. He was inducted into the
. he has co-written six
. After spending a year at the
in September 1960, and the husband-wife team pursued a successful songwriting career, notably as part of the famous
songwriting team. Their breakthrough
. Although they
d in 1968, the two continued to work together for some years afterwards. They are the parents of
. Works produced by these collaborations include:
In 1995, Goffin remarried. He was one of the first people to take notice of
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U.S. Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
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| 1960 |
"Will You Love Me Tomorrow "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" is the title of a song written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King. It has been recorded by many different artists and was ranked among Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time at #125.-The Shirelles' version:...
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Goffin & KingCarole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. While she has been a successful songwriter for decades, her singing career and fame peaked during the first half of the 1970s....
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The Shirelles The Shirelles were an American girl group in the early 1960s, and the first to have a number one single on the Billboard Hot 100. The members of the quartet were Shirley Owens , Doris Coley The Shirelles were an American girl group in the early 1960s, and the first to have a number one single on...
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Dusty Springfield Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien OBE , known as Dusty Springfield, was a pop singer and entertainer. Of all the female British pop artists of the 1960s, she made one of the biggest impressions on the American market...
(in 1964), CherCher is an American pop singer-songwriter, actor, director and record producer. She has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globe Awards and a People's Choice Award for her work in film, music and television.Cher began her career at the age of seventeen and came to...
(in 1966), The Four SeasonsThe Four Seasons is an American pop and rock group, with a sound somewhat reminiscent of doo-wop, although they were not thought of as actually being a doo-wop group. By the mid 1960s, they had become an internationally famous rock-and-roll act...
(#24, 1968), Linda RonstadtLinda Ronstadt is an American popular music vocalist and entertainer. Her many vocal styles in a variety of genres have resonated with the general public over the course of her four-decade career...
(in 1970), Carole KingCarole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. While she has been a successful songwriter for decades, her singing career and fame peaked during the first half of the 1970s....
(in 1971, Roberta FlackRoberta Flack is an American singer, songwriter and musician who is notable for jazz, soul, R&B and folk music. Flack is best known for singles such as "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", "Killing Me Softly with His Song", and "Feel Like Makin' Love", as well as "Where Is the Love" and "The...
(#76, 1972), MelanieMelanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk is an American singer-songwriter.Usually known professionally as Melanie, she is best known for her hits "Brand New Key", "Lay Down " and "What Have They Done To My Song Ma"...
, (#82, 1973), Dana ValeryDana Valery is a singer, actress and television performer who started her career in the entertainment industry at the age of 16 in Johannesburg, South Africa where her family had immigrated from Italy in 1952...
, (#95, 1976), Dave MasonDavid Thomas Mason is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and guitarist from Worcester, who first found fame with the rock band Traffic. In his long career, Mason has played and recorded with many of the era's most notable musicians, including Jimi Hendrix, Michael Jackson, The Rolling...
(#39, 1978), Laura BraniganLaura Branigan was a Grammy Award-nominated American singer-songwriter and actress of Italian and Irish ancestry. She is arguably best known for her 1982 Platinum-certified hit "Gloria"...
(in 1984), Joe WalshJoseph Fidler "Joe" Walsh is an American guitarist, songwriter, and rock musician. He has been a member of three successful bands, the James Gang, Barnstorm, and Eagles...
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| 1961 |
"Who Put The Bomp (In the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp) "Who Put the Bomp " is a Doo-wop style hit song from 1961 co-written and recorded by Barry Mann. He was backed up by The Halos, who had previously backed up Curtis Lee on the song "Pretty Little Angel Eyes"...
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Goffin & Mann Barry Mann is an American songwriter, and part of a rock music songwriting partnership.-Career:...
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Barry Mann Barry Mann is an American songwriter, and part of a rock music songwriting partnership.-Career:...
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| 1961 |
"Every Breath I Take" |
Goffin & KingCarole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. While she has been a successful songwriter for decades, her singing career and fame peaked during the first half of the 1970s....
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Gene Pitney Gene Francis Alan Pitney was an American singer-songwriter. He was also a guitarist, pianist, drummer, and sound engineer. In 2002, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Through the mid-1960s, he enjoyed success as a recording artist on both sides of the Atlantic...
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| 1961 |
"Run To Him" |
Goffin & Keller Jack Keller was an American pop songwriter who wrote many top ten hits of the 1960s and 1970s, and also the theme song from Bewitched....
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Bobby Vee Bobby Vee is an American pop music singer. According to Billboard magazine, Vee has had 38 Hot 100 chart hits, 10 of which hit the Top 20.-Career:...
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Donny Osmond Donald Clark "Donny" Osmond is an American singer, musician, actor and former teen idol. Osmond has also been a talk show and game show host, record producer, race car driver, and author. He is known for being half of the brother-sister singing act Donny & Marie and a member of the "Osmond...
(in 1972) |
| 1961 |
"Take Good Care of My Baby "Take Good Care of My Baby" is a song written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin and made famous by Bobby Vee, when it was released in 1961. It quickly became popular, reaching #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in September. The song was covered by The Beatles during their audition at Decca Records on ...
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Goffin & KingCarole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. While she has been a successful songwriter for decades, her singing career and fame peaked during the first half of the 1970s....
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Bobby Vee Bobby Vee is an American pop music singer. According to Billboard magazine, Vee has had 38 Hot 100 chart hits, 10 of which hit the Top 20.-Career:...
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#1 |
Dion and the Belmonts Dion and the Belmonts was a leading American vocal group of the late 1950s. The group formed when Dion DiMucci joined The Belmonts - Carlo Mastrangelo, Freddie Milano, and Angelo D'Aleo - in late 1957.-History:...
(later in 1961), SmokieSmokie is an English rock band from Bradford, Yorkshire who found success in Europe in the 1970s.-Early years:Originally called The Yen, then The Sphynx and later Essence, the band was formed in 1965 at St. Bede's Grammar School in Heaton, Bradford...
(in 1981), Bobby VintonBobby Vinton is an American pop music singer of Polish origins.-Early life:Vinton is the only child of a locally popular bandleader, Stan Vinton At 16, Vinton formed his first band, which played clubs around the Pittsburgh area...
, Stephen CollinsStephen Weaver Collins is an American actor and writer, who's perhaps best known for playing the role of Eric Camden on the long running television series 7th Heaven.-Early life:...
, The BeatlesThe Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960 who became one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands in the history of popular music...
(in 1962), Dick Brave |
| 1961 |
"Halfway To Paradise "Halfway to Paradise" is a popular song, originally recorded in 1961 by Tony Orlando in the United States. It was much more successful in the United Kingdom, recorded by Billy Fury where it reached a peak at number 3 on the UK Charts in 1961. It stayed on the charts for 23 weeks. It became known as...
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Goffin & KingCarole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. While she has been a successful songwriter for decades, her singing career and fame peaked during the first half of the 1970s....
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Tony Orlando Tony Orlando is an American singer best known for his work with the group Dawn in the early 1970s.-Biography:Born Michael Anthony Orlando Cassavitis to a Greek father and a Puerto Rican mother, he was raised in Manhattan's then-notorious Hell's Kitchen.Tony Orlando's musical career started with...
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Billy Fury Billy Fury, born Ronald William Wycherley , was an internationally successful British pop singer from the late 1950s to the early 1960s, and remained an active songwriter until the 1980s. Rheumatic fever which he first contracted as a child, damaged his heart and ultimately contributed to his death...
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| 1961 |
"Some Kind of Wonderful Some Kind of Wonderful is a 1987 film starring Eric Stoltz, Lea Thompson, and Mary Stuart Masterson. It was one of the many successful teen dramas written by John Hughes in the 1980s, although this one was directed by Howard Deutch.-Synopsis:...
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Goffin & KingCarole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. While she has been a successful songwriter for decades, her singing career and fame peaked during the first half of the 1970s....
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The Drifters The Drifters are a long-lived African-American doo wop/R&B vocal group with a peak in popularity from 1953 to 1962, though several splinter Drifters continue to perform today. They were originally formed by Clyde McPhatter in 1953...
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Marvin GayeMarvin Pentz Gay, Jr., better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye, was an American singer-songwriter and instrumentalist with a three-octave vocal range. Starting as a member of the doo-wop group The Moonglows in the late fifties, he ventured into a solo career after the group disbanded in 1960...
(in 1968I Heard It Through the Grapevine is a studio album by soul musician Marvin Gaye, released August 26, 1968 on the Motown-subisdiary label Tamla Records...
), King (in 1971Music was the third album by American singer-songwriter Carole King and the continuation of the style laid down in Tapestry. This time Carole King plays the piano and celeste on many tracks. Music peaked the album charts in the United States at #1....
); not the same song as the Grand Funk RailroadGrand Funk Railroad is an American rock band. Highly popular during the 1970s, Grand Funk Railroad sold more than 25 million records, toured constantly, packed arenas worldwide, and received four RIAA gold albums during 1970—the most for any American group that year...
hit |
| 1962 |
"Chains "Chains" is a song composed by the Brill Building husband-and-wife songwriting team Gerry Goffin and Carole King and was a minor hit for Little Eva’s backing singers, The Cookies , and later covered by The Beatles.-The Beatles' version:...
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Goffin & KingCarole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. While she has been a successful songwriter for decades, her singing career and fame peaked during the first half of the 1970s....
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The Cookies The Cookies were an American R&B girl group in the 1950s to 1960s. Members of the original lineup would later become The Raelettes, the backing vocalists for Ray Charles.-History:...
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#17 |
The BeatlesThe Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960 who became one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands in the history of popular music...
(in 1963Please Please Me is the first album recorded by The Beatles, rush-released on 22 March 1963 in the United Kingdom to capitalise on the success of singles "Please Please Me" and "Love Me Do"...
), King (in 1980Pearls: Songs of Goffin and King is an album by American singer-songwriter Carole King, released in 1980. It produced Carole King's last hit to date, One Fine Day, which reached number 12 on the charts.-Track listing:...
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| 1962 |
"Keep Your Hands Off My Baby "Keep Your Hands Off My Baby" is a song written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King. It has been recorded by many artists, most notably Little Eva, who had a #12 hit with the song on the Billboard charts in 1962...
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Goffin & KingCarole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. While she has been a successful songwriter for decades, her singing career and fame peaked during the first half of the 1970s....
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Little Eva Eva Narcissus Boyd , known by the stage name of Little Eva , was an American singer.-Biography:...
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#12 |
The BeatlesThe Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960 who became one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands in the history of popular music...
(in 1964Live at the BBC is a 1994 compilation album featuring performances by The Beatles that were originally broadcast on various BBC Light Programme radio shows from 1963 through 1965. The monaural album, available in multiple formats but most commonly as a two-CD set, consists of 56 songs and 13 tracks...
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| 1962 |
"The Loco-Motion "The Loco-Motion" is a 1962 popular music song written by American songwriters Gerry Goffin and Carole King. The song is notable for appearing the American Top 5 three times – each time in a different decade: for Little Eva during 1962 ; for Grand Funk Railroad in 1974 ; and for Kylie Minogue in...
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Goffin & KingCarole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. While she has been a successful songwriter for decades, her singing career and fame peaked during the first half of the 1970s....
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Little Eva Eva Narcissus Boyd , known by the stage name of Little Eva , was an American singer.-Biography:...
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The Chiffons The Chiffons was an all girl group originating from the Bronx area of New York in 1960.-Biography:The Chiffons’ sassy flair made them one of the top Girl Groups of the early ’60s...
(in 1963), Grand Funk RailroadGrand Funk Railroad is an American rock band. Highly popular during the 1970s, Grand Funk Railroad sold more than 25 million records, toured constantly, packed arenas worldwide, and received four RIAA gold albums during 1970—the most for any American group that year...
(in 1974Shinin' On is a 1974 album by Grand Funk Railroad. Although not as successful as its predecessor, We're an American Band, it did go gold in the U.S and peaked at 5. The title song was featured the season 7 episode of The Simpsons, "Homerpalooza"...
, #1), King (in 1980Pearls: Songs of Goffin and King is an album by American singer-songwriter Carole King, released in 1980. It produced Carole King's last hit to date, One Fine Day, which reached number 12 on the charts.-Track listing:...
), Kylie MinogueKylie Ann Minogue, OBE is an Australian pop singer, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actor on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987...
(in 1988Kylie is the debut album by Australian pop singer Kylie Minogue. It was released by PWL on July 4, 1988, and received mixed reviews. Chris True of Allmusic describes the album's songs as "dated at best", but writes that Minogue's "cuteness makes these rather vapid tracks bearable"...
, #3), Tina TurnerTina Turner is an American singer and actress whose career has spanned more than 50 years. She has won numerous awards and her achievements in the rock music genre have earned her the title "The Queen of Rock 'n' Roll".Turner started out her music career with husband Ike Turner as a member of the...
, Dwight YoakamDwight David Yoakam is an American singer-songwriter and actor, most famous for his country music. Active since the early 1980s, he has recorded more than twenty albums and compilations, and has charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts.-Early life:Yoakam was born...
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| 1962 |
"He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)" |
Goffin & KingCarole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. While she has been a successful songwriter for decades, her singing career and fame peaked during the first half of the 1970s....
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The Crystals The Crystals were a New York City singing group and are considered one of the defining acts of the girl group era of the first half of the 1960s...
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The MotelsThe Motels were a New Wave music band from the Los Angeles area best known for "Only the Lonely" and "Suddenly, Last Summer", each of which peaked at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1982 and 1983, respectively. Their song "Total Control" reached number 7 on the Australian charts in 1979...
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| 1962 |
"When My Little Girl Is Smiling" |
Goffin & KingCarole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. While she has been a successful songwriter for decades, her singing career and fame peaked during the first half of the 1970s....
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The Drifters The Drifters are a long-lived African-American doo wop/R&B vocal group with a peak in popularity from 1953 to 1962, though several splinter Drifters continue to perform today. They were originally formed by Clyde McPhatter in 1953...
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| 1962 |
"Point Of No Return The point of no return is the point beyond which someone, or some group of people, must continue on their current course of action, either because turning back is physically impossible, or because to do so would be prohibitively expensive or dangerous...
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Goffin & KingCarole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. While she has been a successful songwriter for decades, her singing career and fame peaked during the first half of the 1970s....
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Gene McDaniels Gene McDaniels is an American singer and songwriter, who had his greatest recording success in the early 1960s.-Career:...
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| 1962 |
"Go Away Little Girl "Go Away, Little Girl" is a popular song written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King. The lyrics consist of a young man asking an attractive young woman to stay away from him, so he won't be tempted to betray his steady girlfriend by kissing her....
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Goffin & KingCarole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. While she has been a successful songwriter for decades, her singing career and fame peaked during the first half of the 1970s....
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Steve Lawrence Steve Lawrence is an American singer, perhaps best known as a member of a duo with his wife Eydie Gormé, billed as Steve and Eydie. The two have appeared together since appearing regularly on Steve Allen's The Tonight Show in the mid-1950s.-Personal life:Lawrence was born Sidney Liebowitz to a...
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Donny Osmond Donald Clark "Donny" Osmond is an American singer, musician, actor and former teen idol. Osmond has also been a talk show and game show host, record producer, race car driver, and author. He is known for being half of the brother-sister singing act Donny & Marie and a member of the "Osmond...
(in 1971, #1) |
| 1962 |
"Up on the Roof "Up on the Roof" is a song written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King and recorded in 1962 by The Drifters. Released at the tail end of that year, the song became a big hit, reaching number 5 on the U.S. pop singles chart and number 4 on the U.S...
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Goffin & KingCarole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. While she has been a successful songwriter for decades, her singing career and fame peaked during the first half of the 1970s....
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The Drifters The Drifters are a long-lived African-American doo wop/R&B vocal group with a peak in popularity from 1953 to 1962, though several splinter Drifters continue to perform today. They were originally formed by Clyde McPhatter in 1953...
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Kenny Lynch Kenny Lynch, OBE is an English singer, songwriter, entertainer and actor from London. Lynch appeared in many variety shows in the 1960s...
(UK #10, in 1962), King (in 1970Writer is the first solo album by Carole King which was released 1970. Carole King had already started her career as a songwriter and been a part of The City. The top song was "Child of Mine", then "Up on the Roof" which was later covered by James Taylor...
), Laura NyroLaura Nyro was an American composer, lyricist, singer, and pianist. Her style was a hybrid of Brill Building-style New York pop, jazz, gospel, rhythm and blues, show tunes and rock....
(in 1970Christmas and the Beads of Sweat is the fourth LP by New York-born singer, songwriter, and pianist Laura Nyro.The album was released on the Columbia Records label in November 1970 after Nyro had recorded it in the early summer with producers Felix Cavaliere and Arif Mardin...
), James TaylorJames Vernon Taylor is an American singer–songwriter and guitarist born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Carrboro, North Carolina...
(in 1979Flag is singer-songwriter James Taylor's tenth album. Released in 1979, it included songs from Taylor's music score to Studs Terkel and Stephen Schwartz's Broadway musical, Working ....
(#28)), Neil DiamondNeil Leslie Diamond is an American singer-songwriter. Diamond is one of pop music's most enduring and successful singer-songwriters. As a successful pop music performer, Diamond scored a number of hits worldwide in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s...
(in 1993Up On The Roof: Songs From The Brill Building is a cover album, released in 1993 by Neil Diamond on Columbia Records. It contains a duet with Dolly Parton, along with re-makes of tracks associated with the Brill Building, where Diamond had worked in the 60s.It was certified Gold by the Recording...
), Billy Joe RoyalBilly Joe Royal is an American singer.-Biography:Born in Valdosta, Georgia and raised in Marietta, Royal became a local star at Savannah, Georgia's Bamboo Ranch in the 1950s and 1960s...
, Peter CincottiPeter Cincotti is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. He attended the Horace Mann School and Columbia University.-Biography:...
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| 1963 |
"Don't Say Nothing Bad (About My Baby)" |
Goffin & KingCarole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. While she has been a successful songwriter for decades, her singing career and fame peaked during the first half of the 1970s....
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The Cookies The Cookies were an American R&B girl group in the 1950s to 1960s. Members of the original lineup would later become The Raelettes, the backing vocalists for Ray Charles.-History:...
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| 1963 |
"Hey Girl "Hey Girl" is a song written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King, first recorded by Freddie Scott in 1963. It became a hit, peaking at number ten on both the Billboard Pop Singles and R&B charts....
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Goffin & KingCarole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. While she has been a successful songwriter for decades, her singing career and fame peaked during the first half of the 1970s....
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Freddie Scott Freddie Scott was a solo artist who began his career as a songwriter for Colpix Records, along with Carole King and Gerry Goffin....
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Donny Osmond Donald Clark "Donny" Osmond is an American singer, musician, actor and former teen idol. Osmond has also been a talk show and game show host, record producer, race car driver, and author. He is known for being half of the brother-sister singing act Donny & Marie and a member of the "Osmond...
(in 1972, #9), King (in 1980Pearls: Songs of Goffin and King is an album by American singer-songwriter Carole King, released in 1980. It produced Carole King's last hit to date, One Fine Day, which reached number 12 on the charts.-Track listing:...
), Billy JoelBilly Joel is an American rock musician, singer-songwriter, and classical composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man", in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist in the United States, according to the RIAA....
(in 1997Billy Joel's Greatest Hits discs are a collection released in two sets. The first, released in 1985, contained the first two discs. The second was released in 1997. All songs but the last three, "To Make You Feel My Love", "Hey Girl" and "Light as the Breeze", were written by Joel...
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| 1963 |
"One Fine Day "One Fine Day" is a popular song by songwriters Gerry Goffin and Carole King which was a hit in the summer of 1963 for girl group the Chiffons and has subsequently been covered by numerous artists.-Overview:...
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Goffin & KingCarole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. While she has been a successful songwriter for decades, her singing career and fame peaked during the first half of the 1970s....
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The Chiffons The Chiffons was an all girl group originating from the Bronx area of New York in 1960.-Biography:The Chiffons’ sassy flair made them one of the top Girl Groups of the early ’60s...
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Rita Coolidge Rita Coolidge is a mulitiple Grammy Award winning American vocalist. During the '70s and '80s, she charted hits on Billboard's Pop, Country, Adult Contemporary and Jazz charts. She is of Scottish and Cherokee Native American ancestry.-Personal life:She graduated from Andrew Jackson Senior High in...
(in 1979, #66), King (in 1980Pearls: Songs of Goffin and King is an album by American singer-songwriter Carole King, released in 1980. It produced Carole King's last hit to date, One Fine Day, which reached number 12 on the charts.-Track listing:...
, #12), Aaron NevilleAaron Neville is an American soul and R&B singer. He made his debut in 1966 with the hit single "Tell It Like It Is", a Number One hit on the Billboard R&B charts...
(in 1993), Natalie MerchantNatalie Anne Merchant is a professional musician. She joined the alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs in 1981 and left it to begin her solo career in 1993. Merchant has a contralto vocal range.-Family:...
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| 1964 |
"I Can't Hear You No More" |
Goffin & KingCarole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. While she has been a successful songwriter for decades, her singing career and fame peaked during the first half of the 1970s....
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Betty Everett Betty Everett was an African-American R&B singer and pianist. She is known for her biggest hit single "The Shoop Shoop Song ."-Biography:...
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Dusty Springfield Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien OBE , known as Dusty Springfield, was a pop singer and entertainer. Of all the female British pop artists of the 1960s, she made one of the biggest impressions on the American market...
(in 1965Ev'rything's Coming Up Dusty is the second studio album by singer Dusty Springfield, released on Philips Records in the UK in 1965. Springfield's 1964 debut album, A Girl Called Dusty, sold well enough to make her Philips Records' top selling female artist. For this, her second album, Philips...
), King (in 1970Writer is the first solo album by Carole King which was released 1970. Carole King had already started her career as a songwriter and been a part of The City. The top song was "Child of Mine", then "Up on the Roof" which was later covered by James Taylor...
), Helen ReddyHelen Reddy is an Australian/American singer-songwriter and actress. She has won a Grammy Award, appeared on Broadway and feature films, and been credited with writing and singing one of the most iconic and culturally significant songs of the 1970s, "I Am Woman".Reddy became one of the world's...
(in 1976, #29) |
| 1964 |
"I'm into Something Good "I'm into Something Good" is a song composed by Gerry Goffin and Carole King and made famous by Herman's Hermits.- Profile :The song was originally recorded by Cookies member Earl-Jean McCrea in 1964 and reached No. 38 on the US chart. Then very soon Herman's Hermits remade it as their debut...
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Goffin & KingCarole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. While she has been a successful songwriter for decades, her singing career and fame peaked during the first half of the 1970s....
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"Earl-Jean" McCrea The Cookies were an American R&B girl group in the 1950s to 1960s. Members of the original lineup would later become The Raelettes, the backing vocalists for Ray Charles.-History:...
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Herman's Hermits Herman's Hermits were an English pop band, formed in Manchester in 1963 as Herman & The Hermits. The group's management and producer, Mickie Most , emphasized a simple, non-threatening and clean-cut image, although the band originally played R&B numbers...
(later in 1964, #13) |
| 1964 |
"Oh No Not My Baby "Oh No Not My Baby" is the name of a song written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King. The song's lyrics describe how friends and family repeatedly warn the singer about a partner's infidelities, but the singer refuses to believe them...
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Goffin & KingCarole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. While she has been a successful songwriter for decades, her singing career and fame peaked during the first half of the 1970s....
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Maxine BrownMaxine Ella Brown is anAmerican soul singer.She began singing as a child, performing with two New York based gospel groups when she was a teenager. In 1960, she signed with the small Nomar record label, who released the smooth soul ballad "All in My Mind" late in the year...
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Manfred Mann Manfred Mann were a British beat, rhythm and blues and pop band of the 1960s, named after their South African keyboard player and founder, who later led the successful 1970s follow-on group Manfred Mann's Earth Band.-Beginnings :...
(in 1965), Dusty SpringfieldMary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien OBE , known as Dusty Springfield, was a pop singer and entertainer. Of all the female British pop artists of the 1960s, she made one of the biggest impressions on the American market...
(in 1965Ev'rything's Coming Up Dusty is the second studio album by singer Dusty Springfield, released on Philips Records in the UK in 1965. Springfield's 1964 debut album, A Girl Called Dusty, sold well enough to make her Philips Records' top selling female artist. For this, her second album, Philips...
), Aretha FranklinAretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter and pianist commonly referred to as "The Queen of Soul". Although renowned for her soul recordings, Franklin is also adept at jazz, rock, soul, blues, pop, R&B and Gospel music...
(in 1970Spirit in the Dark is an album by American soul artist Aretha Franklin, released in 1970.-Track listing:# "Don't Play That Song" - 3:02# "The Thrill Is Gone" - 4:41# "Pullin'" - 3:38...
), Rod StewartRoderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE is a British singer and songwriter born and raised in London, England and currently residing in Epping. He is of Scottish and English lineage....
(in 1973, #59), King (in 1980Pearls: Songs of Goffin and King is an album by American singer-songwriter Carole King, released in 1980. It produced Carole King's last hit to date, One Fine Day, which reached number 12 on the charts.-Track listing:...
), CherCher is an American pop singer-songwriter, actor, director and record producer. She has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globe Awards and a People's Choice Award for her work in film, music and television.Cher began her career at the age of seventeen and came to...
(in 1992Greatest Hits: 1965-1992 is the first European compilation album by American singer-actess Cher, released on November 9 1992 by Geffen Records.-Album information:...
), Linda RonstadtLinda Ronstadt is an American popular music vocalist and entertainer. Her many vocal styles in a variety of genres have resonated with the general public over the course of her four-decade career...
(in 1994Winter Light is a 1993 album by American singer/songwriter/producer Linda Ronstadt.It was Ronstadt's first album since Don't Cry Now not produced with Peter Asher. She elected to produce it along with George Massenburg...
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"Just Once in My Life "Just Once in My Life" is a song written by Gerry Goffin, Carole King and Phil Spector. The most popular version of the song was performed by The Righteous Brothers.The Righteous Brothers released their version as a single in 1965...
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Goffin & KingCarole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. While she has been a successful songwriter for decades, her singing career and fame peaked during the first half of the 1970s....
& SpectorHarvey Philip "Phil" Spector is an American pioneering record producer and songwriter who was convicted of murder in 2009....
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The Righteous Brothers The Righteous Brothers were the musical duo of Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield. They recorded from 1963 through 1975, and continued to perform until Hatfield's death in 2003...
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| 1966 |
"Don't Bring Me Down "Don't Bring Me Down" is a rock song composed by Gerry Goffin and Carole King and recorded as a 1966 hit single by The Animals.-History:"Don't Bring Me Down" was the third of The Animals' epic personalisations of Brill Building material, following the 1965 hits "We Gotta Get Out of This Place"" and...
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Goffin & KingCarole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. While she has been a successful songwriter for decades, her singing career and fame peaked during the first half of the 1970s....
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The Animals The Animals were an English music group of the 1960s known in the United States as part of the British Invasion. Known for their gritty, bluesy sound and deep-voiced frontman Eric Burdon, as exemplified by their signature songs "The House of the Rising Sun" and "We Gotta Get Out of This Place", the...
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers For the New York based band, see The HeartbreakersTom Petty and the Heartbreakers are a Heartland rock band, most of whose members are from the United States of America. They were formed in 1976 by Tom Petty, Mike Campbell, and Benmont Tench, all of whom had been members of Mudcrutch...
(in 1986Pack Up the Plantation: Live! is the first live album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, released in 1985. It was primarily recorded at the Wiltern Theatre during their 1985 tour but also includes several tracks from previous tours...
); not the same song as the Electric Light OrchestraElectric Light Orchestra, commonly abbreviated ELO, were a British symphonic rock group from Birmingham, United Kingdom, who released eleven studio albums between 1971 and 1986 and another album in 2001. ELO were formed to accommodate Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne's desire to create modern rock and pop...
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| 1966 |
"Goin' Back "Goin' Back" is a song written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King in 1966, which deals with the loss of innocence that comes with adulthood and an attempt, on the part of the singer, to recapture that youthful innocence...
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Goffin & KingCarole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. While she has been a successful songwriter for decades, her singing career and fame peaked during the first half of the 1970s....
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Dusty Springfield Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien OBE , known as Dusty Springfield, was a pop singer and entertainer. Of all the female British pop artists of the 1960s, she made one of the biggest impressions on the American market...
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The Byrds The Byrds were an American rock and roll band. Formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964, The Byrds underwent several personnel changes, with frontman Roger McGuinn remaining the sole consistent member until the group disbanded in 1973....
(in 1968The Notorious Byrd Brothers is the fifth album by Los Angeles rock band The Byrds and was released in January, 1968 on Columbia Records, catalogue item CL 2775 in mono, CS 9575 in stereo. The album reached #47 on the Billboard 200 album chart during a chart stay of 19 weeks, and reached #12 in...
, #86), King (in 1980Pearls: Songs of Goffin and King is an album by American singer-songwriter Carole King, released in 1980. It produced Carole King's last hit to date, One Fine Day, which reached number 12 on the charts.-Track listing:...
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| 1967 |
"Pleasant Valley Sunday "Pleasant Valley Sunday" is a song by Gerry Goffin and Carole King, most famous for the version recorded by The Monkees in 1967. Goffin's and King's inspiration for the name was a street named , in West Orange, New Jersey. The road follows a valley through several communities among the Watchung...
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Goffin & KingCarole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. While she has been a successful songwriter for decades, her singing career and fame peaked during the first half of the 1970s....
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The MonkeesThe Monkees were a pop rock quartet assembled by Robert "Bob" Rafelson and Bert Schneider in Los Angeles in 1966 for the American television series The Monkees, which aired from 1966 to 1968...
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| 1967 |
"(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman " A Natural Woman" is a 1967 single released by American soul singer Aretha Franklin on the Atlantic label. The record was a big hit for Franklin, reaching number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100, and became a standard song for her....
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Goffin & KingCarole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. While she has been a successful songwriter for decades, her singing career and fame peaked during the first half of the 1970s....
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Aretha FranklinAretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter and pianist commonly referred to as "The Queen of Soul". Although renowned for her soul recordings, Franklin is also adept at jazz, rock, soul, blues, pop, R&B and Gospel music...
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King (in 1971 Tapestry is a pop album by singer-songwriter Carole King, released in 1971. It features minimal production by Lou Adler. Tapestry was ranked US number 1 for 15 weeks, which is the longest time for an album by a female to occupy that position, and remained in the charts for over six years...
), Laura NyroLaura Nyro was an American composer, lyricist, singer, and pianist. Her style was a hybrid of Brill Building-style New York pop, jazz, gospel, rhythm and blues, show tunes and rock....
(in 1971Gonna Take a Miracle is the fifth music album by New York-born singer, songwriter, and pianist Laura Nyro. Nyro was backed up on the album by the vocal trio Labelle....
), Rod StewartRoderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE is a British singer and songwriter born and raised in London, England and currently residing in Epping. He is of Scottish and English lineage....
(in 1974Smiler is Rod Stewart's fifth album, and final album for Mercury Records, released in 1974 . It is also the name of his fan club, in which Owen Roddy is the number 1 Smiler. It became the first album by Rod Stewart as a solo artist to become critically panned although it reached number 1 in the UK...
), Mary J. BligeMary Jane Blige , more commonly known as Mary J. Blige, is an American recording artist, record producer and actress. She has sold more than forty eight million albums worldwide. She has received many Grammy Award nominations for her work, winning ten, and has been awarded the World Music Legends...
(in 1995New York Undercover is a one-hour police drama that aired on the Fox television network from 1994 to 1998. The series stars Malik Yoba as Detective J.C. Williams and Michael DeLorenzo as Detective Eddie Torres, two undercover detectives in New York City's 4th Precinct who were assigned to...
), Celine DionCéline Marie Claudette Dion , CC, OQ is a Canadian singer, occasional songwriter, actress, and entrepreneur. Born to a large, impoverished family in Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to...
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| 1968 |
"Porpoise Song" |
Goffin & KingCarole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. While she has been a successful songwriter for decades, her singing career and fame peaked during the first half of the 1970s....
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The MonkeesThe Monkees were a pop rock quartet assembled by Robert "Bob" Rafelson and Bert Schneider in Los Angeles in 1966 for the American television series The Monkees, which aired from 1966 to 1968...
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| 1968 |
"Wasn't Born to Follow" |
Goffin & KingCarole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. While she has been a successful songwriter for decades, her singing career and fame peaked during the first half of the 1970s....
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The Byrds The Byrds were an American rock and roll band. Formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964, The Byrds underwent several personnel changes, with frontman Roger McGuinn remaining the sole consistent member until the group disbanded in 1973....
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The Lemon Pipers (in 1968), King (in 1980 Pearls: Songs of Goffin and King is an album by American singer-songwriter Carole King, released in 1980. It produced Carole King's last hit to date, One Fine Day, which reached number 12 on the charts.-Track listing:...
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| 1969 |
"Don't Forget About Me" |
Goffin & KingCarole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. While she has been a successful songwriter for decades, her singing career and fame peaked during the first half of the 1970s....
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Dusty Springfield Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien OBE , known as Dusty Springfield, was a pop singer and entertainer. Of all the female British pop artists of the 1960s, she made one of the biggest impressions on the American market...
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| 1969 |
"I Can't Make It Alone" |
Goffin & KingCarole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. While she has been a successful songwriter for decades, her singing career and fame peaked during the first half of the 1970s....
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Dusty Springfield Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien OBE , known as Dusty Springfield, was a pop singer and entertainer. Of all the female British pop artists of the 1960s, she made one of the biggest impressions on the American market...
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Maria McKee (in 1993 You Gotta Sin to Get Saved is the second album by American singer/songwriter Maria McKee, released in 1993 .-Track listing:#"I'm Gonna Soothe You" – 3:36#"My Lonely Sad Eyes" – 2:41...
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| 1970 |
"Hi-De-Ho (That Old Sweet Roll)" |
Goffin & KingCarole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. While she has been a successful songwriter for decades, her singing career and fame peaked during the first half of the 1970s....
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Dusty Springfield Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien OBE , known as Dusty Springfield, was a pop singer and entertainer. Of all the female British pop artists of the 1960s, she made one of the biggest impressions on the American market...
(in 1969Dusty in Memphis is an album by Dusty Springfield, released in 1969. It was produced by Jerry Wexler and Arif Mardin and engineered by Tom Dowd...
, unreleased until 1999), King (in 1980Pearls: Songs of Goffin and King is an album by American singer-songwriter Carole King, released in 1980. It produced Carole King's last hit to date, One Fine Day, which reached number 12 on the charts.-Track listing:...
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| 1971 |
"Smackwater Jack" |
Goffin & KingCarole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. While she has been a successful songwriter for decades, her singing career and fame peaked during the first half of the 1970s....
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Carole KingCarole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. While she has been a successful songwriter for decades, her singing career and fame peaked during the first half of the 1970s....
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| 1973 |
"I've Got to Use My Imagination "I've Got to Use My Imagination" is a song recorded by Gladys Knight & the Pips. Released from the hit album, Imagination, which was their debut album with Buddah Records, the song was a success on the soul and pop charts. It spent a week at number one on the Hot Soul Singles chart in early 1974...
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Goffin & Goldberg Barry Goldberg is a blues and rock keyboardist, songwriter and record producer.-Career:As a teenager in Chicago, Goldberg sat in with Muddy Waters, Otis Rush, and Howlin' Wolf. He played keyboards in the band supporting Bob Dylan during his 1965 'electrified' appearance at the Newport Folk Festival...
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| 1975 |
"Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To) "Theme from Mahogany " is a song written by Michael Masser and Gerald Goffin, and recorded by American singer Diana Ross as the theme to the 1975 Motown/Paramount film Mahogany...
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Goffin & Masser Michael Masser , a former lawyer and stockbroker, is a composer and producer of popular music. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law. Masser and his wife Ogniana live in Encino, California....
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Diana Ross Diana Ross is an American singer and actress. During the 1960s, she helped shape the Motown Sound as lead singer of The Supremes, before leaving the group for a solo career on January 14, 1970...
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| 1975 |
"It's Not The Spotlight" |
Goffin & Goldberg Barry Goldberg is a blues and rock keyboardist, songwriter and record producer.-Career:As a teenager in Chicago, Goldberg sat in with Muddy Waters, Otis Rush, and Howlin' Wolf. He played keyboards in the band supporting Bob Dylan during his 1965 'electrified' appearance at the Newport Folk Festival...
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Rod StewartRoderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE is a British singer and songwriter born and raised in London, England and currently residing in Epping. He is of Scottish and English lineage....
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| 1980 |
"Someone That I Used To Love" |
Goffin & Masser Michael Masser , a former lawyer and stockbroker, is a composer and producer of popular music. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law. Masser and his wife Ogniana live in Encino, California....
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Natalie Cole Natalie Cole is an American singer, songwriter and performer. She achieved success in her early career as an R&B star, but smoothly changed her repertoire toward a more pop and jazz oriented musical style in the early 1990s...
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| 1983 |
"Tonight I Celebrate My Love "Tonight, I Celebrate My Love" is a song written by Gerry Goffin and Michael Masser recorded as a duet single released in 1983 by singers Peabo Bryson and Roberta Flack. It became a big hit for both singers, peaking at number sixteen on the Billboard Hot 100, number five on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop...
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Goffin & Masser Michael Masser , a former lawyer and stockbroker, is a composer and producer of popular music. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law. Masser and his wife Ogniana live in Encino, California....
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Roberta Flack Roberta Flack is an American singer, songwriter and musician who is notable for jazz, soul, R&B and folk music. Flack is best known for singles such as "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", "Killing Me Softly with His Song", and "Feel Like Makin' Love", as well as "Where Is the Love" and "The...
& Peabo BrysonPeabo Bryson is a two-time Grammy Award-winning American R&B and soul singer, born in Greenville, South Carolina...
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| 1985 |
"Saving All My Love for You "Saving All My Love for You" is the second hit single from Whitney Houston's self-titled debut album. This jazzy ballad is about a love affair with a married man, and the singer is "saving all her love for him". The song was written by Michael Masser and Gerry Goffin. The song was arranged by Gene...
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Goffin & Masser Michael Masser , a former lawyer and stockbroker, is a composer and producer of popular music. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law. Masser and his wife Ogniana live in Encino, California....
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Whitney Houston Whitney Elizabeth Houston is an American recording artist, actress, and former fashion model. A relative to several prominent soul singers, including her mother Cissy Houston, cousins Dee Dee and Dionne Warwick, and godmother Aretha Franklin, Houston began singing at her New Jersey church as a...
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| 1987 |
"Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You "Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You" is a popular song by Gerry Goffin and Michael Masser.It was originally recorded by George Benson for his 1984 album 20/20.-Glenn Medeiros version:...
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Goffin & Masser Michael Masser , a former lawyer and stockbroker, is a composer and producer of popular music. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law. Masser and his wife Ogniana live in Encino, California....
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Glenn Medeiros Glenn Alan Medeiros, born June 24, 1970, is an American singer-songwriter from the state of Hawaii. He currently teaches at Maryknoll School in Honolulu.- Biography :...
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George Benson George Benson is an Grammy Award winning American musician, whose recording career began at the age of twenty-one as a jazz guitarist. He is also known as a pop, R&B, and scat singer. This one time child prodigy topped the Billboard 200 in 1976 with the triple-platinum album, Breezin...
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| 1989 |
"Miss You Like Crazy "Miss You Like Crazy" is a song recorded by Natalie Cole and released in 1989 from her album Good to Be Back. It was a huge hit for Cole, becoming her fifth Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, where the song peaked at #7. The song also topped both the R&B and adult contemporary charts in...
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Goffin & Masser Michael Masser , a former lawyer and stockbroker, is a composer and producer of popular music. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law. Masser and his wife Ogniana live in Encino, California....
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Natalie Cole Natalie Cole is an American singer, songwriter and performer. She achieved success in her early career as an R&B star, but smoothly changed her repertoire toward a more pop and jazz oriented musical style in the early 1990s...
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