1. Writer - A&M Records 1970
Tracks:
1. Spaceship Races / 2. No Easy Way Down / 3. Child of Mine / 4. Goin’ Back / 5. To Love / 6. What Have You Got to Lose / 7. Eventually / 8. Raspberry Jam / 9. Can't You Be Real / 10. I Can't Hear You No More / 11. Sweet Sweetheart / 12. Up on the Roof 3:46
Rating : 9
2. Tapestry - A&M Records 1971
Tracks:
1. I Feel the Earth Move / 2. So Far Away / 3. It's Too Late / 4. Home Again / 5. Beautiful / 6. Over Yonder / 7. You've Got a Friend / 8. Where You Lead / 9. Will You Love Me Tomorrow? / 10. Smackwater Jack / 11.Tapestry / 12. (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman / 13. Out in the Cold*
Rating : 9
3. Music - A&M Records 1971
Tracks:
1. Brother, Brother / 2. "It's Going to Take Some Time / 3. Sweet Seasons / 4. Some Kind of Wonderful / 5. Surely / 6. Carry Your Load / 7. Music / 8. Song of Long Ago / 9. Brighter / 10. Growing Away from Me / 11. Too Much Rain / 12. Back to California
Rating : 6
4. Rhymes and Reasons - A&M Records 1972
Tracks:
1. Come Down Easy / 2. My My She Cries / 3. Peace in the Valley / 4. Feeling Sad Tonight / 5. The First Day in August / 6. Bitter with the Sweet / 7. Goodbye Don't Mean I'm Gone / 8. Stand Behind Me / 9. Gotta Get Through Another Day / 10. I Think I Can Hear You / 11. Ferguson Road / 12. Been to Canaan
Rating : 7
5. Fantasy - A&M Records 1973
Tracks:
1. Fantasy Beginning / 2. You've Been Around Too Long / 3. Being at War With Each Other / 4. Directions / 5. That's How Things Go Down / 6. Weekdays / 7. Haywood / 8. A Quiet Place to Live / 9. Welfare Symphony / 10. You Light Up My Life / 11. Corazón / 12. Believe in Humanity / 13. Fantasy End
Rating : 6
6. Wrap Around Joy - A&M Records 1974
Tracks:
1. Nightingale / 2. Change in Mind, Change of Heart / 3. Jazzman / 4. You Go Your Way, I'll Go Mine / 5. You're Something New / 6. We Are All in This Together / 7. Wrap Around Joy / 8. You Gentle Me / 9. My Lovin' Eyes / 10. Sweet Adonis / 11. A Night This Side of Dying / 12. The Best Is Yet to Come
Rating : 7
7. Really Rosie - Epic 1975
Tracks:
1. Really Rosie / 2. One Was Johnny / 3. Alligators All Around / 4. Pierre / 5. Screaming and Yelling / 6. The Ballad of Chicken Soup / 7. Chicken Soup with Rice / 8. Avenue P / 9. My Simple Humble Neighborhood / 10. The Awful Truth / 11. Such Sufferin / 12. Really Rosie (Reprise)
Rating :
8. Thoroughbred - A&M Records 1976
Tracks:
1. So Many Ways / 2. Daughter of Light / 3. High Out of Time / 4. Only Love is Real / 5. There's a Space Between Us / 6. I'd Like to Know You Better / 7. We All Have to Be Alone / 8. Ambrosia / 9. Still Here Thinking of You / 10. It's Gonna Work Out Fine
Rating :
9. Simple Things - Capitol 1977
Tracks:
1. Simple Things / 2. Hold On / 3. In the Name of Love / 4. Labyrinth / 5. You're the One Who Knows / 6. Hard Rock Cafe / 7. Time Alone / 8. God Only Knows / 9. To Know That I Love You / 10. One
Rating :
10. Welcome Home - Capitol 1978
Tracks:
1. Main Street Saturday Night / 2. Sunbird / 3. Venusian Diamond / 4. Changes / 5. Morning Sun / 6. Disco Tech / 7. Wings of Love 7 8. Ride the Music / 9. Everybody's Got the Spirit / 10. Welcome Home
Rating :
11. Touch the Sky - Capitol 1979
Tracks:
1. Time Gone By / 2. Move Lightly / 3. Dreamlike I Wander / 4. Walk With Me / 5. Good Mountain People / 6. You Still Want Her / 7. Passing of the Days / 8. Crazy / 9. Eagle / 10. Seeing Red
Rating :
12. Pearls - Capitol 1980
Tracks:
1. Dancin' with Tears in My Eyes / 2. The Loco-Motion / 3. One Fine Day / 4. Hey Girl / 5. Snow Queen / 6. Chains / 7. Oh No, Not My Baby / 8. Hi-De-Ho (That Old Sweet Roll) / 9. Wasn't Born to Follow / 10. Goin' Back
Rating :
13. One to One - Atlantic 1982
Tracks:
1. One to One / 2. It's a War / 3. Lookin' Out for Number One / 4. Life Without Love / 5. Golden Man / 6. Read Between the Lines / 7. Boomerang / 8. Goat Annie / 9. Someone You Never Met Before / 10. Little Prince
Rating :
14. Speeding Time - Atlantic 1983
Tracks:
1. Computer Eyes / 2. One Small Voice / 3. Crying in the Rain / 4. Sacred Heart of Stone / 5. Speeding Time / 6. Standin' on the Borderline / 7. So Ready for Love / 8. Chalice Borealis / 9. Dancing / 10. Alabaster Lady
Rating :
15. City Streets - Capitol 1989
Tracks:
1. City Streets / 2. Sweet Life / 3. Down to the Darkness / 4. Lovelight / 5. I Can't Stop Thinking About You / 6. Legacy / 7. Ain't That the Way / 8. Midnight Flyer / 9. Homeless Heart / 10. Someone Who Believes in You
Rating : 7
16. Colour of Your Dreams - EMI 1993
Tracks:
1. Lay Down My Life / 2. Hold out for Love / 3. Standing in the Rain / 4. Now and Forever / 5. Wishful Thinking / 6. Colour of Your Dreams / 7. Tears Falling Down on Me / 8. Friday's Tie-Dye Nightmare / 9. Just One Thing / 10. Do You Feel Love / 11. "It's Never Too Late
Rating :
17. Love Makes the World Go Round - Koch 2001
Tracks:
1. Love Makes the World / 2. You Can Do Anything / 3. The Reason / 4. I Wasn't Gonna Fall in Love / 5. I Don't Know / 6. Oh No, Not My Baby / 7. It Could Have Been Anyone / 8. Monday Without You / 9. An Uncommon Love / 10. You Will Find Me There / 11. Safe Again / 12. This Time / 13. Birthday Song*
Rating :
18. A Holiday Carole - Koch 2011
Tracks:
1. My Favorite Things / 2. Carol of the Bells / 3. Sleigh Ride / 4. Christmas Paradise / 5. Everyday Will Be Like a Holiday / 6. Chanukah Prayer / 7. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas / 8. I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm / 9. Christmas in the Air / 10. Do You Hear What I Hear / 11. This Christmas / 12. New Year's Day
Rating :
19. The Legendary Demos - Koch 2012
Tracks:
1. Pleasant Valley Sunday / 2. So Goes Love / 3. Take Good Care of My Baby / 4. (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman / 5. Like Little Children / 6. Beautiful / 7. Crying in the Rain / 8. Way Over Yonder / 9. Yours Until Tomorrow / 10. It's Too Late / 11. Tapestry / 12. Just Once in My Life / 13. You've Got a Friend
Rating :
Essential Albums!
Original albums as listed and rated on “Rate Your Music” - January 5 - 2016
47 Tapestry - 1971
523Music - 1971
721 Writer - 1970
741 Really Rosie - 1975
781 Thoroughbred - 1975
851 Fantasy - 1973
862 Wrap Around Joy - 1974
871 Rhymes & Reasons - 1972
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My Suggestion For a 2 CD 160 minutes (app.) Best Of Compilation: ( More tracks to be added )
1. It's Too Late( King/Stern ) Tapestry
2. I Feel The Earth Move ( King ) Tapestry
3. Gotta Get Through Another Day ( King ) Rhymes & Reasons
4. Home Again( King ) Tapestry
5. You've Got a Friend ( King ) Tapestry
6. Come Down Easy ( King/Stern ) Rhymes & Reasons
7. Will You Love Me Tomorrow? ( Goffin/King ) Tapestry
8. Beautiful ( King ) Tapestry
9. Smackwater Jack ( Goffin/King ) Tapestry
10. My My She Cries ( King/Stern ) Rhymes & Reasons
11. Tapestry ( King ) Tapestry
12. Yoy Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman ( Goffin/King/Wexler ) Tapestry
13. Peace in the Valley ( King/Stern ) Rhymes & Reasons
14. Over Yonder ( King ) Tapestry
15. Feeling Sad Tonight ( King/Stern ) Rhymes & Reasons
16. Where You Lead ( King ) Tapestry
17. The First Day in August ( King/Stern ) Rhymes & Reasons
18. City Streets ( King ) City Streets
19. Goodbye Don't Mean I'm Gone ( King ) Rhymes & Reasons
20. Been to Canaan ( King ) Rhymes & Reasons
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21. Lovelight ( King ) City Streets
22. Down to Darkness ( King ) City Streets
23. Sweet Sweetheart ( Goffin/King ) Writer
24. I Can't Stop Thinking About You ( King ) City Streets
25. Child of Mine ( Goffin/King ) Writer
26. No Easy Way Down ( Goffin/King ) Writer
27. It's Going to Take Some Time ( King/Stern ) Writer
28. Goin' Back ( Goffin/King ) Writer
29. Spaceship Races ( Goffin/King ) Writer
30. Eventually ( Goffin/King ) Writer
31. You Are Something New ( Palmer/King ) Wrap Around Joy
32. Can't You Be Real ( Goffin/King ) Writer
33. We Are All in This Together ( Palmer/King ) Wrap Around Joy
34. You Gentle Me ( Palmer/King ) Wrap Around Joy
35. Brighter ( King ) Music
36. Wrap Around Joy ( Palmer/King ) Wrap Around Joy
37. Some Kind of Wonderful ( Goffin/King ) Music
38. It's Gonna Take Some Time ( King/Stern ) Music
39. Carry Your Load ( King ) Music
40. Song of Long Ago ( King ) Music
41. Growing Away From Me ( King ) Music
42. That's How Things go Down ( King ) Fantasy
43. You're Something New ( King/Palmer ) Wrap Around Joy
44. A Quiet Place to Live ( King ) Fantasy
45. Sweet Adonis ( King/Palmer ) Wrap Around Joy
46. You Gentle Me ( King/Palmer ) Wrap Around Joy
LINKS:
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