#Gerry Goffin

[balthazar-sketti]

"The Porpoise Song"

The Monkees, 1968

[guessimdumb]

The Cookies - I Never Dreamed (1962)

I attempted to post this song this morning but I messed up and posted the equally wonderful I’m Into Something Good by Cookie member Earl-Jean instead.  This song is one of my faves.

[davidhudson]

Happy 82nd, Carole King.

With Al Nevins and Gerry Goffin.

[mywifeleftme]

360: Dusty Springfield // Dusty Springfield's Golden Hits

Dusty Springfield's Golden Hits Dusty Springfield 1966, Philips

These early Dusty Springfield singles really get the “Wall of Sound” production treatment, despite Mr. Spector’s absence from the credits: mixed loud as hell like the kids liked it, screaming string charts, backing vocals en regalia, and a big beat knocking around underneath. Folks love to cite her as the second artist of the British Invasion to hit the U.S. charts, and for cultural reasons that may be significant, but her early sound was indistinguishable from American acts like Lesley Gore and the Shirelles. I don’t know many of the details about her career, but it seems like whoever was managing her was hell-bent on breaking her in the States. Call it a credit to English ingenuity (and specifically arranger Ivor Raymonde) that they were able to give Springfield a knock-out sound that passes for the contemporary Hollywood (or Detroit) product.

Dusty Springfield’s Golden Hits, her first major compilation, is Brill Building / girl group-style music par excellence, with a murderer’s row of hitwriters from both sides of the pond (Bacharach/David, Goffin/King, Beatrice Verdi/Buddy Kaye, etc.). Practically anyone could’ve had chart success with these songs and this packaging (and a number of these were subsequently hits for others), but Springfield had a cannon of a voice on her that makes the best of these numbers undeniable. Those who place her voice with the Arethas and Dionne Warwicks wish she’d been guided towards soul or sophisticated torch songs from the start, but I personally love it when someone vocally overqualified for bubblegum is made to tear into a good bop. “I Only Want to Be With You” is buffeted along by the force of her voice, the violins shrieking like a 33rpm record dragged up to 45; “Little By Little” could’ve been written for a Motown powerhouse like Darlene Love (but scarcely improved on by her); “I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself” moves from the sound of a girl sadly combing her hair before her vanity to Sampson bringing down the temple.

There’s plenty of treacle here, and “Wishin’ and Hopin’” probably set feminism further back than “He Hit Me (It Felt Like a Kiss),” but this is a worthy addition to any ‘60s pop library.

360/365

[ilovedig]

1966, King, Goffin and Michael Nesmith

I listen for your footsteps (Sweet young thing) And your knock upon the door

1968, Ringo Starr

I listen for your footsteps coming up the drive Listen for your footsteps, but they don't arrive Waiting for your knock, dear, on my old front door

Related? I'm not sure, but it's not the only time I've heard a Monkees song and thought it was inspired by a Beatles song until I realized the Monkees song came first.

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Seven Pounds (2008, Gabriele Muccino)

26/08/2024

[peninsularian]

Classy 1970 version of the Carole King classic, featuring the Hi house-band under the leadership of Willie Mitchell

[filosofablogger]

♫ You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman ♫ (Redux)

Okay, I know I just played this one about a year-and-a-half ago, and lately David has been telling me that I do too many reduxes, that there are many songs out there if I’d only take the time to seek them out!  And I agree with all of that, but … this song, and especially this particular video is one of my all-time favourites, and when I saw mention of it in a comment late tonight, I just could…

[ronnydeschepper]

Gerry Goffin (1939-2014)

Het is ook al tien jaar geleden dat de Amerikaanse songschrijver Gerry Goffin is overleden. We kennen hem vooral als de echtgenoot van singer-songwriter Carole King, waarmee hij in 1959 in het huwelijk was getreden. Ondertussen zijn ze al lang uit elkaar, want Goffin was een womanizer die haar voortdurend bedroog. Al is dat misschien niet het juiste woord, want soms kondigde hij zelfs op voorhand…

[ourmindonmusicpodcast]

The Quintessential Carole King and Gerry Goffin Songbook: Writing BEAUTIFUL Music

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MARC BROUSSARD @MarcBroussard #NewSingle #BobbyBlueBland #imagination Feat. @JBONAMASSA + @joshsmithguitar @erickrasno @guitarsoverguns #AlbumRelease #SOS4

MARC BROUSSARD @MarcBroussard #NewSingle #BobbyBlueBland #imagination Feat. @JBONAMASSA + @joshsmithguitar @erickrasno @guitarsoverguns #AlbumRelease #SOS4

American ‘Bayou Soul’ singer-songwriter and performer MARC BROUSSARD (son of one time Louisiana Boogie King Ted Broussard) has covered a Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland blues-soul standard, ‘I’ve Got To Use My Imagination’ as the new single from his forthcoming studio album ‘S.O.S. 4: Blues For Your Soul’ due out next month. 50 percent of the proceeds from sales of the single will  go to Guitars Over Guns in…

[davidhudson]

Happy 81st, Carole King.

With Gerry Goffin.

[sixbucks]

It's time you learned to live again at last.

Taj Mahal - Take A Giant Step (1969)

Taj Mahal is often described as a bluesman, and that’s a little too narrow a description for someone so eclectic.  This Goffin-King song was first recorded with a very different arrangement as a b-side by the Monkees,  Taj Mahal recorded it with Ry Cooder as the Rising Sons, but it didn’t get released until much later.  This version is warm and soulful, with Jesse Ed Davis backing him on lead guitar.

There is no percentage in remembering the past

[freddiemercurylegendabovelegends]

🔸Pre-Queen Singles Discography🔸

Today, on June 29th, 1973 - 'Pre-Queen' Story!

'I Can Hear Music' / 'Going Back' released in the UK, Germany and USA

🔸In the summer of 1972, Trident Studios' in-house engineer Robin Geoffrey Cable instigated an experimental project in an effort to emulate the "wall-of-sound" style made famous by Phil Spector. Queen happened to be recording their debut album in the studios at the time, so he invited Freddie Mercury to lay down the lead vocals who, in turn, roped in Brian May and Roger Taylor to provide percussion, guitar and backing vocals - as paid session musicians.

In June 1973, shortly before Queen's own debut album was released, EMI decided to cash in on the emerging glam rock trend and rushed out the resulting recordings as a 7" single under the name of Larry Lurex - an obvious send-up of Gary Glitter.

source ➡️ discogs.com

🔸The Ronettes (and later Beach Boys) classic 'I Can Hear Music' was recorded that summer in Trident Studios and features (per Freddie's insistance) Roger Taylor on drums and Brian May on guitar. The single was released in the UK a week before Queen's first album, becoming the first solo product by a Queen member. Freddie insisted the Queen name not be used for the release, so it was released under the pseudonym Larry Lurex.

🔸'Goin' Back' is best known as a 1966 single by Dusty Springfield. The song written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin and was recorded by a number of artists including The Byrds, Phil Collins and eventually Carole King herself.

The song was used as the B-Side to the Larry Lurex single "I Cant Hear Music".

source ➡️ queenvault.com

👉 'Mother Love' (taken 'Made In Heaven' album, 1995) ends with first strophe of song 'Going Back'

📸 Pic: 2016 Freddie Mercury 'Messenger Of The Gods' Boxed Set 7" Sleeve

[kvetchlandia]

Laura Nyro Up On the Roof, Live 1971

...At night the stars put on a show for free And, darling, you can share it all with me...

Laura doing Gerry Goffin and Carole King's great, quintessentially New York song.

[retropopcult]

"Saving All My Love for You" is a song made famous by American singer Whitney Houston, who recorded it for her debut album in 1985. It became her first single to hit #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and eventually went Platinum for sales of over 1 million copies. At the 28th Annual Grammy Awards, it won for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.

The song caused some controversy for Houston due to its theme of having an affair with a married man. Her mother, Cissy, did not like the scenario described in the lyrics, claiming that the song's message would reflect badly on her daughter. However, later Whitney herself confessed, “I was going through a terrible love affair at the time. He was married, and that will never work out for anybody. Never, no way.”

"Saving All My Love" was originally written by Michael Masser and Gerry Goffin during the 1970s and first recorded by Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis for their album but not released as a single. Years later, Masser saw Whitney for the first time in New York when she was singing one of his songs, "The Greatest Love of All". After her performance, Houston told Masser that the song was one of her favorites and later, Masser was chosen by Arista to produce some tracks for Houston's first album.  He offered up "Saving All My Love" and she said she "immediately responded to it, emotionally."

After the success of her previous single, "You Give Good Love", the executives at Arista Records didn't think "Saving All My Love for You" was a good follow up for next single. When Masser heard this, he made a friendly wager with Arista's president, Clive Davis, during one of Houston's performances at the Roxy Theatre in LA. Masser proposed that if all the women got on their feet when Houston started single "Saving All My Love", then Davis would agree that it should be the next single. They did and it was.