweet” – 2:29
- Side two
- “Goodbye Don’t Mean I’m Gone” – 3:34
- “Stand Behind Me” – 2:29
- “Gotta Get Through Another Day” – 2:35
- “I Think I Can Hear You” – 3:26
- “Ferguson Road” – 2:40 (Gerry Goffin, King)
- “Been to Canaan” – 3:38
Personnel
- Carole King – vocals, piano, clavinet, Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer
- Charles Larkey – electric and string bass
- Harvey Mason – drums, vibraphone
- Bobbye Hall – tambourine, shaker, bells, bongo drum, conga drum
- Daniel 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
Additional Credits
- Hank Cicalo – engineer
- Steve Mitchell – assistant engineer
- Chuck Beeson – graphic concept and design
- Jim McCrary – photography
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