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Carole King’s classic holiday album, A Holiday Carole, released in 2011. Produced by her daughter Louise Goffin, the album’s 12 songs artfully blend the sacred and the secular with an eclectic mix of wellchosen standards and newly written material. Goffin cowrote three original tracks on the album, including the Latinflavored “Christmas in Paradise,” on which she collaborated with Grammywinners George Noriega and Jodi Marr, the sublime GoffinMarr composition “Christmas In The Air,” and the deeply moving “New Year’s Day,” cowritten with renowned songsmith Guy Chambers. “As an experienced producer,” King remembers, “Louise’s first question to me as her artist was, ‘What songs do you like'” After compiling a list of favorites, Goffin went on the hunt for more unusual tracks, coming up with tunes like William Bell & Booker T. Jones’ Stax classic “Every Day Will Be Like A Holiday.” King puts her own indelible st& on the music, lending it a special seasonal flair. For King, the album’s emotional highlight is undoubtedly “Chanukah Prayer.” “Louise had the brilliant idea to take the Chanukah prayer that I learned from my parents, and they learned from their parents, and back through generations,” she explains. “She said ‘I want to record you singing that and I’m going to build a track around it.'” The result is a warm, jazzinflected tune that brings together three generations on vocals King, her daughter, and her grandson.
