If there is one thing that Carole King can do, it’s write some of the most iconic and well-remembered songs to impact the soundtrack of our lives — and oftentimes without us even realizing she was the ...

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, teams of songwriters worked slavishly but creatively inside New York City’s Brill Building (and other nearby offices) to craft songs that captured the spirit of ...

Other Facts: Working with partner Gerry Goffin during the early 1960s, King composed melodies on piano, and Goffin wrote lyrics. They were based in the famed Brill Building in New York, an office ...

Carole King either wrote or co-wrote some of the most iconic songs of the ‘60s and ‘70s: “The Loco-Motion,” “Up on the Roof,” “I Feel the Earth Move,” “One Fine Day,” “Will You Love Me Tomorrow,” ...

Toni Stern, a breezy young Californian who became a trusted lyricist for Carole King, providing the words for the enduring standard "It's Too Late" and many other songs during King's flowering as a ...

Carole King had already written a bunch of singles that had been recorded by others with great success. Her solo career, however, needed just such a hit. Instead of reaching back into her catalog of ...

It is a plight common to most professional songwriters: Everyone knows their songs, but few people know who they are. And it’s hard to think of a more vivid example of that syndrome than Gerry Goffin, ...

I first reviewed Beautiful The Carole King Musical last season at the Ogunquit Playhouse. A repeat performance (or perhaps a continuation of the demand to see the show) has premiered on the Ogunquit ...

One of the things that I love the most about musical theatre as an artform is that the genre contains multitudes. From a thrilling, bombastic and electrifying show that takes your breath away to a ...