Still thinking about a story James Taylor told on the Stephen Colbert show....

In the early 70s, he was performing at The Troubadour with Carole King; at that time, she was recording the album Tapestry and he was making Mudslide Slim. Carole played a new song she had just written: "You've Got a Friend." JT said he heard it and thought it was so great he literally ran for his guitar to learn/ play it.

So then, when he was back in the recording studio, they had recorded a few covers, and he said to the others, "Let's do this song of Carole's." They recorded it, and then he went to tell CK that he wanted to include it on his album -- before she had even released it herself. She (generously) said, that's great.

And then she told him that what had prompted her to write the song was listening to his song "Fire and Rain." When she heard the line "I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend," she thought, I'm going to tell him that he's got a friend... and she wrote the song.

"You've Got a Friend" won them each a Grammy: JT for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male and CK for Song of the Year.

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A deeper cut from one of the three CK albums I had. It's hard to pick one song; they're all good.

Bitter with the Sweet

A friend of mine once told me
And I know he knows all about feelin' down
He said everything good in life you've got to pay for
But feelin' good is what you're paving the way for...

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