2011年6月19日 星期日

Carole King明年出自傳

Carole King 6月13日宣佈她的自傳Natural Woman將在明年4月出版。


1971年的今天(6/19)Carole King的單曲It's Too Late 與反面的I Feel The Earth Move開始連續五週在排行榜獲得冠軍,這二首歌都是她的專輯唱片Tapestry當中的歌。

Carole King是歷年暢銷歌星排行榜第291名的出名女歌星、作曲人,也擅於鋼琴,1959年Neil Sedaka為她寫了Oh Carole這首歌,曾獲得第9名,但1958年她就和作曲人Gerry Goffin結婚,這對詞曲搭擋寫出了4首排行榜冠軍曲,包括Will You Love Me Tomorrow、Go Away Little Girl、Take Good Care Of My Baby與the Loco Motion,1971年Carole King因專輯唱片Tapestry與其中的單曲替她得了四座葛萊美獎,她和Goffin於1968年離婚,但他們的女兒Lousie Goffin 1979年也踏入歌壇。

Carole King是搖滾樂紀元最成功的女作曲家。

Tapestry專輯唱片的標題歌Tapestry沒有推出過單曲,但也是一首非常好聽的歌。



Tapestry

Songwriters: King, Carole;

My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue

An everlasting vision of the ever changing view

A wondrous woven magic in bits of blue and gold

A tapestry to feel and see, impossible to hold



Once amid the soft silver sadness in the sky

There came a man of fortune, a drifter passing by

He wore a torn and tattered cloth around his leather hide

And a coat of many colors, yellow-green on either side



He moved with some uncertainty, as if he didn't know

Just what he was there for, or where he ought to go

Once he reached for something golden hanging from a tree

And his hand came down empty



Soon within my tapestry along the rutted road

He sat down on a river rock and turned into a toad

It seemed that he had fallen into someone's wicked spell

And I wept to see him suffer, though I didn't know him well



As I watched in sorrow, there suddenly appeared

A figure gray and ghostly beneath a flowing beard

In times of deepest darkness, I've seen him dressed in black

Now my tapestry's unraveling, he's come to take me back

He's come to take me back

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