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Carole King

Carole King Klein is an American singer-songwriter who has been active since 1958, initially as one of the staff songwriters at the Brill Building and later as a solo artist. She is the most successful female songwriter of the latter half of the 20th century in the US, having written or co-written 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100. King also wrote 61 hits that charted in the UK, making her the most successful female songwriter on the UK singles charts between 1962 and 2005. King's major success began in the 1960s when she and her first husband, Gerry Goffin, wrote more than two dozen chart hits, many of which have become standards, for numerous artists. 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.


Aliases
  • Carole Klein
  • Carol Joan Klein
  • Carole King Klein
English Português - Portugal Português - Brasil עברית

Crew

Movie Really Rosie 1975

Guest Star

Episode BBC Music
Carole King and Friends at Christmas
2011
Episode Def Poetry
Episode 13
2007
Episode The Tracey Ullman Show
7W08
1989
Episode Today
December 20, 2011
2011
Episode The Oprah Winfrey Show
Music to heal our hearts
1970
Episode Late Night With David Letterman
Show #0107
1982
Episode Gilmore Girls
Help Wanted
2002
Episode Today
April 10, 2012
2012
Episode Late Show with David Letterman
Claire Danes, Will Arnett, James Taylor, Carole King
2010
Episode The Colbert Report
Carole King
2008
Episode Gilmore Girls
He's Slippin' 'Em Bread... Dig?
2005
Episode The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Richard Gere, Carole King
1997
Episode The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Michael Che & Colin Jost, Dove Cameron, Robert Irwin, Carole King
2019
Episode The Trials of Rosie O'Neill
The Reunion
1991
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
Jay Leno (guest host), Helen Gurley Brown, Carole King
1989
Episode The Merv Griffin Show
Jun 30 1982 Carol King/Gloria Steinem/Jane Fonda
1982
Episode BBC In Concert
James Taylor & Carole King
1971
Episode Today
November 22, 2011
2011
Episode The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Julia Roberts, Jurnee Smollett, Carole King
1998
Episode Late Show with David Letterman
Show #0127
1994
Episode Today
August 25, 2015
2015
Episode BBC In Concert
James Taylor and Carole King
1971