Well, I don't know what your age is, dramedy, but as someone who can remember the Fifties (barely!) and the Sixties (clearly), I can promise you that Carole King was enormously popular in the Seventies as a singer-songwriter ("It''s Too Late," "You've Got A Friend,""I Feel the Earth Move," etc.), and even before that, in the late Fifties and Sixties, as a writer of dozens of pop hits for other artists ("Up On the Roof," "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?", "Natural Woman," etc.). All those songs were hu-u-u-uge, back in the day.
I think it also helped Beautiful's long Broadway run that Carole King is New York, like the Jersey Boys (well, close enough!), another show that did exceptionally well for a jukeboxer. |
