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♪ CAROLE: I was born in New York and I loved it, ♪ but when I moved to California, I changed from being a songwriter to a singer-songwriter.

♪ So when I knew I was gonna do a concert in New York I was really excited because I was coming home.

I was really nervous.

Tapestry had become such a huge hit.

I wanted to get something back to the people.

RADIO DJ: Rock 'N Stereo, WPLJ, New York.

RADIO DJ 2: Ode Records proudly announces the Carole King Concert 1973, Saturday, May 26th on the Great Lawn of Central Park.

♪ I wanna be home again and feelin' right ♪ ♪ LOU: Around 1960, I went to New York and met Donnie Kirshner.

He hired me as a West Coast representative of Alden Music.

Alden had writers like Carole King, Gerry Goffin, Mann and Weil, Neil Sedaka.

They were workers.

It wasn't glamorous.

It was a craft.

At the time we had about 30 Top-10 records.

36, I think, to be exact.

♪ And it's actually where I met Carole for the first time.

CAROLE: Let's sing again.

♪ La, la, la, la ♪ LOU: You know, I could hear that piano.

I could hear and feel something special but she, at that time, showed no desire to be an artist.

♪ What should I write ♪ ♪ What can I say ♪ CAROLE: I was shy about performing and I loved songwriting.

I love making the demos.

I'm the vehicle to present this song.

♪ ♪ Take good care of my baby ♪ LOU: I would get demos from New York.

Carole would go in and record the song that she and Gerry wrote, and I would take those demos around to the A&R men for the West Coast artists and try to get a record.

♪ The local rock group down the street is trying hard ♪ ♪ To learn their song ♪ LOU: It was actually the first time that I was made aware of how much Carole King demos meant to these people.

♪ Another Pleasant Valley Sunday ♪ ♪ Pleasant Valley Sunday ♪ LOU: They just loved having them as part of their record collection, especially Snuff Garrett, who was a very successful producer.

Once I gave him a demo, that was it.

I couldn't get it back.

♪ I think my relationship with Carole was probably a little deeper than just representing her as a writer.

And when she went through whatever she went through with Gerry and leaving New York, wanting to start her a life over, and she came to Los Angeles, she didn't know anybody here.

She looked me up because we knew each other.

CAROLE: After I signed with Lou Adler, he wanted to record me and he brought my two band members, one of whom was my husband, Charlie Larkey, my second husband, and Dannie Kortchmar, and we formed The City.

So I was part of a group.

♪ Now that everything's been said ♪ ♪ Now that everything's been done ♪ ♪ How come you wanna leave me ♪ LOU: I always wanted to produce her as an artist.

And so we did an album with The City.

Then there was an album called Writer and then Tapestry.

It was a progression to Tapestry.

♪ CAROLE: Lou had the idea to record Tapestry as an intimate album, kind of like my demos.

LOU: I wanted it to stay that simple and always have that feeling that Carole was singing to you and playing the piano.

CAROLE: You know what was special about A&M Studios?

Everybody would come together and it would be like a community.

LOU: They were either recording their own albums or they were on each other's albums.

CAROLE: So when I was recording Tapestry in Studio B, James Taylor was around playing on the songs, Joni Mitchell was in Studio C recording Blue.

And then she came in and sang backup on "Will You Love Me Tomorrow."

♪ But will you love me tomorrow ♪ LOU: I think that A&M had a lot to do with it.

CAROLE: I had sung on James' new album Mud Slide Slim and he'd become a good friend by then.

He made it look so easy.

So I did Tapestry in the same spirit as he made it look.

(laughs) LOU: I think it took us three weeks to make Tapestry.

CAROLE: And when it suddenly exploded I was shocked.

LOU: Tapestry came out.

We sold 25 million albums or something.

You know, it was the biggest-selling album at the time.

CAROLE: I mean, I loved that people loved the songs but, I don't know, I never expected that.

LOU: I had never gotten that before on any record that I had produced, where it touched people so much it became a soundtrack for their life.

It was very personal.

Even with the success of Tapestry, Carole had no desire to be a performer, to step on a stage.

CAROLE: I couldn't take it all in.

I just continued to, you know, think about myself as just a songwriter.

LOU: Carole never changed.

She was still a mother.

She wanted to take care of those kids.

She wanted to live a quiet life and she was very conscious of what effect touring would have on her children.

What she enjoyed was the process of writing the song and creating it in a studio, especially getting a chance to play with musicians.

She enjoyed that.

I mean, I could have kept her in the studio forever.

CAROLE: I had had success with Tapestry, and then the next few albums were similar to that.

But in 1973 I wanted to try a different sound.

♪ LOU: The most ambitious advent in to being an artist was the recording of the Fantasy album.

♪ She may see ♪ CAROLE: And I had a concept for telling a whole story of a community with different songs and I really loved that.

It represented me as an artist in a different way than I had ever been.

I just was into it.

(laughs) LOU: That led to the Fantasy tour, where she actually went on the road and it was the same musicians that recorded the Fantasy album.

That excited Carole.

CAROLE: I had never wanted to go on the road but with those musicians I thought, "Huh, maybe this could be fun."

LOU: It just evolved.

She wants to feel like, with all this success that she's had, she's coming home to New York.

So that's how the idea for a free concert came about.

♪ You brought your sweet understanding ♪ CAROLE: Lou Adler always came up with great ideas and when he came up with the idea for this concert in Central Park, I mean, I trusted him.

LOU: Because I'm from the West Coast I'm thinking, "Let's do it at Central Park."

I don't know that, groundbreaking, that this is what we're gonna have to contend with.

In planning the tour, rather than planning it on gross potential we tried to plan at each city, what was the best possible place to present it to the most people.

A big part of the success, and even the idea, is Ron Delsener, the New York promoter.

RON: I went to the city of New York and met the gentleman who ran the parks department and I said, "I wanna do shows here in Central Park."

I got a lease for three years and my first one was Barbra Streisand.

And I started with that show and it was a big success.

And then after that my friend Lou Adler wants to do a show at Central Park with his client, Carole King.

I've done a lot of shows in New York City and made money and I feel that I like to do nice things once in a while.

It's a gesture to the people of New York.

MAN: That's nice of you.

RON: It's just a nice thing to do, that's all.

We're gonna pass the hat later too.

You didn't know that, did you?

LOU: It was a big deal.

New York was behind it.

And Mayor Lindsay introduces Carole.

It led to a lot of concerts in Central Park, and especially free concerts in Central Park.

RON: She was a special artist but she was not a touring artist like those people back then.

She didn't have to do a lot of these things.

She did what she wanted to do.

LOU: Another important part of the success was Chip Monck.

Chip Monck was the stage manager, architect, sergeant-at-arms, pretty much everything.

CHIP: What I do is take a look at an act and say, "This is how I think you could best be seen."

Basically Lou said, "Just be yourself and do what you usually do."

(laughs) So that was the command of the three or four days.

(laughs) GERALDO: Ever since you did Woodstock it seems that people have attempted to recapture it but have failed.

Do you think you can do it today?

CHIP: It's very possible.

I have this love for snow fence and scaffolding, you see.

(Geraldo laughs) So it all looks the same.

RON: Because it was "Do anything you gotta do and make it happen," and it was that way.

Lou made it that way.

LOU: And anything you'd brought to him that had a logical explanation he said, "Yep, go ahead, do it."

RON: There weren't full-page ads in The New York Times like we usually take.

We just went on the radio and we said, "Hey, promote this.

You can come for free 'cause it is a free show."

It was very laid back and the stage was built very simple.

MAN: There's two of us up here already.

RON: There was no curtains or nothing like that.

It was really raw.

CHIP: It was brilliantly done.

I mean, down to the fact that the PVC pipes that were all over the place were painted so meticulously.

I mean, everybody that worked there was basically on the top of their game.

It was wonderful.

RON: It was done like, "Hey, let's have a party.

Let's put a show on."

Like a bunch of kids would.

♪ CAROLE: Whenever I get to a stage and I see the room, or in this case the entire Great Lawn, I look at it and I go, "Wow!

This is gonna be filled with people."

But I always come back to home base, which is playing with a band ♪ and when I started rehearsing with that band it got really exciting.

♪ RON: This was May 26th, 1973.

Oh, it was a miserable, overcast, gray day.

LOU: But magically, the Sun came out and this tremendous amount of people started to file in.

At that point we realized we've got something here.

This is really big.

♪ RON: Lou had a bunch of people from Hollywood there.

I know he had Jack Nicholson there.

♪ ♪ ♪ LOU: Thinking about Carole King in front of 250 people at the Troubadour on Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles to, you know, a hundred-thousand people in Central Park, New York, that's a fair-sized jump.

♪ CHIP: Everybody who gets to do something of that size and for a New York audience, which is the most discerning that there are, has to pull out all the stops.

LOU: She has this knack of handling whatever comes about.

CHIP: She's a master.

She just sits at the piano and does what she loves.

She's a class act.

(crowd cheering) CAROLE: When I first walked onto the stage it was kind of terrifying for a minute (crowd cheering) and then the crowd began to cheer and it was like a wave coming toward me.

There was just so much love.

I realized that all I had to do was sit down and start playing.

They were there to hear me.

Thank you.

(crowd cheering) I knew how to deliver and that's what I sat down to do.

(crowd cheering) First of all, I wanna say thank you for coming because it was supposed to R-A-I-N. (laughs) And so far, we're sending out great vibrations.

Keep it up.

(laughs) (crowd cheering) ♪ You got to get up every mornin' ♪ ♪ With a smile on your face and show the world ♪ ♪ All the love in your heart ♪ ♪ Then people gonna treat you better ♪ ♪ You're gonna find, yes you will ♪ ♪ That you're beautiful as you feel ♪ ♪ (crowd clapping) ♪ Waiting at the station with ♪ ♪ The workday wind a blowing ♪ ♪ I've got nothing to do but watch the passers-by ♪ ♪ Mirrored in their faces I see frustration growing ♪ ♪ And they don't see it showing, why do I ♪ ♪ You got to get up every mornin' ♪ ♪ With a smile on your face and show the world ♪ ♪ All the love in your heart ♪ ♪ Then people gonna treat you better ♪ ♪ You're gonna find, yes you will ♪ ♪ That you're beautiful as you feel ♪ ♪ ♪ I have often asked myself the reason ♪ ♪ For the sadness in a world ♪ ♪ Where tears are just a lullaby ♪ ♪ If there's any answer ♪ ♪ Maybe love can end the madness ♪ ♪ Maybe not, oh, but we can only try ♪ ♪ You got to get up every mornin' ♪ ♪ With a smile on your face and show the world ♪ ♪ All the love in your heart ♪ ♪ Then people gonna treat you better ♪ ♪ You're gonna find, yes you will ♪ ♪ That you're beautiful ♪ ♪ You're beautiful ♪ ♪ You're beautiful as you feel ♪ ♪ (crowd cheering and applauding) ♪ (crowd cheering) ♪ ♪ Green fields ♪ ♪ And rolling hills ♪ ♪ Room enough to do what we will ♪ ♪ ♪ Sweet dreams of yestertime ♪ ♪ ♪ Are running through my mind ♪ ♪ Of a place I left behind ♪ ♪ Been so long ♪ ♪ I can't remember when ♪ ♪ I've been to Canaan and I wanna go back again ♪ ♪ ♪ Been so long, I'm living 'til then ♪ ♪ ♪ I've been to Canaan and I won't rest ♪ ♪ Until I go back again ♪ ♪ ♪ Though I'm content with myself ♪ ♪ ♪ Sometimes I long to be somewhere else ♪ ♪ ♪ I try to do what I can ♪ ♪ ♪ But with our day- to-day demands ♪ ♪ We all need a promised land ♪ ♪ And it's been so long ♪ ♪ I can't remember when ♪ ♪ I've been to Canaan and I wanna go back again ♪ ♪ ♪ Been so long, I'm living 'til then ♪ ♪ ♪ I've been to Canaan and I won't rest ♪ ♪ Until I go back again ♪ ♪ ♪ Oh, I wanna be there in the wintertime ♪ ♪ ♪ With a fireplace burning to warm me ♪ ♪ And you to hold me when it's stormy ♪ ♪ ♪ Been so long ♪ ♪ I can't remember when ♪ ♪ I've been to Canaan and I wanna go back again ♪ ♪ ♪ Been so long, I'm living 'til then ♪ ♪ ♪ I've been to Canaan and I won't rest ♪ ♪ Until I go back again ♪ ♪ ♪ I've been to Canaan and I won't rest ♪ ♪ Until I go back again ♪ ♪ (crowd cheering and applauding) Thank you.

Thank you.

(crowd cheering and applauding) Here's a song about another place, which some say is in New Jersey.

(laughs) (crowd cheering) Others say is in Brooklyn.

(crowd cheering) Others say is in Queens.

(crowd cheering) Shall we try The Bronx?

(crowd cheering) Staten Island?

(crowd cheering) And any place else.

(crowd cheering) Now that's a cheap way to get a hand.

(laughs) ♪ ♪ Way over yonder ♪ ♪ ♪ Is a place that I know ♪ ♪ ♪ Where I can find shelter ♪ ♪ ♪ From hunger and cold ♪ ♪ ♪ And the sweet tastin' good life ♪ ♪ ♪ Is easily found ♪ ♪ ♪ Way over yonder ♪ ♪ ♪ That's where I'm bound ♪ ♪ ♪ I know when I get there ♪ ♪ ♪ The first thing I'll see ♪ ♪ ♪ Is the Sun shining golden ♪ ♪ ♪ Shinin' right down on me ♪ ♪ ♪ Then trouble's gonna lose me ♪ ♪ Worry leave me behind ♪ ♪ ♪ And I'll stand up proudly ♪ ♪ ♪ In true peace of mind ♪ ♪ Talkin' 'bout it, talkin' down ♪ ♪ A way over yonder ♪ ♪ ♪ Is a place I have seen ♪ ♪ ♪ In a garden of wisdom ♪ ♪ ♪ From some long-ago dream ♪ ♪ Maybe tomorrow ♪ ♪ ♪ I'll find my way ♪ ♪ ♪ To the land where the honey runs ♪ ♪ ♪ In rivers each day ♪ ♪ ♪ And the sweet tastin' good life ♪ ♪ Is so easily found ♪ ♪ ♪ A way over yonder ♪ ♪ ♪ That's where I'm bound ♪ ♪ Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh ♪ ♪ A way over yonder ♪ ♪ That's where I'm bound ♪ ♪ (crowd cheering) (crowd cheering and applauding) Thank you.

(crowd cheering and applauding) (crowd cheering) ♪ I love you too!

♪ ♪ Now, Smackwater Jack ♪ ♪ He bought a shotgun ♪ ♪ Oh, 'cause he was in the mood ♪ ♪ For a little confrontation ♪ ♪ He just let it all hang loose ♪ ♪ He didn't think about the noose ♪ ♪ He couldn't take no more abuse ♪ ♪ So he shot down the congregation ♪ ♪ You can't talk to a man ♪ ♪ With a shotgun in his hand ♪ ♪ (crowd clapping) ♪ Now, Big Jim the chief stood for law and order ♪ ♪ Yes, he did now ♪ ♪ He called for the guard to come ♪ ♪ And surround the border ♪ ♪ Now, from his bulldog mouth ♪ ♪ As he led the posse south ♪ ♪ Came the cry, "We got to ride ♪ ♪ "To clean up the streets ♪ ♪ For our wives and our daughters" ♪ ♪ Oh, no, no ♪ ♪ You can't talk to a man ♪ ♪ When he don't wanna understand ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ The account of the capture ♪ ♪ Wasn't in the papers, oh, no ♪ ♪ But you know they hanged ol' Smack right then ♪ ♪ Instead of later ♪ ♪ You know, the people were quite pleased ♪ ♪ 'Cause the outlaw had been seized ♪ ♪ And on the whole, it was a very good year ♪ ♪ For the undertaker ♪ ♪ You know, you know, you can't talk to a man ♪ ♪ With a shotgun in his hand ♪ ♪ Shotgun in his hand ♪ ♪ Smackwater Jack bought a shotgun ♪ ♪ Oh, Smackwater Jack bought a shotgun ♪ ♪ Oh, Smackwater Jack, yeah ♪ ♪ (crowd cheering and applauding) This next song is a song...

It's for New York because New York really gave me so much, including life.

(laughs) (crowd cheering and applauding) And I really- I wanna thank everybody, New York and you people, for letting me come back and give a little something back.

(crowd cheering and applauding) ♪ ♪ Sometimes I wonder if I'm ♪ ♪ Ever gonna make it home again ♪ ♪ It's so far and out of sight ♪ ♪ ♪ I really need someone to talk to ♪ ♪ And nobody else knows ♪ ♪ How to comfort me tonight ♪ ♪ ♪ Snow is cold, rain is wet ♪ ♪ ♪ Chills my soul right to the marrow ♪ ♪ I won't be happy 'til I see you alone again ♪ ♪ 'Til I'm home again and feelin' right ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Snow is cold, rain is wet ♪ ♪ Chills my soul right to the marrow ♪ ♪ I won't be happy 'til I see you alone again ♪ ♪ 'Til I'm home again and feelin' right ♪ ♪ 'Til I'm home again and feelin' right ♪ ♪ I wanna be home again and feelin' right ♪ ♪ ♪ (crowd cheering and applauding) Thank you.

(crowd cheering and applauding) ♪ ♪ Sometimes ya win, sometimes ya lose ♪ ♪ And sometimes the blues get a hold of you ♪ ♪ Oh, just when you though you had made it ♪ ♪ ♪ All around the block people will talk ♪ ♪ But I'm gonna give it all that I got ♪ ♪ I just don't want, I don't wanna waste it ♪ ♪ ♪ Talkin' 'bout a sweet seasons on my mind ♪ ♪ ♪ Sure does appeal to me ♪ ♪ You know we can get there easily ♪ ♪ Just like a sailboat sailin' on the sea ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose ♪ ♪ And most times you choose between the two ♪ ♪ Oh, wondering, wondering if you have made it ♪ ♪ ♪ But I'll have some kids and make my plans ♪ ♪ And I'll watch the seasons running away ♪ ♪ And I'll build me a life in the open ♪ ♪ A life in the country ♪ ♪ Don't ya know I'm talkin' 'bout ♪ ♪ A sweet seasons on my mind ♪ ♪ ♪ Sure does appeal to me ♪ ♪ Ah, you know we can get there easily ♪ ♪ Just like a sailboat a sailin' on the sea ♪ ♪ Talkin' 'bout a sweet seasons ♪ ♪ Talkin' 'bout a sweet, sweet, sweet seasons ♪ ♪ Talkin' 'bout a sweet, oh ♪ ♪ Sweet, sweet, sweet seasons ♪ ♪ (crowd cheering and applauding) Right.

(laughs) (crowd cheering and applauding) ♪ ♪ Stayed in bed all morning just to pass the time ♪ ♪ There's something wrong here ♪ ♪ There can be no denying ♪ ♪ One of us is changing ♪ ♪ Or maybe we've just stopped trying ♪ ♪ ♪ And it's too late, baby, now ♪ ♪ It's too late ♪ ♪ Though we really did try to make it ♪ ♪ Something inside has died and I can't hide ♪ ♪ And I just can't fake it ♪ ♪ Oh, no, no, no, no ♪ ♪ ♪ Mm, mm, hm ♪ ♪ It used to be so easy living here with you ♪ ♪ You were light and breezy ♪ ♪ And I knew just what to do ♪ ♪ Now you look so unhappy ♪ ♪ And I feel like a fool ♪ ♪ ♪ And it's too late, baby, now ♪ ♪ It's too late ♪ ♪ Though we really did try to make it ♪ ♪ Something inside has died and I can't hide ♪ ♪ And I just can't fake it ♪ ♪ Oh, no, na, na, na, da, da, da ♪ ♪ Da, da, da, da, do, da, la, da, da ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, la, la, lo, da, da ♪ ♪ La, da, da, da, da, da, da ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ There'll be good times again for me and you ♪ ♪ But we just can't stay together ♪ ♪ Don't you feel it too ♪ ♪ Still, I'm glad for what we had ♪ ♪ And how I once loved you ♪ ♪ ♪ But it's too late, baby, now ♪ ♪ It's too late ♪ ♪ Though we really did try to make it ♪ ♪ Something inside has died ♪ ♪ And I can't hide and I just can't fake it ♪ ♪ Oh, no, no ♪ ♪ No, no, no ♪ ♪ La, da, do, da, da, da, da ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, la, la, lo, da, da ♪ ♪ La, da, da, da, da, da, da ♪ ♪ It's too late, baby ♪ ♪ It's too late, oh, now, darling ♪ ♪ It's too late ♪ ♪ (crowd cheering and applauding) LOU: I didn't feel that she could go on this tour, and especially at Central Park, and not do songs from Tapestry.

And that's why the concert was split into two different sides, if you will, with just Carole and the piano, in a very Tapestry type musical setting, and then changing to the bandstand and the musicians.

(crowd cheering) CAROLE: I would like to introduce the members of David T. Walker's band to you, because they're gonna help me out and we'll begin with Clarence McDonald on the electric piano.

(crowd cheering and applauding) And Charles Larkey on the electric bass.

(crowd cheering and applauding) Charles Larkey fans!

We have Harvey Mason on the drums.

(crowd cheering and applauding) We have Miss Bobbye Hall on the congas and other percussion.

(crowd cheering and applauding) And we have David T. Walker on guitar.

(crowd cheering and applauding) Now hang in there.

CROWD MEMBER: Come get 'em, Carole!

We love ya!

CAROLE: I appreciate the thought, but I think it'll be too much!

(laughs) Pass them.

(laughs) (crowd cheering and applauding) (crowd cheering and applauding) Flowers are nice.

I'll still love you tomorrow, too.

(laughs) (crowd cheering) (piano keys plunk) (crowd shouting) OK. (laughs) I think maybe at this time I would also like to take the opportunity to introduce the horn section.

Starting from right to left, we have Tom Scott on the golden saxophone!

(crowd cheering) We have Mike Altschul on the other golden saxophone!

(crowd cheering) We have George Bohanon on trombone.

(crowd cheering) Slyde, with a Y, Dick Hyde on trombone.

(crowd cheering) Gene Goe on trumpet.

Wave your horn so they can see you, guys.

And Oscar Brashear on trumpet.

(crowd cheering) LOU: That was an amazing group of players, most of which were the heart of Los Angeles recording sessions.

Having that group gave her the confidence to do these concerts.

CAROLE: I had not fully really become a touring artist in my brain.

I just knew that I was gonna be on stage, playing with musicians, playing songs I knew.

LOU: The horn section was brilliant.

The band was superb and she commanded the down center brilliantly.

CAROLE: We're gonna carry on now.

The um...

I'd like to explain one of the reasons for this tour and us being here is that we just finished an album.

It's called Fantasy and it's gonna be out in a couple of weeks.

(crowd cheering) Maybe sooner.

(laughs) And these people whom you've just met are the people that played on the album and we had so much fun making the album that we didn't wanna stop.

(laughs) And so we wanted to come and share it with you and if there's no further problems, we'll go ahead and do some of the album for you.

(crowd cheering) ♪ ♪ Looking for a way to say ♪ ♪ The things I think about day by day ♪ ♪ Listen to their meaning if you can ♪ ♪ ♪ I may step outside myself ♪ ♪ And speak as if I were someone else ♪ ♪ That's one way I know you'll understand ♪ ♪ ♪ In fantasy, I can be Black or White ♪ ♪ A woman or a man ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh, I hear you say ♪ ♪ Attitudes and times have changed ♪ ♪ ♪ And I know the feeling ♪ ♪ It's long overdue ♪ ♪ ♪ You say this is the time to right all wrong ♪ ♪ Tell me now if it's true ♪ ♪ You got the mind, you got the time ♪ ♪ How long are you gonna wait ♪ ♪ To do what you wanna do now ♪ ♪ You've been around too long ♪ ♪ Not to notice ♪ ♪ What's going on in town ♪ ♪ You got to understand ♪ ♪ I'm taking my life in my own hands ♪ ♪ And gaining ground ♪ ♪ Look around ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Peace of mind ♪ ♪ You got yours, I want mine ♪ ♪ If you really wanna do right by me ♪ ♪ See what you wanna see ♪ ♪ But let me be what I wanna be ♪ ♪ 'Cause you've been around too long ♪ ♪ Not to realize what's going on inside ♪ ♪ I'm just like you ♪ ♪ I'm doing the best that I can do to make my stride ♪ (Carole shouts) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (crowd cheering) Alright.

(crowd cheering) ♪ ♪ ♪ Everyone comes from ♪ Listen to me now.

♪ One father, one mother ♪ ♪ So why do we complicate our lives so much ♪ ♪ By being at war with each other ♪ ♪ ♪ Maybe I'm crazy ♪ ♪ But I don't understand it ♪ ♪ ♪ Why do we seem to vote to dig more holes ♪ ♪ It's such a waste of a planet ♪ ♪ ♪ There must be a reason ♪ ♪ That I can't see ♪ ♪ Maybe somebody else knows ♪ ♪ Oh, oh, better than me ♪ ♪ Well all I know is ♪ ♪ Everyone else is ♪ ♪ A sister or brother ♪ ♪ So we've got to look around again and stop ♪ ♪ Being at war with each other ♪ ♪ Being at war with each other ♪ ♪ Oh ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ We've got to look around again and stop ♪ ♪ Being at war with each other ♪ ♪ Being at war with each other ♪ ♪ Being at war with each other ♪ ♪ Being at war with each other ♪ ♪ (crowd cheering and applauding) ♪ ♪ Here I am ♪ ♪ Carrying the child of our sweet love ♪ ♪ And you're far away ♪ ♪ That's how things go down ♪ ♪ I wanna see you again ♪ ♪ ♪ Though I've known ♪ ♪ Others in life who've made it on their own ♪ ♪ I'm afraid ♪ ♪ That's how things go down ♪ ♪ But I wanna see you again ♪ ♪ ♪ Hey, with each day that passes by ♪ ♪ I pray ♪ ♪ That I will see you soon ♪ ♪ And you will be here with me ♪ ♪ To see the child being born ♪ ♪ ♪ Safe and sound ♪ ♪ All I can do is wait and hope that you'll ♪ ♪ Be around ♪ ♪ That's how things go down ♪ ♪ I wanna see you again ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ In the end ♪ ♪ All I can do is wait and hope that you'll ♪ ♪ Be around ♪ ♪ That's how things go down ♪ ♪ I wanna see you again ♪ ♪ ♪ That's how things go down ♪ ♪ I wanna see you again ♪ ♪ ♪ That's how things go down ♪ ♪ (crowd cheering and applauding) ♪ (indistinct) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Haywood, where have you been ♪ ♪ Tell me now, Haywood ♪ ♪ You've been on the street again ♪ ♪ I know, I know, Haywood ♪ ♪ That man's not your friend ♪ ♪ Haven't you had enough of the stuff ♪ ♪ Oh, you know it's got to do you in ♪ ♪ ♪ Remember John, John ♪ ♪ How Mama stayed awake all night, all night ♪ ♪ The night they brought him in ♪ ♪ She cried and said she always knew ♪ ♪ That he was up to no good ♪ ♪ ♪ It broke her heart the night he died ♪ ♪ And she made me promise I'd stand ♪ ♪ By your side and try to protect you ♪ ♪ From the evil in the neighborhood ♪ ♪ Oh, Haywood, where have you been ♪ ♪ Tell me now, Haywood ♪ ♪ Ah, you've been on the street again ♪ ♪ I know, I know, Haywood ♪ ♪ Hangin' out with your so-called friends ♪ ♪ What makes you think ♪ ♪ That you'll be the one to put it down ♪ ♪ Use your ears, use your eyes ♪ ♪ Just look around, everyone's dying ♪ ♪ Everyone's going down ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Just think of Vallorie ♪ ♪ She's always been so good to you ♪ ♪ And you, you, you've never let her down ♪ ♪ What about the life you planned ♪ ♪ Well it can still come true ♪ ♪ It's all up to you ♪ ♪ I know it's hard to shake it ♪ ♪ Ah, but you gotta be a man and take it ♪ ♪ I know this is no way to make it ♪ ♪ It's not too late, it's not too late for you ♪ ♪ Oh, listen to me, Haywood ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Oh, ho, oh, ho, oh, ha ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ All I want is a quiet place to live ♪ ♪ Where I can be free in a world of my making ♪ ♪ Instead of taking what they decided to give ♪ ♪ I wouldn't want what they have, no ♪ ♪ If I could only find ♪ ♪ A quiet place to live ♪ ♪ ♪ (crowd cheering and whistling) At one point during the show I looked out and I could see people had climbed up on the towers.

CHIP: They were speaker towers, and light on one or two of them.

CAROLE: And people were so excited.

You could almost see the towers moving.

LOU: I walk up to Carole, lean over, and I whisper in her ear.

What I'm telling her at that time is we might have to cut this concert short.

CAROLE: I gotta- you gotta get down, really.

I can't go ahead until you get down.

I'm sorry.

I really can't go on.

They won't let me.

Listen, I really don't know how to say this, because it's very difficult for me to, you know, I don't wanna come on or anything, but if you guys could really try and be as considerate of everybody else as you possibly can.

LOU: The parks commission has asked me.

They're really concerned.

Those of you standing upstairs, please, will you sit?

Please, no more of you on the scaffoldings.

I'm awfully sorry to break in, but the concern of the parks department was, I think, equal to it.

Please go to a level.

Please go to a level and sit down, if you would?

Realize that when you're standing the people behind can't see at all.

CHIP: Come on, guys.

You know, everybody else is standing around on the ground.

Why don't you just join them?

LOU: If you watch that tower, it's scary.

CAROLE: It looked dangerous.

And I wasn't in danger but I felt like the audience was.

♪ ♪ You light up my life ♪ ♪ Like sunrise in the morning ♪ ♪ ♪ You make me believe ♪ ♪ Anything is possible ♪ ♪ I didn't have a dream to my name ♪ ♪ Darkness was mine, it was such a shame ♪ ♪ But you came to light up my life ♪ ♪ You give me faith and hope and love and light ♪ ♪ ♪ With your tender smile ♪ ♪ You brought me to the promise ♪ ♪ Of a life outside a world ♪ ♪ Of nine-to-five and Sunday ♪ ♪ Hey, I didn't know how rich I could be ♪ ♪ Until you gave your love to me ♪ ♪ Don't you see, you light up my life ♪ ♪ You give me faith and hope and love and light ♪ ♪ ♪ You brought your sweet understanding ♪ ♪ Like sun rays in my hazy sky ♪ ♪ If you hadn't opened up my eyes ♪ ♪ Love would have passed me right on by ♪ ♪ Right on by ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ I never knew how good I could feel ♪ ♪ Loving you's left me with nothing to conceal ♪ ♪ Yeah, you really light up my life ♪ ♪ You give me faith and hope and love and light ♪ ♪ (crowd cheering and applauding) ♪ (Carole clapping) ♪ ♪ Corazon, mi corazon ♪ ♪ ♪ Corazon, mi corazon ♪ ♪ ♪ Yo te quiero, mi corazon ♪ ♪ ♪ Corazon, mi corazon ♪ ♪ ♪ Yo te quiero, mi corazon ♪ ♪ ♪ Corazon, mi corazon ♪ ♪ ♪ Yo te quiero, mi corazon ♪ ♪ ♪ Espero que tu me quieras tambien ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (Carole clapping) ♪ Corazon, mi corazon ♪ ♪ ♪ Corazon, mi corazon ♪ ♪ ♪ Ayudame, ayudame, mi corazon ♪ ♪ ♪ Yo te quiero, mi corazon ♪ ♪ ♪ Ayudame, te quiero, te quiero ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (crowd cheering) ♪ ♪ ♪ Ah, if you read the papers you may see ♪ ♪ History in the making ♪ ♪ You'll read what they say ♪ ♪ Life is all about ♪ ♪ They say it's there for the taking ♪ ♪ Yeah, but you should really check it out ♪ ♪ If you wanna know what's shakin' ♪ ♪ But don't tell me about the things you've heard ♪ ♪ Maybe I'm wrong ♪ ♪ But I wanna believe in humanity ♪ ♪ ♪ I know it's often true, sad to say ♪ ♪ We have been unkind to one another ♪ ♪ Tell me, how many times has the golden rule ♪ ♪ Been applied by man to his brother ♪ ♪ Well I believe if I ♪ ♪ Really looked at what's going on ♪ ♪ I would lose faith I never could recover ♪ ♪ So don't tell me about the things you've heard ♪ ♪ Ah, maybe I'm wrong ♪ ♪ But I wanna believe ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Maybe I'm livin' ♪ ♪ ♪ With my head in the sand ♪ ♪ I just wanna see people givin' ♪ ♪ I wanna believe in my fellow man ♪ ♪ Yes, I wanna believe ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Now that I've expressed my soul ♪ ♪ I'll step back into my real-life role ♪ ♪ And hope I've brought you back ♪ ♪ Across the line ♪ ♪ ♪ You may think there's nothing you can do ♪ ♪ To change what's all too true ♪ ♪ But all you have to do ♪ ♪ Is use your mind ♪ ♪ ♪ In fantasy you can be ♪ ♪ Anything you want to be ♪ ♪ And some day our reality will be ♪ ♪ As good as never -never land ♪ ♪ ♪ (crowd cheering and applauding) (crowd cheering and applauding) I wanna say thank you one more time for you coming and I wanna dedicate this song to the person whose record you may know best.

WOMAN: James Taylor!

CAROLE: He's just been a great help to me in my life.

♪ (crowd cheering) ♪ When you're down ♪ ♪ And troubled ♪ ♪ And you need some lovin' care ♪ ♪ And nothin', oh, nothin' is going right ♪ ♪ ♪ Close your eyes and think of me ♪ ♪ And soon I will be there ♪ ♪ To brighten up ♪ ♪ Even your darkest night ♪ ♪ ♪ You just call out my name ♪ ♪ And you know wherever I am ♪ ♪ I'll come running ♪ ♪ To see you again ♪ ♪ ♪ Winter, spring, summer or fall ♪ ♪ All you have to do is call ♪ ♪ And I'll be there, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ You've got a friend ♪ ♪ ♪ If the sky above you ♪ ♪ Should turn dark and full of clouds ♪ ♪ And that old north wind ♪ ♪ Should begin to blow ♪ ♪ ♪ Keep your head together ♪ ♪ And call my name out loud, whoa, whoa ♪ ♪ Soon, you'll hear me knockin' upon your door ♪ ♪ ♪ You just call out my name ♪ ♪ And you know wherever I am ♪ ♪ I'm gonna come on a runnin' ♪ ♪ Runnin', runnin', yeah ♪ ♪ To see you again ♪ ♪ ♪ Winter, spring, summer or fall ♪ ♪ All you have to do is call ♪ ♪ And I'll be there ♪ ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ Hey now, ain't it good to know ♪ ♪ That you've got a friend ♪ ♪ When people can be so cold ♪ ♪ They're gonna hurt you ♪ ♪ Yes, and desert you ♪ ♪ And take your soul if you let them ♪ ♪ Oh, but don't you let them ♪ ♪ You just call out my name ♪ ♪ And you know wherever I am ♪ ♪ I will come a runnin', runnin', runnin', runnin' ♪ ♪ To see you again ♪ ♪ ♪ Winter, spring, summer or fall ♪ ♪ Hey now, all you have to do is call ♪ ♪ And I will be there ♪ ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ You've got a friend ♪ ♪ You've got a friend ♪ ♪ Ain't it good to know ♪ ♪ You've got a friend ♪ ♪ Ain't it good to know, ain't it good to know ♪ ♪ You, you, you've got a friend ♪ ♪ You've got a friend, you got a friend ♪ ♪ You've got a friend ♪ ♪ Yeah, baby, now, you got a friend ♪ ♪ You, you, you got a friend ♪ ♪ Ain't it good to know, ain't it good to know ♪ ♪ Ain't it good to know ♪ ♪ You've got a friend ♪ ♪ (crowd cheering and applauding) There were a hundred thousand New Yorkers there.

I mean, it felt insane.

(crowd cheering) CHIP: Carole took these things in her stride.

It was a complete success.

It was all about the music.

RON: It was an event.

She had a great rapport with the people.

(crowd chanting) CHIP: There was a great deal written about that concert.

It was absolutely superb.

She was brilliant.

LOU: What that moment meant to Carole, being in Central Park, being in New York, coming home, that was what was really important.

♪ ♪ Snow is cold, rain is wet ♪ ♪ Chills my soul ♪ ♪ Right to the marrow ♪ LOU: You've had your delights for the day, and now give them a helping hand, because you guys have left what you don't need and I think it would be very nice of you if you wouldn't mind picking it all up and stick it in a bag before you leave.

It was a big, healthy audience, actually.

It was in a position to say, "Thank you."

♪ ♪ (switch clicks) MAN: Okay.