CAROLE KING The Essential Carole King hails from 2010 and is a SEALED 2CD (drill hole in spine).  Unlike many previous Carole King collections, Sony/Legacy’s 2010 set The Essential Carole King doesn’t concentrate solely on her hits as a performer: it also has a second disc of songs she wrote for other artists, the songs that established her reputation as one of the great songwriters of her time. Despite the broad scope of Essential, it’s inevitable that some classics are missing -- naturally more on the second Songwriter disc, which offers merely a sampling of the many great songs she penned, whereas all her big hits (“I Feel the Earth Move,” “So Far Away,” “It’s Too Late,” “You’ve Got a Friend,” “Jazzman”) save the inexplicably missing “Smackwater Jack” are on the first -- but this does contain the lion's share of her major songs as both a singer and songwriter, making it the best overview of her work released to date..

Disc 1

  1.  It Might As Well Rain Until September
  2.  Child Of Mine
  3.  I Feel The Earth Move
  4.  So Far Away
  5.  It's Too Late
  6.  You've Got A Friend
  7.  Sweet Seasons
  8.  Been To Canaan
  9.  Corazon
10.  Jazzman
11.  Nightingale
12.  Only Love Is Real
13.  Will You Love Me Tomorrow/Some Kind Of Wonderful/Up On The R
14.  Really Rosie
15.  Pierre
16.  You Can Do Anything
17.  The Reason
18.  Now And Forever

Disc 2

  1.  Will You Love Me Tomorrow – The Shirelles
  2.  Take Good Care Of My Baby – Bobby Vee
  3.  Every Breath I Take – Gene Pitney
  4.  Crying In The Rain – The Everly Brothers
  5.  The Loco Motion – Little Eva
  6.  Up On The Roof – The Drifters
  7.  Chains – The Cookies
  8.  One Fine Day – The Chiffons
  9.  Oh No Not My Baby – Maxine Brown
10.  Just Once In My Life – The Righteous Brothers
11.  Pleasant Valley Sunday – The Monkees
12.  (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman – Aretha Franklin
13.  No Easy Way Down – Dusty Springfield
14.  Wasn't Born To Follow – The Byrds
15.  Hey Girl – Billy Joel