Really Rosie

by Carole King

Really Rosie cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 February 1975
  • Label: Ode
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 33:26
  • Community rating: 3.55/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

King sings the title role in Maurice Sendak's musical, built from his Nutshell Library books with lyrics by Sendak himself. Lou Adler produced the sessions, King voiced Rosie in the CBS animated television special, and the album reached number twenty on the Billboard 200.

Genres

Descriptors: storytelling, theatrical, melodic, female-vocals, piano

Tracklist

  1. Really Rosie (1:50)
  2. One Was Johnny (2:08)
  3. Alligators All Around (1:54)
  4. Pierre (5:38)
  5. Screaming and Yelling (1:17)
  6. The Ballad of Chicken Soup (2:15)
  7. Chicken Soup with Rice (4:20)
  8. Avenue P (3:03)
  9. My Simple Humble Neighborhood (3:08)
  10. The Awful Truth (3:12)
  11. Such Sufferin' (2:55)
  12. Really Rosie - Reprise (1:42)

Credits

  • Carole King - primary artist, music by, piano, guitar, synthesizer, vocal
  • Louise Goffin - backing vocals, background vocals vocal
  • Andy Newmark - drums, drums (drum set)
  • Maurice Sendak - lyrics by, illustration
  • Hank Cicalo - engineer
  • Milt Calice - engineer
  • Lou Adler - producer
  • Sheldon Riss - producer
  • Chuck Beeson - design
  • Richard Fegley - photography

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