I have never heard of Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann. But I knew many songs they wrote, and I bet you too. This is the bane of pop composers, people only knew the songs or singers, but not the song writers. And I did not know that Carole King started her career as one. Carole who? We geezers knew her as the combined of Taylor Swift and Adele in the early 1970s.
Some Kind of Wonderful was a song for her daughter. You’ve Got a Friend was for Cynthia and Barry when she was moving to California. I knew these songs well, yet they touched me deeper when I heard them again in this musical. Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow was sung twice under very different moods. I honestly have never heard of Carole King’s husband, let alone he being her lyricist in the early days.
Mike said, in FB, that he and Linda were both big fans. I reflected that our “musical ages” are about the same — referencing pop music affiliation follow closely with ages. Anecdotally, the audience proved this theory that they seemed to be the same age group. And, like me, sang along or smiled when some songs stroke some long forgotten strings in our hearts.
Sigh, since when I go to a concert to remember my youthful days?