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Carole King - Will You Love Me Tomorrow? (Extended) [HD]

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Channel: Gary Larson · 2017 · People & Blogs

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Carole King sings 'Will You Love Me Tomorrow?' from her 1971 Ode album 'Tapestry' - one of the best-selling ever. It won the Album of the Year Grammy and ranks 36 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums list.

Carole King is on piano, Danny "Kootch" Kortchmar on acoustic guitar, Russ Kunkel on drums, Charles Larkey on bass guitar, Joni Mitchell on background vocals and James Taylor on acoustic guitar and backing vocals. This song written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin was first named 'Tomorrow' and later 'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow' as recorded in 1960 by the Shirelles and went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, becoming the first song by an all-girl group to do that. Their recording ranks 126 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs list. Other recordings of the song have been done by The Four Seasons, Linda Ronstadt,  Roberta Flack, Dave Mason, Laura Nyro and Amy Winehouse. Carole King's 4:10 version of this song is much slower (sad and thoughtful) than the Shirelles hit song lasting a 2:43 time. Some notes and the song's lyrics follow below

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There are many good songs. A few are significant in our cultural and social history. This song is one of them. Writer Sheila Weller in her 2008 book "Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon - and the Journey of a Generation" says this about the then fourteen year old Carole King. "In 1956 girls weren't agents of their sexuality, much less gamblers with it. No girl would have dared sing about how she'd weighed the physical and emotional (not the moral) drawbacks of sex - getting pregnant, feeling used - against the greater pull of the act's transcendent pleasure, or how she'd wondered in the midst of sex, if the boy would drop her afterward. You couldn't get such a song on the radio, even if one existed. In a few years, Carole [only 18 with her new husband Gerry Goffin]  would write that song, based on events in her own life, and the resulting record would be the casual opening salvo of a revolution." Weller goes on to say that the girl speaking in the song's lyrics is very much based on the no-nonsense Carole King herself.

Because of the importance of this song and the images to be used, the video was extended a minute and a half beyond the 4:10 'Tapestry' track time by following the original song with a sequence of sections taken from the song itself. The join points, usually a problem, seem to work reasonably well. All parts are owned and copyrighted by others and allowed use by YouTube.


Will You Love Me Tomorrow?

Tonight you're mine, completely
You give your love so sweetly
Tonight the light of love is in your eyes
But will you love me tomorrow?

Is this a lasting treasure
Or just a moment's pleasure
Can I believe the magic of your sighs
Will you still love me tomorrow?

Tonight with words unspoken
You say that I'm the only one
But will my heart be broken
When the night meets the morning sun?

I'd like to know that your love
Is love I can be sure of
So tell me now and I won't ask again
Will you still love me tomorrow?
Will you still love me tomorrow?

Songwriters: Carole King, Gerry Goffin

© Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

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