Search - Carole King :: Time Gone By

Three into one

ryan | DC area, USA | 08/08/2004

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This CD takes some of the music from Carole King's three albums of the late 70s (Simple Things, Welcome Home, and Touch the Sky) and combines them into one. (The albums were never released in CD format, so this is the next best thing). I'm sure it was hard to pick the 10 songs which would make the cut to get on this CD, but they did a fairly decent job. The problem is there are many more than 10 great songs between these three albums, so some of them are missed.

Hard Rock Cafe was a charting single from Simple Things, so of course it needs to be here. Other selections are very melodic, reflective, and inspiring. Main Street is pure fun.

My only suggestion is that you may want to purchase the newer 'Two for One' CD, which combines this one with "Pearls" -- the early 80s album where Carole went back and recorded some of her biggest hits from the 60s that she wrote for other artists with her then-husband Gerry Goffin.

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