Carole King: Teenage Songwriter in the Music Business | Carole King: Natural Woman | PBS 

At age 16, Carole King started selling songs to music publishers. An except from "Carole King: Natural Woman" premiering Feb. 19 at 9/8c on PBS.
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Carole King, songwriters and friends Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, music critic Anthony DeCurtis and others describe the music business and work of songwriters in the 1950s and 1960s. As a 16-year-old living in Queens, King would bring her music to two publishers in Manhattan and get paid $25 for a composition that would be given to a recording artist. She soon paired professionally and in marriage with Gerry Goffin. Many of her hit songs were written for Aldon Records, with office in the famous Brill Building.
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