Introduction

There is no greatest song because it's like who's your favorite child, but you've got a friend probably has had the broadest reach of just making people feel really, really good about life and themselves. The great thing was that other female singers at the time had their voices so treated, had heavenly choirs and strings and echo on everything. And here's old Carol, as I say looking really quiet frizzy, completely untreated voice, completely untreated instruments playing with these wonderful, natural sounds. It was all about being natural and I think that was what made it such an incredibly important album - not just in terms of Carol King's career, but in terms of the way people then went