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Carole King — I Feel The Earth Move
Album: Tapestry
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Released: 1971
Length: 2:55
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I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumblin' down
I feel my heart start to tremblin'
Whenever you're around

Ooh baby, when I see your face
Mellow as the month of may
Oh darlin', I can't stand it
When you look at me that way, hey

I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumblin' down
I feel my heart start to tremblin'
Whenever you're around

Ooh darlin', when you're near me
And you tenderly call my name
I know that my emotions
Are somethin' I just can't tame
I just got to have ya, baby
Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, yeah

I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumblin' down, a-tumblin' down
I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumblin' down, a-tumblin' down

I just a-lose control
Down to my very soul
I get hot and cold
All over, all over, all over, all over.

I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumblin' down, a-tumblin' down
I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumblin' down, a-tumblin' down
A-tumblin' down, a-tumblin' down
A-tumblin' down, a-tumblin' down
Tumblin' down
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This lady is a total legend..
Posted 18 hours ago by GingerandMe    [ Reply ]
I first heard this in 1974 at San Jose's Spartan Stadium—they played this before the NASL's Earthquakes took the field.
Posted 19 hours ago by egadrp63    [ Reply ]
I worked in a secret govt lab for 7 years and we had like 6 songs somebody converted to the custom file format out software could replay ..   this song was one of these and brings back PTSD; I  hate it so much
Posted 2 months ago by vanjulio    [ Reply ]
 snitramc wrote:

Just like Lennnon's Remember and Eurythmics's Sweet Dreams, this was played 30 minutes ago. I may have to rethink my subscriber support.


That's a server glitch. Not something that would ever happen normally.
Posted 3 months ago by William    [ Reply ]
Background soundtrack for every earthquake report in the world.
Posted 4 months ago by mgtom    [ Reply ]
OMG!  Cat lady.
Posted 4 months ago by Starfish57    [ Reply ]
Just like Lennnon's Remember and Eurythmics's Sweet Dreams, this was played 30 minutes ago. I may have to rethink my subscriber support.
Posted 5 months ago by snitramc    [ Reply ]
Such bittersweet memories. 
Posted 5 months ago by volnomad    [ Reply ]
Good times and fond memories as a young boy hearing this song on AM radio while driving around with the parents in the car.
Posted 6 months ago by IndyDoug    [ Reply ]
Way way back in the early 70's all my friends were rock 'n roll fans.  We all had Pink Floyd, Doors, Led Zeppelin etal albums.  AND in our collections everyone also had this album. 
It was rarely, if ever, played at parties, but I suspect my friends played it as I did, the morning after the party, or when we were alone and wanted some finely crafted soul-soothing music.  It still works for me. 
Thanks, Carole!
Posted 10 months ago by dandueck07    [ Reply ]
My older sister had this album. It was one of the few albums she had I would sneak out of her room to listen to. 
Posted 10 months ago by Laptopdog    [ Reply ]
 GingerandMe wrote:

A total doll. This album brings back so many memories for me..  




Same here.
Posted 1 year ago by joejennings    [ Reply ]
A total doll. This album brings back so many memories for me..  
Posted 1 year ago by GingerandMe    [ Reply ]
I been playing the bass all wrong on this. Back to school!
Posted 1 year ago by awhfman    [ Reply ]
this was one of the first LP's I ever owned!
Posted 1 year ago by nancy.misner    [ Reply ]
I remember this very well. it was 1973 and i had a girlfriend from Canada.  And she brought another lp with her....Carly Simon!..well after some cups of red wine i saw the light.
Posted 1 year ago by enkomao    [ Reply ]
Oh Carole..
Posted 1 year ago by GingerandMe    [ Reply ]
Mom played this on the 8 track in the truck for hours on end :)
Posted 1 year ago by DigitalJer    [ Reply ]
Would be hilarious if Bill put the 1989 Martika cover of this on RP.  I bet there would be a meltdown in the comments.
Posted 2 years ago by timmus    [ Reply ]
EXCELLENT!!  ICONIC!!  Thanx RP!
Posted 2 years ago by joejennings    [ Reply ]
 jacopo777 wrote:

Never hear this song the same after knowing that's Eric Johnson on guitar.


I don't think Eric Johnson was doing session work until a few years after this album was recorded.  He is on Carole King's 1982 album "One To One" though.  I believe Danny Kortchmar does most of the guitar work on this album.
Posted 2 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
Never hear this song the same after knowing that's Eric Johnson on guitar.
Posted 3 years ago by jacopo777    [ Reply ]
I don't know how this can be anything but a "10".
Posted 3 years ago by Fiddlefye    [ Reply ]
Always loved the Every Cat on the cover with her. Desert island album.
Posted 3 years ago by cosmiclint    [ Reply ]


Concupiscent Carole 


Posted 3 years ago by sfyi2001    [ Reply ]
Rock Hall twice!  Well deserved.
Posted 3 years ago by DW4554    [ Reply ]
Breathtaking. Just damn good. Still working on the piano solo ;-} 
Posted 4 years ago by DW4554    [ Reply ]
 eileenomurphy wrote:
Great! ...Carole King ...Queen of the "Brill Building" song composers! ........google Brill Building, if you do not know what I'm talking about! .....some rock history!
 
The Monkees hit, Pleasant Valley Sunday. was a Carole King tune...King lived on Pleasant
Valley Way in West Orange, NJ...Just up the road  aways from my house...

Tony in NJ
W.A.S.T.E.

Posted 4 years ago by tonyinnj    [ Reply ]
much better than that bob seger song that was played before this.
Posted 4 years ago by lynn01    [ Reply ]
The second album I ever bought.  I wish I could say it was the first.
Posted 4 years ago by dboseman    [ Reply ]
Great! ...Carole King ...Queen of the "Brill Building" song composers! ........google Brill Building, if you do not know what I'm talking about! .....some rock history!
Posted 4 years ago by eileenomurphy    [ Reply ]
This song a "9"....but the whole Album a Big TEN...wonderful..
Posted 4 years ago by neptunejeff    [ Reply ]
She is a great songwriter.
Posted 5 years ago by Boxie    [ Reply ]
This is such a well written song. I'll give it a 10.
Posted 5 years ago by sirdroseph    [ Reply ]
 Typesbad wrote:

My 7th grade art teacher had a thing for Steppenwolf.
 

My art teacher was into Traffic and Jim Croce
Posted 5 years ago by psmccarthy.ncba880    [ Reply ]
OMG - it is going to take a week to get this ear worm out of my head!         
Posted 5 years ago by bitbanger    [ Reply ]
I saw Dylan live in Spokane circa 2000. He performed All Along the Watchtower Hendix style. It wasn't nearly as good as Hendrix but yep it was a big nod and a crooked smile.....
Posted 5 years ago by mattenuttall    [ Reply ]
 justin4kick wrote:
Aretha Franklin doing Carole King's (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHsnZT7Z2yQ


Oh how I wished there would be a similar video of Bob Dylan's reaction on Jimi Hendrix doing a live performance of All Along The Watch Tower
 

The reaction of Led Zeppelin to Heart's cover of "Stairway to Heaven" is also great.
Posted 6 years ago by linden    [ Reply ]
 justin4kick wrote:
Aretha Franklin doing Carole King's (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHsnZT7Z2yQ


Oh how I wished there would be a similar video of Bob Dylan's reaction on Jimi Hendrix doing a live performance of All Along The Watch Tower

 
He would've probably given him a crooked smile and a nod of his head.
Posted 6 years ago by Laptopdog    [ Reply ]
 expatlar wrote:
My god, I'm so old that I remember this being played by our 7th grade art teacher as we worked on our projects. I don't even know how to feel about that.
 
My 7th grade art teacher had a thing for Steppenwolf.
Posted 6 years ago by Typesbad    [ Reply ]
My god, I'm so old that I remember this being played by our 7th grade art teacher as we worked on our projects. I don't even know how to feel about that.
Posted 6 years ago by ExpatLarry    [ Reply ]
{#Dancingbanana_2} Ugh! I can't help myself! My chair just moved for this song!
Posted 6 years ago by cavemanleong    [ Reply ]
'can't get any better than this!
Posted 6 years ago by slikr    [ Reply ]
This seems exceptionally insipid coming on the heels of Muddy Waters' Rock Me.
Posted 6 years ago by aelfheld    [ Reply ]
 Aud wrote:
My mother said "Turn that crap down!" whenever I played this loud......
Still have the album.

 
My mom loved Carole King! Black Sabbath, not so much.
Posted 6 years ago by thewiseking    [ Reply ]
GODDESS
Posted 7 years ago by hayduke2    [ Reply ]
Classic tune from a classic album! Lot's of great songs on the album, one of which is 'It's too late' - that song sits in the RP library unplayed. Why? {#Eh} {#Cry}
Posted 7 years ago by peter_james_bond    [ Reply ]
Aretha Franklin doing Carole King's (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHsnZT7Z2yQ


Oh how I wished there would be a similar video of Bob Dylan's reaction on Jimi Hendrix doing a live performance of All Along The Watch Tower
Posted 8 years ago by justin4kick    [ Reply ]
 treatment_bound wrote:

Without ever actually playing this album in it's entirety, I think I've heard every song on this album at some point since it was released almost 45 years ago except Home Again.  Bob Stroud's long-running Sunday morning show in Chi., "Rock and Roll Roots", has featured these songs relentlessly since I started checking out about 20 years ago.

But I've never actually scanned the record sleeve.  What exactly does "granfaloon" mean?

 

 
You had to ask and I had to look. Maybe someone was a Kurt Vonnegut fan with an inexact memory of the spelling of "granfalloon", a word that actually may have relevance to RPers and their love of this site:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granfalloon
A granfalloon, in the fictional religion of Bokononism (created by Kurt Vonnegut in his 1963 novel Cat's Cradle), is defined as a "false karass". That is, it is a group of people who affect a shared identity or purpose, but whose mutual association is actually meaningless.

...

The most commonly purported granfalloons are associations and societies based on a shared but ultimately fabricated premise. As examples, Vonnegut cites: "the Communist Party, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the General Electric Company—and any nation, anytime, anywhere." A more general and oft-cited quote defines a granfalloon as "a proud and meaningless association of human beings." Another granfalloon example illustrated in the book were Hoosiers, of which the narrator (and Vonnegut himself) was a member.

In popular culture: 

On the Carole King album Tapestry, James Taylor is credited with playing the Acoustic Guitar and the "granfalloon".
 
Posted 9 years ago by kcar    [ Reply ]
 colt4x5 wrote:
Probably one of the few albums with "granfaloon" in the credits.

 
Without ever actually playing this album in it's entirety, I think I've heard every song on this album at some point since it was released almost 45 years ago except Home Again.  Bob Stroud's long-running Sunday morning show in Chi., "Rock and Roll Roots", has featured these songs relentlessly since I started checking out about 20 years ago.

But I've never actually scanned the record sleeve.  What exactly does "granfaloon" mean?

 

Track listing

All songs written by Carole King except where noted.

Side 1"I Feel the Earth Move" – 3:00"So Far Away" – 3:55"It's Too Late" (lyrics by Toni Stern) – 3:54"Home Again" – 2:29"Beautiful" – 3:08"Way Over Yonder" – 4:49Side 2"You've Got a Friend" – 5:09"Where You Lead" (lyrics by Toni Stern) – 3:20"Will You Love Me Tomorrow?" (Gerry Goffin, King) – 4:13"Smackwater Jack" (Goffin, King) – 3:42"Tapestry" – 3:15"(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" (Goffin, King, Jerry Wexler) – 3:59
Posted 9 years ago by treatment_bound    [ Reply ]
Probably one of the few albums with "granfaloon" in the credits.
Posted 9 years ago by colt4x5    [ Reply ]
Wow, haven't heard this in a long time.  Thanks, Bill!
Posted 9 years ago by scarletdancer    [ Reply ]
{#Roflol}Bill, are there tremors going on in Paradise? I know the San Andreas fault is close!
Posted 9 years ago by willmcnaught    [ Reply ]
My mother said "Turn that crap down!" whenever I played this loud......
Still have the album.
Posted 9 years ago by Aud    [ Reply ]
 slowhand wrote:
One of the greatest albums ever..wore out many, including 8-tracks.
Still reverberates in my soul.

 
Still have it on vinyl. Geeze, what a breath of fresh air it was...the Brill Building confronts the hippies and sez, "Well, show me what you got." And the hippies rose to the occasion. Both lived peaceably ever after.
Posted 10 years ago by WonderLizard    [ Reply ]

Carole King  by PBS PressRoom
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pbs_press_tour/

PBS and NPCA present an evening in Central Park's East Meadow with musical performances and highlights from Ken Burns's upcoming PBS series THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA'S BEST IDEA, which premieres September 27 at 8 p.m. ET on PBS. Pictured: Carole King performs at NPCA and PBS Event in Central Park, New York City, September 23, 2009. Photo by Marion Curtis.

Copyright All rights reserved


Posted 14 years ago by calypsus_1    [ Reply ]
 ThePoose wrote:
Yeah, and I know I am merely one of millions of fans who desperately want to know the name of the cat on the cover and where it is now.
 

I've just listened to an interview with Joni on Woman's Hour {1} on Radio Four (on the BBC) and she revealed (at 14:30 into the program) that the cat's name is Telemachus (the father of Ulysses) and Gerry (Goffin) named him. Alas the cat (kitty) is no more.

 

{1}. The program is at https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00jpg35/Womans_Hour_08_04_2009/ for UK listeners, but if you use ipdl.exe anyone can download it and listen to it at their leisure.




Posted 15 years ago by brianlj    [ Reply ]
Carole King delivered a bang-up rendition of this on Stephen Colbert tonight. Evidently Sony are re-releasing Tapestry. Don't know if the tracks have been redone or remastered. Back in the day, Tapestry spent years in Billboard's top 100 LPs.
Posted 16 years ago by Zep    [ Reply ]
dmax wrote:
This is just another reminder of how overlooked Danny Kortchmar is. He played on this, on the Jackson Browne work during his best period, and on the Don Henley albums that were his best work. And still, the guy doesn't get the respect and fame he deserves. Shame. I know you're out there, buddy!
Don't forget the James Taylor sessions...
Posted 17 years ago by parrothead    [ Reply ]
Don't forget the James Taylor sessions...
Posted 17 years ago by parrothead    [ Reply ]
isaacsonar wrote:
I love this comment.
I'll 2nd that!
Posted 17 years ago by DigitalJer    [ Reply ]
punkbot wrote:
I'll forever love my parents for having this album in nonstop rotation for my whole childhood.
I love this comment.
Posted 17 years ago by isaacsonar    [ Reply ]
Nice!
Posted 17 years ago by enidualc    [ Reply ]
I love this song, love this album. I must say, however, that this song reminds me of an especially crude Hustler cartoon..
Posted 17 years ago by RobRyan    [ Reply ]
slowhand wrote:
One of the greatest albums ever.
Indeed it is. Songwriter heaven.
Posted 17 years ago by bokey    [ Reply ]
My least favourite song on this album. Still a 9.
Posted 17 years ago by thewaxtadpole    [ Reply ]
slowhand wrote:
One of the greatest albums ever..wore out many, including 8-tracks. Still reverberates in my soul.
Posted 17 years ago by n4ku    [ Reply ]
One of the greatest albums ever..wore out many, including 8-tracks. Still reverberates in my soul.
Posted 17 years ago by slowhand    [ Reply ]
Art_Carnage wrote:
It's a shame this album never caught on.
Yeah, and I know I am merely one of millions of fans who desperately want to know the name of the cat on the cover and where it is now.
Posted 17 years ago by ThePoose    [ Reply ]
I'll forever love my parents for having this album in nonstop rotation for my whole childhood.
Posted 17 years ago by punkbot    [ Reply ]
filmgeek65 wrote:
You guys have to be kidding me. Tapestry was one of the seminal works of the '70s and the culmination of a brilliant songwriting career. Every female singer/songwriter on the planet owes her career to King and Joni Mitchell. Historical perspective people!
Well put. I wore out this LP way back when.
Posted 17 years ago by meloman    [ Reply ]
It's a shame this album never caught on.
Posted 20 years ago by Art_Carnage    [ Reply ]
The band swings right in time with the emotional rhythm of her singing. They must have practiced this one more than a few times, but there is nothing mechanical about it.
Posted 20 years ago by Dirktooth    [ Reply ]
Listening to this again - man, what a tight band! Excellent bass work. Like many others, I wore this out on vinyl.
Posted 21 years ago by GregX59    [ Reply ]
KevinM wrote:
I dunno, My wife's favorite song is anything by Ricky Martin and the RP scale does not go LOW enough for that crap.
Thanks Kevin, that laugh just made my night.
Posted 21 years ago by rgj13    [ Reply ]
Tapestry has been one of my favorite albums since I was a little girl! Thanks for playing this Bill!
Posted 21 years ago by gypsy222    [ Reply ]
A GREAT songwriter. P.S. I\'m pretty close to Paradise KY.
Posted 21 years ago by redezra    [ Reply ]
Turned my radio up. She\'s a goddess.
Posted 21 years ago by ameliabedilia    [ Reply ]
You guys have to be kidding me. Tapestry was one of the seminal works of the \'70s and the culmination of a brilliant songwriting career. Every female singer/songwriter on the planet owes her career to King and Joni Mitchell. Historical perspective people!
Posted 21 years ago by filmgeek65    [ Reply ]
I never thought Carole King's voice was very pleasant to listen to.
Posted 21 years ago by Hannio    [ Reply ]
I\'m going to give it an 8 because this album was very influential when my brother first brought it home on 8-track tape. I\'m getting old!
Posted 21 years ago by Leslie    [ Reply ]
Oh I dunno, I think Carole King should get a pass for her work, which is prolific, and for the gazillion songs she wrote for everyone else. Besides it's kind of cool to hear her voice on this and see how it changed through the years.
Originally Posted by BC_Night_Heron: What kind of rating should you give to your wife's favorite song? Obviously higher than what most other RPeople think.
Posted 21 years ago by Skeletor    [ Reply ]
Posted 21 years ago by n4ku    [ Reply ]
Originally Posted by BC_Night_Heron: What kind of rating should you give to your wife's favorite song? Obviously higher than what most other RPeople think.
I dunno, My wife's favorite song is anything by Ricky Martin and the RP scale does not go LOW enough for that crap.
Posted 21 years ago by KevinM    [ Reply ]
What kind of rating should you give to your wife\'s favorite song? Obviously higher than what most other RPeople think.
Posted 21 years ago by BC_Night_Heron    [ Reply ]