Carole King - It's Too Late [HD]+

Carole King sings 'It's Too Late' from her 1971 Ode album 'Tapestry' - one of the best selling ever. This song written by King and Toni Stern reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, won the Record of the Year Grammy and is on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs list. Toni Stern has said she wrote the lyrics in one day after the end of her love affair with James Taylor. Carole King is on piano, Curtis Amy on soprano saxophone, Danny "Kootch" Kortchmar on conga and electric guitar, Charles Larkey on bass guitar, Joel O'Brien on drums and Ralph Schuckett on electric piano. Kortchmar and Amy both do instrumental solos. The song lyrics are in the video and listed below along with some lengthy notes from Wikipedia about the song. [Vinyl/Lyrics/29-Images/WAV] It's Too Late Singer - Carole King Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time There's somethin' wrong here, there can be no denyin' One of us is changin', or maybe we just stopped tryin' And it's too late baby, now it's too late, Though we really did try to make it Somethin' inside has died and I can't hide And I just can't fake it, oh, no, no, no, no, no It used to be so easy livin' here with you You were light and breezy and I knew just what to do Now you look so unhappy and I feel like a fool And it's too l baby, now it's too late Though we really did try to make it Somethin' inside has died and I can't hide And I just can't fake it, oh, no, no There'll be good times again for me and you But we just can't stay together; don't you feel it too? Still I'm glad for what we had and how I once loved you But it's too late baby, now it's too late Though we really did try to make it (we can't make it) Somethin' inside has died and I can't hide And I just can't fake it, oh, no, no, no, no, no It's too late, baby, it's too late now darling It's too late Songwriters: Carole King, Toni Stern © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. [Lyrics from LyricFind] Wikipedia states: "It's Too Late" is a song from Carole King's 1971 album Tapestry. Toni Stern wrote the lyrics and King wrote the music. It was released as a single in April 1971 and reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts. Sales were later gold-certified by the RIAA. Billboard ranked "It's Too Late" and its fellow A-side, "I Feel the Earth Move", as the No. 3 record for 1971. The lyrics describe the end of a loving relationship without assigning blame. Music critic Dave Marsh noted the implicit feminism in the fact that the woman has left the man. Marsh also remarked on the maturity of the theme. Music critic Robert Christgau claimed that "if there's a truer song about breaking up than 'It's Too Late', the world (or at least AM radio) isn't ready for it." Marsh describes the melody as Tin Pan Alley and the arrangement as a cross between light jazz and "L.A. studio craftmanship." Rolling Stone stated that King's "warm, earnest singing" on the song brought out the song's sadness. According to author James Perone, the feeling of the song is enhanced by the instrumental work of Danny Kortchmar on guitar, Curtis Amy on saxophone and King on piano. Kortchmar and Amy each have an instrumental solo. The sadness of the song is emphasized by the music being in a minor key. Perone also notes several melodic techniques King uses in the song which helped make the song such a hit. She builds the melody out of syncopated rhythmic motifs which are modified and combined over the course of the song, in contrast to many songs in which the rhythmic phrases are simply repeated. Perone also believes that she makes the melody easy to remember by establishing the highest note in the melody by repeating it several times before the melody descends to the tonic. This establishes the highest and lowest notes in the listeners ear, aiding recognition. An important element of the melody from an emotional standpoint is that rather than ending on the tonic, as most songs do to establish a final resolution, "It's Too Late" ends on the mediant, which is related to the tonic but still leaves a sense of inconclusiveness. This effectively contrasts with the lyrics, which imply that the singer has fully accepted the end of the relationship. Toni Stern told author Sheila Weller that she wrote the lyrics in a single day, after her love affair with James Taylor was over. The recording won a Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 1972, and the song is included in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.