Ezeregy dal, amit érdemes meghallgatni: 0335 Carole King: It’s Too Late (1971) Writer: | Toni Stern, Carole King Producer: | Lou Adler Label: | Ode Album: | Tapestry (1971) A small, seismic shift occurred in popular music when this double A-side (with “I Feel the Earth Move”) reached Billboard’s No. 1 spot on June 19, 1971, and stayed there for five weeks. It was the calling card for an album, Tapestry, that went on to shift twenty-two million copies, pick up four Grammys, and set the template for the Seventies singer-songwriter boom. A pumping piano kicks off over a gently laid-back, percussion-driven jazz samba as King plays a string of figures and a catchy riff. Then, with clear-headed emotional intensity tinged with a homey Jewish Brooklyn twang, King (née Klein) sets out Toni Stern’s new-feminist take on a relationship breakup that’s too far gone to patch up. It’s like a note left on the fridge door—she’s leaving him on her terms, but “I’m glad for what we had.” “I want songs of hope, songs of love, songs of raw feeling,” King told interviewer Barry Miles in 1976. “Not songs about spacey things like ‘In the Canyons of My Mind’ with butterflies fluttering about.” Recorded at A&M in the old Charlie Chaplin Films Studio on Hollywood’s Sunset Boulevard, the let-it-all-hang-out lyrics are carried by a virtually live take, courtesy of consummate L.A. studio musicianship. The verse-chorus segues nicely into some cool jazz-guitar grooves by Danny Kortchmar that blend into a soprano-sax lick from Curtis Amy, while King interplays on electronic keyboards. youtu.be/E5TxpJVKKQ8
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