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Her Greatest Hits: Songs of Long Ago is the first official compilation album by Carole King. It was released in 1978 and features twelve songs that had previously appeared on her six studio albums for Ode Records released between 1971 and 1976. The album was re-released on CD/Cassette in 1999 with two additional tracks.
The song was written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin and intended for Bobby Vee, for whom they had already written the song "Take Good Care of My Baby", a number one hit in the United States in 1961. King's demo version of the song was released as a single on Dimension Records and it became a hit for her.
Bobby Vee: 63 10 "Take Good Care of My Baby" Bobby Vee 1 3 Dion and the Belmonts (later in 1961), The Beatles (in 1962 for Decca auditions), Bobby Vinton (in 1968), Smokie (UK #34, 1981), Bobby Vee, Stephen Collins, Dick Brave "Some Kind of Wonderful" The Drifters: 32 - Tony Orlando - 1961. In album Bless You and Eleven other Great Hits, Epic ...
Carole King Klein [3] (born Carol Joan Klein; February 9, 1942) is an American singer-songwriter and musician.One of the most successful songwriters in American history, she wrote or co-wrote 118 pop hits appearing on the Billboard Hot 100 over the latter half of the 20th century. [4]
The discography of Carole King, an American singer-songwriter and musician, consists of 17 studio albums, four live albums, seven compilation albums, one soundtrack album and 33 singles as a lead artist. King has sold over 75 million records worldwide. [1] Billboard ranked her as the 73rd greatest artist of all time. [2]
Robert Thomas Velline (April 30, 1943 – October 24, 2016), known professionally as Bobby Vee, was an American singer who was a teen idol in the early 1960s and also appeared in films. [1] According to Billboard magazine, he had thirty-eight Hot 100 chart hits, ten of which reached the Top 20. [2] [3] He had six gold singles in his career. [4]
Bobby Vee's Golden Greats is a compilation album by American singer Bobby Vee that was released in November 1962 by Liberty Records. It was Vee's first greatest hits compilation on the Liberty label. He had as the major influences in his career his personal manager Arnold Mills and record producer, Snuff Garrett. [1] [2]
The song has since been put on many of her compilation albums, including her certified platinum album Her Greatest Hits: Songs of Long Ago. The song, like the album Wrap Around Joy , got off to a slow start, but eventually charted high.