ALLIGATORS
ALL AROUND
CAROLE
KING
SONGWRITERS:
CAROLE KING & MAURICE SENDAK
COUNTRY: U.
S. A.
ALBUM: REALLY
ROSIE
LABEL: ODE
GENRE: POP
YEAR: 1975
Carole King (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 1952 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.
Really Rosie is a musical with
a book and lyrics by Maurice Sendak and music by Carole King. The musical is
based on Sendak's books Chicken Soup with Rice, Pierre, One was
Johnny, Alligators All Around (which comprise 1962's The Nutshell Library), and
The Sign on Rosie's Door (1960). Sendak based the story on a demonstrative little girl who
used to sing and dance on the stoop of her building, whom he observed while he
was a little boy growing up in Brooklyn. The show
follows a typical summer day in the life of the Nutshell Kids, a group of several
neighborhood friends, including Pierre, Alligator, Johnny, and Chicken Soup
from the Nutshell Library books, and Rosie and Kathy from The Sign on Rosie's
Door. Rosie, the self-proclaimed sassiest kid on her block of Brooklyn's Avenue
P, entertains everyone by directing and starring in a movie based on the
exciting, dramatic, funny (and slightly exaggerated) story of her life.
A half-hour animated television
special aired on CBS TV on February 19, 1975. It was directed by Maurice
Sendak, animated by Ronald Fritz and Dan Hunn of D&R Productions Inc., with
Carole King voicing the title character. King was ultimately selected as the voice of Rosie when
casting directors had difficulty selecting a child actor whose voice could
complement the pre-recorded songs. An album of the songs by
King and lyrics by Sendak is available on Ode/Epic/SME Records. In the animated special, only the
first seven songs and Really Rosie (Reprise) were showcased.
Sendak expanded the piece
for London and Washington, DC, stage productions in 1978, and na off-Broadway production,
directed and choreographed by Patricia Birch with designs by Sendak, which
opened on October 14, 1980, at the Westside Theatre, where it ran for 274
performances. During its off-Broadway run, the lead role of Rosie was first
played by a then-12-year-old Tisha Campbell-Martin. Midway through the run, Tisha
left the cast and was replaced by cast member and "Rosie" understudy
Angela Coin, age 10. Angela also sang the role of "Rosie" on the cast
recording.
The musical has become a
mainstay of children's theater groups. It was also one of John Mulaney's main
inspirations for his Netflix Special John Mulaney and the Sack Lunch Bunch.
A - alligators all around
B - bursting balloons
C - catching colds
D - doing dishes
E - entertaining elephants
F - forever fooling
G - getting giggles
H - having headaches
I - imitating Indians
J - juggling jellybeans
K - keeping kangaroos
L - looking like lions
M - making macaroni
N - never napping
O - ordering oatmeal
P - pushing people
Q - quite quarrelsome
R - riding reindeer
S - shockingly spoiled
T - throwing tantrums
U - usually upside down
V - very vain
W - wearing wigs
X - x-ing x's
Y - yackety-yacking
Z - zippity zound
A - alligators ALL around!
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