JeansMusicBlog

An advantage of getting old(er) is (at least I hope) that we become more an adult.
But with the people I have contact each day I still try to behave like a child. Make jokes, tease and so on. But on the other hand still do my job in a professional way.
This week I talked a lot about Carol Klein. How many wonderful songs she (alone and with her, former, husband Gerry Goffin) wrote end 50's begin 60's.
I always describe those songs as 'what someone feels when he/she is 16'.
Something like 'I'll love you all my life so I like you to be my wife' or 'stupid girl/wife get out of my life'. Just simple love songs with nice loveable lyrics which tell a complete story in 2 minutes.

A link to computering.
Remember the 80's when we were writing prg's on the millimeter.... I mean we didn't have much 'memory' so we had to use every bit available and had to be very keen programming. Nowadays I see prg's written with too much different routines which could be embedded into one with only a little bit more effort/thinking.
A lot of RAM/HD-space is available so programming becomes inefficient. Who cares ?
But by this simple/easy programming one looses his (cap)ability to do first the real thinking (make a 'programming storyboard' for example) and so there will be a lot of errors/leaks in the program. Every Windows version is an example. It is never complete because there are too many programming errors. With Vista it will be the same.
I'm still proud of my own Monopoly game I programmed which was only 60K and went through the whole hobby circuit I noticed at that time.

Back to the music.
I like the songs to have a story and written as simple/short as possible.
That's not the case today. Much tooooo looooong !
Better give me the older music.
Carol Klein is such an example.
The 'Brill Building Sound' is such an example.
Pop music in a simple style.... :-)

Today Carol Klein celebrates her 65th birthday and next sunday 11 feb Gerry Goffin turns 68 !
I could offer you one of her great LP's. The best to me is stil her King, Carole - Tapestry 1971_03. Very interesting in a point of view for the woman's 'liberation' in my humble opinion (in my country we were way ahead ...). I mean this in a positive way, maybe my writing looks a little bit strange (English is not my native language).
But I offer you instead a home made compilation by Paul I got last year from him and to which I added some songs.
By this you get a nice overview to what Carol Klein (of course you already understood by now the birthname of Carole King) was capable of writing.
Nice artists like Everly Brothers, Drifters, Bobby Vee, Byrds, Blood Sweat & Tears, Animals, Steve Lawrence, Righteous Brothers, Diana Ross, Tony Orlando.
Need I go on ?

I think there will be a lot of songs you hear on the radio and like but don't know miss Klein (she divorced Gerry Goffin) was the author !

I'll continue in the comment and thank Paul_audiodrome but also 'cardiac' Josh :-)