Will You Love Me Tomorrow?

Tonight you're mine, completely
You give your love so sweetly
Tonight the light of love is in your eyes
But will you love me tomorrow

Is this a lasting treasure
Or just a moment's pleasure
Can I believe the magic in your sighs
Will you still love me tomorrow

Tonight with words unspoken
You say that I'm the only one
But will my heart be broken
When the night meets the morning sun

Will You Love Me Tomorrow? Was originally recorded by The Shirelles.  The song was written by the amazing Carole King (and not just because she spells her name right).

In 1960, the song was a bit shocking.  It appears to be about a girl thinking about sleeping with someone and wondering if he'll still respect her in the morning.

It was a number one hit and remains one of my faves. Although I always thought that it had 'still' in the title.  The version I favour is the one on Tapestry.

I Feel the Earth Move by Carole King

I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumbling down, tumbling down
I feel my heart start to trembling
Whenever you're around

Ooh, baby, when I see your face
Mellow as the month of May
Oh, darling, I can't stand it
When you look at me that way

I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumbling down, tumbling down
I feel my heart start to trembling
Whenever you're around

Oh, darling, when you're near me
And you tenderly call my name
I know that my emotions
Are something I just can't tame
I've just got to have you, baby

I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumbling down, tumbling down
I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumbling down
I just lose control
Down to my very soul
I get a hot and cold all over
I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumbling down,
Tumbling down, tumbling down...

I Feel the Earth Move is one of the songs on Carole King's fabulous album, Tapestry.  This became the largest selling album by a female artist.

Apparently some of the lyrics were regarded as hippie-chick eroticism – which seems laughable by today's standards!  My researches didn't come up with a particular person that the song was about.

To see an early recording of this song, click on this YouTube video.

Carole King: An Unstoppable Force of Nature

There are some things that you may not know about Carole King.  She was a superstar song writer and performer - and amazingly enough is still going strong.

• Neil Sedaka’s “Oh Carol” was written about her – spelling not his strong point?  But I’m biased on the right way to spell Carole.

• Her real name was Carole Klein

• She co-wrote The Locomotion – along with a whole bunch of other wildly popular songs with her then husband Gerry Goffin.

• Her breakthrough solo album was “Tapestry” in 1971 – still one of the best albums ever made.  It sold over 15 million copies.

• She starred on Broadway in “Blood Brothers”.

Will you Love Me Tomorrow – The Shirelles

"Will You Love Me Tomorrow" was written by that amazing team of Carole King and Gerry Goffin.  Many of their hits were written while they still had day jobs as a pharmacist and secretary.  It was this song that landed them a position in music full time. 

The lyrics were risqué for the times.  Goodness, a girl was thinking about sleeping with someone who is clearly not her husband.  What innocent times those were really.  But it became a #1 hit in 1960. 

The first #1 hit in the US by an all girl group.  Doris Coley of The Shirelles was born on 2 August 1941.

    

My top 25 (actually 43) favourite tracks of all time in alpha order

No doubt this list of favourite tracks says a lot about me inadvertently!  I started out thinking I would only list 25 but that proved much too hard.  The list does demonstrate how you can get stuck in a time warp with music.  I wish there was an easy way to find great new music – it must be out there surely?

(Everything I do) I do it for you – Bryan Adams

1972 – Josh Rouse

5.01am – Roger Waters

Ain’t No Cure for Love – Leonard Cohen

April Sun in Cuba – Dragon

Big Spender – Peggy Lee

Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen

Boogie Street – Leonard Cohen

Desperado - the Eagles

Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood – The Animals

Forgiveness – Christine McVie

Funeral for a Friend – Elton John

Go Your Own Way – Fleetwood Mac

Hallelujah – Leonard Cohen

Home Again – Carole King

Honky Tonk Women – Rolling Stones

House of the Rising Sun – The Animals

I Got You Babe – Cher

I’ve Never Been to Me – Charlene

It Doesn’t Matter Any More – Buddy Holly

Keep Me In Your Heart – Warren Zevon

Lay Down Sally – Eric Clapton

Love Hurts – Gram Parsons w Emmy Lou Harris

Mustang Sally – The Commitments

Night and Day – Ella Fitzgerald

Nine Million Bicycles – Katie Melua

Northern Lights – Goldenhorse

Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps – Doris Day

Postcards from Paraguay – Mark Knopfler

That Don’t Impress Me Much – Shania Twain

The End of the Innocence – Don Henley

The Gnu Song – Flanders & Swan

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance – Gene Pitney

Those Three Days – Lucinda Williams

Trav’lin Light – Billie Holliday

Under the Boardwalk – the Drifters

Volare – Dean Martin

We Don’t Need Another Hero – Tina Turner

Why Worry – Dire Straits

Willie and Laura Mae Jones – Dusty Springfield

Words – The Bee Gees

Yesterday – The Beatles

You Can Leave Your Hat On – Joe Cocker

It would be great to get suggestions about what other tracks I should consider adding to this list.