YOU'VE GOT A FRIEND

Created on 17/09/2002
Latest update on 14/10/2022

Artist: Carole King
Author: Carole King
Label: Ode
Year: 1970

Tapestry album track. Her demo on The Legendary Demos ('12). Inspired by James Taylor's Fire And Rain. Carole played piano on Taylor's Sweet Baby James album ('70).

Covers:

1971:

James Taylor [n°1 US; Carole King was a bit embarrased with the royalties she took for this hit cover by the man who inspired her in the first place]

1971:

Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway

1971:

Mark Lindsay

1971:

Anita Kerr Singers

1971:

Barbra Streisand

1971:

Lynn Anderson

1971:

Anne Murray

1971:

Johnny Mathis

1971:

Labelle

1971:

Skeeter Davis

1971:

Claude François [as Un jardin dans mon coeur]

1971:

Dusty Springfield [before James Taylor; saved up for cd reissue Dusty In Memphis]

1972:

Jackson 5

1972:

Aretha Franklin

1972:

Donny Hathaway

1972:

Persuasions

1972:

Nina [as Io Ti Amavo Quando]

1973:

Tom Jones

1973:

Gerard Cox [as Tot Ik Bij Je Ben]

1973:

Lettermen

1973:

Sonny & Cher

1974:

Fatback Band

1975:

Kamahl

1977:

Willeke Alberti [as Iemand Die Van Je Houdt; title track lp]

1979:

Michel Delpech [as T'as un ami]

1987:

Housemartins

1987:

Al Green

1995:

Marco Borsato, René Froger & Ruth Jacott [n°3 NL]

1995:

Don Williams

1997:

Brand New Heavies

1997:

Ofra Haza

1997:

Brand New Heavies [Top 10 UK]

1998:

Celine Dion-Gloria Estefan-Shania Twain-Carole King [on live cd Five Divas; Aretha Franklin took a break]

1999:

Jimmy Cliff

2001:

Me First & the Gimme Gimmes

2002:

Cliff Richard

2003:

Stacey Kent

2005:

McFly [n°1 UK]

2007:

Hank Marvin

2007:

Billy Ray Cyrus

2016:

Stacey Kent

2022:

Rory Block

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