
Artist
Carole King
Carole King is a folk artist from New York City, USA formed in 1958. 46 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Folk · New York City, USA · Best folk albums
- 46
- Releases
- 1970–2023
- Active years
- 1958
- Formed

Artist
Carole King is a folk artist from New York City, USA formed in 1958. 46 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Folk · New York City, USA · Best folk albums

Most popular
Her Greatest Hits: Songs of Long Ago
1978

Music
1971

Rhymes & Reasons
1972

Fantasy
1973

Writer
1970

Love Makes the World
2001

Thoroughbred
1976

Wrap Around Joy
1974

Simple Things
1977

One To One
1982

Really Rosie
1975

The Legendary Demos
2012

Welcome Home
1978

Touch the Sky
1979

A Holiday Carole
2011

Speeding Time
1983

Colour of Your Dreams
1993
Roses for Carole
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Home Again - Live From Central Park, New York City, May 26, 1973
2023

Upon The Roof (Live)
2019

Right Girl
2019

Live At Montreux 1973
2019

Breaking up Is Hard to Do
2017

Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
2016

A Beautiful Collection - Best Of Carole King
2015

Up on the Roof
2014

Pearls: Songs of Goffin & King
2012

The Best of Carole King
2012

Nightingale
2011

Carole King. Vol. 1
2011

Carole King. Vol. 2
2011

Live At The Troubadour (Digital eBooklet)
2010

In Concert
2009
Crying in the Rain
2005

The Living Room Tour (Live)
2005

Carole King The Carnegie Hall Concert June 18, 1971
1996

Carole King: The Ode Collection
1994
Pearls / Time Gone By
1994
Time Gone By
1994
City Streets
1989
Pearls
1980
Tapestry
1971
Carole King (born February 9, 1942) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist, regarded as one of the most influential female songwriters of the 20th century. One half of a legendary songwriting partnership together with her one-time husband, Gerry Goffin, she wrote several hit songs in the ‘60s hits for artists such as The Shirelles (“Will You Love Me Tomorrow”), Aretha Franklin (“(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman”), and The Monkees (“Pleasant Valley Sunday”). At the dawn of the ‘70s, she released the solo album Tapestry, a critically and financially successful landmark in the singer-songwriter genre. Born Carol Klein in Brooklyn, New York to a Jewish household, King started out playing the piano, then moved on to singing, forming a vocal quartet called the Co-Sines at James Madison High School. She attended Queens College, where she was a classmate of Neil Sedaka and inspired Sedaka’s first big hit, “Oh! Carol”, to which she later wrote and recorded a tongue-in-cheek response, “Oh! Neil”. Along with Sedaka and Gerry Goffin (whom she later married), King also befriended Paul Simon at the same college. Goffin and King soon formed a songwriting partnership, eventually …