Early Years

King, Carole

Genre: music4me > Pop > Pop

Format: CD Album

Released: Tue 19 Dec 2006

Catalogue Number: 701102

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Description:
This one's a puzzler. You'd figure that an album called The Early Years by Carole King would present recordings that King made in the early '60s when she was better known as a songwriter than as a recording artist. And thus unannotated, this ten-song European compilation, running less than 29 minutes, does contain four tracks that derive from that era and sound like demos: "Crying in the Rain," which King co-wrote and which became a hit for the Everly Brothers; "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do," a hit for Neil Sedaka; "Up on the Roof," which King co-wrote and turned into a hit for the Drifters; and "It Started All Over Again" (incorrectly listed on the album as "It Started Over Again"), a hit for Brenda Lee. But the other six tracks all come from King's third solo album, 1971's Music, and they sound like they've been mastered from someone's third-generation cassette copy of an old LP, with poor sound and distortion. Looks like a prima facie case of copyright infringement for Sony Music to bring against the makers of this album. ~ William Ruhlmann, AMG

Details:

Distributor: Pickwick
Discs: 1
Release Year: 2002

Track Listing:

1.	Crying in the Rain
2.	Angel (What in the World's Come Over Us)
3.	Up On the Roof
4.	Music
5.	Too Much Rain
6.	Song of Long Ago
7.	Brighter
8.	Back to California
9.	It Started Over Again
10.	Growing Away from Me