CAROLE KING - ANYONE AT ALL

ANYONE AT ALL

CAROLE KING

SONGWRITERS: CAROLE BAYER SAGER & CAROLE KING

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: YOU’VE GOT MAIL

LABEL: WARNER SUNSET RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 1998

 

           Carole King Klein (born Carol Joan Klein; February 9, 1942) is an American singer-songwriter who has been active since 1958, initially as one of the staff songwriters at the Brill Building and later as a solo artist. She is the most successful female songwriter of the latter half of the 20th century in the US, having written or co-written 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100. King also wrote 61 hits that charted in the UK, making her the most successful female songwriter on the UK singles charts between 1962 and 2005.

              King's major success began in the 1960s when she and her first husband, Gerry Goffin, wrote more than two dozen chart hits, many of which have become standards, for numerous artists. She has continued writing for other artists since then. King's success as a performer in her own right did not come until the 1970s, when she sang her own songs, accompanying herself on the piano, in a series of albums and concerts. After experiencing commercial disappointment with her debut álbum Writer, King scored her breakthrough with the album Tapestry, which topped the U.S. album chart for 15 weeks in 1971 and remained on the charts for more than six years.

        King has made 25 solo albums, the most successful being Tapestry, which held the record for most weeks at No. 1 by a female artist for more than 20 years. Her record sales were estimated at more than 75 million copies worldwide. She has won four Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for her songwriting. She is the recipient of the 2013 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, the first woman to be so honored. She is also a 2015 Kennedy Center Honoree.

             You've Got Mail is a soundtrack album from the 1998 film of the same name.

Funny how I feel more myself with you

Than anybody else that I ever knew

I hear it in your voice, see it in your face

You've become a memory I can't erase

You could have been anyone at all

A stranger falling out of the blue

I'm so glad it was you

It wasn't in the plan, not that I could see

Suddenly a miracle came to me

Safe within your arms I can say what's true

Nothing in the world I would keep from you

You could have been anyone at all

An old friend calling out of the blue

I'm so glad it was you

Words can hurt you if you let them

People say them and forget them

Words can promise, words can lie

But your words make me feel like I can fly

You could have been anyone at all

And that's what catches me when I fall

I'm so glad it was you

You could have been...