Various Artists - Covered: Gerry Goffin and Carole King, Volume 2: 1964-1966

This is the second of six albums of my Covered series, highlighting the songwriting of Gerry Goffin and Carole King. If you want to know more in general, I recommend you read my comments from the first album in the series.

For this album, the Goffin and King songwriting partnership was still going strong, but there were big problems brewing. Although they were married, Goffin cheated on King. He fathered a child with Earl-Jean in 1964, the singer of the first song on this album. But the marriage, and songwriting partnership, kept on until the late 1960s.

In terms of success, after the Beatles hit it big in 1964, bands increasingly wrote their own songs. But there still was enough demand for professional songwriters for Goffin and King to have plenty of hit songs during this time period. However, a few of the songs here weren't hit songs at all, but just songs I think are as good.

01 I'm into Something Good (Earl-Jean)
02 One Wonderful Night (Honey Bees [Cookies])
03 It Might as Well Rain until September (Helen Shapiro)
04 Oh No Not My Baby (Maxine Brown)
05 He's in Town (Tokens)
06 I Can't Hear You [No More] (Betty Everett)
07 Let Me Get Close to You (Skeeter Davis)
08 She Don't Deserve You (Honey Bees [Cookies])
09 Yes I Will (Hollies)
10 I'll Love You for a While (Dusty Springfield)
11 Just Once in My Life (Righteous Brothers)
12 At the Club (Drifters)
13 Is This What I Get for Loving You (Marianne Faithfull)
14 Honey and Wine (Hollies)
15 Some of Your Lovin' (Dusty Springfield)
16 Don't Bring Me Down (Animals)
17 Wasn't It You (Petula Clark)
18 I Won't Be the Same Without Her (Twilights)
19 Don't Forget about Me (Barbara Lewis)

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For the cover art, I again found it impossible to find any color photos of Goffin and King together at the right time period. But I did find this nice black and white one. However, it was tilted at an odd angle. I straightened it out. A chuck of Goffin's body in the lower right corner of the photo was missing after the adjustment, but I filled it in using Photoshop. I also raised King's head relative to Goffin's, since she was significantly shorter than him, and that helped me maximize their head sizes within the frame.

Months later, I figured out a way to colorize the image, so I did so.