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ROIO of the Week [Recordings
of Indeterminate Origin]
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Carole
King
Boston Music
Hall 1976 [no label 2CD]
Live
in Boston, MA February 29, 1976.
This concert recorded
five years after her record-breaking Tapestry, showed no signs of King
slowing down. But by 1977, with the release of Simple Things, King's career
was clearly in decline. How did she slip into obscurity so suddenly?
In 1971, the songwriter
of numerous hits for Neil Sedaka, The Shirelles and Little Eva, finally
had her break when her second solo album Tapestry was No 1 on Billboard
and stayed there for 15 weeks and remained on the charts for six years.
The new generation was in tune to the liberated woman and King proved
she had the chops to write the songs and sing them.
Tapestry has since
sold a total of 22 million copies worldwide. Its record was only surpassed
in 1977 when Frampton Comes Alive was released. Music (1971), Rhymes and
Reasons (1972) and Wrap Around Joy (1974) followed, each selling respectably.
But King's dislike for live performance kept her out of the limelight
just as the industry, after Frampton Comes Alive, was looking for multi-platinum
artists.
King made only one
big concert. In 1973, she performed a free concert in New York City's
Central Park in front of 100,000 people. A record that was only surpassed
in 1981 by Simon and Garfunkel, with 500,000 people. In 1975, King made
a detour recording a soundtrack for Maurice Sendak's Really Rosie. When
her husband Rick Evers, whom she married in 1977, died the following year
of a drug overdose, King made one last album, Touch The Sky, in 1979 and
then retired from active music-making. She emerged only in 1989 with the
album City Streets by which time singer-songwriters were no longer in
vogue.
By 1976, a Carole
King show was full of hits from Tapestry, Music and Rhymes And Reasons,
her three best solo albums. If she suffers from stage-fright, it is not
obvious. King was liberating in the post-women's lib world and Tapestry
was filled with songs of fierce independence [Beautiful, A Natural Woman].
But by the mid-'70s, King was no longer satisfied with writing hits but
crafting albums. However, when the singles failed to chart ["Nightingale,"
1975, "Only Love Is Real," 1976, "High Out of Time," 1976, "Hard Rock
Cafe," 1977, "Simple Things," 1977, "Morning Sun," 1978], her album sales
also declined. Without continuous touring, King's popularity waned.
There are several
seldom-played songs in this concert - Golden Man, Alabaster Lady, Space
Between Us, Daughter Of Light, Boy From The Country and High Out Of Time
- that are of a high caliber but never stuck due to lack of exposure.
By the time King returned in 1989, the business was nurturing "divas"
not singer-songwriters. Her new songs had to compete against her much-loved
repertoire. Still, there are women like Joni Mitchell, Rickie Lee Jones,
Sheryl Crow, Sarah McLaughlan and Loreena McKennitt who continue to pave
the way for singer-songwriters.
Here is a rare Carole
King concert from1976. This show is an audience recording made by Steve
Hopkins who shared the music on the net. Many thanks for this excellent
stereo recording. And thanks to jonipd for the artwork.
March 8 is International
Women's Day.
Click on the highlighted
tracks to download the MP3s (these are high quality, stereo MP3s - sample
rate of 192 kibit/s). As far as we can ascertain, these tracks have never
been officially released.
These tracks are no longer available for download. Kindly email us at
mybigo@bigozine.com if you want
to download these tracks at a later time.
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Disc 1/First Set
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| Track
01 |
Song
Of Long Ago |
| Track
02 |
Beautiful |
| Track
03 |
Home
Again |
| Track
04 |
Tapestry
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| Track
05 |
Golden
Man |
| Track
06 |
So
Far Away |
| Track
07 |
Been
To Canaan |
| Track
08 |
Alabaster
Lady |
| Track
09 |
Listen
To The Music Playing |
| Track
10 |
Way
Over Yonder
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Second
Set |
| Track
11 |
tuning |
| Track
12 |
It's
Too Late |
| Track
13 |
I
Want To Believe |
| Track
14 |
Sweet
Seasons |
| Track
15 |
Space
Between Us |
| Track
16 |
Daughter
Of Light |
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Disc
2
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| Track
01 |
onstage
banter |
| Track
02 |
Smackwater
Jack |
| Track
03 |
Ambrosia |
| Track
04 |
introductions |
| Track
05 |
Jazz
Man |
| Track
06 |
I'd
Like To Know You Better |
| Track
07 |
Boy
From The Country |
| Track
08 |
High
Out Of Time |
| Track
09 |
Will
You Still Love Me Tomorrow? |
| Track
10 |
Up
On The Roof |
| Track
11 |
The
Locomotion |
| Track
12 |
I
Feel The Earth Move |
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First
Encore |
| Track
13 |
Only
Love |
| Track
14 |
You've
Got A Friend |
| |
Second
Encore |
| Track
15 |
[You
Make Me Feel Like] A Natural Woman |
Lineup:
Carole King - piano,
guitar, vocals
Bobbye Hall
- percussion
Doyle Hough
- guitar, vocals
Russ Kunkel
- drums
Clarence McDonald
- keyboards
Leland Sklar
- bass, vocals
Waddy Wachtel
- guitar, vocals
Click on the link to order Carole King albums.
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9, 2007
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