Carole King, along with her song writing partner Gerry Goffin, has penned a seemingly endless string of hits for other artists. She is also a successful singer in her own right and claims a total of four Grammy awards and a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction.

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In the 60s, Goffin and King started working for Aldon Music and had their first successful hit with Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? This song would go on to be recorded by Dusty Springfield, Roberta Flack and Bryan Ferry.

Others soon followed with Take Good Care of My Baby, Some Kind of Wonderful, The Locomotion, Go Away Little Girl, One Fine Day, Don’t Bring Me Down and (You Make Me Feel) Like a Natural Woman just to name a few. The artists that have benefited from this era of King’s prose and song range from household 60s acts like The Monkees, Aretha Franklin and The Drifters to more modern acts like Tom Petty, Billy Joel, Celine Dion, Grand Funk Railroad and Shania Twain.

Throughout this time, King dabbled with her own singing career, lending her vocals and releasing her own material. Chart toppers eluded her until 1971’s iconic album Tapestry topped the US album charts for 15 weeks and remained in the charts for 6 years.

The album featured folky revisions of her earlier hits she had written for others as well as tracks like It’s Too Late and You’ve Got a Friend. Tapestry held the position as top-selling solo album ever until Michael Jackson’s Thriller knocked it off the podium.

The 80s saw King take a back seat to the music industry and her activities were primarily charitable live performances.

King continues to collaborate and more recently touring with James Taylor who had a number 1 hit with King’s You’ve Got a Friend.

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James Vernon Taylor (born March 12, 1948) is a Grammy Award winning American singer-songwriter and guitarist born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA and raised in Carrboro, North Carolina, USA .

Over the course of his long career, James Taylor has earned 40 gold, platinum and multi-platinum awards and 5 Grammy Awards for a catalog running from 1970's 'Sweet Baby James' to his Grammy Award-winning efforts ''Hourglass'' (1997) and ''October Road' (2002).

James Taylor's first Greatest Hits album earned him the RIAA's elite Diamond Award, given for sales in excess of 10 million units in the United States. For his accomplishments, James was honoured with the 1998 Century Award, Billboard magazine's highest accolade, bestowed for distinguished creative achievement.

The year 2000 saw James Taylor's induction into both the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame and the prestigious Songwriter's Hall of Fame.

James Taylor's CD/DVD, ''One Man Band'' (2007), was nominated for an Emmy® Award for “Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special,” in September 2008 his most recent recording, 'Covers' (2008) features James Taylor’s full band and is his own musical interpretation of tunes from the 50s, 60s and 70s.

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James Taylor released ''Sweet Baby James'' in 1970. It went triple-platinum and spawned his first Top 10 hit, the intensely personal "Fire and Rain." The following year saw the release of another million-seller, ''Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon'' and the #1 single, "You've Got a Friend," written by long time friend Carole King. The recording won a Grammy Award in 1971 for Best Pop Male Vocal. In 1972, Taylor scored another Gold album with ''One Man Dog'', which was followed up in 1973 with ''Walking Man''.

The album ''Gorilla'' (1975) included two more major chart entries: "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)" and "Mexico". Following his final Warner Brothers recording, ''In The Pocket'', James moved on to Columbia Records and released a string of critically praised and commercially successful albums: ''JT'', his 1977 double-platinum debut, included a Top 10 cover of Jimmy Jones' "Handy Man" a song that gave Taylor another Grammy for Best Pop Male Vocal. ''Flag'' (1979), ''Dad Loves His Work'' (1981), ''That's Why I'm Here'' (1985), ''Never Die Young'' (1988), ''New Moon Shine'' (1991) and the double-disc ''Live'' album (1993), show Taylor's consistency: all were certified platinum. ''Hourglass'' (1998), which garnered James' first Grammy Award for Best Pop Album, and ''October Road'' (2002), another Grammy winner, also enjoyed platinum sales.

James Taylor's music embodies the art of song writing in its most fundamental form. He has been at it for decades: transforming introspective meditations into lyrics, melodies and harmonies that comfort and reassure the listener with the sense that these sometimes painful, sometimes celebratory moments are a part of life, shared by us all. In 1971, James was featured on the cover of TIME Magazine, who heralded him as the harbinger of 'the singer/songwriter era".

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