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Since her childhood, Carole King wanted a career in music. This was a demo that Carole King at the age of 16, took to ABC Records in 1958. ABC picked up the song, re-recorded it with a different band and cleaned up the arrangement. The song flopped. Nevertheless, what she and her husband, Gerry Goffin, would release over the next two decades (she as the song writer, he as the lyricist) set the world on fire. The two wrote for many groups, including The Drifters, Bobby Vee, The Shirelles, The Chiffons, The Monkees, and countless others. Then in 1970, Carole turned Singer/Songwriter and began singing her own songs.
Her best solo album: Tapestry, released in 1971. This is also her best acclaimed work. However, all those songs for various artists in the 60s were extremely good and in a class shared only by her, Neil Sedaka, and Paul Anka. The Goffin and King songwriting team was unsurpassed in both quantity and quality.