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She Meets Chemistry Student/Budding Lyricist. They Write, Fall in Love, And NON E R S They can’t all be hits, even when the Hr songwriters are as gifted as Gerry Gof- : fjn.and Carole King. Besides their doz­ ens of unforgettable hits - including, say, the Drifters’ "Some Kind of Won­ derful,” Number Thirty-two in 1961, and “Up on the Roof,” Numberfiveft( ’(2-G$K penned some superb, inex­ plicably unsuccessful songs. To name a fraction: P.J. Proby’s and Dusty Spring- . t's all in the songs. Sure, the bare bones of the story field’s “I Can’t Make It Alone”; the might make a serviceable plot. Budding songwriter has Monkees’ “Porpoise Song” and T ■/ hit song written about her by school chum. She cuts an­ Won’t Be the Same Without Her”; and swer record about him, "Oh! Neil",- tries again with answer Barbara lewis’s and Dusty Springfield’s record to immortal hit "Tall Paul." "Short Mort" . more “Don’t forget About Me.” like "Instant Morte." She meets chemistry student/budding Then there are those that Seem to lyricist. They write, fall in love, and the hits keep coming. have earned their obscurity - yet are For three years, from 1961 to 1963, Gerry Goffin and Car­ still some kind of strangely wonderful! ole King owned the franchise for the soundtrack of early-Sixties “The Kid Brother,” for example, re­ lives. Not convinced? Lamp the list: "Chains," "Don't Say Nothin' Bad corded by Mickey and Kitty and re- (About My Baby)/' "Every Breath I Take," "Go Away Little Girl," "Hey Girl," "I leased on Atlantic in 1959 - one of Can't Stay Mad at You," "It Might As Well Rain Until September," "Keep Your GAR’S earliest efforts, written with | Hands off My Baby," "The Loco-Motion," "One Fine Day," "Point of No Return," Midtey Baker. A romantic couple is in­ 'Take Good Care of My Baby," "When My Little Girl Is Smiling," "Will You Love cessantly interrupted by demands of the titular sibling: at­ Me Tomorrow" Unforgettable hits every one (a thing Good") and commissions ("Don't Bring Me list by no means complete). You may not re­ Down"). G&K form own label, Tomorrow. Com­ tempts by Mickey to bribe the brat tb member every artist,- you may not like every pany releases perhaps King's greatest single “ get lost” with {successively) a quarter, song,- but if you spent any time with a radio in ("Road to Nowhere"), delicate cover of "Will a dollar and the entire contents of his the early Sixties, you can hear these songs in You Love Me Tomorrow" by coyly named your head, hook line and sinker. Memorable is the Bachs Lunch, three folk-rock marvels by the wallet fail, as did the song, despite word, and that of course is what pop songwrit­ Myddle Class. No hits, short ran, wrong era. Baker’s always-bip guitar lines. ing in the early Sixties (and always, but especial­ King forms the City with the Myddle Class's Larry Bright served up “When I Did ly then, before music became dead serious and Charles Larckey. Lou Adler releases City's sole then seriously dead-ended) was all about. album, plus a warm-up solo project for King. the Mashed Potatoes With You” four: G&K may have written in a cubicle, but not in Next album becomes a thread in rock's rich tap­ years later on Del.fi, Obviously cut a vacuum. Their peer group is viewed today as estry. Comers the franchise for the soundtrack strictly for laughs, the song gets the practically peerless. But there's a difference: Bar­ of early-Seventies lives: "I Feel the Earth Move," ry Mann and Cynthia Weil might go sociologi­ "It's Too Late," “You've Got a Friend* Goffin still v full Drifters treatment -swaying baton cal on you,- Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman were crafts hits: "Do You Know Where You're Going adult rated even when their subject was adoles­ To," "I'll Meet You Halfway," "I've Got to Use ody: long, wordy verses - all leading up cent,- JenY Leiber and Mike Stoller were both My Imagination," "Saving All My Love for You." sociological and adult G&K (even more than Jeff After scaling the loftiest peaks, King's solo ca­ to an ultraromantic sentiment: “I’ll | Barry and Ellie Greenwich) made it their busi­ reer loses esteem. Even an album of updated never forget the night that we met and G&K classics meets the audience only halfway. ness to chart the universe of young romance. p | did the mashed potatoes with you.” That's a theme that could be expanded and ex­ Yet it's still there in the songs. It would be too pounded until the forests ran out of trees, but no much to ask for G&K to comer the franchise for All efforts to preserve decorum are need - it's all in the songs (really, it's all there in the soundtrack for Eighties lives as well. They abandoned when Bright Big Bopperish- the titles). Meanwhile, there's still some plot left. write together now and again, including the re­ ly bemoans alt the newfangled, Soulless Colossal success impels publisher to create cent King single "Someone Who Believes in Dimension, label for G&K songs and, as it turns You." Millions still believe - in the early collabo­ dances - the stomp, the bird and the out, Carole King solo releases. British Invasion rations and the Seventies soul searchers. Goffin watusi - that pale in comparison with cramps the style of Brill Building tunesmithing, and King songs are built to last. They might well the mash mosh. -K B . but G&K ride it out, via covers ("I'm Into Some­ reign until forever. — KEN BARNES.
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