On this date in 1971, IT'S TOO LATE by CAROLE KING reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (Jun 18, 1971) Carole King wrote this with Toni Stern, a free-spirited painter and lyricist from Los Angeles who complemented King very well. Said Stern: "I'm sure there was a California quality in me that appealed to Carole. She was moving from a familial, middle class lifestyle to Laurel Canyon, where she started to let her hair down, literally and figuratively. We worked off our contrasts." Stern would u

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