Gerry Goffin & Carole King - Will You Love Me Tomorrow

Rating: 4/5

Review: 

A good compilation

This is a good compilation of songs by two of the greatest songwriters of the 607s and 70s.  The Goffin/King partnership produced some fantastic songs, several of which feature here, although not all of these were written by Goffin and King in partnership.  It has to be said, too, that their Tin Pan Alley days also produced some pretty ordinary stuff.  None of it's actively bad, but a few tracks, like Walkin' With My Angel, Her Royal Majesty or Follow That Girl, for example, are undistinguished, to say the least. 

Nonetheless, this is a very enjoyable collection with some familiar songs, not necessarily in the versions which made them famous but all well done.  Some of the unfamiliar stuff is very enjoyable, too – like Everybody's Got A Dance But Me, which even sends up their own Loco-motion along with other dance records.  The sound is as good as one can expect from recordings of this period, and I can recommend this disc.

Here s a full track list:

1 Brenda Lee - Will You Love Me Tomorrow

2 The Drifters - Up On The Roof

3 The Crickets - Little Hollywood Girl

4 The Vernons Girls - The Loco-motion

5 The Shirelles - What A Sweet Thing That Was

6 Everly Brothers - How Can I Meet Her

7 Little Eva - He Is The Boy

8 Curtis Lee - Just Another Fool

9 Carole King - School Bells Are Ringing

10 Bobby Vee - Walkin' With My Angel

11 Bertell Dache - All The World Loves A Lover

12 The Ronettes - You Bet I Would

13 Big Dee Irwin - Everybody's Got A Dance But Me

14 Vinnie Monte - Follow That Girl

15 The Crystals - He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss)

16 Tony Orlando - Am I The Guy?

17 Gene McDaniels - Point Of No Return

18 Jackie DeShannon - Heaven Is Being With you

19 Billy Fury - Halfway To Paradise

20 James Darren - Her Royal Majesty

21 Ben E. King - Show Me The Way

22 Bobby Vee - How Many Tears

23 The Cookies - Chains

24 Dion - Take Good Care Of My Baby

25 Ann Campbell - Bobby, Bobby, Bobby

26 Shelley Fabares - Hey Funny Face

27 Carole King - Nobody's Perfect

28 Gene Pitney - Every Breath I Take

29 The Viscounts - Who Put The Bomp (In The Bomp Bomp Bomp)

30 The Drifters - When My Little Girl Is Smiling