Carole King - Jazzman (Official Audio) 

How true.

A kid of the 70's here.

Me to man the 70s were a trip always liked Carole King

Yep, 1974 San Francisco bay area! Now in 2022 add five point eight million more people. Take me back to 1974.....They forgot The Exorcist in movies & All in the family & the Carol Burnett show on TV.

Me too. A young 19 years old with my draft lottery number 84. Left for Fort Polk, Louisiana March of 71. Brings back memories.

wow

It's mine too!

I go happy crazy every time this comes on. Brings back happiness from my teen years.

Don't forget Carly Simon.

Some times our environments don't allow us to experience greatness in diversity and anything that's not like where we come from is frowned upon. It's great you discovered change can be inviting and completely comfortable

My favorite too.❤😊. Great minds think alike.😅 .

fwiw, this might just be my personal top favorite of her radio-played singles (which is SUCH a fool's proclamation, seeing how there is SO much gold there to mine) ... as I'm a [hobbyist] horn player, I have to cop to having awarded bonus points for saxophonist Tom Scott's contribution to this shimmering gem. (see also: Dan / Aja / Black Cow).

In The sImpsons appeared it :)

Underrated? It was her second biggest hit! It spent 16 weeks on the charts and peaked at number 2 on the top Billboard 100 on November 8, 1974. Loved hearing that song my freshman year in high school on the AM Top 40.

100 percent true

What makes you believe it's underrated?

That would be Tom Scott. Such awesome Sax!

Hi KelliBelle hope you’re okay?

I remember her but I remember this song more when I was a kid, never gets old for me I even remember saying to myself I'd name my daughter Jasmine if I ever had a daughter, well 20 plus years later after 3 sons I got my Jasmine, not same meaning or spelling but in my heart it's Jasmine/Jazzman❤️🎶❤️

Carole King is underrated in general

Great song. Carole King is the best!

Indeed it has. This and other music of that wonderful era and (mostly) innocent days of my youth, makes me feel both happy and sad at the same time.

@@Petefx86 Agreed, I wish my kids could have experienced that time too

You said it! I was just a kid, but I recall joy, people with less worries, people happier. Fantastic time to be a kid.

Only you’ve changed. Kids today still do everything you talked about doing back then.

So much has changed and not for the better.

You got that right man!

Yup..

That's where I used to hear this song on our local radio station as a young boy. I always liked this song.

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​@@jamescarey4968 👼🏼​@jamescarey4968 That Not Carole King That's That's Witch🗯

Yeah, she wrote songs for others, until someone suggested she sing, and the rest is History, as they say! ✌

@@georgedavall9449 I’m glad that she did! That is, both write the songs and then perform them. Tapestry is such a brilliant album. But also songs like Jazz Man here were good as well. Simon & Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, Carole King, Barbra Streisand ... I could go. It’s remarkable how such a small group of people in the world provides a seemingly endless source of musical talent.

@@oleggorky906 Thank YOU for the excellent reply! So true, so true, they were all superb Musicians! We are slowly losing them all, but their Music will LIve on! Peace

@@georgedavall9449 it’s a pleasure to interact with someone like minded! Blessings! 👍👌

Your words are so true...

Absolutely. Carole King has a Beautiful Voice and She is Beautiful ❤️

Omgoodness! That happened to me at 2am one morning when I couldn't sleep. I've been singing it every since lol

Yeah buddy Louis! Ever notice how all the great hits have a killah Sax in it? It’s true. Yeah, I played Sax in School, and always loved them! Peace

So funny Louis. I'm 58 and the same thing just happened to me this morning. I had to seek it out. Brings back so many fond memories of yesteryear!

62 here as well. Two days ago I heard this song on the radio and it's still playing in my head. Happier times back then....

Agreed! A lot of people are critical of David's time with Steely Dan but I thought his vocals on "Dirty Work" were exceptional! They wanted Fagan to sing his own songs and that's why David moved on. With regards to "Do it Again", David only sang the vocals on The Midnight Special, the studio version is Donald Fagen

@@edd7812 David's versions of those two songs are my favorites. Donald does a good job also but David's are superior in my opinion. Thanks for the info, way back I looked and looked for David on other recordings and could not find him anywhere else. I'm so glad Midnight Special got his leads on video. As fantastic as Steely Dan was, David made them even better. Cheers!

​@kathykay2010 Agreed! I'm so glad for RU-vid and those Midnight Specials and other old programs like that! You get to see many of the Great sixties and seventies bands actually playing and singing LIVE rather than lip syncing like on many of the other programs, especially the music shows coming out of the UK then... A friend of mine was in the Elvin Bishop band back then and was on The Midnight Special, I've got some pretty colorful stories about Van Morrison etc... 😂 I think David Palmer's vocals of Dirty Work really make that song, a lot of soul and feeling, he really captures the song and it wouldn't be anywhere near the same with Fagan singing it, as much as I like his vocals on most everything else... The Dan has probably been my favorite band since they came out. I remember taking can't buy a thrill around in high school and almost everybody was saying "What the hell kind of weird shit are you listening to!?" 😂🤣 Cheers!

​@@kathykay2010 and thanks for that info on David after Steely Dan!

@@edd7812 Oh yes, me too! The Midnight Special brought us so many great artists, what a thrill to see them all live. The past is preserved for us online and the more greats that pass on the more I appreciate that we can still see them online. I love Elvin's song, Fooled Around and Fell In Love. Which bandmember do you know in his band? I hope he's still alive and well. Time is flying for sure... Take care, be blessed!

Dammed right!!!!!! 👍✌🎷

@@georgedavall9449 It was a terrific transition, gotta love the sax and the solo not too long after that point of the song. 🎷

The great Tom Scott on alto sax.

For real

Me too......I was 15 years old and in love....

@@davidringo1399 💗

Me too!!!!

Killer sax solo

Valerie, this Song is in ‘My Top Ten!’ Great comment

You got great taste in music

I'm older than you. My dad had an 8-Track of this album if you remember those.

I totally agree with you 💯

So to be more specific she was singing both the A and the high D at that point?

The Beatles used that double tracked vocal technique all the time, especially John.

Overdubbing the singer's voice on the chorus is common. Robert Plant's vocals are overdubbed in Zeppelin quite a bit.

True

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So true.

Thanks for the trivia note. I hope that she got credit for it.

Didn't know that! Pretty sure she wrote it also

@@edd7812 Yes she did write it.

@@willardlockejr2965 Your Welcome. I don't think she got credit for playing drums on the song but she definitely got credit for writing it.

@@mousiespanks2379 which version are you talking about that she played drums on? The Shirelles version, which was the first number one song by a black girl group in america, or her own version on her second album Tapestry? Cuz I'm pretty sure that's Russ Kunkel on Tapestry on the drums. I'm a drummer so I kind of pay attention to these things! LOL

If you're one of the apparently few who can pick up so many of the different musical parts, I'd recommend Heather Nova to you, especially her album "Oyster." ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ji73VzXyGKE.html

This tune is always so soothing to me. I keep turning my grandkids onto quality music like Carole King. They love it! Even little ones know great music!

Carole your love for humanity comes through in your songs. Thank you!

The killer sax is courtesy of Mr. Tom Scott, who composed the "Starsky and Hutch" theme, as well as other music for movies and TV.

7 years old for me. I miss growing up in the 70s.

Whats the swirling vibrating instrument heard here? > 2:09 > sounds so nice.

@@michaelbruns449 The instrument that comes in there is a monophonic (only plays one note at a time, no chords) synthesizer. In the 70's synths were still all monophonic. Polyphonic synths generally weren't around till the early 80's, which gave us that early MTV British New Wave sound. Anyway, this one is hard to tell whether it's a Moog synth or an ARP synth, but it's definitely one or the other. Cheers!

Same here

Same!! I knew this song before the Carole King

Same here.

Likewise, it was so cool back then, and still is todayyyyy

Yep :) I was a kid and loved that episode when it was released, but had never heard of Carole King until then. Thanks Lisa! My ears are much more nourished thanks to that episode!

I need Carol King, not Lisa Simpson.

still my favorite episode

A freaking gut punch. I cry every time

@@nerfreak01 aww it is a great episode 😍💯🔥🌻🌺🌼.

I love all my fellow Simpsons fans who came here, but implore them to dig deeper into Tom Scott (with or without the LA Express)’s discography.

@@MilwaukeeMartin try the solo on the outro of "Black Cow" (Steely Dan). He wraps the solo perfectly around the backing horn track (which he arranged). Such brilliance!

Wow nice story, this song is totally ageless.