Gerry Goffin and Carole King were a husband-and-wife songwriting team who were married from 1959 to 1969 and whose main body of work was written during that period. After their divorce, Goffin continued to write songs with other composers while Carole became a performer in her own right as well as continuing to write songs.
The list below is of all their highest-ranking songs on the Billboard Hot 100. There are four #1 songs, while the fifth, “Pleasant Valley Sunday,” was a #3 hit for the Monkees in 1967.
- The Shirelles, “Will You Love Me Toimorrow”
- Bobby Vee, “Take Good Care Of My Baby”
- Little Eva, “The Loco-motion”
- Steve Lawrence, “Go Away Little Girl”
- The Monkees, “Pleasant Valley Sunday”
Gerry Goffin and Carole King, you Five For Friday, September 23, 2022.
The Sound of One Hand Typing 
Ah, memories…
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They wrote so many great songs together…
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Indeed they did.
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It’s amazing just how much great music has been written by so many great songwriters and lyricists over the centuries, isn’t it? I’m in awe…
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Both are/were very talented. I am a fan of Carole King, and can’t say I’ve heard of Gerry Goffin.
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He wasn’t a performer like she was.
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Their story is immortalized in the Broadway show “Beautiful”.
Sadly Goffin died in 2014. King was a Kennedy Center honoree in 2015.
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I’ll have to check out the show. Maybe I can at least find the cast album. I don’t think I’ll get to Broadway anytime soon…
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They sure owned their corner of the sixties and then King owned some of the early seventies.
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They wrote some real classics and made a bundle of money from it.
Arlee Bird
Tossing It Out
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They sure did, and they’ll make money well into the future. Or their heirs will.
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I am familiar with and a fan of Carole King, but I never heard of Gerry Goffin. Thanks for the lesson, John.
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Sure! They wrote a lot of great music and continue to do so, though not with each other.
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