Pleasant!

Glyph in reply to Slade the Leveller says:

I guess this is the perfect pop tune, impossible to be improved upon

Maybe it’s just because it falls into the “folk-rock” category, with those sort of droning close harmonies, but her version actually makes me think of early R.E.M. or something.

When I called King a world-class songwriter, I wasn’t kidding. From wikipedia:

she…wrote more than two dozen chart hits for numerous artists, many of which have become standards….In 2000 Billboard pop music researcher Joel Whitburn named King the most successful female songwriter of 1955–99 because she wrote or co-wrote 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100.[4] King wrote 61 hits that charted in the UK.[5] In 2005 music historian Stuart Devoy found her the most successful female songwriter on the UK singles charts 1952–2005.[6]
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 most recent non-compilation album was Live at the Troubadour in 2010, a collaboration with James Taylor that reached number 4 on the charts in its first week and has sold over 600,000 copies.[7][8]

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.[9]

Here are a few of her songs, and you probably know all of them:

https://youtu.be/3irmBv8h4Tw
https://youtu.be/aATtWybSaow
https://youtu.be/2_f9lrXd_48
https://youtu.be/eKpVQm41f8Y
https://youtu.be/f20Oz9Yr_So
https://youtu.be/YRvcIj3XzU8
https://youtu.be/U454GbTN3xc
https://youtu.be/_aQgPKgupvQ
https://youtu.be/dEWuAcMWDLY
https://youtu.be/BDm1xD_Kwyc
https://youtu.be/xEkIou3WFnM
https://youtu.be/1GAaWz4X4nUReport