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Gerry Goffin began composing lyrics like a young man in Queens, NY. In 1958, while going to Queens University, he fulfilled and wedded composer Carole Ruler, who became his musical partner. Within the ten years these were collectively, they wrote an incredible string of strike songs, four which reached number …

As the landmark Tapestry album earned her superstar position, singer/songwriter Carole King had currently solidly established herself as you of pop music’s most gifted and successful composers, with function recorded by everyone in the Beatles to Aretha Franklin. Blessed Carole Klein on Feb 9, 1942 in Brooklyn, NY, she started …