Carole King

Today I went with two friends to the Golden Gate Theater in San Francisco to see the musical Beautiful which is about the life of the singer/songwriter Carole King.

Who is Carole King?  I know you know her....even if you say you don't.

Carole King is the music I grew up with, but never really paid attention to the source and the soulfulness of her talent.  There are so many hit songs she wrote for artists with varied genres.  You couldn't peg her to just one.  She wrote for The Monkeys, The Animals, The Shirrells, The Drifters...all of that BEFORE she struck out on her own singing her own songs that became huge hits.

Here's her first hit she wrote with her husband for The Shirrells.

And some years later when she sang the songs she wrote

Thank you, Carol, for the many, many songs you gifted to us.