By Vickie Sellers
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Carole King Klein (born Carol Joan Klein; February 9, 1942) is an American singer-songwriter and musician who has been active since 1958. One of the most successful female songwriters of the latter half of the 20th century in the US, she wrote or co-wrote 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100. She 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 album 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. She has been inducted twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a performer and songwriter. 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.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
If they are adult fungus gnats (tiny, nervous black flies), drench the soil with insecticidal soap until no more appear. If they reappear, you’ll need to kill the larvae by repotting the plants in clean pots with fresh potting soil.
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
From a word of five letters, take two and leave one.
Stone. Alternate answers include: Clone, Drone, Prone, Phone
Born
- William Henry Harrison (9th U.S. president) –
- George Ade (humorist) –
- Howard Taylor Ricketts (pathologist) –
- Hans Albert Hochbaum (naturalist and artist) –
- Carole King (singer) –
- Joe Pesci (actor) –
- Alice Walker (author) –
- Mia Farrow (actress) –
- Vince Papale (football player) –
- Mookie Wilson (baseball player) –
- Travis Tritt (country music singer) –
- David Gallagher (actor) –
- Michael B. Jordan (actor) –
- Jimmy Bennett (actor) –
Died
- Sophie Tucker (singer) –
- Bill Haley (musician) –
- Charles (Bud Wilkinson football coach) –
- Princess Margaret (sister of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II) –
- Walter Fredrick Morrison (inventor of the Frisbee) –
Events
- Robert Fulton received patent for steamboat improvements–
- Jefferson Davis named president of the Confederate States of America–
- U.S. Weather Bureau established by Congress as part of Signal Corps–
- Office of Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries formed–
- First train passed through Hoosac Tunnel in Massachusetts–
- War Time (year-round daylight saving time) began in the United States–
- Joanne Woodward received the first star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame–
- The first Boeing 727 took off–
- First appearance of The Beatles on the U.S. TV program, The Ed Sullivan Show. 73 million people watched (about 45% of the U.S. population).–
- Magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck San Fernando, California–
- Canada expelled 13 Soviet diplomats for spying–
- Paul McCartney was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame–
Weather
- -52 degrees F in Butte, Montana–
- Portions of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama had a severe ice storm–
- After a 2-day snowstorm ended, 11.4 inches of snow lay in New York City’s Central Park–
- After a 2-day snowstorm ended, 38 inches of snow lay in Milford, Connecticut–
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