In 2000, King was asked to record a version of her hit song " Where You Lead" as the theme song for the show Gilmore Girls. She rewrote a few lyrics to fit the mother-daughter story. She often performs this song with her daughter, Louise Goffin. She rarely performed the song after its original release due to the rise in the Women's liberation movement and falling out of favor of the sentiment behind the lyrics. King agreed to revamp the song to be, "something more relevant." The song became strongly associated with female friendships and family members. [60]

Ankeny, Jason. "Carole King Biography". AllMusic. Archived from the original on June 9, 2015 . Retrieved April 11, 2015. Your computer may be infected with malware or spyware that makes automated requests to our server and causes problems.Photo of Carol King as a child with her parents". Tc.pbs.org. Archived from the original on May 10, 2017 . Retrieved November 9, 2018. In 1973, King performed a free concert in New York City's Central Park with 100,000 attending. [52] Not Ready to Make Nice" – Emily Burns Erwin, Martha Maguire, Natalie Maines Pasdar& Dan Wilson (songwriters) (2006)

King attended Queens College, where she met Gerry Goffin, who was to become her songwriting partner. When she was 17, they married in a Jewish ceremony on Long Island in August 1959 after King became pregnant with her first daughter, Louise. [24] [25] They quit college and took day jobs, Goffin working as an assistant chemist and King as a secretary. [26] They wrote songs together in the evening. [27] Carole King receives Hollywood Walk of Fame star; ABC". ABClocal.com. December 4, 2012. Archived from the original on December 6, 2012 . Retrieved October 31, 2019. One version of a release from Gerry Coffin's 1973 album, "It Ain't Exactly Entertainment'. Goffin, Pt. 2 Helen Reddy covered two Carole King penned tunes: the first was " No Sad Song" in 1971 (number 62); the second was " I Can't Hear You No More" in 1976, combined with "Music Is My Life" to reach number 29. [101] VVN Music (May 11, 2012). "Carole King Retires". Noise11. Archived from the original on July 26, 2013 . Retrieved November 11, 2012.

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The Aretha Franklin version of the song was release In February 2013, she received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement award. And in January 2014, a Broadway musical covering her life – including the Goffin years – titled, Beautiful – The Carole King Musical, opened in New York. It would go on to great success, wining two Tony Awards, and after its London run, two Olivier Awards. King had been apprehensive about the show’s dredging up of old, painful history, as it focuses on the Goffin-King love affair, their work at the Brill Building, their marriage, and Goffin’s infidelity. The show ends just as King is enjoying fame for her groundbreaking solo album, Tapestry. While Gerry Goffin’s infidelity and emotional problems are part of the stage production, he did attend the show’s opening in January 2014 at the Stephen Sondheim Theater, though he was not then in the best of health.

Neil Sedaka, who had dated King in high school, had a hit song in 1959 titled “Oh! Carol.” Goffin took the tune and wrote a playful response to it titled, “Oh! Neil,” which King recorded and released as a single. She and Gerry also wrote the B-side song on that single, but neither song was a success. Perone, James E. (2006). The Words and Music of Carole King. Greenwood Publishing Group. p.131. ISBN 9780275990275. Archived from the original on December 7, 2016 . Retrieved March 18, 2013.Tapestry' Jumps from number 15 to number 7 on Billboard's Top Pop Catalog Chart". Carole King. October 12, 2001. Archived from the original on September 8, 2015 . Retrieved August 25, 2015. Carole King – Thoroughbred 1976 Album and Tour". Waddywachtelinfo.com. Archived from the original on June 17, 2014 . Retrieved April 19, 2014. King, Carole (January 26, 2017). "Why I'm Just Now Re-Releasing A Song I First Wrote In 1982". Huffington Post. Archived from the original on January 26, 2017 . Retrieved January 26, 2017.

Desta, Yohana (May 21, 2013). "Carole King on Gershwin Prize: 'Do not make me cry' ". USA Today. Archived from the original on May 22, 2013 . Retrieved May 23, 2013. Richard Corliss,” Remembering Gerry Goffin, the ’60s Poet of Teen Heartbreak,” Time, June 20, 2014. The Shirelles' record topped the American chart and sold a million. In Britain, it reached No 3. On the day it reached No 1, King and Kirshner drove in a limousine to the chemical plant to tell Gerry he could quit his job. "We got a nice advance, we got credit cards and I never had to do an honest day's work again," he told an interviewer.King is also politically active in the United States Democratic Party. In 2003, she began campaigning for John Kerry, performing in private homes for caucus delegates during the Democratic primaries. On July 29, 2004, she made a short speech and sang at the Democratic National Convention, about two hours before Kerry made his acceptance speech for the Democratic nomination for president. [95] King continued her support of Kerry throughout the general election. When Kerry was named Secretary of State in 2013 she campaigned with US Representative Ed Markey, the Democratic nominee to succeed Kerry in a special election. They married in 1937 during the last years of the Great Depression. [16] :10 King's mother dropped out of college to run the household; her father also quit college and briefly took a job as a radio announcer. [16] :10 With the economy struggling, he then took a more secure job as a firefighter. [16] :10 After King was born, her parents remained in Brooklyn and were eventually able to buy a small two-story duplex where they could rent out the upstairs for income. [17] [18] In July 2016, King was on the top of the bill at the British Summer Time Festival at Hyde Park, London, where she performed all of Tapestry live for the first time. That concert was broadcast on UK TV in October 2016 and in 2017, an album of that concert, Tapestry: Live at Hyde Park, was released.