#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.

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Seven Pounds (2008, Gabriele Muccino)

26/08/2024

[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.

[mydadlistenstothis]

New podcast episode is up! This week, we travel to the land down under and listen to the music of their pop icon, Kylie Minogue! Oh and also I jump on the We Hate Bill Wyman bandwagon, listen to find out why

[filosofablogger]

♫ Tonight, I Celebrate My Love ♫ (Redux)

Tonight, I am playing a song just for me!  Yep, every time I watch this video, I imagine Peabo Bryson looking into my eyes with his soulful ones and singing this just to me!  Wow … I would simply melt!  I need a bit of a boost tonight, so I decided to play this and pretend that I am sitting where Roberta Flack is sitting and Peabo has eyes for only me!  Ahhhhh … be still my heart.  ‘Scuse me just…

[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

[rawrampmag]

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…

[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

[davidhudson]

Happy 81st, Carole King.

With Gerry Goffin.

[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

[tavolgisvist]

I have one mad idea (well, maybe not only one). I think John's 'Now And Then' grew out of 'Nobody’s Perfect' by Goffin and King. Not as a remake but as a sequel.

Look. Back to the egg (hah).

In the early 60-s The Beatles play 'Chains', 'Don't Ever Change', 'Take Good Care of My Baby' and the other cool Carole King and Gerry Goffin' songs, right?

Later John Lennon says,

'Well, first of all, Paul [McCartney] and I wanted to be the Goffin and King of England' (J. Wenner, 1971)

UPD (thanks a lot @the-paper-apricot for reminding about this moment in the interview):

John and Paul answer question about another composers people whose work they particularly admire ('The Lennon-McCartney Songbook', 1966),

Or even this, 'Early in their carier Paul and John reportedly had said that they hoped to becom the Goffin and King of the United Kingdom. I had taken this to mean not that they hoped to marry each other and live in New Jersey but that they aspired to be successful songrigters' (Carole King, 'A Natural Woman)

In 1962 Carole King recorded the beautiful 'Nobody’s Perfect',

I might have thought that other lips Could taste as sweet as your sweet lips Nobody's perfect Nobody's perfect We all make mistakes now and then

I might have thought that someone new Could give me truer love than you Nobody's perfect Nobody's perfect We all make mistakes now and then

And I paid for them every hour Every minute we're apart Anyone can tell I learned my lesson well Can't you find forgiveness in your hеart?

You said goodbye the other night But don't bе sure you're doin' right Nobody's perfect Nobody's perfect We all make mistakes now and then Yes, we all make mistakes now and then

It's unlikely John and Paul didn't hear it.

And in 1977 John sings,

I know it's true It's all because of you And if I make it through It's all because of you

And now and then If we must start again Well, we will know for sure That I love you

I don't wanna lose you, oh no, no Abuse you or confuse you Oh no, no, sweet darlin' But if you have to go, away If you have to go, well you the reason

Now and then I miss you Oh, now and then I want you to return to me 'Til you return to me

Yeah, I know, it's only in my headcanon but I think the Goffin and King song spinned in John's head when he wrote his one. And 'Nobody’s Perfect' for me is like John understands his own mistakes, accepts the reality and thinks about Paul as real Paul not about as an ideal figure on the top of the pedestal. And John's 'Now and Then' is the next step.

@i-am-the-oyster, what do you think about this idea?