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And now how about something lovely? Our next guests are two legendary

Grammy Award winning singer songwriters and members

of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

And tickets for their troubadour reunion tour go on sale on Saturday.

Please welcome to the programme Carole King and James Taylor.

APPLAUSE

# Looking out on the morning rain... #

James Taylor is a major force in music, one of the most popular

and prolific songwriters of our time.

I think she's the best there is -

Miss Carole King, ladies and gentlemen.

Carole King began her music career when she was just a teen,

and by the early '70s she had reached

the top of the charts around the world.

James Taylor is one of my all-time favourites,

one of the most influential singer-songwriters of all time.

And now Carole King and James Taylor are getting ready to tour together

for the first time in 40 years.

That's a bit of history.

Tell us about the original Troubadour Reunion.

In November of 2007,

James called me and said, "Let's get together and play with some

"of our old friends," and we had such a great time.

Like Carole said, it felt so good we decided to take it on the road.

# You make me feel like a natural woman... #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# Well, there's something in the way she moves

# Or looks my way or calls my name

# That seems to leave this troubled world behind

# And if I'm feeling down and blue

# Or troubled by some foolish game

# She always seems to make me change my mind

# I feel fine any time she's around me now

# She's around me now almost all the time

And if I'm well you can tell that she's been with me now

# She's been with me now quite a long, long time

# And I feel fine

# Every now and then the things I lean on lose their meaning

# And I find myself careening

# In the places where I should never let me go

# She has a power to go where no one else can find me

# And to silently remind me

# Of the happiness and good times that I know

# Well, I guess I just got to know them

# It isn't what she's got to say

# But how she thinks or where she's been

# To me, the words are nice, the way they sound

# I like to hear them best that way

# It doesn't much matter what they mean

# She says them mostly just to calm me down

# I feel fine any time she's around me now

# She's around me now I guess just about all the time

# And if I'm well you can tell that she's been with me now

# She's been with me now quite a long

# Quite a long, long time

# Yes, and I feel fine. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Carol's an interesting case because she worked as a songwriter

for ten years, really, before I met her.

And she had this entire career as a major songwriter, mostly

with Gerry Goffin but with a couple of other people too.

In all cases, the music came through me, and when it was

somebody else's lyric, it integrated.

When it was my own music and lyrics together,

sometimes it would just all together pop out of me.

I asked her to be a part of my band.

I wanted her to play piano in my band.

But of course she was also this major musical source -

she'd written all of these amazing tunes,

some of which were my favourite songs,

so I felt this thing that Carole really should be, you know,

singing her own songs.

And I remember you pushed me out onstage, and I was your sideman,

and that's all I ever wanted to be.

And then you said to me, "I want you to go onstage tonight

"and sing your song."

"Wha... What, what, what... Wait, what?

"No. No! I can't do it."

"No, you're going to do it. No, don't worry."

And you gave me the loveliest introduction, and you said,

"OK, everybody, I'm going to turn the stage over to Carole King.

"You all know her as a songwriter.

"She wrote that... Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah."

And he listed the whole thing.

And what he did was he made me pre-loved because

everybody knew all those songs.

APPLAUSE

I know that many of you are admirers of James Taylor.

I am myself.

I don't know if you know that he's also really a fine guitarist

as well as a fine songwriter and singer,

and I'd like to kind of get him out here to help me.

He was kind enough to volunteer, so come on, James.

APPLAUSE

We're going to do a song for you called So Far Away.

APPLAUSE

# So far away

# Doesn't anybody stay in one place any more?

# It would be so fine to see your face at my door

# Doesn't help to know you're just time away

# Long ago I reached for you and there you stood

# Holding you again could only do me good

# How I wish I could

# But you're so far away

# One more song about moving along the highway

# Can't say much of anything that's new

# If I could only work this life out my way

# I'd rather spend it being close to you

# But you're so far away

# Doesn't anybody stay in one place any more?

# It would be so fine to see your face at my door

# Doesn't help to know you're so far away

# Yeah, you're so far away

# Travelling around sure gets me down and lonely

# Nothing left to do but close my mind

# I sure hope the road don't come to own me

# There's so many dreams I've yet to find

# I've yet to find

# Oh, but you're so far away

# Doesn't anybody stay in one place any more?

# It would be so fine to see your face at my door

# Doesn't help to know you're so far away

# Yeah, you're so far away

# Hey, yeah

# You're so far away. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

I guess the first time I played the Troubadour was '69.

It's a big deal because it was the main gig in LA.

It had a proper stage and a backstage, and if you did well

there people noticed it and the word got out.

The Troubadour was a community of people who wanted to hear

that kind of music and the bands that chose to play there,

and they were often interchangeable.

But this little unit that we are right now is an essential core

of the people that were there.

We've been trying to cast our minds back

and try to remember what songs were in the in the set

that we played together when Carole and I did

The Troubadour and back in 1903 or whenever it was.

LAUGHTER

We can't. It's gone, you know, so...

But probably we played pretty much everything we had back

in those days, and so this song was probably in the set somewhere.

HE PLAYS SONG INTRO

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# In my mind I'm going to Carolina

# Can't you see the sunshine?

# Can't you just feel the moonshine?

# Ain't it just like a friend of mine to hit me from behind?

# Oh, I'm going to Carolina in my mind

# Karen, she's a silver sun

# You best walk her way and watch it shine

# Watch her watch the morning come

# A silver tear appearing now

# Well, I'm crying, ain't I?

# I'm going to Carolina in my mind

# There ain't no doubt in no one's mind

# That love's the finest thing around

# Whisper something soft and kind

# Hey, babe, the sky's on fire

# I'm dying, ain't I?

# I'm going to Carolina in my mind

# In my mind I'm going to Carolina

# Can't you see the sunshine?

# I say can't you just feel the moonshine?

# Ain't it just like a friend of mine to hit me from behind?

# Till I'm gone to Carolina in my mind

# Dark and silent late last night

# I think I might have heard the highway calling

# Geese in flight and dogs that bite

# Oh, and signs and might be omens

# Say I'm going, I'm going

# I'm going to Carolina in my mind

# It's with a holy host of others standing round me, oh

# Still I'm on the dark side of the moon

# And it looks like it goes on like this forever, oh

# You must forgive me

# If I'm going to Carolina in my mind

# Carolina

# In my mind I'm going to Carolina

# Can't you see the sunshine?

# I say can't you just feel the moonshine?

# Ain't it just like a friend of mine to hit me from behind?

# Yes, I am going to Carolina in my mind

# Oh, walk on home.

# Yes, I'm going to Carolina in my mind

# So I'm already gone

# I'm going

# Say nice things about me

# Cos I'm going

# You'll have to carry on without me

# I'm gone, I'm gone

# Oh, I'm going to Carolina in my mind

# I'm gone

# Yes, I am going to Carolina

# In my mind. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

I'd like to invite a very good friend of mine to be on TV

with me - Mr Danny 'Kootch'.

In those times, in the early '60s, when I was trying to learn

the guitar, I met Danny on Martha's Vineyard.

And, you know, right away I started picking things up from him.

You have to remember, at that point in time

there was a huge confluence of all kinds of music

that were coming together.

And for anyone that was even slightly interested in music

it was a brilliant time to be around.

I put a small band together to make this first album, and we already

had Danny Kortchmar, James' best friend and also the person

who had introduced me to James in the first place.

I found a drummer called Russ Kunkel,

whom I first heard play at a John Stewart rehearsal.

And the way James accompanied himself on the guitar and sang,

it was brand-new to me.

I had never heard anything like it.

And by this time we'd found the bass player of our dreams, Lee Sklar.

His songs were really amazing, his voice was amazing

and his demeanour was unlike most cats I knew at that time.

And, finally, I'd met one of my idols,

one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Carole King.

It was, by the way, Kootch who introduced me to Carole as well.

I said to Carole, "I'm about to make this record with James Taylor

"and I wondered if you'd consider playing piano on it.

"Would you come over to my house and meet him?"

So Carole said yes.

Next thing I know, I'm down at his house, down in Hancock Park

and hooking up, and we're all talking about doing this show.

Which consequently changed my life,

you know, for all intents and purposes.

I guess I didn't realise how exciting it was at the time.

It is in retrospect that one looks back and says,

"Wow, that was really exciting."

We were just out here doing what we did, being young and,

you know, making music.

It's kind of one of these things I wished I had been aware

that my life was changing at that moment

because I might have absorbed it in a different way.

It was one of those kind of moments where everything just goes "boom"

and matches up, and we all, you know, just took off with them.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# Take to the highway

# Won't you lend your name?

# Your way and my way seem to be one and the same

# Mama don't understand it

# She wants to know where I've been

# I'd have to me some kind of natural born fool

# To walk on the road again

# But you know I could feel it

# Walking on a country road

# Sail on home to Jesus

# Won't you, good girls and boys?

# I'm all in pieces

# You can have my choice

# Cause I can see your heavenly band full of angels

# Coming just to set me free

# No, don't know nothin' 'bout why or when

# 'Cept I know it's bound to be

# Just because I could feel it

# Walking on a country road

# I reckon my feet know where they want me to go

# Walking on a country road

# Walking on a country road

# So take to the highway

# Won't you lend me your name?

# Come along, your way and my way

# They seem to be one and the same thing tonight

# Oh, Mama don't understand it

# She wants to know where the boy's been

# I'd have to be some kind of natural born fool

# To walk on the road again

# But you know I could feel and feel and feel and feel and feel it

# Walking on a country road

# Walk on out

# Walk on down, walk on down, walk on down

# Walk on down a country road

# Walk on

# La-la-la, la-la-la, La-la, la-la, la-la

# Won't you walk on down with m?

# So, oh, yeah

# Said every time I walk on a country road

# Get the same feeling from my head down to my toes

# I don't know where to come from, don't know where the thing go

# I'd like to jump back and, baby, feel some more, yeah

# Everything's fine now, OK

# I don't know how it happened to me today

# But every time I walk on your country road

# Just about the same thing goes down

# Oh, oh, I'm all right without it

# Every time I slide on out

# There's no doubt about it, no

# That's why I'm on about it

# Cause I'm walking down a country road

# Said I'm walking hand in hand with the one I love

# One love, one ever, one

# Well, you can feel it with your hand, oh, no

# You can feel it Put your hand on up

# You can feel it with your hand in my hand

# I tell you, walking on a country road. #

# Now, Smackwater Jack

# He bought a shotgun

# 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 shut down the congregation

# You can't talk to a man

# With a shotgun in his hand Shotgun

# Now, Big Jim the chief

# Stood for law and order

# Yes, he did

# 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 want to understand

# Go get 'em, Danny

# 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

# Because the outlaw had been seized

# And on the whole it was a very good year, yeah

# For the undertaker

# You know, you know, you know, you can't talk to a man

# With a shotgun in his hand

# I said a shotgun in his hand

# Smackwater Jack, he bought a shotgun

# Oh, Smackwater Jack, he bought a shotgun

# Oh, yes, he did

# He bought a, he bought a shotgun

# Talkin' 'bout Smack

# Talkin' 'bout Jack

# Talkin' 'bout Smack and a shotgun

# Talkin' 'bout Smack

# Talkin' 'bout Jack

# Talkin' 'bout Smack and a shotgun

# Talkin' 'bout Smack

# Talkin' 'bout Jack

# Talkin' 'bout Smack and a shotgun

# Talkin' 'bout Smack

# Talkin' 'bout Jack

# Smackwater Jack, yeah! #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

So, James, we got a problem.

We have a problem here, which is that we have

an embarrassment of riches.

She wrote too many good songs. As did he.

So we've got these cards here, and there are way too many cards

representing too many songs for the time we're going

to be allowed to play for you all, so...

So this is Carole's brilliant solution to it,

and it is a request slot in the set.

So what we did is we chose this position in the set

as our request position, and we took a sort of pool of songs that

we really couldn't do but wanted to, and we polled you.

I hope you didn't notice.

We polled you very gently, with our websites,

and Carole and I alternate back and forth.

It's her turn tonight, and this...

This is the song that UNC Asheville seemed to want to hear.

LAUGHTER

One, two, three, four...

# Hey, hey, hey

# Yeah, yeah

# Hey, hey, hey

# Yeah, yeah

# Yeah, yeah.

# Hey, hey, hey

# Hey, baby

# Yeah, yeah

# Hey, hey, hey

# Yeah, yeah

# Yeah, yeah.

# Loving you the way I do

# I know we're gonna make it through

# And I would go to the ends of the earth

# Cause, darling

# To me that's what you're worth

# Where you lead I will follow

# Anywhere that you tell me to

# If you need

# You need me to be with you

# I will follow where you lead

# If you're out on the road

# Feeling lonely and so cold

# All you have to do is call my name

# And I'll be there on the next train

# Where you lead I will follow

# Anywhere that you tell me to

# If you need

# You need me to be with you

# I will follow where you lead

# I always wanted a real home

# With flowers on the windowsill

# And if you want to live in Mystic, Connecticut

# Honey, you know I will

# Yes, I will Yes, I will

# You never know how it's all gonna turn out

# But that's OK

# Just as long as we're together

# We can find a way

# Where you lead I will follow

# Any, anywhere that you tell me to

# If you need

# You need me to be with you

# I will follow, oh Oh, oh

# Where you lead I will follow

# Anywhere that you tell me to

# If you need

# You need me to be with you

# I will follow where you lead

# Oh, baby

# Yeah

# Follow me now

# I'm gonna follow where you lead

# I'm gonna follow where you lead

# I'm gonna follow where you lead

# I'm gonna follow where you lead

# I'm gonna follow, follow, follow

# Follow, follow, follow, follow, follow. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

People are dying to hear this stuff again.

They're hungry for it because it's uplifting,

because it's meaningful to them.

When it wants me - the muse wants me -

she comes and gets me!

So as for this Troubadour reunion tour,

as for working with James again, and the band,

and it's sheer joy, sheer pleasure.

Just, "Oh, you called me for this? Thank you."

The thing that I think makes this tour really unique is the fact

that 40 years have passed since the first time we played,

but everybody is still at the top of their game.

If this was the last thing I did in my entire career,

I'm good with that.

And the fact that they play and sing together and like each other

and are genuinely great friends and musical collaborators is unique.

It's an event that you don't want to miss.

And even if we're not going to be in the Troubadour,

this is the most important thing we cannot lose,

is that closeness that we feel onstage.

We do it for each other, but what they're seeing is us

having a great time together.

Our challenge was to figure out how to do an intimate show

in a really large arena.

We wish everybody could be close in.

Well, one way to do that is to perform in the round.

What we came up with was the idea that we would basically

have a club in an arena.

We're also rotating, slowly.

The stage rotates.

We've designed the show to be as close and intimate

as possible, and to play to everybody in the room.

# Whenever I see your smiling face

# I have to smile myself

# Because I love you

# And when you give me that pretty little pout

# It turns me inside out

# There's something about you, baby

# I don't know

# Isn't it amazing a man like me

# Can feel this way?

# Tell me how much longer

# It could grow stronger every day

# Oh, how much longer?

# I thought I was in love a couple of times

# Before with the girl next door

# But that was long before I met you

# Now I'm sure that I won't forget you

# And I thank my lucky stars

# That you are who you are

# And not just another lovely lady sent down to break my heart

# Isn't it amazing that a man like me can feel this way?

# Yeah

# Tell me how much longer

# It can grow stronger every day

# Oh, oh

# Nobody can tell me that I'm doing wrong today

# Whenever I see you smile, yeah

# No one can tell me that, tell me that I'm doing wrong today

# Whenever I see you shine that lovely thing my way

# Said nobody, nobody, nobody

# No, nobody

# Never, you know

# Oh, no

# Said no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

# No, no, no

# Never you know, they'll say

# Nobody gonna turn me around

# Nobody gonna put me down

# Nobody gonna push me around, baby

# Whenever I see you smiling

# No one can tell me that, ooh, I'm doing wrong today. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Now, you and I probably just have the same musical DNA.

Absolutely true, because you do things with your guitar

that resonate. Like, I can pick up on something you're doing

and it comes out of my fingers as you're doing it, almost.

It's the most remarkable thing how that happens,

and that was the thing that happened, that first connection

at Peter Asher's house.

And it happened throughout the Troubadour Reunion Tour.

Actually, I've been a fan of James Taylor's songs

since I met him in him in 1970.

CHEERING

In fact, to the point where, prior to hearing James' songs,

I was writing with other people, mostly Gerry Goffin and Tony Stern,

and James inspired me to try writing my own music and lyrics.

I hope that worked out OK! CHEERING

We're going to play it for you right now and see what you think.

# You got to get up every morning

# 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

# Waiting at the station with a 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 morning 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 your 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've got to get up every morning 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. #

AUDIENCE CHEERS

# You can play the game

# You can act out the part

# Though you know it wasn't written for you

# Tell me, how do you stand there

# With your broken heart

# All ashamed of playing a fool?

# But one thing can lead to another

# It doesn't take any sacrifice

# Oh, Father and Mother

# And sister and brother

# If it feels nice Don't think twice

# Just shower the people you love with love

# You must show them the way that you feel

# Things are going to turn out fine

# If we only will

# Only will, only just

# Shower the people you love with love

# Show them the way that you feel

# Things are going to be much better

# If we only will

# You can run but you cannot hide

# This is widely known

# Oh, and what you plan to do with your foolish pride

# When you're all by yourself alone

# Once you tell somebody the way you're feeling

# You can feel it beginning to ease

# I think it's true what they say about the squeaky wheel

# How he's always getting the grease

# Oh, no

# Shower the people you love with love #

# Show them the way that you feel

# I know things are going to turn out fine

# If we only will

# Only will, only

# Shower the people you love with love

# Show them the way that you feel

# Yeah, now

# Things are going to be much better

# If we only will

# Shower the people you love with love

# Show them the way that you feel

# Shower the people you love with love

# Show them the way that you feel

# They say in every life Shower the people you love...

# Sometimes a rain will fall Show them the way that you feel

# But like a pouring rain Shower the people you love...

# Pouring out

# Make it rain!

# Make it rain down

# Oh, oh, oh, oh

# Oh, yeah

# Make it, make it, make it rain Shower the people you love...

# Show them the way that you feel

# Yeah

# Sing, everybody Shower the people you love...

# Everybody Show them the way that you feel

# Oh, somebody

# You got to fill this world with love

# Love Show them the way that you feel

# I know that things are going to be much better

# If we only will. #

# Way over yonder

# Is a place that I know

# Where I can find shelter

# From a hunger and cold

# And the sweet tasting good life

# Is easily found

# A 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

# Sun shining golden

# Shining right down on me

# Then trouble's going to lose me

# Worry leave me behind

# And I'll stand up proudly

# In true peace of mind

# Talking about it I'm talking about it

# Way over yonder

# Is a place I have seen

# In a garden of Wisden

# From some long ago dream

# Oh, oh, oh, oh

# Maybe tomorrow

# I'll find my way

# To the land where the honey runs

# In rivers each day

# Hey, yeah, yeah

# Yeah

# And the sweet tasting good life

# Is so easily found

# Way over yonder

# That's where I'm bound

# Oh, oh, oh

# Yeah

# Way over yonder

# That's where I'm

# Bound. #

AUDIENCE APPLAUD

We're going to move from that to a cowboy lullaby for you now.

We're going to play a...

Pardners.

Buckaroos.

..a song I wrote for my nephew.

I had, uh, been overseas,

and when I came home, my brother, Alex, and his wife had had a kid.

And in a moment of, erm... relaxed judgment,

they had named the kid after me, little...little baby James.

AUDIENCE CHEERS

I...

I wanted to write him a song. I was trying to figure out, uh...

I drove down to North Carolina thinking about it,

what kind of song would be good for a little varmint like James,

you know...

Had to be a cowboy lullaby, you know, Gene Autry, or...

Roy Rogers, and the Sons of the Pioneers. Kind of a...

..lights-out-in-the-bunkhouse kind of thing.

Go to sleep, you little buckaroo.

LAUGHING: Yee-haw.

# There is a young cowboy #

# Lives on the range

# His horse and his cattle

# They're his only companions

# He works in the saddle and he sleeps in the canyons

# Just waiting for summer

# His pastures to change

# Yes, and as the moon rises

# He sits by his fire

# Just thinking about women and glasses of beer

# Closing his eyes as the doggies retire

# He sings out a song

# Which is soft but it's clear

# Just as if maybe someone could hear

# He says goodnight, you moonlight ladies

# Rockabye, sweet baby James

# Deep greens and blues for the colours I choose

# Won't you let me go down in my dreams?

# Yes, and rockabye, my sweet baby James

# Now, the first of December it was covered with snow

# Yes, and so was the turnpike from Stockbridge to Boston

# Oh, the Berkshires They seemed dreamlike

# On account of that frosting

# Ten miles behind me

# And 10,000 more to go

# You know

# There's a song that they sing when they take to the highway

# A song that they sing when they take to the sea

# A song that they sing of their home in the sky

# Maybe you can believe it

# It might help you to sleep

# And singing seems to work fine for me

# So goodnight, you moonlight ladies

# Rockabye, old sweet baby James

# Deep greens and blues for the colours I choose

# Won't you let me go down in my dreams?

# Oh

# It's time to rockabye, my sweet baby James. #

AUDIENCE CHEERS

# When this old world starts getting me down

# And people are just too much

# For me to face

# I'll climb way up to the top of the stairs

# And all my cares just drift

# Right into space

# On the roof

# It's peaceful as can be

# Cos there the world below can't bother me

# So when I come home feeling tired and beat

# I go up where the air

# Is fresh and sweet

# I get far away from the hustling crowd

# And all that rat race noise

# Out in the street

# Oh, on the roof

# That's the only place I know

# Look at the city, baby

# Where you just have to wish

# To make it so

# Let's go

# Up on my roof

# At night the stars put on a show for free

# And, darling, you can share it all with me

# Oh

# I keep on telling you

# That right smack dab in the middle of this town

# I've found a paradise

# And it's just about trouble-proof

# And if this old world starts getting you down

# There's room enough for two, yeah

# Up on my roof

# Up on the roof

# Up on the roof, no, no

# Up on my roof Roof

# You got to come on up

# Bring it on up, get it on up

# Come along up on the roof

# Drop what you're doing tonight

# And climb up the stairs with me and see

# Baby, baby

# We got the stars up above us

# And the city lights below

# Oh, no, no, no, no

# Up on the roof

# Up on the roof. #

AUDIENCE CHEERS

# 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

# No, no

# 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 just like a fool

# And it's too late, baby

# Now it's too late

# Though we really did try to make it

# We can't make it

# Something inside has died

# And I can't hide

# And I just can't fake it

# Oh, no

CAROLE VOCALISES

SHE VOCALISES MELODY

# 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

# We can't make it now

# Something inside has died

# And I can't hide

# And I just can't fake it

# Oh, no

# No, no

CAROLE VOCALISES MELODY

# It's too late

# Baby

# It's too late

# Oh, now, darling

# It's too late. #

AUDIENCE CHEERS

# Just yesterday morning

# They let me know you were gone

# Suzanne, the plans they made put an end to you

# I walked out this morning

# And I wrote down this song

# I just can't remember who to send it to

# I've seen fire and I've seen rain

# I've seen sunny days I thought they'd never end

# I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend

# But I always thought I'd see you again

# Won't you look down on me, Jesus?

# You've got to help me to make a stand

# You've just got to see me through another day

# My body's aching

# And my time is at hand

# And I won't make it any other way

# Oh, I have seen fire and I've seen rain

# I've seen sunny days I thought they'd never end

# I've seen lonely times and I could not find a friend

# But I always thought I'd see you again

# So I'm walking my mind to an easy time

# My back turned towards the sun

# Lord knows, the cold wind blows

# That can turn your head around

# There's hours of time on the telephone line

# Just talking about things to come

# Sweet dreams and flying machines

# In pieces on the ground

# Oh

# I've seen fire and I've seen rain

# I've seen sunny days I thought they'd never end

# I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend

# But I always thought I'd see you somehow

# One more time again, yeah

# Thought I'd see you one more time again

# There's just a few things coming my way this time around

# I thought I'd see you Thought I'd see you

# Fire and rain

# Thought I'd see you just one more time

# See you, yeah

JAMES VOCALISES

# Oh

# Oh, oh, oh. #

AUDIENCE CHEERS

# I feel the earth move under my feet

# I feel the sky tumbling down

# I feel my heart start to trembling

# Whenever you're around

# Oh, baby

# When I see your face

# Mellow as the month of May

# Oh, darling

# I can't stand it

# When you look at me that way

# Yeah, yeah

# I feel the earth move under my feet

# I feel the sky tumbling down

# I feel my heart start to trembling

# Whenever

# You're around

# Yeah!

# Oh, darling

# When you are near me

# And you tenderly call my name

# Call my name

# I know that my emotions

# Are something I just can't tame

# I just got to have you, baby

# Oh, oh, oh, oh

# Oh, oh, oh, yeah

# Yeah!

# I feel the earth move under my feet

# I feel the sky tumbling down

# Tumbling down

# I feel the earth move under my feet

# I feel the sky tumbling down

# Tumbling down

# I just lose control

# Down to my very soul

# I get hot and cold

# All over, all over

# All over, yeah

# I feel the earth move under my feet

# I feel the sky tumbling down... #

Let me hear you!

# I feel the earth move under my feet

# I feel the sky tumbling down Tumbling down... #

Pittsburgh!

# I feel the earth move under my feet

# I feel the sky tumbling down Tumbling down

Come on, let me hear you!

# I feel the earth move under my feet

# I feel the sky tumbling down

# I feel the earth move under my feet

# I feel the sky tumbling down

# Tumbling down

# I feel the earth move under my feet

# I feel the sky tumbling down

# A-tumbling down

# Tumbling down

# Tumbling down

# Oh, oh

# Oh, yeah. #

AUDIENCE CHEERS

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

It was such a mutual thing, you know - it defies description - when we

first sat down together, and basically went back and forth,

and we're hearing these things.

We were thinking so alike at the time.

And when I wrote You've Got a Friend, it came through me.

That song purely, purely came through me.

I didn't have you specifically in mind, though it certainly applies...

..has applied, since I know you.

I didn't have anyone specifically in mind.

I just sat down at a piano, and that song just came out -

just as you heard it, just as you do it -

just came right out.

On the opening night at the Troubadour, it was that afternoon

that Carole was doing her sound check,

preparing for her first-ever solo show that night -

just her and the piano on the stage.

And she decided to run through a song she had just finished writing.

And James and I were sitting in the balcony of the Troubadour upstairs,

and that's when we heard this brand-new song

called You've Got a Friend.

I'm not sure I was sold on... on You've Got a Friend.

I mean, people say, "Did you know?"

I didn't. I just thought it was a very nice song.

I had no idea of the reach it would have.

As soon as I heard it, I said, man, that's just ...

That's just it. That's a great, great song.

And James went crazy, he fell in love with the song,

told Carole it was one of the best pop songs ever written,

and asked if she'd mind if he learned it.

And he did, he learned the song from Carole, worked out his own version.

And, eventually, we did ask Carole whether she would consider

letting James record his version, which I knew was against

all the rules of show business, because she was about to make

her own first record, and it was clearly an amazingly good song.

But Carole, with exceptional generosity and grace, said,

"That would be fine.

"I'd be honoured to have you record it, as well."

When we play it together, the way your guitar blends

with my piano part is just... it's like that first time

we played together. It's that....

That's a good thing.

We did that, buddy! A good thing.

We did that!

THEY LAUGH

# When you're down

# And troubled

# And you need some loving care

# And nothing

# Oh, nothing is going right

# Just close your eyes and think of me

# Yes, and soon I will be there

# To brighten up

# Oh, 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

# Now all you got to do is call on me

# And I will be there

# Yeah, I'll be there

# You've got a friend

# If the sky up 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

# Soon you'll hear me knocking

# On your door

# 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

# Good thing all you got to do is call me

# Oh

# And I'll be there

# Yes, I'll be there

# Now, ain't it good to know that you've got a friend

# When people can be so cold?

# They'll hurt you

# Yes, and desert you

# They'll 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'll come running

# As fast as I can

# To see you again

# Oh, yes

# Don't you know about

# Winter, spring, summer or fall

# Good thing all you got to do is call me

# Oh, no

# And I will be there

# Yes, I'll be there

# Cos you've got a friend

# You've got a friend

# You've got a friend in me, yeah

# You've got a friend in me

# Walking and talking friend

# You've got a friend in me

# Ain't it good to know Ain't it good to know

# Ain't it good to know

# Yeah, yeah, yeah

# You've got a friend. #

AUDIENCE CHEERS

At the heart of it, we have a conversation with each other

and with the audience. You know, like, we just feel like

we're there with one collective friend.

The connection with the audience is a very interesting thing.

When people come to a concert and dedicate two or three hours

to listening to a programme of music, it still is a mystery

to me why it works the way it does.

But I really love it, and live for it, really.

What I'm sensing people responding to is the simple presentation,

the authentic friendship that we have.

People are not really coming to see us as much as they're coming

to see and hear that which we represent to the audience.

I like knowing that, because that keeps our feet on the ground.

It isn't about us.

We're the deliverer of that which they came to see.

# How sweet it is to be loved by you

# It's all right to get on up and shake that thing

# Come on!

# How sweet it is to be loved by you

# I needed the shelter of someone's arms

# Darling, there you were

# I needed someone to understand my ups and downs

# Baby, there you were

# With sweet love and devotion

# Now, yeah

# Deeply touching my emotion

# I just want to stop

# Stop and thank you, baby

# I want to stop

# To thank you, baby

# All right

# How sweet it is to be loved by you

# How sweet it is to be loved by you

# Close my eyes at night

# Wondering where'd I be without you in my life

# Everything I was into It was just an old bore

# And everywhere I went It seems I've been here before

# But you brighten up for me all of my days

# With a love so sweet in so many ways

# I want to stop

# Stop and thank you, baby

# I want to stop

# And thank you, baby

# Thank you, yeah!

# How sweet it is to be loved by you

# How sweet it is to be loved by you

# Robbie Kondor

# You were better to me than I was to myself

# For me, there's you, baby

# I got me no-one else

# I wanted to stop

# Stop and thank you, baby

# I just want to stop

# Just to thank you, baby

# How sweet it is to be loved by you

# To be loved by you

# How sweet it is to be loved by you

# I said now, how sweet it is

AUDIENCE: # To be loved by you #

# Make the old place ring one more time

# One last time

# How sweet it is

# To be loved by you

# Oh, strong and long

# Come on, y'all

# Yeah, now, now

# How sweet it is

# To be loved by you

# Only thing to give

# Long and strong like you mean it

# How sweet it is

# To be loved by you

# How sweet it is to be loved by you

# To be loved by you

# How sweet it is

# Sweet it is

# And it feels all right, yeah

# Here in the Mellon

# One last night, yeah #

# Whoa!

# Whoa-oh-oh

# Just!

# Just to be loved by you, baby #

# To be loved by you. #

Oh!

AUDIENCE CHEERS

I loved every minute of it, I truly, truly did -

and I don't love touring.

I love, love, love that we did the Troubadour

Reunion Tour, in particular. Yeah.

I love every experience that we have had together,

and we've been friends for so long.

You have one picture of it when you approach the thing,

and as you're having a concept of it, but then...

You know, when it happens, the reality, it's hard for it to...

to measure up to what you had anticipated.

And in this case, it absolutely did everything that it was capable of.

That it had all of its juice, all of its power, you know.

Looking back on it, it really worked.

You know? It really worked as a... as a thing. It did.

You couldn't ask for more. Absolutely.

It was an experience that we had that we shared

with every band member, every singer, every crew member,

and everybody has the same treasure.

James and I really want to thank you for all your support

all these years. And I know this is a...

..a bittersweet night, happy and also a little, erm...

..sad.

But we thank you so much for...

for being there for us all these years, and appreciate it.

AUDIENCE CHEERS

I don't know if, erm...

I don't know if it's possible... We love you!

Don't know if it's possible for a building to have a soul,

but if it does, you're it.

AUDIENCE CHEERS

# Oh, the sun is surely sinking down

# But the moon is slowly rising

# So this old world must still be spinning round

# And I still love you

# So close your eyes

# You can close your eyes

# It's all right

# I don't know no love songs

# And I can't sing the blues any more

# Oh, but I can sing this song

# And you can sing this song

# When I'm gone

# It won't be long before another day

# We're going to have a good time

# And no-one's going to take that time away

# You can stay as long as you like

# Only close your eyes

# You can close your eyes

# It's all right #

# I don't know no love songs

# And I can't sing the blues any more

# Yeah, but I can sing this song

# And you can sing this song

# When I'm gone. #

AUDIENCE CHEERS

Thank you.

Thank you. You guys are the best.

Goodnight. Safe home.

# Way down here

# You need that reason to move

# Feel like a fool

# Running your stateside games

# Lose your load

# Leave your mind behind, Baby Jane

# Oh, Mexico

# It sounds so simple I just got to go

# The sun's so hot I forgot to go home

# I guess I'll have to go now

# Americano got the sleepy eye

# Body's still shaking like a live wire

# Sleepy senorita with the eyes on fire

# Oh, Mexico

# Sounds so sweet with the sun sinking low

# The moon's so bright like to light up the night

# Like to make everything all right

# Oh

# Oh, oh

# My Mexico

# Oh, my Mexico

# Baby's hungry and the money's all gone

# Folks back home don't want to talk on the phone

# She gets a long letter Sends back a postcard

# Times are hard

# Oh, down in Mexico

# I've never really been so I don't really know

# Oh, my Mexico

# I guess I'll have to see

# Oh, Mexico

# I've never really been but I'd sure like to go

# Oh, Mexico

# I guess I'll have to go now

# Yeah, I'm a-talking about my Mexico

# Mexico

# Oh, way down in Mexico

# Oh, oh, Mexico

# Mexico

# Down in Mexico

# No, no, no

# Oh, down in Mexico

# Guess I'll go

# Guess I'll go down to Mexico

# Watch there

# Oh, Mexico

# Mexico

# Oh, my Mexi...

# Let's go! #