James Taylor and Carole King performed "You've Got a Friend" together in 2010 during their Troubadour Reunion Tour. 16 song for 1971.ĭuring the recording process, Taylor also offered to his Apple Records labelmate Mary Hopkin a chance to record the song, which she turned down, a decision she later said she strongly regretted. The James Taylor version also spent one week at the top of the Easy Listening charts.
Taylor's version was released as a single, and reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 4 on the UK Singles Chart. But when James heard it he really liked it and wanted to record it". The song is included on both albums King said in a 1972 interview that she "didn't write it with James or anybody really specifically in mind. It was written by something outside myself, through me." According to Taylor, King told him that the song was a response to a line in Taylor's earlier song " Fire and Rain" that "I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend." King's album was recorded in an overlap with Taylor's, and King, Danny Kortchmar, and Joni Mitchell perform on both.
King has stated that "the song was as close to pure inspiration as I've ever experienced. "You've Got a Friend" was written by Carole King during the January 1971 recording sessions for her own album Tapestry and James Taylor's album Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon. James Taylor and Carole King at the 2010 Troubadour Reunion Tour
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