Hung On You - More From The Gerry Goffin & Carole King Songbook Various Artists (Songwriter Series)

£11.70

Genre:
Pop
Label:
Ace Records
Format:
CD
Catalogue Id:
CDCHD 1427

Music publisher Max Dreyfus, the dean of New York City’s Tin Pan Alley, once said, “Always take care of your writers. Without them you are nothing.” Dreyfus knew a good songwriter when he heard one – Richard Rodgers, George Gershwin and Cole Porter, to name but three – and we like to think we at Ace do too, although we specialise in a more recent era.

This bumper collection of numbers penned by revered New Yorkers Gerry Goffin and his wife Carole King includes familiar hits (the Shirelles’ ‘What A Sweet Thing That Was’, Bobby Vee’s ‘Sharing You’, the Cookies’ ‘Will Power’, the Drifters’ ‘When My Little Girls Is Smiling’, etc), overlooked gems (the Hondells’ ‘Show Me Girl’, the Hearts & Flowers’ ‘Road To Nowhere’, Walter Jackson’s ‘Anything Can Happen’) and some new-to-CD rarities (‘You Turn Me On Boy’ by the Honey Bees, the Orlons’ ‘Keep Your Hands Off My Baby’, the Clovers’ ‘The Sheik’ and Theola Kilgore’s ‘It’s Gonna Be Alright’).

By 1968 Carole and Gerry had moved from the East Coast and were living apart in Los Angeles, where Carole formed the group the City. ‘Snow Queen’ (heard here in a rare version by the Tokens) and ‘That Old Sweet Roll (Hi-De-Ho)’ (here by Dusty Springfield, one of the Goffins’ biggest champions), were among the six Goffin and King songs on “Now That Everything’s Been Said”, the City’s album. After their divorce, Carole and Gerry did resume writing together, although much less prolifically than before.

In a poll of the top songwriting teams of the 1960s, there’s a strong chance Goffin and King would win the vote. This is the fourth volume of their work we have released. That’s over 100 songs, with no drop in quality – proof if needed that the couple were among the most consistently excellent exponents of their craft.

Mick Patrick

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Side 1

  • 01 Preview Hung On You - The Righteous Brothers

  • 02 Preview That Old Sweet Roll (Hi-De-Ho) - Dusty Springfield

  • 03 Preview Road To Nowhere - The Hearts & Flowers

  • 04 Preview Don't Let Me Stand In Your Way - Skeeter Davis

  • 05 Preview You Turn Me On Boy - The Honey Bees

  • 06 Preview What A Sweet Thing That Was - The Shirelles

  • 07 Preview Will Power - The Cookies

  • 08 Preview This Little Girl - Dion

  • 09 Preview The Sheik - The Clovers

  • 10 Preview Am I The Guy - Tony Orlando

  • 11 Preview Show Me, Girl - The Hondells

  • 12 Preview Sharing You - Bobby Vee

  • 13 Preview When My Little Girl Is Smiling - The Drifters

  • 14 Preview Randy - Earl-Jean

  • 15 Preview Anything Can Happen - Walter Jackson

  • 16 Preview It's Gonna Be Alright - Theola Kilgore

  • 17 Preview Where Does Love Go - Freddie Scott

  • 18 Preview Please Hurt Me - Little Eva

  • 19 Preview So Many Lonely People - Henry Alston

  • 20 Preview Don't You Want To Love Me - Connie Stevens

  • 21 Preview Keep Your Hands Off My Baby - The Orlons

  • 22 Preview No One Ever Tells You - The Crystals

  • 23 Preview The Boy From Chelsea - Truly Smith

  • 24 Preview Snow Queen - The Tokens

  • 25 Preview Sometime In The Morning - The American Breed

  • 26 Preview So This Is How It Feels - The Countrymen

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