- One of music's great songwriters, her 1971 album "Tapestry" spent more than 300 weeks on the US charts.
- She is a composer-performer who wrote numerous hit songs for other performers before achieving fame on her own with the album "Tapestry" in 1971. Among her compositions during this early period, usually written in collaboration with first husband Gerry Goffin, were "Take Good Care of My Baby", a #1 hit in 1961 for Bobby Vee; "Go Away, Little Girl", a #1 hit for both Steve Lawrence (1963) and Donny Osmond (1971); "The Loco-Motion", a #1 hit for both Little Eva (1963) and Grand Funk Railroad (1974); and "Pleasant Valley Sunday", a top-ten hit in 1967 for The Monkees. She, herself, had a top-20 hit during this period, as well, "It Might As Well Rain Until September" (1961), also co-written with Goffin.
- Ex-girlfriend of Neil Sedaka. He wrote his first hit, "Oh! Carol", for her.
- Ranked #10 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll
- 1997: Inducted into the American Songwriters Hall of Fame (with Gerry Goffin).
- She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6906 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on December 3, 2012.
- Her second album, Tapestry (1971), is ranked number 36 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
- 1990: Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (with Gerry Goffin).
- 2001: Co-wrote two songs, "Let You Go" and "One More Time", with pop group Hanson. Neither of the songs have ever been released by King or Hanson.
- Attended Queens College of the City University of New York.
- Attended and graduated from James Madison High School in Brooklyn, New York in 1958.
- Dated Warren Beatty.
- The stage musical production "Beautiful - The Carole King Musical" had its world premiere in San Francisco (October 2013) and debuted on Broadway (January 2014). In February 2015 the show made its West End debut in London. Featuring (as Carole King): Jessie Mueller (US) / Katie Brayben (UK) / (as Gerry Goffin): Jake Epstein (US) / Alan Morrissey (UK) / (as Cynthia Weil): Anika Larsen (US); Lorna Want (UK) / (as Barry Mann): Jarrod Spector (US), etc.
- Trained with Joanne Baron at The Joanne Baron DW Brown Studio.
- 2007: Inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame.
- Daughter of Eugenia (Cammer), a teacher, and Sidney Klein, a firefighter. Her grandparents were all Jewish emigrants, her paternal from Warsaw, Poland and Zamosc, Poland, and her maternal from Wloclawek, Poland and Mahilyow, Belarus, respectively.
- (August 2, 2002) Performed in concert on Today (1952). One of her guitarists was her then current boyfriend, director Phil Alden Robinson.
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