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| | Flak Magazine: Review of Louise Goffin's Sometimes A Circle, 04-09-02 |
 | | As the daughter of Gerry Goffin and Carole King, Louise Goffin must have some measure of help based on her bloodline in reaching the release of Sometimes A Circle, her de facto debut record after a couple of long-forgotten efforts in the early '80s. | | | In fact, just as Goffin hits her stride, vamping it up in a style familiar to fans of the semi-obscure Shivaree, Circle shifts gears, just like when albums used to have sides. | | | Still, Goffin has a lot to live up to: Her parents stand without hyperbole among the greatest popular songwriting teams of the past 50 years, alongside Bacharach-David, Lennon-McCartney and Holland-Dozier-Holland. |
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| | Louise Goffin: Sometimes a Circle - PopMatters Music Review |
| | The daughter of Carole King and Gerry Goffin, Louise Goffin's new release, her first in nearly 14 years, is the latest in an increasingly lengthening line of albums by children of famous musicians, and it had to be a daunting task to step out of the shadow of her illustrious parents. | | | Goffin describes her album as "a humorous look at the absurdity of modern life," which perfectly encapsulates the theme of the record. | | | Lyrically, though, Goffin is nonetheless terrific, especially on "Clicking to the Next Slide", where she scores some points singing about a found View-Master (one of the coolest toys, ever), but lyrics are only half of the song (some might argue even less), and without a melody that grabs you, you're not left with much. |
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http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/g/goffinlouise-sometimes.shtml
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| | BILLBOARD |
| | Goffin, the daughter of legendary songwriters Carole King and Gerry Goffin, had been expressing her musicality with several experimental bands before finally going solo in the late '90s. | | | Louise Goffin likens the feeling of making her solo album, "Sometimes a Circle" (due Feb. 26 via DreamWorks), to a person who has worn tight clothes his or her entire life, and then suddenly puts on something comfortable. |
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| | Louise Goffin |
| | Some of the rules Goffin is breaking were handed down from the Tin Pan Alley masters to her parents, revered songwriters Carole King and Gerry Goffin. | | | Goffin says of the album's subsequent path: "[DreamWorks principal] Lenny Waronker, who signed me, heard the masters by coincidence and just loved them, so he wanted to meet me. I was eight-and-a-half-months pregnant - I looked like I'd swallowed a planet. | | | Goffin says a special trip with her mother, however, helped her overcome her reticence and cemented her musical ambitions. |
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| | GilmoreGirls.org : Recent News |
| | She and Gerry Goffin wrote a string of #1 hits throughout that decade including Will You Love Me Tomorrow and The Locomotion. | | | Louise Goffin, aside from coming from an exceptional musical family, is also a singer/songwriter and will be releasing her fourth album, Sometimes a Circle, in the spring of 2001. | | | Aside from containing such songs as Natural Woman and You've Got a Friend, the album also gave us Where You Lead, which has recently been re-recorded by Carole and her daughter, Louise Goffin, for the television show Gilmore Girls' theme song. |
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| | Gerry Goffin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Gerry Goffin (born February 11, 1939) is an American lyricist. | | | Goffin also collaborated with other songwriters, notably Barry Mann, Russ Titelman, Barry Goldberg and Michael Masser. | | | Today, Goffin lives and works in Los Angeles. |
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| | American Girls - a band profile & fan site |
| | , the daughter of legendary singer-songwriter Carole King and her early songwriting partner, Gerry Goffin. | | | Girls Next Door consisted of Louise Goffin (vocals, rhythm guitar), DB Tressler (guitar), Hillary Shepard (bass) and Brie Howard (drums). | | | Louise Goffin knew guitarist Debbie Tressler through a friend of a friend, and brought her along into the group. |
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| | MusicDish Industry e-Journal |
| | Despite her noble lineage, the daughter of super songwriters Carole King and Gerry Goffin offers little evidence of her parentage aside from a vague liner note appreciation. | | | When the rhythm track clicks back in for "What a Waste of a Perfectly Good Hotel Room," however, Goffin's drowsy poetry is reduced to soft pop. | | | It's more Elvis Costello than Burt Bacharach, but Burt's Brill Bulding style comes into play on "Light In Your Eyes," in which the simple keys finally allow Goffin's controlled range and simple beauties to shine. |
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| | WOMANROCK.com april 2002 reviews by thomas schulte |
| | Goffin is the daughter of '60's husband wife singing duo Carole King and Gerry Goffin. | | | Louise Goffin ( http://www.louisegoffin.com) offers her own mix of quality vocals and hip electro sounds on Sometimes a Circle (Dreamworks). | | | Already hugely successful on MP3.com, this eminently listenable recording should take her farther as a rare example of 'haute hop.' However, I would really like to hear her in an acoustic jazz setting. |
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| | Spectropop's Brill Building Page. |
| | With partner/husband Gerry Goffin, she formed one of the most successful songwriting teams of all-time, and their works defined the "girl group" sound. | | | The Carole King and Gerry Goffin page at Spectropop takes a look at Goffin/King, the great favorites of 60s pop, Brill Building and Girl Group enthusiasts everywhere. | | | Spectropop presents a website dedicated to the classic songs of composer Barry Mann and lyricist Cynthia Weil; in the history of the Brill Building, the story of Mann and Weil is an essential chapter. |
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| | Barry Goldberg Catalog |
| | Never Too Late To Rock N Roll Barry Goldberg/Gerry Goffin | | | You Take My Breath Away Gerry Goffin/Barry Goldberg | | | She Put The Love On Me Barry Goldberg |
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| | The Monkees Film & TV Vault Message Board - A Bravenet.com Forum |
| | The sponsor of the week was Kellogg’s™, and the songs of the week were “She” written & produced by Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart and “Sometime In The Morning” written by Gerry Goffin& Carole King and produced by Gerry Goffin, Carole King& Jeff Barry. | | | EST on CBS, with 2 new songs added: "Apples, Peaches, Bananas and Pears," written by Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart and "Good Clean Fun," written by Michael Nesmith. | | | And if you tuned in and turned on this week, you would have seen these original commercials: Kellogg's Corn Flakes, Slicker Lip Polish by Yardley, Eyelighter by Yardley, Kellogg's Pop Tarts, Kellogg's Raisin Bran, and The Monkees for Kellogg's Rice Krispies. |
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| | Carole King - Tapestry |
| | King married her gift for the concise pop statement (finely honed as co-author with husband Gerry Goffin of countless pop classics in the 50s and 60s) to a reflective lyricism, to create one of the defining singer-songwriter albums of the 70s. | | | For a decade, King wrote pop songs with her then-husband, Gerry Goffin: hits such as Little Eva's "The Loco-Motion" (Eva Boyd was the couple's baby-sitter) and the Monkees' "Pleasant Valley Sunday." Then King's friend James Taylor encouraged her to sing her own tunes. | | | Carole King's third release, is a benchmark recording for her and for pop music. |
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| | WOMANROCK.com april 2002 reviews by thomas schulte |
| | Goffin is the daughter of '60's husband wife singing duo Carole King and Gerry Goffin. | | | Here the forward-moving, slippery, quick-paced beats lend a brisk, horizontal motion to the vertical soaring and floating of Goffin's effective pop vocals. |
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| | Carole King - encyclopedia article about Carole King. |
| | She is the daughter of Carole King and Gerry Goffin. | | | She had a modest hit singing one of her own songs in 1962 with "It Might As Well Rain Until September." The pair had a daughter, Louise Goffin Louise Goffin is a singer who debuted on Dreamworks in 2003 with her CD Sometimes a Circle. | | | Carole King (born February 9 February 9 is the 40th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. |
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| | Blogcritics.org: The "Loco-motion" Has Stopped: Little Eva Dead |
| | As a teenager, Little Eva was discovered when she was baby-sitting for singer Carole King and her husband Gerry Goffin. | | | Dave Marsh selected "The Loco-Motion" as the 55th greatest single of the rock era - it's hard to resist the charging rhythm, the great King-Goffin melody, Eva's ebullience, the Hairspray innocence of a dance-crazed age. | | | After hearing the demo, they decided to release the song as a single, and it became a No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hit in 1962. |
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| | Goffin and King: Great Chemistry |
| | OF ALL the songwriting teams that churned out hits during the Brill Building era, Gerry Goffin and Carole King were among the most prolific and successful. | | | Goffin, 57, has just released a rock and blues album of politically oriented songs called "Back Room Blood" on Adelphi Records. | | | Donny (music publisher Don Kirshner) had told us he needed a song for the Shirelles, and that's what we came up with. |
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| | KCKCC.EDU - Tapestry |
| | Brill Building-era songwriting teams such as Gerry Goffin and Carole King, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, and Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman were to rock and roll what the Broadway songwriting teams of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart and George and Ira Gershwin were to Tin Pan Alley. | | | When at their best, the Brill Building writers married the excitement and urgency of rhythm and blues to the brightness of mainstream pop: Goffin and King's Up on the Roof for the Drifters and A Natural Woman for Aretha Franklin. | | | The flagship company of Brill Building pop music was Aldon Music, founded by Al Nevins and Don Kirshner. |
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| | One Fine Day by The Chiffons Songfacts |
| | This was written by songwriters Carole King and Gerry Goffin. | | | It was intended for Little Eva, who was the babysitter for King and Goffin and had a hit the year earlier with their song "Locomotion." Her voice did not sound right when they recorded it, so this went to The Chiffons. | | | That's the Chiffons' voices on the instrumental track of the demo recording. |
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| | Elektra/Asylum Album Discography, Part 6 |
| | Asylum 6E 203 - Kid Blue - Louise Goffin [1979] (8-79, #87) Daughter of songwriters Carole King and Gerry Goffin. | | | Asylum 6E 117 - John Hall - John Hall [1978] Lead singer for Orleans. | | | On to the Elektra/Asylum Album Discography, Part 7 5E-500 and VE-600 Series (1978-1981) |
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| | I Dream Of Jeannie |
| | aka: "Jeannie"; this was a waltz theme by the songwriting team of Goffin and King] Composers: Gerry Goffin (BMI) and Carole King (BMI) 1978 Publishers: Screen Gems Music, Inc. (BMI) 2001 Publishers: Screen Gems-EMI Music, Inc. (BMI) c/o EMI Music Publishing, Inc. of New York, NY Copyright Date: Dec. 21, 1964; Eu 858 695. | | | Theme 2 (1966 on): "Jeannie (from 'I Dream Of Jeannie')" | | | I Dream Of Jeannie (sitcom, starring Barbara Eden and Larry Hagman) |
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| | Wired News |
| | The Brooklyn-born Keller's big break came when he joined Aldon Music, Don Kirschner's company in New York, and a stable of young pop songwriters including Gerry Goffin, Carole King, Neil Sedaka, Howard Greenfield and Carole Bayer Sager. | | | He also shared writing credit with Goffin on "Run to Him," recorded by Bobby Vee. | | | The TV work led Keller to the Monkees, getting producer credit on their TV theme song and first album. |
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| | "Go Away Little Girl" |
| | That, of course, was "Go Away Little Girl," a song created by Gerry Goffin and Carole King in 1962 (the same year Donny made his debut as a show biz toddler). | | | At the same time, he was also singing lead on the current Osmonds' hit, "Double Lovin'." Over the next few years, Donny alone and Donny with the Osmonds took turns on the charts; the next release, a solo effort, turned out to be Donny's biggest hit single ever. | | | The same year, he made his TV debut on the |
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| | Classic Soul - Phil Spector, He's A Rebel |
| | He made deals with both artists, promoters and industry giants, only to then break them if they were not to his advantage in the final wash. Spector screwed so many writers-including the famous Barry Mann-Cynthia Weil and Gerry Goffin-Carol King songwriting duos from the Brill building days. | | | He literally destroyed the Blossoms and the Ronettes, picking off (and eventually living with) Ronnie as his vulture's prize while still a married man. He promised her many times he would record her solo to get her to drop divorce proceedings, only to sit on the masters. | | | This man did some truly hideous things to people he worked with, and supposedly cared about. |
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| | Cynthia Weil |
| | Barry was both co-writer (with Gerry Goffin) and recording artist on "Who Put the Bomp" and he co-wrote "I Love How Much You Love Me" (with Larry Kolber), "How Much Love" (with Leo Sayer), "Sometimes When We Touch" (with Dan Hill), and collaborated with Curtis Stigers on his hit AC single "Never Saw a Miracle." | | | It would be impossible to imagine pop music from 1960 to 2000 without the melodies of Barry Mann and the lyrics of Cynthia Weil. | | | That they are still creating today's standards establishes Barry and Cynthia as pop music's most inexhaustible source of melody and lyrics. |
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| | Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You by Glenn Medeiros Songfacts |
| | In 1988, this was released in the UK where it gave veteran Brill Building songwriter Gerry Goffin his first-ever #1 hit in Britain. | | | Medeiros sang this at the age of 16 on a Hawaiian local radio contest after hearing the song on Benson's album. | | | In 1990 Medeiros' duet with Bobby Brown "She Ain't Worth It" duplicated the success of his debut hit this time peaking at #12 in the UK and topping the US chart. |
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| | ABC 7 News - Jack Keller, Wrote 'Bewitched' Tune, Dies |
| | The son of a musician, Keller got his big break when he joined Aldon Music, Don Kirschner's Brill Building publishing company, which also employed a stable of young pop songwriters including Gerry Goffin, Carole King, Neil Sedaka, and Howard Greenfield. | | | NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Pop songwriter Jack Keller, who wrote the theme song for "Bewitched" and other TV sitcoms and was a producer on the Monkees' first album, died Friday. | | | The TV work led Keller to the Monkees, getting producer credit on their TV theme song and first album. |
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